Dreamforce 2007

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Driving Business Strategy: Key Techniques for Mapping the Big Picture

Does it seem impossible to build a strategy for more than 6 to12 months from now due to constantly changing priorities, market conditions, and executive staff? Learn from a company that has embraced a strategic, on-demand planning model that keeps it focused on the end-game and enables agility to react and respond to the constantly changing environments in which they operate

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Speakers

  • Bob Tangredi
    Corporate VP, Healthcare Compliance Services, Stericycle, Inc.

Simplification and Standardization Using SaaS

And you thought that a SaaS model would complicate your life? Learn the proven steps to simplification and standardization for deployment, change management, and business process that can and have been driven by the SaaS delivery model.

Speakers

  • Scott Bell
    Global Training & Account Planning, UGS Corp.

The Agile Enterprise: Enabling Business Results and Innovation Through SaaS

Business agility is the crème "de la crème of cultural norms for the most successful corporations today. And business results and innovation are typically cornerstones of a truly agile business model. Join us to learn how you can use the SaaS model to help define and refine your company"s agility, enabling you to deliver extraordinary results.

Speakers

  • Jeff Hunter
    Senior Director, HR Business Solutions, Electronic Arts Inc.

Working Better Together: Improving Business-IT Collaboration

Learn from other customers who have successfully achieved a healthy balance between business results and IT constraints. These esteemed business and IT leaders will share their step-by-step processesdeveloped on the Salesforce platformthat led to highly collaborative working relationships that are yielding extraordinary results.

Speakers

  • Dave Ziegler
    Global IT Director, P&G
  • Paul Edmondson
    Area Director, P&G

Get Smart About Your Customers

Salesforce houses a wealth of information about your customers. This workshop will take you step-by-step through getting answers to your key questionsfrom customizing the app for data collection through genius reporting strategies. Youll come away with best practices on data integrity, insight on what data you should be collecting, and a few key reports that you can modify to get the answers you need.

Speakers

  • Rob Lamb
    Director, Customer and Partner Development, Clickability, Inc.
  • Kristen Chase
    Business Development Specialist, Canvas Systems

Increasing Sales Effectiveness in a Small Business

Dont have money to burn on consultants, but still need to increase your sales effectiveness? Join us as the experts at salesforce.com and various partners share secrets from some of the best sales teams around. They show you firsthand how you to use Salesforce to increase sales in your small business.

Speakers

  • Joan Babinski
    VP Marketing, Brainshark, Inc.
  • Bryan Burdick
    COO, ZoomInfo
  • Matt Williamson
    Director of Sales, Bronto Software Inc
  • Garth Moulton
    VP/Director of Sales/Support, Jigsaw

Running Your Entire Business on Demand

No IT department? No problem! Hear from various salesforce.com customers with fewer than 30 employees who just said no to infrastructure. George Kenessey of MyLoanBiz doesnt even have an in-house server! Learn how he pulls it offand find out how you can apply his experience to your own business.

Speakers

  • George Kenessey
    CEO, MyLoanBiz

Seed & Grow: Take Rollout Success Viral

Have you ever been asked to sponsor a multi-location deployment of a new application? Learn from leading customers who have sat in your seat, sponsored and built business cases, and driven tremendous success for their multi-location rollouts that actually realized ROI. With a seed and grow strategy, these leaders took their Salesforce programs from 20 to 3,000 seats. They will provide key insight on how they unified disparate businesses in their organization for total visibility and delivered unprecedented success.

Speakers

  • Joe Custer
    Director - Service Solutions, Stanley Security Solutions, Inc.
  • Gary Pepera
    Marcomm, Citizens Bank of Rhode Island