This paper is intended for customer service professionals who are considering the next CRM application for their enterprises. It compares two popular solutions, Pegasystems’ Pega Customer Service and Salesforce.com’s Service Cloud, across five areas of functionality essential to meeting the complex customer service needs of the enterprise.

This paper examines three areas to compare Pega Sales Automation and Sales Cloud’s ability to deliver in a complex environment. The key areas that we will explore include: -Anticipating sales rep and customer needs and delivering real-time actions and offers -Connecting the end-to-end sales process, seamlessly and consistently -Delivering long-term value by keeping up with changing market and sales needs

Like fine-tuning the sales process itself, managing your Pipeline requires you to closely inspect (and clearly define) each opportunity stage, carefully track the right sales metrics, and keep a close eye on the opportunities that your reps are working on.

If you want to improve your sales team's results, you need to start by asking the right questions. Download this new best-practices eBook to learn about the 12 key questions for data-driven Sales Managers. This informative guide will help you: - Determine Key Metrics For Sales Management - Improve Sales Team Productivity - Closed-Won More Deals Download a free copy of "12 Must-Ask Questions for Data-Driven Sales Managers" today.

How confident are you in the accuracy of your sales forecast? If the end of every quarter is a surprise and you're never sure if you'll hit your number, you probably need to change the way you forecast.

Learn more Salesforce and Amazon Web Services at http://amzn.to/2zhcn1v. Building and releasing cutting-edge applications quickly can be difficult when you lack proper tooling and integrated customer data. Salesforce Heroku delivers a cloud-native, developer-friendly platform that streamlines application development by integrating formerly siloed customer data and removing the burden of infrastructure management, allowing developers to focus their attention solely on creating customer-centric applications. Join the upcoming webinar to hear how the Financial Times builds customer-driven applications with faster cycle times with Heroku and AWS.

Keep your employees productive on their essential applications and favorite devices, and your company data protected with enterprise mobility solutions. Deliver and support Single sign-on to thousands of popular SaaS applications like Salesforce, Concur, and Workday. Manage iOS, Android, and Windows computers and mobile devices from one platform. And, finally, get enterprise grade security for your organization by identifying threats before they can damage your business.

In our 35-criteria evaluation of data management platforms (DMPs), we identified the 11 most significant ones — The ADEX, Adform, Adobe, KBM Group, Lotame, MediaMath, Neustar, Nielsen, Oracle, Salesforce, and Turn — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps B2C marketing professionals make the right choice.

In our 40-criteria evaluation of enterprise marketing software suites (EMSS) providers, we identified the nine most significant ones — Adobe, Experian Marketing Services, IBM, Marketo, Oracle, Salesforce, SAP, SAS, and Teradata Marketing Applications — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps B2C marketing professionals make the right choice.

In our 32-criteria evaluation of real-time interaction management (RTIM) providers, we identified the 12 most significant ones — Adobe, Emarsys, FICO, IBM, IgnitionOne, Infor, Pegasystems, Pitney Bowes, Rocket Fuel, Salesforce, SAS, and Teradata — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps B2C marketing professionals make the right choice.

From extensive work with thousands of salesforce.com customers, Bluewolf has identified what separates the companies that are most effective with salesforce.com post-implementation.

Riverbed® SteelHeadTM SaaS addresses cloud services/software as a service (SaaS) performance challenges by providing an easy-to-deploy optimization solution that meets customer needs for application performance over WAN and Internet connections. Combining private wide area network (WAN) and public internet optimization, the SteelHead SaaS is a first-of-its-kind solution, which optimizes traffic across the public Internet with Riverbed’s award-winning SteelHead optimization system (formerly RiOS or Riverbed Optimization System) technology to accelerate data and application protocols. SteelHead SaaS delivers optimized performance up to 30x for cloud services/SaaS applications, such as Microsoft Office 365 or Salesforce.com, regardless of where the end user is located.

Riverbed Technology has been addressing performance issues on private and cloud enterprise networks with Steelhead wide-area network (WAN) optimization. Since 2012, Riverbed has applied its technology to Office 365 and Salesforce with Riverbed® Steelhead® Cloud Accelerator. Steelhead Cloud Accelerator combines WAN and Internet optimization to ensure bandwidth reductions and a superior user experience.

Did you know that sales reps typically waste up to 16 hours per week on non-selling tasks? If your sales team is spending too much time on non-selling tasks, logging sales activities to Salesforce, hunting for customer information and documents, or copy-pasting data between separate systems, they might resist the rise of mobile CRM solutions like Salesforce1. However, it’s important to figure out how to enable these teams in the field, as 55% of salespeople will access sales applications exclusively through smartphones or tablets by the end of 2016. It’s not surprising that salespeople will increase their use of mobile apps 125% from 2015-2017. In this whitepaper from Tact, you’ll learn 1) common challenges facing field sales teams, 2) a framework for thinking about mobile sales productivity, 3) essential characteristics for evaluating mobile sales solutions, and 4) key trends in mobile sales.

Most businesses today are under increasing pressure to respond to change expeditiously—to adapt to the ongoing needs and demands of their customers, the changing competitive landscape, and the evolution of the marketplace. An organization’s CRM system can either effectively support or hinder their business agility and capacity to respond to change, affecting overall corporate performance and customer satisfaction.

Read in only 5 pages about how Global 2000 organizations are monitoring end user behavior in physical and virtual desktop environments with Aternity's Frontline Performance Intelligence Platform. Monitor the Cloud, drive SLAs, Citrix/VDI monitoring, and much more.

Download the 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report and find out what Gartner analysts have to say about Salesforce.

Picking up the phone is not only one of the best ways to connect with customers, it’s one of the best prospecting tools you can have in your arsenal. It’s the way to take the lead. and succeed. Product Features: • Best practices to prepare for a call • How to efficiently organize your sales team • Tips on how to make a connection every time • A list of external resources for further study Download now.

The typical strategy for meeting sales targets is to set aggressive individual rep quotas, rely on your top reps to achieve them, and then hope to get enough from the rest of your team to get over the top. Find out how to make a major shift in your sales approach for the better in order to both increase individual sales rep effectiveness and improve collaborative team selling. Download now.

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How is it possible that in the same environment and under the same conditions, some reps achieve outstanding results while others struggle just to make their quota? In 5 Steps to Better Sales Performance we reveal the proven methods the best sales managers rely on to close the sales performance gap between average performers and All-Stars. Download now.

Learn how the future of sales performance management is integrated with CRM and social collaboration and how this will help managers provide real-time coaching and motivation in context to drive better sales behaviors and, ultimately, better sales results. Download now.

New Gartner research positions salesforce.com in the Leaders Quadrant for Sales Force Automation. Download the 2013 Gartner Magic Quadrant Report and find out what Gartner analysts have to say about Salesforce.

It’s hardly surprising that half of small businesses fail within the first 1-5 years. It’s not easy to launch a new product, single-handedly manage everything from IT to accounting, fend off the competition, and grow a customer base — all at the same time. A great concept, capital, passionate employees, and a private chef can only get you so far. Offering awesome customer service can make the difference between a startup that flies and a startup that dies. Here are nine ways customer support can help you beat the competition and grow your business faster.

What's the secret? Why do some startups hit the jackpot while others quickly fizzle out? These days it takes more than a great idea, some capital, and a ping-pong table to get a new business off the ground. Awesome customer service needs to be a part of your company DNA from day one. Although companies sometimes overlook it in the rush to get a product out the door, customer service can be the difference between a hot IPO and just keeping the lights on.