Dreamforce 2007

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Account Planning: How to Manage Strategic Accounts Using Salesforce

Ready to improve management of your most important accounts? Join us for a primer! You"ll leave this session with a basic understanding of how salesforce.com and a top customer use Salesforce to identify, target, and track progress at target sales accounts.

Speakers

  • Matt Browning
    Field Ops, salesforce.com
  • Kathy Ecklund
    Senior Project Mgr, ADC Telecommunications

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at How We Built the Quote-to-Order Process

Get a sneak peak at how salesforce.com used Apex Code to build our new quote-to-order process. You won"t believe how much insight this session will add, and you"ll leave with plenty of tips, tricks, and best practices.
Please Note: Materials from this session are not available.

Speakers

  • Mike Rosenbaum
    Field Operations, salesforce.com
  • Sam Chung
    Sr. Director, Sales Operations, salesforce.com

Best Practices for Salesforce Administration

Ready for even more best practices? Come to this session with questions in hand for our panel of experts, including our own Salesforce Administrators and our expert Customer Success Managers. We"ll show you how we use Salesforce internally to manage our entire business, and we"ll pass along the best ideas we"ve seen from other companies. Take home all the tips and tricks you can handle!

Speakers

  • Paul Hoade
    Field Operation- Snr. Mgr EMEA, salesforce.com
  • Michael Fullmore
    Technical Manager Operations, salesforce.com
  • Amit Saxena
    Business Operations Manager, salesforce.com
  • Michelle Mere
    sales, salesforce.com
  • Jonathan Sol
    CSM, salesforce.com

How Salesforce.com Uses Salesforce to Manage Pipeline and Forecast

Want to see how we do things internally? Join us to learn from salesforce.com"s own top sales and operations executives how we forecast and manage our pipeline using Salesforce. Take home new strategies and ideas to implement for immediate impact.

Speakers

  • Brett Queener
    VP of Field Operations, salesforce.com
  • Brian Millham
    VP Corp Sales, salesforce.com

How to Effectively Leverage the AppExchange

Ready to learn more about the AppExchange? In this session you"ll learn about the best of the AppExchange, powerful applications to drive efficient Operations and boost performance of your Sales team. We"ll walk you through some of the apps we"ve installed from the AppExchange and talk to various customers about how they"ve used the AppExchange to improve their Salesforce experiences.

Speakers

  • Mike Kostow
    Director, Sales Operations, Ingres Corporation
  • Rob Lamb
    Director, Customer and Partner Development, Clickability, Inc.

Leveraging Salesforce Data to Define Territories and Strategies

One of the quickest ways to boost sales is to fix and align territories -- but only if you get it right. Join us to see first-hand examples of how salesforce.com and various customers “get it right” by leveraging data in Salesforce to optimize segmentation and territories.

Speakers

  • Leo Tenenblat
    Field Operations Manager, salesforce.com
  • Catherine Otocka
    Sales Ops/Salesforce Admin, Salary.com, Inc.

Performance Measurement and Executive Dashboards

Nothing grabs attention like a well-made dashboard. Join this session to see real-life examples of how executives at salesforce.com and various customers use dashboards to drive excellence in their organizations. You"ll walk away with the know-how to do the same thing in yours.

Speakers

  • Erik Fike
    Senior Business Analyst, NetQoS, Inc.
  • Peter Ryan
    Sales Analyst, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc.

Optimizing Sales Operations with Sales Performance Management

You can find out more about the sales tools built into Salesforce by visiting the Sales Management area under the Salesforce SFA product overview. Salesforce.com - the world's favorite CRM Software as a Service.

Sales Performance Management automates all aspects of administering, tracking, reporting and analyzing sales performance. SPM systems include functionality for incentive compensation management, quota and territory management. This breakout session will explore strategies to motivate sales and other variably paid personnel to sell more effectively and align performance to corporate goals.

Speakers

  • Christopher Cabrera
    Founder and CEO, Xactly Corporation
  • Joanna Bloor
    AVP Business Operations, CNET Networks, Inc.

Photocopy Your Best

How would you like to take your best rep, and replicate what he or she does across all your reps? Join us to learn how to measure and identify the key behaviors in your best performers. We"ll give you simple solutions to help distill it down to something you can inject in the rest of your team.

Speakers

  • Katrina Perano
    BAM - EMEA SFDC, SunGard Data Systems Inc.