This document provides best practices for creating and using sales reports and dashboards. It discusses starting with out-of-the-box reports, understanding the different report and dashboard types, using data to drive behavior and results, knowing what metrics are important to executives, and capturing the right data. It emphasizes limiting the number of reports and dashboards, having a clear naming strategy, and determining appropriate security and access. The document recommends engaging users and including adoption and data quality metrics.
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- What is Micrososft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft Dynamics 365 and how it can help shop owners
- Benefits of connecting Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Online and On Premise) or Dynamics 365 with eCommerce
- Introduction about Dynamics Connectors with WooCommerce and BigCommerce and Shopify
- What APPSeCONNECT can offer (example Deploy the connector, Customize Sales Cycle for dynamics CRM , Training)
- Live Demo showing Shopify integration with Dynamics CRM
- Live Demo Showing Shopify Sending Customers to Dynamics 365
- Next Connector in roadmap – Magento Integration with Dynamics CRM and SAP Business One ERP integration with Dynamics CRM & Dynamics 365
For more webinars, visit:
http://www.appseconnect.com/webinars
APPSeCONNECT is a smart integration solution that can connect all your Ecommerce stores, CRM, POS, Marketplace accounts and back office ERP under one single platform.
Get a 30 Day Free Trial at:
http://www.appseconnect.com/free-trial
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Best practices in creating & using sales reports & dashboards
1. Best Practices in Creating & Using
Sales Reports & Dashboards
Circles of Success Program
Dreamforce 2018
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7. Agenda
• What brought you to the circle / introductions
• Best Practices – 5 Simple Steps
• Getting Started – AppExchange Reports & Dashboards
• Discussion
• Key Takeaways & Wrap Up
8. What Brought You to This Circle Today?
Common topic questions customers ask. What are yours?
When should I
convert Leads to
Opportunities?
How can I ensure we have
followed up on leads?
How can I score and
assign leads in
Salesforce?
How do I measure Sales
Effectiveness?
Can reports help
me sell more?
How do I track multiple
Sales Processes in
Salesforce?
9. Best Practices
5 Simple Steps to Reports and Dashboards
Build your reports:
• Start with out-of-the box reports or source reports available on the
AppExchange.
• Understand the three different report types.
Build your dashboards:
• Understand the different dashboard formats.
Use data to drive behavior and produce results:
• Manage from the top down.
• Include adoption and data quality metrics.
• Always engage your user community.
Know what keeps your executives up at night:
• Ask questions and start at the top.
• Align metrics with your company vision.
• Tip: Salespeople thrive on competition.
Capture the right data:
• Manage what you measure.
• Limit the number of reports and dashboards.
• Develop a clear, concise naming strategy.
• Determine security and access.
Whitepaper: 5 simple steps to reports & dashboards
10. Great dashboard pack to get you started
Sales & Marketing Dashboards
• Marketing Executive Dashboard
• Sales Executive Dashboard
• Sales Manager Dashboard
• Salesperson Dashboard
Customer Service Dashboards
• Agent Supervisor Overview Dashboard
• Service Executive Overview Dashboard
• Service KPIs Dashboard
Next Steps
• Get It Now on the AppExchange
• View sample of Salesforce CRM Dashboards in PDF
Salesforce CRM Dashboards
11. Get visibility into your sales team’s activities
Dashboards to show how a company can
analyze sales activity rates and types
against opportunities:
• Visibility of Sales Activities: Custom reports based exclusively
on the out-of-the-box application.
• Visibility of Sales Professional Work Rate: Custom Dashboard.
• Spot Neglected Opportunities & Accounts.
NEXT STEPS
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Sales Activity Dashboard
12. Easily keep track of leads and opportunity
management
Dashboards use standard fields and objects from within
Salesforce; therefore, there is no configuration to to be
done:
• Track open and closed opportunities for the
Year/Quarter/Month.
• Maintain year over year or month over month closing trends.
• Understand and manage your inbound lead flow.
NEXT STEPS
• Get It now on the AppExchange.
