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Salesforce.com CRM Starts to Lose Ground to Industry Sector Specialist Commence

According to Larry Caretsky, President of Commence Corporation, “We are seeing more manufacturers and distributors reject the one-size fits all approach of a Salesforce.com solution in favor of a CRM solutions provider who really understands the issues facing the industrial market.”

Commence has been supporting the business requirements of small to mid-size manufacturing firms for more than a decade and has an impressive track record for delivering quality products and services. Positioned squarely between low-end contact managers and costly, overly complex higher-end solutions, like Saleforce.com, Commence CRM strikes a nice balance among functionality, ease of use, and low cost of ownership.

For more than a year, Commence Corporation has interviewed dozens of leading executives in high-growth industrial manufacturing and distribution firms in segments that include power transmission, fluid power, welding, electrical, safety products, industrial supplies, instrumentation, and building products. Commence has also hosted several Executive Roundtables to obtain additional input and feedback from key executives building on their dialog on the topic of industrial selling with one another.

The Smart Practices reports are a summary from the variety of these sources, combined with Commence’s more than 20 years of experience and complemented with contemporary commentaries from more than 50 magazines, presentations, web sites and books. Each of the major sections – Marketing Strategy, Sales Management, and Sales Optimization through Technology – includes an Executive Summary, a set of Smart Practices derived from the research, and techniques to Leverage Information for results. Finally, the bibliography contains numerous reference materials that you may use for additional learning.

Commence (www.commence.com) offers lean industrial companies complete “Freedom Of Choice” to select the solutions and platform that best meets the business requirements of manufacturers and distributors. The comprehensive CRM Industrial application suite is available for use on premise or on-demand as a hosted service. Industrial leaders often build departmental lean CRM solutions with the award winning Commence Lean Industrial CRM Framework. These choices are why so many industrial companies choose Commence as the solution for managing customer relationships. All Commence Industrial solutions support mobile or wireless connectivity and integration to back-office accounting and ERP systems.

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Industry Sector CRM Specialist Commence Takes Up Salesforce.com Slack

Commence has been supporting the business requirements of small to mid-size manufacturing firms for more than a decade and has an impressive track record for delivering quality products and services. Positioned squarely between low-end contact managers and costly, overly complex higher-end solutions, like Saleforce.com, Commence CRM strikes a nice balance among functionality, ease of use, and low cost of ownership.

According to Larry Caretsky, President of Commence Corporation, “We are seeing more manufacturers and distributors reject the one-size fits all approach of a Salesforce.com solution in favor of a CRM solutions provider who really understands the issues facing the industrial market.”

For more than a year, Commence Corporation has interviewed dozens of leading executives in high-growth industrial manufacturing and distribution firms in segments that include power transmission, fluid power, welding, electrical, safety products, industrial supplies, instrumentation, and building products. Commence has also hosted several Executive Roundtables to obtain additional input and feedback from key executives building on their dialog on the topic of industrial selling with one another.

The Smart Practices reports are a summary from the variety of these sources, combined with Commence’s more than 20 years of experience and complemented with contemporary commentaries from more than 50 magazines, presentations, web sites and books. Each of the major sections – Marketing Strategy, Sales Management, and Sales Optimization through Technology – includes an Executive Summary, a set of Smart Practices derived from the research, and techniques to Leverage Information for results. Finally, the bibliography contains numerous reference materials that you may use for additional learning.

Commence (www.commence.com) offers lean industrial companies complete “Freedom Of Choice” to select the solutions and platform that best meets the business requirements of manufacturers and distributors. The comprehensive CRM Industrial application suite is available for use on premise or on-demand as a hosted service. Industrial leaders often build departmental lean CRM solutions with the award winning Commence Lean Industrial CRM Framework. These choices are why so many industrial companies choose Commence as the solution for managing customer relationships. All Commence Industrial solutions support mobile or wireless connectivity and integration to back-office accounting and ERP systems.

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CRM Specialist Commence Takes Up Salesforce.com Slack

Commence has been supporting the business requirements of small to mid-size manufacturing firms for more than a decade and has an impressive track record for delivering quality products and services. Positioned squarely between low-end contact managers and costly, overly complex higher-end solutions, like Saleforce.com, Commence CRM strikes a nice balance among functionality, ease of use, and low cost of ownership.

According to Larry Caretsky, President of Commence Corporation, “We are seeing more manufacturers and distributors reject the one-size fits all approach of a Salesforce.com solution in favor of a CRM solutions provider who really understands the issues facing the industrial market.”

