Sales White Papers

WHITE PAPER: Read this brief white paper to familiarize yourself with eSignature laws so that your company can gain a competitive edge and increase your business's productivity.

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Published: 19 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the many benefits of electronic signatures and how your organization can implement an eSignature system into your current contract process.

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Published: 18 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This resource explores selling solutions for IT service providers. Learn about what a Pain Chain is, how it works, and how to use it as a successful sales strategy. When used correctly, the Pain Chain becomes a useful tool that can help strengthen your relationship with your clients.

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 | Published: 03 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This ebook by sales strategy expert Rich Berkman outlines four ways to leverage the unique data insights that interactive sales playbooks provide.

Posted: 04 Aug 2011 | Published: 04 Aug 2011

WHITE PAPER: Explore the latest thinking on use of mobile technology to deliver business value by enabling sales and service processes – and transform processes across the enterprise. Business software vendors can best support their customers by collaborating with strategic partners to co-innovate and foster a mobile ecosystem.

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 | Published: 24 Mar 2011

WHITE PAPER: The truth about effective call prospecting is that it’s a numbers game: the more calls you make, the better your chance of attaining customers. Just one customer could be enough to make your sales numbers. Continue reading this paper to learn nine tips for effective calling.

Posted: 20 Jan 2011 | Published: 20 Jan 2011

WHITE PAPER: Forecasts never seem to be as accurate as you would like them, or need them, to be. This white paper explores why forecasting is often poorly done and provides some ways to improve it. Continue reading to learn what management must know about forecasting.

Posted: 04 Oct 2010 | Published: 04 Oct 2010

WHITE PAPER: This paper presents the situation of N-Hair, a fictional high-end hair-care products company that is now expanding into channels in broader consumer markets. Read this paper to learn how the firm has positioned itself well for long-term success as it preserved its brand image with SAP software.

Posted: 03 Sep 2010 | Published: 03 Sep 2010

WHITE PAPER: In B2B marketing, small changes can mean big differences to the success of marketing programs.  But just because you met the plan goals does not mean the program was as successful as it could have been. The secret to getting the most out of your campaigns is to optimize continually - pre-click, post-click, and post-conversion.

Posted: 28 Apr 2010 | Published: 28 Apr 2010

WHITE PAPER: New Sales Performance Management solutions enable sales leaders to align technology to business need and strategy. Read this paper for a series of discussions related to the metrics-based sales productivity solutions that forward thinking sales organizations are employing to harness the power of the pipeline and take advantage of sales analytics.

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 | Published: 05 Mar 2010

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn about sales intelligence-- the external sources of information that a company uses to enhance sales force effectiveness. This Aberdeen Group report offers tips from best-in-class companies, including best practices related to data quality, sales force automation, and CRM solutions.

Posted: 16 Mar 2010 | Published: 09 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Download the Oracle CRM White Paper, "Winning in Today's Environment: Six Imperatives for the Chief Sales Officer," to learn how you can deploy several best practices to achieve unparalleled sales success in your organization.

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: This white paper examines how traditional CRM technologies, while valuable in helping organizations manage customers and revenues, have not really assisted the salesforce do their jobs.

Posted: 08 Oct 2009 | Published: 01 Sep 2009

WHITE PAPER: Lead scoring is often touted as the new secret sauce that transforms marketing from art to science. This guide will walk you through the process step-by-step, ensuring you have just what you need to drive continuous lead engagement, satisfy the needs of your salespeople, and play a key role in the generation of revenues.

Posted: 07 Oct 2009 | Published: 07 Oct 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this paper to learn how Sales 2.0 technology helps sales identify the right opportunities at the right time and determine the right people to contact. Also learn how this unique approach enables sales and marketing collaboration to drive productivity and close more deals in this increasingly connected world.

Posted: 26 Aug 2009 | Published: 26 Aug 2009

WHITE PAPER: When the economy turns around, as it will, how will your organization be poised to take advantage of the next expansion? Read the latest white paper written by Steve Diamond, Sr. Director, Product Marketing at Oracle, to learn six areas your organization can focus on to improve business results.

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how a lightweight mobile CRM application - more task - than system-focused - can actually provide useful information and encourage salespeople to utilize it.

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: To truly meet the demands of the informed consumer, self-service solutions must have fully integrated e-commerce and e-billing systems that accommodate every aspect of the online customer experience. Read this free white paper to learn about all-in-one systems that build your brand and keep customers coming back.

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: How can Web 2.0 systems and applications support management of sales processes? Read this white paper to find out!

Posted: 10 Jun 2009 | Published: 10 Jun 2009

WHITE PAPER: With their rapid speed of deployment, integrated analytics and built-in best practices, on-demand CRM solutions can quickly vault a sales organization ahead of its rivals. And because of their flexible licensing structure, on-demand solutions can be deployed selectively, enabling businesses to deploy only as much CRM as they need.

Posted: 26 Jan 2009 | Published: 26 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how to use your ERP to facilitate Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), which helps manufacturers rapidly adjust to changes in the market.

Posted: 12 Jan 2009 | Published: 12 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: Previously, putting up with the gap between CRM and OSS worlds has been a viable - though not optimal - strategy for most operators. But now that the telecommunications industry is undergoing the "communications and content over IP" transformation, service providers are starting to redesign their business models and to rethink the infrastructure.

Posted: 06 Jan 2009 | Published: 06 Jan 2009

WHITE PAPER: This paper describes the technical limitations inherent in the architecture of traditional databases and other MPP (massive parallel processing) alternatives.

Posted: 09 Dec 2008 | Published: 09 Dec 2008

WHITE PAPER: In regards to Enterprise Resource Planning, customer-supplier relationships are more important for small-to-medium manufacturers than large ones, because small-to-medium manufacturers tend to have few IT resources, and rely more on the software supplier.

Posted: 02 Oct 2008 | Published: 30 May 2006

WHITE PAPER: Mobile CRM is something that needs to be considered now. As a business leader, you might have put it into your mental to do later box, but the reasons to make it a priority are compelling. Read this paper to discover why.

Posted: 01 Sep 2008 | Published: 25 Dec 2006