Lucidics and Juice Software Collaborate on Delivering Insight for Action to salesforce.com Users.Business Editors/High-Tech WritersCAMBRIDGE, Mass. & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 2004 Lucidics, Inc. and Juice Software(R), Inc. today announced a joint effort to offer sophisticated sales reporting and analysis to small and medium sized companies that use the popular salesforce.com sales force automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists. system. Lucidics will develop solutions using Juice Software's powerful business reporting and data integration solution to provide salesforce.com subscribers with penetrating penetrating breaching the tissues of the body. insight into their sales and customer relationship environment through custom report packages and Juice powered Microsoft Excel-based templates. The power of Juice software and the Lucidics analytical sales management Sales Management Role and Goal Importance of sales management is critical for any commercial organization. Expanding business in not possible without increasing sales volumes, and effective sales management goal is to organize sales team work in such a manner that ensures a framework will combine to rapidly translate raw data from salesforce.com and other sources into powerful, intuitive analytic reports. Instead of sifting through cumbersome cum·ber·some adj. 1. Difficult to handle because of weight or bulk. See Synonyms at heavy. 2. Troublesome or onerous. cum list-oriented displays, sales managers sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → and reps can focus on the insights revealed in the report packages and take the appropriate focused actions to improve the productivity of the sales, marketing, and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. environments. The flexibility of the report packages allows subscribers to quickly implement action-oriented reporting from the sample report templates or custom designed reports integrating special fields in salesforce.com with web-accessible external data sources and local databases. Companies can explore the possibilities of analytical sales management via a free trial of Juice Pro for salesforce.com containing report templates from Lucidics, at http://salesforce.juice.com. "All firms need insight into their sales environment that they can quickly translate into focused programs and actions to achieve business objectives," said Richard Grant Richard Grant (born 1952) is a science fiction and fantasy author. List of Works
Key benefits include: -- Analytic Excel reports and performance scorecards revealing consolidated and customized view of sales performance and customer relationships without troublesome mining of salesforce.com -- Highly flexible, dynamic Excel report templates combining salesforce.com data and any external data sources, providing 360(degree) views of customer relationships and sales performance. -- Increased productivity of sales and marketing forces by providing powerful insight that will direct focus and action to fix sales bottlenecks and leverage best practices. "Juice Pro for salesforce.com fulfills customers' requests for the industry's first hosted solution for Excel based ad-hoc analysis, reporting and scorecards of salesforce.com data," said Eric Yau, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Juice Software. "Juice Pro for salesforce.com extends the worth of sales information by seamlessly combining internal information sources with salesforce.com and presenting through a complete business view. Lucidics is combining the power of Juice with their experience analyzing and managing sales environments to rapidly produce customized sales operations support." About Juice Software Juice Software, Inc. (http://www.juice.com) integrates Excel with enterprise systems for real-time business reporting. Using Juice, Excel users directly connect to virtually any enterprise system including SAP, Salesforce.com, Siebel, Bloomberg, Hyperion Essbase, Websites, and other spreadsheets. Business users access live enterprise data without training or complex programming, leveraging existing knowledge and investments in desktop tools and infrastructure. Juice Software customers make better informed business decisions, reduce IT workloads, and achieve greater value from existing IT investments. "Juiced See Joost. See also juice. " Excel applications are in production at leading financial, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing corporations around the globe, and include solutions for risk management, sales forecasting Sales forecast A key input to a firm's financial planning process. External sales forecasts are based on historical experience, statistical analysis, and consideration of various macroeconomic factors. and pipeline tracking, budgeting and compensation planning, and demand planning. About Lucidics Lucidics, Inc. (http://www.lucidics.com), based in Cambridge, MA. Offers advanced, customized reporting and analysis services and an integrated consulting approach to help small to medium sized businesses optimize optimize - optimisation their sales environments. This is accomplished by aligning sales processes A sales process is a systematic approach for performing product or service sales. The reasons for having a sales process include seller and buyer risk management, achieving standardized customer interaction in sales and scalable revenue generation. , tools, and resources to provide better insight through intuitive analytics and a rich set of graphical reports. Lucidics has helped customers enhance their salesforce.com implementations by providing report packages and templates that provide aggregated and integrated views for managers and sales reps, accelerating awareness of the business actions needed to meet their goals. |
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