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Sales Talk for CEOs: Is Your Product Obviously Awesome? with Expert April Dunford (S5Ep13)

Alice Heiman

Most of those startups were acquired (DataMirror to IBM, Janna Systems to Siebel Systems, then SAP, Watcom to Sybase via Powersoft, to name a few), and I ran big teams at IBM, Siebel, Sybase, and others. 39:07] Cross functional team approach to positioning. [42:45] I led teams at seven successful B2B technology startups.

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Using Salesforce to Track Sales Commission: The Pros & Cons

The Spiff Blog

It almost completely demolished its largest, non-Saas competitor, Siebel Systems, over a period of five to six years. So I’m going to walk you through an example of creating your commission calculations in Salesforce. Salesforce brought all of the benefits of modern enterprise software over spreadsheets. True, I’m biased. )

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Seismic Surpasses 70 Technology Integrations Available to Customers

SBI

.” More than 90 percent of customers take advantage of Seismic’s integration capabilities, which include: Customer relationship management: Salesforce CRM, Microsoft Dynamics, Sugar CRM, Siebel, CRM. Marketing automation: Marketo, Oracle Eloqua, Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Data vendors: FactSet, Morningstar, Google AdWords.

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What is Inside Sales (And Why Do You Need It?)

DialSource

For example, outside sales reps close deals the old-fashioned way, typically face-to-face. As stated by Tom Siebel, CEO of C3.ai, For example, by implementing Salesforce and Dialsource, you can take your remote sales strategies to new heights. . In comparison, outside sales reps go out into the field to meet with clients.

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Differentiation, Dissimilarity, Disruption

Partners in Excellence

For example, my friend is solving different transportation/lifestyle problems with his pickup, bikes, and when he uses Uber. Using the car/lifestyle/transportation example, in some cases Uber might become a disruptor–at least when challenging the notion of vehicle ownership.

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TSE 1281: Salespeople Love / Hate Relationship With CRM and How To Get Value From It

Sales Evangelist

He started his software sales career with Siebel System, the first enterprise CRM and from there, Kevin spent 11 years at SAP and due to an acquisition, also spent time with Oracle. What is a CRM? Starting with Siebel Systems, Kevin hasn’t seen much change in CRMs. For example, sales reps now can make meetings via Zoom.

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr - Sales Strategy

Erica Schultz: Well I actually started in the world of SaaS back in 2005 so about 14 years ago when I was still at Oracle Corporation and it was right after we’d acquired Siebel Systems and I took on a leadership role for what at the time was known as the CRM on demand team. Just a couple of examples.

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