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Business Success for Small &
Medium Businesses
Ask the Experts
Rhonda Robati, salesforce.com
Commercial SMB Manager, Australia & New Zealand
Safe harbor
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 This presentation may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If any such uncertainties
 materialize or if any of the assumptions proves incorrect, the results of salesforce.com, inc. could differ materially from the results
 expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be
 deemed forward-looking, including any projections of product or service availability, subscriber growth, earnings, revenues, or other
 financial items and any statements regarding strategies or plans of management for future operations, statements of belief, any
 statements concerning new, planned, or upgraded services or technology developments and customer contracts or use of our services.

 The risks and uncertainties referred to above include – but are not limited to – risks associated with developing and delivering new
 functionality for our service, new products and services, our new business model, our past operating losses, possible fluctuations in our
 operating results and rate of growth, interruptions or delays in our Web hosting, breach of our security measures, the outcome of
 intellectual property and other litigation, risks associated with possible mergers and acquisitions, the immature market in which we
 operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to expand, retain, and motivate our employees and manage our growth, new
 releases of our service and successful customer deployment, our limited history reselling non-salesforce.com products, and utilization
 and selling to larger enterprise customers. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of
 salesforce.com, inc. is included in our annual report on Form 10-Q for the most recent fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2012. This
 documents and others containing important disclosures are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Information section of
 our Web site.

 Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other presentations, press releases or public statements are not currently
 available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase our services should make the purchase decisions based
 upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com, inc. assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-
 looking statements.
Session Objectives

 • How successful companies transformed their business


 • Gain insight into how salesforce.com solutions can help grow
 your business efficiently and effectively


 • Offer a benchmark to your checklist (people, process & tools)
 in transforming your business to thrive, not just survive
Agenda

 Introduction – Rhonda Robati, salesforce.com
 Customer Story – Donna Haywood, Working In
 Customer Story – Stu Cowdell, Digital Island
 Customer Story – James Slater, Goodman Fielder
 Q&A
Donna Haywood
Controller
W ki ng I n
  or

-NZ Company

-Focus on helping employers who can’t find skills locally to recruit internationally via
our websites, magazine and expos

- Assisting employers with the migration process once employees found

-Offices in Auckland, Sydney, London

-Run events in
London, Manchester, Birmingham, Dublin, Johannesburg, Vancouver, Calgary, Edm
onton, Houston, Santiago and now Madrid

-UK events running since 2002

- Web driven - Almost 3 million visitors to our websites each year
Som of our cl i ent s
   e
W Sal esf or ce?
  hy

Needed a system to manage the complexity of:

- Global sales team

- Multiple products

- Multiple currencies

- Multiple tax rates

Had no central visibility of pipelines

Excel database did not provide enough information for strategic analysis – revenue
by product, industry, country, state

Requirement to align with finance system
Sol ut i on
Implemented Salesforce Enterprise

Project team consisted of representatives from sales, finance and operations

Ensured all data required was captured

Worked with Trineo to develop an interface between Salesforce and Xero to automate the billing process.

Built weekly executive and individual salesperson dashboards
        - Sales v Targets
        - Pipeline graphs
        - Activity graphs
        - Discount analysis

Incentives put in place for sales team to use the system
        - Target Reporting
        - Workflow to e-mail successes to all
O com
 ut  es

 -   Improved visibility of pipeline

 -   Improved data for strategic analysis

 -   Improved productivity by automating the billing process

 -   Use of dashboard’s as reporting tools at all levels

 -   Alignment to finance system


 PHASE TWO:

 -   Marketing campaigns

 -   Expo operation team

 -   Website and magazine production teams
Stu Cowdell
Owner / Sales Director
Customer Success:
Digital Island

Who we are: The business choice for plugging in the cloud, business
Mobiles and IP Voice.

Market Position: We supply medium to large NZ businesses seeking to stay ahead with new technology combined with
great service and pricing.

We offer: Data Solutions, IP Voice, Traditional Business Lines, Mobiles, Toll Free, and associated services to NZ’s medium
enterprise market.

Our Clients: We have thousands of clients across NZ, with clients in nearly every industry, for example:
The Challenge:
Summary:
Digital Island’s continued strong growth lead to a requirement to optimize the management of our sales function to
ensure all opportunities were captured and converted – thus increasing sales!

Specific Requirements:
 Provide the framework for successfully scaling up the sales teams in the New Year
 Manage individual performance of sales staff and teams
 Report on EOM and mid month on sales activities
 Capture future opportunities and manage them
 Capture quotation / customer information
 Manage Customer Contracts & Resign schedules
 Have the ability to assign and re-assign sales opportunities to meet our clients needs
The Solution:
Prerequisites:
The solution needed to be off the shelf, proven and scalable to meet our requirement.
Being a technology company with a high level of in house IT competency, we expected the implementation to be rapid
and successful.
Our implementation of Salesforce.com was just that!

