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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. Salesforce started 20 years after VisiCalc, in 1999. True, I’m biased. )

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PODCAST 154: Guided Selling with Neil Ringers

Sales Hacker

I transitioned over to Siebel and that got acquired by Oracle. Sam Jacobs: I’m always interested in how incentives drive behavior. Neil Ringers: We’re all in a SaaS-based world, at least from a technology perspective, so I think from an incentive perspective, you need to keep it as easy as possible.

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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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