Channel Collaboration Management support for team selling

Cincom Acquire gives front-office sales and back-office engineering, production and financial workers powerful tools for channel collaboration. Cincom Acquire is built on the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS), the most widely adopted channel collaboration management platform in the world. Cincom's best practice templates allow rapid and lower cost implementations.

Cincom Acquire makes all this as familiar as the basic Microsoft Office applications your team members already know. Our Cincom-Microsoft framework gives you the kind of agility at the point of contact to drive insight, innovation and collaborative sales success. In addition, IT staff gets a single portal environment that is less expensive to maintain and support.

Lean front-office requires channel collaboration management between people: specifically those responsible for selling and delivering your products to customers. In a time of competitive challenge, responsiveness and speed are the underpinning to winning business. Channel collaboration management is essential!

Nine Integrated Channel Collaboration Management Functions:

1. Acquire Opportunity Management
2. Product & Service Management Module
3. Organization Management Module
4. Business Rules Module
5. Integration & Automation Module
6. Reporting and Analytics Module
7. Workflow Management Module
8. Forms Management Module
9. Portal Administration Module

Everything about selling gets easier with Cincom Acquire on your team

Streamline people-driven business processes -- Improved communication and coordination in people-driven processes means more rigorous execution in traditionally hard-to-reach parts of the business.

• Deploy standard portal templates to improve common people-driven processes.
• Drive process variation out of your business with consistent workflow.
• Create collaborative applications using integrated application development capabilities.

Create, capture, and share community knowledge -- Sharing best practices across expert teams drives awareness and adoption of business process innovation.

• Broadcast information with blogs and Really Simple Syndication (RSS).
• Capture community knowledge with wikis.
• Encourage dialogue with surveys and discussions.

Improve team productivity -- High performing teams are a key to better business results.

• Coordinate teamwork with shared calendars, alerts and notifications.
• Communicate with team members in context using presence and instant messaging.
• Make it easy to include and work with team members from outside the organization.

Poster -- 25 habits that enable you to win the complex sale

Cincom recognizes that it takes more than technology for manufacturers of complex products to win more sales. Everything we do is focused on helping you become more successful - from a resource library of whitepapers, to Webinars and other useful documents that address how to sell more effectively. Our newest addition to this resource library is a poster that summarizes the "25 Habits of Highly Successful Sales People." Register here for your free poster and a copy of our guided selling whitepaper.

Becoming the easiest supplier to do business with

"As always, in the case of IT initiative, if you haven't got them linked to the business goals you don't have anything, really, that's of any value to the organization. We need to take our specific initiatives for any given year and link actions to those strategies such as expanding in our sales channel. We have 200 rep firms around the country and around the world. Clearly the use of our field-to-factory direct order entry capability is focused around channel penetration, being more responsive to our customer. In fact, our motto is "we want to be the easiest supplier to do business with."