Trend Report

Brief: Five Trends To Watch When Provisioning Sales Software

The Extended Sales Force Automation Market Converges With CRM Initiatives

Fraser Tibbetts
 and  two contributors
Apr 30, 2015

Summary

Sales teams everywhere use software products that were not provisioned for them by their application development and delivery (AD&D) colleagues. These products enable the sales force to be more effective, but extend well beyond the traditional customer relationship management (CRM) suite. Because sales force automation (SFA) software — at the core of most CRM suites — does not provide all the functionality sales teams need to be successful, we see increasing convergence between "sales enablement" and CRM software. AD&D professionals, who must support the integrations of these systems into the existing CRM environment, need to understand the complexities that arise from this market convergence.

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