Results of the implementation:
 Our sales teams readily adopted the application
 Salesforce.com has been extremely useful in terms of driving sales success, tracking results and identify areas
needing attention
 Increased knowledge sharing through Chatter - for example competitor information is shared this way
Massive increase in Account Management effectiveness including resigns
 Our operations team has just gone live with Service Cloud as a direct result of the success we had with Sales Cloud
James Slater
Capability Manager
Customer Success:

 Goodman Fielder Sales Automation
 Goodman Fielder is Australasia's leading listed food company. The company owns a host of iconic brands
 that generations of Australians and New Zealanders have grown up with and put in their supermarket
 trolleys every week.

 Goodman Fielder are responsible for the production, sales and distribution of brands such as Meadow
 Lea, Edmonds, Vogel’s, Freya’s, Nature’s Fresh, Meadow Fresh, Puhoi and Tararua

 Goodman Fielder has No.1 or No.2 positions in most of the larger product categories, This leading product
 offering is supported by an efficient distribution network that enables delivery of the company's products to
 over 30,000 outlets every day including supermarkets, route outlets and food service customers.

 The company is headquartered in Sydney and employs over 6,000 people in Australasia and the Pacific
 Islands. We manufacture our products in almost 50 plants in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New
 Guinea, Fiji and New Caledonia.
The Challenge:
                           ISSUE                                                    SOLUTION
  All Field Sales tasks issued by head office via an array of   Sept 09 - Implementation of Salesforce Mobile -
  excel and word templates (30+) . Field Reps collected the     Blackberry
  results during store visits which was then sent to head
  office and compiled weekly.                                   70 UE Force.com – Grocery Teams
                                                                10 week project
  Limited face time with customers
                                                                Following restructure, extended user base to Route
  Constrained speed to market on new products and               Food Service, Distributor Managers, Business
  promotion compliance                                          Development and Outbound Sales team.

  Manual, error prone, admin intensive and slow.                Solution was replicated by Australia Field Sales

                                                                Redeployed technology - iPad early 2012
The Solution:
Prerequisites:
 System not developed and maintained in house
 Ability to integrate with SAP for core data
 User friendly in look and feel
 Mobility

Results of the implementation:
Dramatically increased the speed of determining GF position in the market.
Ability to track real time product launch results via Dashboard
 More business intelligence about account/channel management strategy
Central management of cycle objectives delivered focus.
More proactively manage and measure Field Sales performance, behavior and process.
 Enforce compliance manage and measure key business initiatives and activities
Immediacy of data and ability to react. Provide near real-time communication that allows for a
speedier reaction to customer issues and opportunities
Ability to reduce unproductive manual reporting
Ability to collaborate across departments
Donna Haywood   Stu Cowdell   James Slater
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Cloudforce Essentials Auckland 2012 - Business Success Ask the Experts

