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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. We believe Salesforce realizes that its software isn’t ideal for handling incentive compensation systems. You could centralize all of the data about your deals in one place. True, I’m biased. )

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PODCAST 154: Guided Selling with Neil Ringers

Sales Hacker

Neil Ringers: Our product evolved out of integration to email and calendar, pulls data from those sources of truth, and puts it into Salesforce. That’s important because where we start is data, and data flows downstream Salesforce. I transitioned over to Siebel and that got acquired by Oracle.

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Holiday Wish 1: On-demand CRM Solutions

The ROI Guy

The hottest news in CRM, are for on-demand solutions from companies such as salesforce.com, Right Now and Up Shot (Siebel on-demand). Doing it right can help to improve the management of customer contacts and relationships, sales process and pipeline, management, forecasts and more. But are these on-demand solutions this hype-worthy?

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