For more than a year, Commence Corporation has interviewed dozens of leading executives in high-growth industrial manufacturing and distribution firms in segments that include power transmission, fluid power, welding, electrical, safety products, industrial supplies, instrumentation, and building products. Commence has also hosted several Executive Roundtables to obtain additional input and feedback from key executives building on their dialog on the topic of industrial selling with one another.

The Smart Practices reports are a summary from the variety of these sources, combined with Commence’s more than 20 years of experience and complemented with contemporary commentaries from more than 50 magazines, presentations, web sites and books. Each of the major sections – Marketing Strategy, Sales Management, and Sales Optimization through Technology – includes an Executive Summary, a set of Smart Practices derived from the research, and techniques to Leverage Information for results. Finally, the bibliography contains numerous reference materials that you may use for additional learning.

Commence (www.commence.com) offers lean industrial companies complete “Freedom Of Choice” to select the solutions and platform that best meets the business requirements of manufacturers and distributors. The comprehensive CRM Industrial application suite is available for use on premise or on-demand as a hosted service. Industrial leaders often build departmental lean CRM solutions with the award winning Commence Lean Industrial CRM Framework. These choices are why so many industrial companies choose Commence as the solution for managing customer relationships. All Commence Industrial solutions support mobile or wireless connectivity and integration to back-office accounting and ERP systems.

Complete Customer Management With Prophet CRM

How does Prophet CRM work?

Prophet CRM provides full Customer Relationship Management inside Microsoft Outlook. Prophet integrates right inside your existing Outlook to take advantage of the data you already have there. Using the contacts already in Outlook, Prophet CRM adds advanced Contact Management relating your contacts to companies and opportunities. By creating a relational system inside Outlook, Prophet lets you manage client and account relationships and track all communications. You can easily review emails and notes for a specific person, company, or transaction. With advanced functions such as Group Email and Sales Assistant, Prophet CRM provides the power to automate follow-up and correspondence with large groups of customers. Prophet takes the primary features of CRM such as contact management, sales management, client history, and communication tracking and builds them all inside Outlook.

Easy to use CRM

Prophet CRM is easy to use because it is built right inside Outlook and utilizes many of the existing Outlook features, and makes them better. Scheduling meetings and creating to-do items is as simple in Prophet as it is in Outlook, because Prophet CRM uses your existing Outlook items. By doing it through Prophet your appointment or task is linked to the appropriate contact, company, or opportunity with no additional effort on your part. Create contacts and emails as you have always done in Outlook, but now they are all part of your CRM system. By using your existing knowledge and experience with Outlook, Prophet shortens the time it takes to learn your CRM thus making you productive more quickly.

A relational CRM database

Prophet CRM creates a relational database right inside your Outlook. Contacts and Companies are related to each other allowing you to determine which people are vital to the organizations you work with. Prophet lets you decide which individuals from each company should be related to each opportunity or activity. All activities such as email, notes, appointments, and documents are inter-related to your customers and opportunities. You can quickly look up a customer and with a couple mouse clicks review any transactions, emails, and detailed notes. By being inside of Outlook, Prophet CRM eliminates the trouble of synchronizing two databases. Any contact created in Outlook is immediately available in Prophet, and vise-versa.

Prophet CRM, the simple choice

Having an easy to use CRM system up and running quickly is simple with Prophet. Installation of the Prophet CRM software take only minutes for each user, and integrates right inside your existing Outlook. Users learn Prophet quickly since the functions they use in Outlook are identical in Prophet. Any customer data currently in Outlook is immediately available for use in Prophet, making transition to your CRM appear seamless. The Prophet CRM Server system allows companies to easily share all customer information across a team and lets management review and report on any segment or group in the sales process. Prophet CRM is the simple and easy solution to your Customer Relationship Management needs.

About Avidian Technologies:

Avidian Technologies is a software company specializing in creating software solutions for users of Outlook and Exchange. Prophet, developed by Avidian Technologies on the .NET platform, is the leading contact management and sales CRM software built in Outlook. The company is headquartered in Redmond, Washington. For more information, please visit http://www.avidian.com or call 1-800-860-5534.

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CRM Salesforce.com Starts to Lose Ground to Industry Sector Specialist Commence

According to Larry Caretsky, President of Commence Corporation, “We are seeing more manufacturers and distributors reject the one-size fits all approach of a Salesforce.com solution in favor of a CRM solutions provider who really understands the issues facing the industrial market.”

