Cloudforce Essentials 2012 - Grow Your SMB with Salesforce.com
1. GROW YOUR SMALL OR
MEDIUM BUSINESS WITH
SALESFORCE
Mark Abramowitz
Vice President Marketing, APAC
@markabramowitz
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5. The Social Revolution
1960s 1970s 1980s 2010s
Mainframe Mini Client
Computing Computing Server Social
Computing 2000s Revolution
Mobile
1990s Computing
Cloud
Computing
x 10x 100x 1,000x 10,000x 100,000x
6. Social Revolution: Business is Social
Adoption of Social Networking
70%
Companies Adopted Social
“ $1.3 Trillion in value can be unlocked
through social technologies.
”
2008 2009 2010 2011
201
2
Source: 2012 McKinsey Global Institute Study: “The Social Economy”
7. Social Revolution: Customer Conversations
Exploding
150M
conversations
per day
2009 2010 2011 2012
Sources: Twitter
8. How Do You Transform To Become a Social Business?
Your Customer
Cloud . Mobile . Social
9. Small & Medium Businesses Are Driving the Economy
50% 64%
Private Sector Jobs Generated in
Employees Past 15 Years
U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Small Business Administration, U.S. Census Bureau
10. But Small & Medium Businesses Face Unique
Challenges
Limited IT Disconnected Lack of Business
Resources Systems Insight
Business
Struggles
11. With Salesforce, Small & Medium Businesses Succeed
+57%
Better
Information
+34%
Increase
+25% Sales
Productivity
+30%
Increase Revenue
Win Rate Improvement
Source: Salesforce.com Customer Relationship Survey conducted March, 2012, by an independent third-party.
12. Salesforce is Built For Small & Medium Businesses
Grow Connect with Bring Everyone
in the Cloud Your Customers Together
Cloud Social Mobile
13. The Cloud is Democratic
Rapid
No Hardware Automatic Unlimited Flexibility
Deploymen
No Software Upgrades Scalability to Extend
t
14. Grow Connect with Bring Everyone
in the Cloud Your Customers Together
Cloud Social Mobile
15. Connect Socially with the World’s #1 Sales Application
Acquire & Manage Access Information Collaborate
Customers Anywhere Internally & Externally
Accts & Leads & Forecasting &
Workflow Mobile Partners Collaboration AppExchang
Contacts Opportunities Analytics e
Salesforce Platform
16. Business is Social with Chatter
Connect Employees Find Collaborate With
to Work Processes Information Faster Customers & Partners
Salesforce Platform
17. Grow Connect with Bring Everyone
in the Cloud Your Customers Together
Cloud Social Mobile
18. Simple to Extend on the World’s #1 Platform
Complete Mobile Trusted
Force.com Heroku
Employee Customer
Collaboration Touch Security AppExchange
Apps Apps
Salesforce Platform
19. Grow Connect with Bring Everyone
in the Cloud Your Customers Together
Cloud Social Mobile