Lead and Opportunity Management
13. Inspire your Sales Team with a weekly pipeline
"housekeeping" dashboard
Dashboards to display deals that have been "pushed"
multiple times, deals without recent activity and deals missing
key data:
• Sales Dashboard
• Clean Your Room
• Opportunity Cleanup
Next Steps:
Get It now on the AppExchange.
Learn the best practices for Clean Your Room! Dashboard
Clean Your Room! Dashboard
14. Report & Dashboard Discussion
Topics
• What are common issues you encounter?
• What are some best practices you use today?
15. Key Takeaways
5 Simple Steps to Reports and Dashboards
Build your reports:
• Start with out-of-the box reports or source reports available on the
AppExchange.
• Understand the three different report types.
Build your dashboards:
• Understand the different dashboard formats.
Use data to drive behavior and produce results:
• Manage from the top down.
• Include adoption and data quality metrics.
• Always engage your user community.
Know what keeps your executives up at night:
• Ask questions and start at the top.
• Align metrics with your company vision.
• Tip: Salespeople thrive on competition.
Capture the right data:
• Manage what you measure.
• Limit the number of reports and dashboards.
• Develop a clear, concise naming strategy.
• Determine security and access.
Whitepaper: 5 simple steps to reports & dashboards
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● Sales Cloud: Insights: Design Reports & Dashboards
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● Einstein Analytics: Insights: Build Dashboards
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Reports and dashboards show how you performed in the past and what’s happening at the moment— they’re key to driving success and adoption for any CRM project. The information provided by reports and dashboards is especially important in today’s environment, where it’s critical to be proactive, rather than reactive, in your approach. You want to be able to spot trends and act on them immediately. For example, a sales organization wants to know which deals were lost, which competitors are gaining ground, and whether the average time to close is increasing or decreasing. For a customer service organization, it’s important to track the average days or time to close and satisfaction. And marketing organizations want to track campaign effectiveness and ROI. To make the most of Salesforce CRM’s reporting capabilities, it’s important to plan carefully and then follow these 5 proven steps to making reports and dashboards part of your business process:
Step #1: Know what keeps your executives up at night Finding answers to critical business questions and making good decisions is vital to executives—and to their companies’ success and competitive position: Ask questions and start at the top – When designing reports and dashboards, first define what your executives—your CEO; the VPs of Sales, Marketing, Support; and your channels—need to know to run their business. What are their key metrics? What behaviors do they want to encourage? Align metrics with your company vision – Take your business objectives, determine the metrics that measure those objectives, and map those metrics to the capabilities of Salesforce CRM. For example, if forecasting and tracking large deals are important to the VP of Sales, make sure you understand the key data points that give insight into those tasks and the best frequency for reporting that data. Or if your VP of Marketing needs to track response rates, sales, trials, meetings, or campaign awareness, you need to capture that data at the campaign, campaign member, lead, and opportunity level to return meaningful metrics. Tip: Salespeople thrive on competition. If you make it possible to track their progress in relation to their peers, your overall adoption rates will go up.
Step #2: Capture the right data Your reports and dashboards are only as good as the data behind them—planning is the key to capturing and displaying the correct metrics. Identify your sources early. Consider working backwards: plan your reports first and then configure the application by adding custom fields, formulas, and so on. If your marketing team wants to see campaign effectiveness over time, for example, you’d want to track which campaigns lead to leads, opportunities, and closed/won deals. Every week, you could use snapshot reports on lead status by campaign and opportunity status by campaign to show how many leads and opportunities were received and converted from each campaign. Manage what you measure – Pick a limited number of key performance indicators (KPIs) or metrics. A third-party survey of the number of metrics used by CEOs showed that 52 percent use 5–10 metrics to manage their entire business. Limit the number of reports/dashboards – Focus on those tied to specific business objectives. Develop a clear, concise naming strategy – That approach will make report and dashboard folders easy to find. Use labels that are meaningful to your users; for example “MW Sales Team,” “Premier/Gold Support Analysts,” or “Converted Leads for Verticals Team.” For dashboard folders, start with the word “Dashboard” (Dashboard – MW Sales Team,” “Dashboard – Premier/Gold Support Analysts”). Determine security and access for the report and dashboard folders and give users access based on their job functions or roles.
