sales
CRM, ERP, BI, and IT Investment - Where Do You Find the Business Benefit?
White Paper Most companies want to use CRM applications as a way to "Supercharge" their sales forces. They want to gain some advantage with customer retention and acquisition, to manage the sales pipeline and to... [11 Nov 2009]
Remote Video Monitoring: Reducing Shrink, Mitigating Loss, and Enhancing ROI in the Retail Market With Remote Video Monitoring
White Paper But although losses continue to rise in correlation with industry sales, the NRSS reports that shrinkage as a percentage of sales has stayed flat. Loss prevention is clearly a top concern for retailer... [11 Nov 2009]
Optimizing VMware View VDI Deployments With F5
White Paper Most employees need full desktops and there are usually multiple types of desktops required for different business units: XP for accounting, Mac for creative design, Vista for sales and people in the field, Linux for... [11 Nov 2009]
Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
News Last quarter Apple reported a 17 per cent year-on-year rise in Mac sales - far above the mean for PC sales, as silicon.com's resident Apple columnist Seb Janacek noted in this popular opinion piece.... [09 Nov 2009]
New Mobility Service Powered by HP Managed Hosting
White Paper The company wanted to launch an innovative new mobile business solution for field service and sales organizations. Rogers Communications Inc.is a diversified Canadian communications and media company engaged in four... [09 Nov 2009]
Join the silicon.com LinkedIn networking group
News The group is open to all silicon.com readers, from CIOs and IT directors to other business leaders - including CEOs, finance directors, HR, sales and marketing chiefs who want to help their organisation reach its goals... [06 Nov 2009]
Windows 7: Over 200 per cent more popular than Vista
News But the Windows 7 buying frenzy hasn't translated into a similar bump in sales of PCs with Windows preloaded. Vista, however, saw a 170 per cent boost in PC sales compared to the week before it launched,... [06 Nov 2009]
Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News TMG has also recently struck a new deal with another cloud computing firm, Salesforce.com, to carry out payment processing for its online sales operation on Coda software on Salesforce's Force.com platform. [04 Nov 2009]
Applying Predictive Analytics to Physician Detailing
White Paper Producers of prescription drugs face high R&D, and sales and marketing costs. This three-page technical paper describes how predictive analytics can help them optimize their sales and marketing efforts... [03 Nov 2009]
Field-Tested Data Mining
White Paper In the past few years, many businesses and some public sector agencies have invested heavily in some combination of ERP, supply chain management, sales force automation, data warehouse, query and reporting and OLAP... [03 Nov 2009]
Entertainment Retailer Expects Store Data Analysis to Increase Sales by $1.8 Million
White Paper Virgin wanted to increase the effectiveness of its store managers and product buyers by giving them flexible tools to analyze inventory, sales, and store-traffic data. Virgin Entertainment Group operates Virgin... [30 Oct 2009]
Groupe Genoyer Ensures 24/7 Information Access for Subsidiaries With Bi-Directional Replication
White Paper The group operates eight production sites and 29 sales offices across the globe. Groupe Genoyer is a leading industrial and commercial operator for large international oil, gas, and hydraulics projects, and the world... [28 Oct 2009]
Data Reduction Systems: Easy-to-Use CRM System Spurs Employee Data Tracking, Improves Information Accuracy
White Paper All employees have adopted the new system, and the company now has real-time access to accurate sales data. New Jersey-based Data Reduction Systems provides data storage archival and retrieval solutions to businesses,... [28 Oct 2009]
The Future Sales Force - A Consultative Approach
White Paper Does your CRM or contact management system tie your consultative sales, ROI analysis, and proposal production processes together? This white paper discusses the value proposition for integrating these vital... [28 Oct 2009]
Financial Services Company Gains Improved Sales Performance With Easy-to-Use Solution
White Paper Headquartered in Topeka, Kansas, the company's outside sales team operates from remote locations nationwide. For years, the company used an internally developed contact management application based in Lotus Notes to... [28 Oct 2009]