Commence has been supporting the business requirements of small to mid-size manufacturing firms for more than a decade and has an impressive track record for delivering quality products and services. Positioned squarely between low-end contact managers and costly, overly complex higher-end solutions, like Saleforce.com, Commence CRM strikes a nice balance among functionality, ease of use, and low cost of ownership.

For more than a year, Commence Corporation has interviewed dozens of leading executives in high-growth industrial manufacturing and distribution firms in segments that include power transmission, fluid power, welding, electrical, safety products, industrial supplies, instrumentation, and building products. Commence has also hosted several Executive Roundtables to obtain additional input and feedback from key executives building on their dialog on the topic of industrial selling with one another.

The Smart Practices reports are a summary from the variety of these sources, combined with Commence’s more than 20 years of experience and complemented with contemporary commentaries from more than 50 magazines, presentations, web sites and books. Each of the major sections – Marketing Strategy, Sales Management, and Sales Optimization through Technology – includes an Executive Summary, a set of Smart Practices derived from the research, and techniques to Leverage Information for results. Finally, the bibliography contains numerous reference materials that you may use for additional learning.

Commence (www.commence.com) offers lean industrial companies complete “Freedom Of Choice” to select the solutions and platform that best meets the business requirements of manufacturers and distributors. The comprehensive CRM Industrial application suite is available for use on premise or on-demand as a hosted service. Industrial leaders often build departmental lean CRM solutions with the award winning Commence Lean Industrial CRM Framework. These choices are why so many industrial companies choose Commence as the solution for managing customer relationships. All Commence Industrial solutions support mobile or wireless connectivity and integration to back-office accounting and ERP systems.

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Commence Competes With Salesforce.com in Busy CRM Space

Larry Caretsky, CEO of Commence Corporation, was recently interviewed regarding the rationale for getting into a crowded CRM space, populated with big players, such as Salesforce.com. Caretsky suggested, “A few years ago industry experts asked Jet Blue executives why they choose to start an airline when the industry was in turmoil and even the giants were struggling to stay alive. Jet Blue succeeded in becoming a significant carrier. Unlike the airline industry, the CRM space and is growing rapidly and no single vendor has more than a 5% market share. The new battlefield is the SMB market, which Commence has been servicing for almost twenty years. This is our core competency and we know how to compete effectively.” He also noted that there were elements missing in the CRM market that Commence could address more effectively, noting that, “Hosted solutions such as Salesforce.com addressed the difficulties associated with deploying traditional client server based CRM solutions, but utilization rates have remained low and customer renewals have been problematic. This is the direct result of a business model that does not include the proper planning and coaching required to ensure customer utilization. Regardless of the deployment model (in-house or hosted), there is still a reasonable degree of planning and mentoring necessary for the successful implementation and utilization of CRM.”

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software is growing at a significant pace with other hosted solutions significantly surpassing traditional client server technology offerings. This growth has allowed several smaller companies, like Commence Corporation to quickly capture marketshare in the small to mid-size business sector.

About Commence Corporation

Commence Corporation is a leading provider of Customer Relationship Management solutions. The company’s products are designed to provide small to mid-size businesses with flexible solutions that leverage the Web to offer an integrated platform for managing sales execution and customer service. Commence supports several thousand customers through a world-wide distribution network, with outlets in North and South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific.

The Commence CRM client roster is impressive and includes ABC television, Alcatel, American Express, Bank One, Bank of America, BP, Brinks, Century 21, EDS, Exactech, Ford, General Electric, Handyman Connection, IBM, Merrill Lynch, PNCBank, Northrop Grumman, NYPD, New York Post, Princess Cruises, Raytheon, Shell, Siemens, Sprint, Steelcase, St. Luke’s Hospital, TDK, Tele Atlas, and Unicef are just some of the marquis clients. The company has embraced the small business CRM market as well.

Commence Corporation has posted the entire interview at: http://www.commence.com/CommenceCRMADavidandGoliathStory.asp. Commence is offering a small – midsize business site license program that will enable customers to add users at no additional cost. Site licenses start at a five user level and require an annual contract. Commence may be reached at 877-COMMENCE.

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Salesforce.com Has Aggressive Competitor in Busy CRM Space

The Commence CRM client roster is impressive and includes ABC television, Alcatel, American Express, Bank One, Bank of America, BP, Brinks, Century 21, EDS, Exactech, Ford, General Electric, Handyman Connection, IBM, Merrill Lynch, PNCBank, Northrop Grumman, NYPD, New York Post, Princess Cruises, Raytheon, Shell, Siemens, Sprint, Steelcase, St. Luke’s Hospital, TDK, Tele Atlas, and Unicef are just some of the marquis clients. The company has embraced the small business CRM market as well.