Step #3: Build your reports Most customers start with a current report tracked in Excel or Access and use it as a baseline. As you begin to build reports in Salesforce CRM, there are several resources to help you get started. Start with out-of the-box reports. Salesforce.com offers standard reports across all standard objects. You can use these reports as the basis for your custom reports. Understand the three different report types and how they’re used: • Tabular reports are the simplest and fastest way to return your data in a simple list view format. Keep in mind that tabular reports can’t be used to create dashboard components. • Summary reports return your data with subtotals and other summary-level information. Summary reports are great for showing average dollar values for closed won opportunities by salesperson or number of cases by status by support representative. • Matrix reports show data summaries against both horizontal and vertical criteria; for example, total sales per sales rep per year by quarter.
Step #4: Build your dashboards When you finish planning after asking all the right questions and building your reports, you’re ready to build your dashboards. The key to building dashboards your VPs, managers, and users can’t live without is to match the dashboard metrics to a compelling business metric. Understand the different dashboard formats and what type of data is best displayed in each format: • Horizontal bar/vertical column charts are great for showing geographical data, stage or status information, or any data that’s part of a single grouping. 5 simple steps to reports and dashboards For More Information Contact your account executive to learn how we can help you accelerate your CRM success. • Pie and donut charts are useful for displaying data that shows proportions of a total, such as the number of leads by lead source. • One of the newest chart types, the funnel, is best used for showing ordered picklists such as opportunity stage, case status, or lead stage. For more information, go to Help & Training and search on chart types. Don’t reinvent the wheel! Go to the AppExchange, download the free, pre-built dashboards—such as the Lead and Opportunity Management dashboard—created by Force.com Labs, and customize them to meet your business needs. Use these dashboards to track and measure adoption, sales productivity, campaigns, lead generation, and service and support.
Step #5: Use data to drive behavior and produce results Reports and dashboards are designed to be iterative—it’s important to keep them current and relevant. To successfully roll out business metrics, good communication is key. Make it easy for your users to find, view, and access the dashboards relevant to them. Use the schedule refresh feature to ensure your users see the most recent data. And use schedule and email reports and dashboards to remind your users that their business-critical metrics are in Salesforce CRM. Manage from the top down – Encourage managers to run forecast calls directly from their dashboards. Many customers also have the following mandate for sales: “If it’s not in Salesforce, it doesn’t exist.” This directive proves to be extremely motivating for salespeople. Include adoption and data quality metrics – Include a dashboard component that tracks faulty data, such as all accounts without an industry, contacts without valid email addresses, or leads with a status of “qualified” that haven’t been converted. Again, publishing such metrics can be extremely motivating. Engage your user community – Don’t make the mistake of tracking such metrics only at the executive level—make sure your users see the same metrics on their personal dashboards. What do your users want to see? What will help them do their jobs faster and smarter? Those are the metrics that matter. For example, you could create reports and dashboards that rank salespeople by top deal or top salespeople per quarter.
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Provides comprehensive insight into organization, team, and individual performance.
Increases the CRM adoption and effectiveness of your sales and service organizations.
With these CRM dashboards, your sales and service teams can stay on top of every deal or case, and close more business on time than ever before. Sales Managers will have more visibility into open opportunities and gain greater pipeline predictability. Dashboards and reports in this package are intended to provide you with a starting point to make reporting easier in your organization. Find out more at
This dashboard shows how a Company can analyze Sales Rep's activity rates and types against Opportunities.
Visibility of Sales Activities: Custom reports based exclusively on the out-of-the-box application
Visibility of Sales Professional Work Rate: Custom Dashboard
Spot Neglected Opportunities & Accounts
This Dashboard is important to Sales Professionals who wish to have visibility of the types of Activity their Sales Teams are engaging in on Opportunities. This is particularly helpful in team selling environments where together with Account Executives the Opportunity may have Activities from Sales Consulting, Engineering and Professional Services teams.
