As time flew, the scenario kept changing and sales force automation started becoming an inevitable part of organizations, thereby, reaching the ground level of employees and touching them with its benefits, ROI and user friendly features.

1. 5 Prime Reasons Why Sales Force Automation is a Sales Person’s Best Pal
With the entry of sales force automation (SFA), years ago, in the 1980s, organizations and
especially field force / sales staff were highly reluctant to accept and adapt these SFA
solutions. Although the salient features and benefits that SFA proposed were quite
enthralling and promising, the perception that the sales staff had, was towards a negative
bent, feeling that these solutions would act as a spy to their work, giving each and every
detail of theirs to the higher management, thereby restricting their work freedom. Also,
solutions, in earlier times, did not meet the user expectations in terms of speed, efficiency
and performance. Hence, it was not convincing for the end user to completely surrender
their daily activities to this new solution.
As time flew, the scenario kept changing and sales force automation started becoming an
inevitable part of organizations, thereby, reaching the ground level of employees and
touching them with its benefits, ROI and user friendly features. You see organizations who
have implemented robust and efficient SFA solutions and you will find a large amount of
satisfaction and enhanced productivity in the employees, be it top management or sales
staff / field force.
What, amongst the multitude of reasons, played a pivotal role in convincing end users to
adapt to these solutions and prove itself as a significant move in success of any
organization? Let us have a glance through the top 5 moves, which led to the success of
sales force automation in the industry.
Pointers responsible for compatibility of Sales Force Automation with the sales staff
 Real time Analytics and Dashboards

2. In the initial years of sales force automation, the solution yielded just basic contact
management information with minimal information available. Now with the entry of
attractive, efficient and comprehensive analytical reports, matrix reports, and dashboards –
all at the tip of a finger and that too real-time, the situation has changed to a large extent.
These analytics has empowered sales staff to perform better, increasing their productivity
and providing them with clear cut instructions to proceed further in their daily work. Sales
people have started trusting their SFA solutions, thereby creating a deep synergy between
them.
 Integration with Third Party Legacy Systems
Today’s modern day sales force automation systems are all set to integrate with any existing
third party legacy systems, already existing with the client. With perfect synchronization
between the SFA solution and the legacy one, it provides a big relief for the sales staff and
field force to witness a single front end to access any type of information. Planning,
monitoring, execution and implementation of activities becomes much easier for the sales
representatives.
 Efficient and Swifter Implementation with SaaS
The original sales force automation systems had a huge cost factor attached to it and a
difficult and complex implementation procedure. With detailed involvement of IT staff, the
end users found it difficult to balance between the software and the actual requirements.
With the introduction of SaaS model, the dependency of end user staff on IT people became
minimal, the cost factor also reduced and the field force was all charged up to act faster
with minimal disturbances and maximized ROI and investments.
 Significant Modifications in Processes
Processes and acceptability go hand in hand. Smoother the processes, higher is the
adaptability. Originally, it was tough for sales people to synchronize their daily activities with
the SFA solution because they could not map their daily activities with the software
processes. With time going by, today’s modern day sales force automation solutions are
well furbished with software processes mapped equivalently with processes being followed
by the sales staff and hence when it come to implementation and usage, field force is all set
to use it and are pretty comfortable with it too, leading to solid advantages like reduced
sales cycle time and increased client satisfaction.
 Synchronization between IT and sales staff
One more big change that has been observed over these years is that initially, sales people
were dependent on technology and were hardly trained or aware about it. That was the
prime reason, no synergy was observed between the two. With modern day technology
weaving itself into the sales force automation solutions with ease and flexibility, today, the

3. field force is confident and well trained on using the software. Now, technology is
dependent on the sales force processes rather than vice versa.
It is a big boon to see the breach lessening between sales force automation solutions and
the end users – the sales force. SPEC INDIA’s ZooM – a flagship Mobile SFA solution, has
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