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| Subject: | Sales Force Automation and CRM - new approach needed | ||
| Author: | textor: view profile | all posts by this author | add to favourites | ||
| Date: | 18:03:43 30 April 2008 | ||
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I have had a pretty good look at the main serious Web-based hosted SFA and CRM solutions. Salesforce.com, Netsuite, SugarCRM, EBSuite CRM. They are all very similar and probably very appropriate in many situations.
However my opinion is that none of them are intuitive and in a sales situation none of them are fast enough. There are too many clicks for the bread and butter task which is
The user is buried in a sea of leads, opportunities, tasks, timetables, cases, quotes and projects. Each with its own list and its own update form. Of course most of this doesn't get used, but it does clutter up the screen something rotten.
In the end I wrote a system for my own use and have rolled it out to a couple of clients where we could integrate it with the web site functions so that transactional data is included on the customer screen.
The objective was to be as simple and intuitive as possible. You won't recognise it as the same animal as the market leaders I listed above, but for me at least and my telesales person it seems to work very well at the core task.
There is a demo at http://sales.textor.com
Obviously it needs development and probably money to take it any further. Here is my question. Is there an opportunity here? Should I think about taking it further? And (gulp) does someone in this august body feel they could contribute and would like to work with me on this?
Bob (bob@textor.com)
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