  • 1. Business Success for Small & Medium Businesses Ask the Experts Rhonda Robati, salesforce.com Commercial SMB Manager, Australia & New Zealand
  • 2. Safe harbor Safe harbor statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This presentation may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If any such uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions proves incorrect, the results of salesforce.com, inc. could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. All statements other than statements of historical fact could be deemed forward-looking, including any projections of product or service availability, subscriber growth, earnings, revenues, or other financial items and any statements regarding strategies or plans of management for future operations, statements of belief, any statements concerning new, planned, or upgraded services or technology developments and customer contracts or use of our services. The risks and uncertainties referred to above include – but are not limited to – risks associated with developing and delivering new functionality for our service, new products and services, our new business model, our past operating losses, possible fluctuations in our operating results and rate of growth, interruptions or delays in our Web hosting, breach of our security measures, the outcome of intellectual property and other litigation, risks associated with possible mergers and acquisitions, the immature market in which we operate, our relatively limited operating history, our ability to expand, retain, and motivate our employees and manage our growth, new releases of our service and successful customer deployment, our limited history reselling non-salesforce.com products, and utilization and selling to larger enterprise customers. Further information on potential factors that could affect the financial results of salesforce.com, inc. is included in our annual report on Form 10-Q for the most recent fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2012. This documents and others containing important disclosures are available on the SEC Filings section of the Investor Information section of our Web site. Any unreleased services or features referenced in this or other presentations, press releases or public statements are not currently available and may not be delivered on time or at all. Customers who purchase our services should make the purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available. Salesforce.com, inc. assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward- looking statements.
  • 3. Session Objectives • How successful companies transformed their business • Gain insight into how salesforce.com solutions can help grow your business efficiently and effectively • Offer a benchmark to your checklist (people, process & tools) in transforming your business to thrive, not just survive
  • 4. Agenda Introduction – Rhonda Robati, salesforce.com Customer Story – Donna Haywood, Working In Customer Story – Stu Cowdell, Digital Island Customer Story – James Slater, Goodman Fielder Q&A
  • 6. W ki ng I n or -NZ Company -Focus on helping employers who can’t find skills locally to recruit internationally via our websites, magazine and expos - Assisting employers with the migration process once employees found -Offices in Auckland, Sydney, London -Run events in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Dublin, Johannesburg, Vancouver, Calgary, Edm onton, Houston, Santiago and now Madrid -UK events running since 2002 - Web driven - Almost 3 million visitors to our websites each year
  • 7. Som of our cl i ent s e
  • 8. W Sal esf or ce? hy Needed a system to manage the complexity of: - Global sales team - Multiple products - Multiple currencies - Multiple tax rates Had no central visibility of pipelines Excel database did not provide enough information for strategic analysis – revenue by product, industry, country, state Requirement to align with finance system
  • 9. Sol ut i on Implemented Salesforce Enterprise Project team consisted of representatives from sales, finance and operations Ensured all data required was captured Worked with Trineo to develop an interface between Salesforce and Xero to automate the billing process. Built weekly executive and individual salesperson dashboards - Sales v Targets - Pipeline graphs - Activity graphs - Discount analysis Incentives put in place for sales team to use the system - Target Reporting - Workflow to e-mail successes to all
  • 10. O com ut es - Improved visibility of pipeline - Improved data for strategic analysis - Improved productivity by automating the billing process - Use of dashboard’s as reporting tools at all levels - Alignment to finance system PHASE TWO: - Marketing campaigns - Expo operation team - Website and magazine production teams
  • 11. Stu Cowdell Owner / Sales Director
  • 12. Customer Success: Digital Island Who we are: The business choice for plugging in the cloud, business Mobiles and IP Voice. Market Position: We supply medium to large NZ businesses seeking to stay ahead with new technology combined with great service and pricing. We offer: Data Solutions, IP Voice, Traditional Business Lines, Mobiles, Toll Free, and associated services to NZ’s medium enterprise market. Our Clients: We have thousands of clients across NZ, with clients in nearly every industry, for example:
  • 13. The Challenge: Summary: Digital Island’s continued strong growth lead to a requirement to optimize the management of our sales function to ensure all opportunities were captured and converted – thus increasing sales! Specific Requirements:  Provide the framework for successfully scaling up the sales teams in the New Year  Manage individual performance of sales staff and teams  Report on EOM and mid month on sales activities  Capture future opportunities and manage them  Capture quotation / customer information  Manage Customer Contracts & Resign schedules  Have the ability to assign and re-assign sales opportunities to meet our clients needs
  • 14. The Solution: Prerequisites: The solution needed to be off the shelf, proven and scalable to meet our requirement. Being a technology company with a high level of in house IT competency, we expected the implementation to be rapid and successful. Our implementation of Salesforce.com was just that! Results of the implementation:  Our sales teams readily adopted the application  Salesforce.com has been extremely useful in terms of driving sales success, tracking results and identify areas needing attention  Increased knowledge sharing through Chatter - for example competitor information is shared this way Massive increase in Account Management effectiveness including resigns  Our operations team has just gone live with Service Cloud as a direct result of the success we had with Sales Cloud
  • 16. Customer Success: Goodman Fielder Sales Automation Goodman Fielder is Australasia's leading listed food company. The company owns a host of iconic brands that generations of Australians and New Zealanders have grown up with and put in their supermarket trolleys every week. Goodman Fielder are responsible for the production, sales and distribution of brands such as Meadow Lea, Edmonds, Vogel’s, Freya’s, Nature’s Fresh, Meadow Fresh, Puhoi and Tararua Goodman Fielder has No.1 or No.2 positions in most of the larger product categories, This leading product offering is supported by an efficient distribution network that enables delivery of the company's products to over 30,000 outlets every day including supermarkets, route outlets and food service customers. The company is headquartered in Sydney and employs over 6,000 people in Australasia and the Pacific Islands. We manufacture our products in almost 50 plants in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and New Caledonia.
  • 17. The Challenge: ISSUE SOLUTION All Field Sales tasks issued by head office via an array of Sept 09 - Implementation of Salesforce Mobile - excel and word templates (30+) . Field Reps collected the Blackberry results during store visits which was then sent to head office and compiled weekly. 70 UE Force.com – Grocery Teams 10 week project Limited face time with customers Following restructure, extended user base to Route Constrained speed to market on new products and Food Service, Distributor Managers, Business promotion compliance Development and Outbound Sales team. Manual, error prone, admin intensive and slow. Solution was replicated by Australia Field Sales Redeployed technology - iPad early 2012
  • 18. The Solution: Prerequisites:  System not developed and maintained in house  Ability to integrate with SAP for core data  User friendly in look and feel  Mobility Results of the implementation: Dramatically increased the speed of determining GF position in the market. Ability to track real time product launch results via Dashboard  More business intelligence about account/channel management strategy Central management of cycle objectives delivered focus. More proactively manage and measure Field Sales performance, behavior and process.  Enforce compliance manage and measure key business initiatives and activities Immediacy of data and ability to react. Provide near real-time communication that allows for a speedier reaction to customer issues and opportunities Ability to reduce unproductive manual reporting Ability to collaborate across departments
  • 19. Donna Haywood Stu Cowdell James Slater