Larry Caretsky, CEO of Commence Corporation, was recently interviewed regarding the rationale for getting into a crowded CRM space, populated with big players, such as Salesforce.com. Caretsky suggested, “A few years ago industry experts asked Jet Blue executives why they choose to start an airline when the industry was in turmoil and even the giants were struggling to stay alive. Jet Blue succeeded in becoming a significant carrier. Unlike the airline industry, the CRM space and is growing rapidly and no single vendor has more than a 5% market share. The new battlefield is the SMB market, which Commence has been servicing for almost twenty years. This is our core competency and we know how to compete effectively.” He also noted that there were elements missing in the CRM market that Commence could address more effectively, noting that, “Hosted solutions such as Salesforce.com addressed the difficulties associated with deploying traditional client server based CRM solutions, but utilization rates have remained low and customer renewals have been problematic. This is the direct result of a business model that does not include the proper planning and coaching required to ensure customer utilization. Regardless of the deployment model (in-house or hosted), there is still a reasonable degree of planning and mentoring necessary for the successful implementation and utilization of CRM.”

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software is growing at a significant pace with other hosted solutions significantly surpassing traditional client server technology offerings. This growth has allowed several smaller companies, like Commence Corporation to quickly capture marketshare in the small to mid-size business sector.

About Commence Corporation

Commence Corporation is a leading provider of Customer Relationship Management solutions. The company’s products are designed to provide small to mid-size businesses with flexible solutions that leverage the Web to offer an integrated platform for managing sales execution and customer service. Commence supports several thousand customers through a world-wide distribution network, with outlets in North and South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific.

Commence Corporation has posted the entire interview at: http://www.commence.com/CommenceCRMADavidandGoliathStory.asp. Commence is offering a small – midsize business site license program that will enable customers to add users at no additional cost. Site licenses start at a five user level and require an annual contract. Commence may be reached at 877-COMMENCE.

VerbumSoft and Salesforce.com Announce VerbumSoft Translation Service for Salesforce.com’s AppExchange

VerbumSoft (http://www.verbumsoft.com), privately owned company, the leading provider of translation services and salesforce.com the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management have announced VerbumSoft Translation Service for Salesforce.com’s AppExchange.

Built on the AppExchange on-demand platform, VerbumSoft Translation Services for AppExchange is available for test drive and deployment at www.appexchange.com. This online web based translation management system simplifies all aspects of translation project cycle beginning from obtaining an instant quote for document translation service, order placement through translation and proofreading process to project delivery in one easy-to-use solution that seamlessly integrates from within salesforce.com.

“VerbumSoft continues to advance Internet translation services with new technologies and features to provide seamless experience for translation service consumers. The salesforce.com integrated online document translation solution allows customers to centrally manage their translation orders from salesforce.com account.” said Marian Marcinkowski, President of VerbumSoft. “With AppExchange, salesforce.com customers now have access to new applications that bring the benefits of salesforce.com to an entire business extending and optimizing efficiency along with effectiveness of translation service”.

With this unique solution, VerbumSoft’s and salesforce.com’s technologies combined deliver premium services and unmatched quality to the global translation customers. Easy online ordering system allows customer to obtain an instant quote for document translation service and place convenient translation orders online using the fully featured online tools. All orders are processed and managed by dedicated project managers. Project managers use project management system which suggests the best-qualified translators for each order and allows them to assign the translation task to a specific pre-screened translator. A project manger monitors each step of the translation process. The system allows salesforce.com customers to track the progress of the order and retrieve translated documents online and makes it easy to manage files with the build in version control and email notification features. Once the translation is completed, the customer is notified by email that translated documents are available for download from salesforce.com account. Clients can review the translation online and request changes to the translated documents if a need arises.

This advanced document translation solution guarantees fast document turnaround, sometimes in matter of hours from the moment of placing the order on saleforce.com. The file exchange happens online which excludes file handling problems as well as eliminates any room for human errors. This solution can handle text from a vast majority of languages in a variety of file formats.

The translation services ordering process, with the integrated billing system saves time and money. Customers can easily add funds to their salesforce.com account to simplify the ordering process.

VerbumSoft Translation Service for AppExchange is one of more than 150 applications created by salesforce.com. VerbumSoft Translation Service offers businesses powerful and valuable insight into their customers’ needs providing on-demand platform customized translation service solution. Verbumsoft Translation Service application can be found at https://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/detail_overview.jsp?id=a0330000000vRrkAAE

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