2. Solution Selling for Enhanced Sales
Effectiveness
Pivotal CRM’s award-winning CRM solution encompasses a fully integrated Sales suite that enables enterprises to
increase revenues by making direct sales people more effective, providing sales management with the right informa-
tion, and by integrating and coordinating sales efforts across all sales channels.
Pivotal Sales™
At the heart of Pivotal Sales suite is our core desktop application, Pivotal Sales, which enables global organizations to sell collab-
oratively across multiple regions, currencies and channels via their field and inside sales forces. The functionality and effectiveness
of Pivotal Sales is enhanced and extended by pre-integrated options that include:
Pivotal Sales – Miller Heiman Edition™
A proven combination of the world’s most respected sales methodology and some of the world’s most flexible and power-
ful sales technology that together deliver the ability to manage the entire sales process step-by-step.
Pivotal Contact Center™
Combining Sales, Marketing and Service into a single interface, Pivotal Contact Center provides agents with access to
sales opportunities, order entry and quotation management tools that can help them better identify, qualify and close
sales opportunities. In addition, Pivotal Contact Center allows agents to process orders and develop quotes with a higher
degree of accuracy and consistency through business policy and procedure enforcement.
Pivotal Wireless™ for Sales
Sales representatives must have real-time access to critical customer information. Pivotal Wireless links hand-held devices
such as web enabled cell phones, personal digital assistants (PDA’s) and two-way pagers to customer data in real time,
allowing sales representatives to make informed, timely decisions that result in immediate response to opportunities and
increased sales.
Pivotal Sales Analytics™
A powerful business tool that helps sales teams analyze and predict business performance. Pivotal Sales Analytics pro-
vides sales, marketing, and customer service management the ability to create detailed reports that help organizations
analyze past business performance, monitor present business operations, and establish effective plans for the future.
The Pivotal Sales suite is a seamlessly integrated module within Pivotal CRM Suite, which also includes Pivotal Marketing, Pivotal
Service, and Pivotal Partner Management. Each of these five suites work together to deliver on the promise of CRM, increasing rev-
enues, margins and customer loyalty.
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3. Improving the Sales Process
Pivotal Sales suite has been designed to enhance key stages in any sales process. The features of each option translate directly into
business benefits for sales professionals on the road, at their desk, or in the boardroom.
1. Capture the Lead
Whether it’s agents prospecting for leads, or inside sales reps qualifying captured profiles,
Pivotal Contact Center plays a key role in ensuring no leads slip through the cracks. Using effective Territory
Management, pass leads to the appropriate sales representative and schedule sales activities without the
need for additional manual processes.
Benefit: Closed-loop lead management.
2. Deliver the Lead
Using Pivotal Wireless for Sales, leads are delivered in real time to the sales force. Pivotal Wireless
provides much more than just alerting and messaging—it allows sales representatives seamless,
real-time access to customer data so they can begin to plan their sales strategy now, not when they
get back to the office.
Benefit: Increase sales efficiency.
3. Build Effective Strategy
The Selling Sheets within Pivotal Sales – Miller Heiman Edition provide best practices and a workflow that
constantly highlights what needs to happen to move each deal forward. Alternatively, we'll work with you
to fit Pivotal Sales precisely to streamline and automate your own existing sales process and strategies, no
matter how complex.
Benefit: Automate the sales cycle.
4. Analyze Customer Needs
Prospect data entered by the sales team is consolidated for forecasting and tracking. Pivotal Sales
Analytics facilitates the measurement and analysis of customer relationships, providing access to key
performance metrics supported by detailed information and data mining. Sales teams can discover and
share insight, and confirm sales strategies using the data mining tools available at their fingertips.
Benefit: Target offering and predict business performance.
5. Make the Proposal
Pivotal Sales delivers and analyzes critical information gained in the sales process. It provides up-to-
the-minute industry and prospect information, and creates everything from an accurate quote to a
comprehensive proposal including up/cross-sell options. With the right insight on customer needs
and preferences, proposals are highly personalized, increasing customer satisfaction.
Benefit: Increase deal size and chance of success.
6. Close the Deal
Facilitate sales process automation, creating an effective, collaborative selling team. Pivotal Sales
helps ensure no stages are dropped, and no information is missed on the way to successful deal closure.The
ability to quickly recognize and deal with potential obstacles, changes in customer
needs or competitive tactics means your sales team can close deals with greater precision and
responsiveness.
Benefit: Increase revenues.
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