Ask any marketer or line of business owner what is driving their investment in mobile apps and you’ll hear a mix of priorities, including the need to improve the user experience, better marketing, increased sales, improved brand loyalty and streamlined productivity.

While most business is digital, most organizations still rely on paper for the “last foot” of the process: the sign-off. Continued reliance on paper-based signatures is fraught with risks, including impeding productivity, reducing visibility, hampering compliance?and diminishing the customer experience. Electronic signatures (e-signatures), which are easily implemented from the cloud, help speed up the sales process by reducing errors and bottlenecks, while also ensuring greater security and mobility.

The close is the most critical step of every sale, but long, drawn-out processes can cause deals to fall through. Top-performing sales teams use e-signatures to close deals quick and speed time to revenue.

eBook: Focusing On Branch Sales Effectiveness

This e-book examines the five practices that you can implement today to ensure meeting or exceeding your sales goals in 2015.

Ce livre blanc propose d'améliorer concrètement l'alimentation, le refroidissement, les baies, la sécurité physique, ainsi que la surveillance et l'éclairage. Il s'intéresse aux petites salles serveurs et succursales d'une charge informatique de 10 kW.

In this report, we use extensive social media metrics and benchmarking to demonstrate how FMCG brands can benefit from providing excellent social customer care.

The benefits of running a truly social business are many - driving shorter sales cycles, improving customer care, innovating your talent recruitment strategies, and improving how you coordinate your organization from top to bottom in pursuing unified goals.

With Adding Adobe Document Cloud to your existing sales processes you will slash the time it takes to prepare, send out, and manage contracts.

An online transformation is changing how the world’s most successful B2B companies engage buyers, acquire customers and drive ongoing revenue. To survive this transformation, today’s B2B e-commerce sites must do more than simply exist as a portal for selling products; they must be compelling, relevant and simplify the buying process. This eBook examines the factors and impact of this migration, and describes seven best practices for adapting and succeeding in this new era.

How Lowe’s, a Fortune 50 retailer, transformed into a omnichannel commercial success with digital performance management. In this case study, learn how Lowe’s transformed into a performance culture and delivered: Over USD$1 billion in eCommerce sales driven with growth in traffic and conversion Slashed average page load speed by half Correlated site performance with sales impact using predictive analytics Established data-driven decision making for increased customer focus and revenue

What opportunities are there for retailers to elevate the shopping experience and grow revenue? The Demandware Shopping Index takes a look at more than 400 million shoppers across the globe to identify trends and consider vital shopper metrics including frequency, conversion, average order values and much more. Download your free version of the Shopping Index today!

What makes millennial customers loyal? Reaching millennials isn’t your biggest retail challenge, it’s retaining them. 38% of businesses say they’re agile enough for millennials. How do you compare? Find out by downloading our latest research paper.

In this report from Salesforce Commerce Cloud, formerly Demandware, several key areas are analyzed, from shopper context and experience to intent and conversion, all areas which are vital to today’s digital retailing, and how leaders in the space approach mobile shopping. Download the report now!

The concept of distributed commerce, the ability for consumers to buy on any Internet-connected device or application, could have a profound impact on retail. As a result, integrating new means of engagement and commerce – quickly and at scale – is vital. In this whitepaper from Salesforce Commerce Cloud, formerly Demandware, you’ll see how every touchpoint is a transaction and how retailers can adapt. Download now!

Finding growth in an era of unprecedented disruption in retail is, to say the least, challenging. A new survey of more than 300 C-level retail executives reveals where leading retailers are finding opportunities, what distinguishes high-performing retailers from the rest of the pack, the biggest threats, and their long-term views for addressing common challenges. Their experience provides a roadmap for others in finding retail growth.

In this paper, learn how to harness relevant merchandising big data to deliver individualised, one to one online selling experiences.

In some cases, adopting cloud IoT platform may make more sense where required processes, communication costs and cloud costs meet sufficient total cost of ownership against deploying MDC. Additionally, in situations that an end-user organization already has a secure room or a modular data center solution where infrastructure can be housed and/or the amount of infrastructure involved may be too small to benefit from power/cooling advantages of being housed in an MDC, the organization may not see a need for an MDC. An MDC is nothing more than a smaller form of a modular data center, and a number of providers have entered the modular data center solutions space in the past. These modular data center solution providers came into the market with high expectations for growth and ROI only to find that high sales were not forthcoming due to limited use cases, so many exited the space.

Hotels and resorts with function space may well have an opportunity to boost their overall property revenue, given the escalating demand for function space and the fact that many of them have already maximized the value of their guest rooms through sophisticated revenue management capabilities. Success generally starts with a next-generation technology solution that can empower sales and catering personnel. Success also requires having in place the right organizational resources, business processes and performance metrics.

Using the Integrated Analytics Hub, data analytics projects have already accounted for an estimated quarterly savings on marketing digital-media expenditures of approximately USD 170,000. Download this white paper to find out more.

This paper will explore the common Retail KPIs used today across all sales channels, define the formula, discuss potential ways to improve them, and explain their use in the routine management processes of the business.

Aberdeen's Research Briefs provide a detailed exploration of key findings from a primary research study, including key performance indicators, Best-in-Class insight, and vendor insight.

Read to learn how to sell more and sell better in the age of the Empowered Customer!

This Research Brief combines research from a number of Aberdeen Sales Effectiveness research data sets, to create a holistic view of the most effectively deployed CRM systems.

This brief will act as your roadmap with tips about how best to utilize people, processes, and technology to improve your company’s sales performance.