Install lead tracking and opportunity management dashboards instantly within your salesforce.com account. These dashboards only use standard fields and objects from within salesforce.com, therefore, there is no configuration to be done. A simple download.
Track open and closed opportunities for the Year/Quarter/Month
Maintain year over year or month over month closing trends
Understand and manage your inbound lead flow
Download these 2 free dashboards to wrap visibility around Lead flow and Opportunity Management.Lead Dashboards: Track lead counts, general status, ownership, source and conversion information.Opportunity Dashboards: Track closed business for Year/Quarter/Month. Track sales closing trends, win/loss ratios, top revenue generating accounts, industries and much more!Alternatively, you can bundle the Lead and Opportunity Management Dashboards with all other FREE Dashboards, by downloading the AppExchange Dashboard Pak.http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?NavCode__c=&id=a0330000003gxJ1AAI
Playing on the competitive nature of salespeople, this is one leaderboard that your reps will NOT want to be listed on.Displays deals that have been "pushed" multiple times, deals without recent activity and deals missing key data.
Sales Dashboard
Clean Your Room
Opportunity Cleanup
Inspire your Sales Team with a weekly pipeline "housekeeping" dashboard. Playing on the competitive nature of salespeople, this is one leaderboard that your reps will NOT want to be listed on.Uses a push counter trigger to determine how many times an opportunity has been pushed forward to close in a different month. Details opportunities tat are set to close in the current month, however have not had any recent activity as well as account with no activity at all. Finally, lists Opportunities that are missing key data elements, such as Next Steps, Products and Partners.Fully customizable to support your unique needs.
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Reports and dashboards show how you performed in the past and what’s happening at the moment— they’re key to driving success and adoption for any CRM project. The information provided by reports and dashboards is especially important in today’s environment, where it’s critical to be proactive, rather than reactive, in your approach. You want to be able to spot trends and act on them immediately. For example, a sales organization wants to know which deals were lost, which competitors are gaining ground, and whether the average time to close is increasing or decreasing. For a customer service organization, it’s important to track the average days or time to close and satisfaction. And marketing organizations want to track campaign effectiveness and ROI. To make the most of Salesforce CRM’s reporting capabilities, it’s important to plan carefully and then follow these 5 proven steps to making reports and dashboards part of your business process:
Step #1: Know what keeps your executives up at night Finding answers to critical business questions and making good decisions is vital to executives—and to their companies’ success and competitive position: Ask questions and start at the top – When designing reports and dashboards, first define what your executives—your CEO; the VPs of Sales, Marketing, Support; and your channels—need to know to run their business. What are their key metrics? What behaviors do they want to encourage? Align metrics with your company vision – Take your business objectives, determine the metrics that measure those objectives, and map those metrics to the capabilities of Salesforce CRM. For example, if forecasting and tracking large deals are important to the VP of Sales, make sure you understand the key data points that give insight into those tasks and the best frequency for reporting that data. Or if your VP of Marketing needs to track response rates, sales, trials, meetings, or campaign awareness, you need to capture that data at the campaign, campaign member, lead, and opportunity level to return meaningful metrics. Tip: Salespeople thrive on competition. If you make it possible to track their progress in relation to their peers, your overall adoption rates will go up.
Step #2: Capture the right data Your reports and dashboards are only as good as the data behind them—planning is the key to capturing and displaying the correct metrics. Identify your sources early. Consider working backwards: plan your reports first and then configure the application by adding custom fields, formulas, and so on. If your marketing team wants to see campaign effectiveness over time, for example, you’d want to track which campaigns lead to leads, opportunities, and closed/won deals. Every week, you could use snapshot reports on lead status by campaign and opportunity status by campaign to show how many leads and opportunities were received and converted from each campaign. Manage what you measure – Pick a limited number of key performance indicators (KPIs) or metrics. A third-party survey of the number of metrics used by CEOs showed that 52 percent use 5–10 metrics to manage their entire business. Limit the number of reports/dashboards – Focus on those tied to specific business objectives. Develop a clear, concise naming strategy – That approach will make report and dashboard folders easy to find. Use labels that are meaningful to your users; for example “MW Sales Team,” “Premier/Gold Support Analysts,” or “Converted Leads for Verticals Team.” For dashboard folders, start with the word “Dashboard” (Dashboard – MW Sales Team,” “Dashboard – Premier/Gold Support Analysts”). Determine security and access for the report and dashboard folders and give users access based on their job functions or roles.
Step #3: Build your reports Most customers start with a current report tracked in Excel or Access and use it as a baseline. As you begin to build reports in Salesforce CRM, there are several resources to help you get started. Start with out-of the-box reports. Salesforce.com offers standard reports across all standard objects. You can use these reports as the basis for your custom reports. Understand the three different report types and how they’re used: • Tabular reports are the simplest and fastest way to return your data in a simple list view format. Keep in mind that tabular reports can’t be used to create dashboard components. • Summary reports return your data with subtotals and other summary-level information. Summary reports are great for showing average dollar values for closed won opportunities by salesperson or number of cases by status by support representative. • Matrix reports show data summaries against both horizontal and vertical criteria; for example, total sales per sales rep per year by quarter.
Step #4: Build your dashboards When you finish planning after asking all the right questions and building your reports, you’re ready to build your dashboards. The key to building dashboards your VPs, managers, and users can’t live without is to match the dashboard metrics to a compelling business metric. Understand the different dashboard formats and what type of data is best displayed in each format: • Horizontal bar/vertical column charts are great for showing geographical data, stage or status information, or any data that’s part of a single grouping. 5 simple steps to reports and dashboards For More Information Contact your account executive to learn how we can help you accelerate your CRM success. • Pie and donut charts are useful for displaying data that shows proportions of a total, such as the number of leads by lead source. • One of the newest chart types, the funnel, is best used for showing ordered picklists such as opportunity stage, case status, or lead stage. For more information, go to Help & Training and search on chart types. Don’t reinvent the wheel! Go to the AppExchange, download the free, pre-built dashboards—such as the Lead and Opportunity Management dashboard—created by Force.com Labs, and customize them to meet your business needs. Use these dashboards to track and measure adoption, sales productivity, campaigns, lead generation, and service and support.
Step #5: Use data to drive behavior and produce results Reports and dashboards are designed to be iterative—it’s important to keep them current and relevant. To successfully roll out business metrics, good communication is key. Make it easy for your users to find, view, and access the dashboards relevant to them. Use the schedule refresh feature to ensure your users see the most recent data. And use schedule and email reports and dashboards to remind your users that their business-critical metrics are in Salesforce CRM. Manage from the top down – Encourage managers to run forecast calls directly from their dashboards. Many customers also have the following mandate for sales: “If it’s not in Salesforce, it doesn’t exist.” This directive proves to be extremely motivating for salespeople. Include adoption and data quality metrics – Include a dashboard component that tracks faulty data, such as all accounts without an industry, contacts without valid email addresses, or leads with a status of “qualified” that haven’t been converted. Again, publishing such metrics can be extremely motivating. Engage your user community – Don’t make the mistake of tracking such metrics only at the executive level—make sure your users see the same metrics on their personal dashboards. What do your users want to see? What will help them do their jobs faster and smarter? Those are the metrics that matter. For example, you could create reports and dashboards that rank salespeople by top deal or top salespeople per quarter.
Need more help with Reports & Dashboards? Salesforce Accelerators are a great resources! Available to our Premier and Signature Success customers, Accelerators are short 1-on-1 consultations with Certified Cloud Specialists that help you get started or deliver advanced help. Some are quick, easy, and accomplished with just a phone call and shared computer screen. Others connect your team to senior, cross-disciplinary Salesforce specialists for deep dives unique to how you use our Platform. I’ve identified a few Accelerators that can help you with Reports & Dashboards. To book one, contact your Account Executive or success manager.
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