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Riverhead
Building Supply
Building-Supply Company Strengthens
Service Edge over Big-Box Stores
“Now that our sales representatives are completely in
sync with the back office, they can identify trends
and address customer concerns more quickly.”
John Bogdanski, E-Commerce Marketing Specialist, RBS
investment. By integrating with the company‘s
existing technologies, including its mainframe,
mobile devices, and communication tools, such
as Microsoft Office Outlook, the solution helps
improve visibility of critical data to drive better
customer service. Now, with access to powerful
tools for sales force automation and marketing
campaign and event management, RBS has
strengthened its competitive edge.
Riverhead Building Supply (RBS) serves the
needs of professional builders and homeowners
throughout the New York metropolitan area. To
accommodate current growth and capitalize
on future business opportunities, company
leaders began searching for a flexible, easy-
to-use customer relationship management
system. After a thorough evaluation, RBS opted
to implement Microsoft Dynamics CRM to
better connect its business processes, increase
efficiency, and maximize the return on its IT
Customer Case Study
Industry
Durable goods merchant wholesalers—Lumber 		
and construction wholesalers
Straight Talk
To provide critical functionality to its sales and marketing
personnel, RBS sought a flexible customer relationship
management solution that could help the company 	
maximize its return on existing technology investments.
Solution
With help from Microsoft Gold Certified Partner UXC Eclipse
(formerly Cole Systems)*, RBS implemented Microsoft Dynamics
CRM and linked the solution to its mainframe business system
and mobile and desktop tools that its people rely on each day.
Benefits
•	 Projected 30 percent increase in marketing efficiency
•	 Improved opportunity management
•	 Enhanced competitiveness and capacity for growth
2
Difficulty Creating Targeted
Marketing Campaigns
RBS also needed a more systematic way to
process customer information captured at the
point of sale or at one of the many trade shows
that its employees attend. Without the tools or
the processes in place to quickly identify which
customers preferred which brand of windows or
flooring, for example, RBS found that creating
marketing campaigns was extremely time
consuming. “We really had no systematic way
of tracing revenue back to a specific mailing
or event. It was always a challenge to justify
marketing costs if you couldn‘t point to some
kind of ROI,” says Bogdanski.
Based on input from Bogdanski and other
leaders at RBS, the company began searching
for a solution to automate lead tracking and
enable sales and marketing teams to efficiently
share information. Executives placed a priority
on gaining visibility into sales and marketing
performance through built-in reporting tools and
customizable dashboards.
Solution
RBS evaluated several customer relationship
management solutions, including offerings
from Oracle and Salesforce.com. RBS selected
Microsoft Dynamics CRM because of its ease
of use and extensibility. Executives were
Situation
Family-owned Riverhead Building Supply (RBS)
has been in business for more than 60 years.
Based in Shirley, New York, the company
specializes in distributing lumber, roofing,
windows, doors, and other building materials to
professional builders, contractors, and architects
throughout the New York metropolitan area.
Despite the global recession, RBS has expanded
its business. In 2009, the company acquired
Heritage Wide Plank Flooring and added two
dealer locations in Rhode Island, marking the
first time RBS has operated outside of New York.
“One of the main reasons we‘ve been able to
expand in a down economy is that we‘ve stayed
focused on providing the personalized service
that some of the bigger dealers, and especially
the large retail outlets, are hard pressed to
provide,” says John Bogdanski, E-Commerce
Marketing Specialist at RBS.
In addition to its chain of 11 stores for
professional builders, RBS operates five retail
showroom locations under its Perimeters®
brand. By offering hundreds of design options—
everything from custom molding and cabinetry
to distinctive hardware—these stores give
homeowners a chance to plan every aspect of a
custom remodel project.
Cross-Team Collaboration
With the addition of new stores and product
lines and a burgeoning workforce of more than
400 employees, RBS faced the challenge of
effectively sharing information across lines of
business. For two decades, the company used
an IBM AS/400–based system to handle core
business functions. Although the system excelled
at handling accounting, shipping, and inventory
management, it offered limited functionality for
sales and marketing staff. “Even in the best-
case scenario, when a salesperson had devised
a system of tracking leads and opportunities,
that data was completely locked down,” says
Bogdanski. “No one else in the organization had
timely access to that information, so sometimes
lucrative deals were left on the table.”
“The Event Management
Accelerator dramatically cuts down
on the amount of manual work
involved with organizing events.
And, it builds on the capabilities
we already have for compiling and
analyzing customer information,
providing us with a richer
understanding of their needs.”
John Bogdanski, , E-Commerce Marketing Specialist, RBS
3
Park Data Systems. The team linked the two
systems by using the Scribe Insight adapter to
automate the transfer-of-account and product
catalog data.
“With the integration capabilities of Microsoft
Dynamics CRM, together with Scribe, we
created a seamless connection between the
two systems,” says Olsson. “Accounts are
automatically synchronized with account owners,
and custom fields and entities in Microsoft
Dynamics CRM are preserved in the
data transfer.”
Now, from within Microsoft Dynamics CRM,
RBS sales and marketing staff can view
detailed, up-to-date account and subaccount
details, including transaction history and credit
information. A custom tab on account interface
also presents manufacturer incentives to
facilitate cross-sell and upsell opportunities.
Automating Sales and Marketing
RBS sales staff use the lead-tracking tools in
Microsoft Dynamics CRM to ensure responsive,
timely communication with prospective
customers. The built-in workflow capabilities
make it easy for RBS to track and manage the
lead-routing process so that sales managers
can assess the progression of each lead and
troubleshoot delays.
The marketing team also takes advantage
of capabilities for managing and segmenting
lists, combined with tools for developing and
customizing campaign templates to drive more
effective marketing initiatives.
In building its campaigns, the RBS marketing
team uses workflow tools to create unique
activities tailored to distinct customer classes.
This gives the team the ability to create focused
communications targeting a number of different
customer classes under the umbrella of a
single campaign.
particularly excited about completing the
installation quickly and rapidly gaining self-
sufficiency so that RBS could use internal IT
resources to modify the solution over time
as needed.
“Microsoft Dynamics CRM offered everything we
were looking for,” says Patrick Carberry, Project
Manager at RBS. “It integrates with Microsoft
Office Outlook, so people are familiar with how
it works and they want to use it every day. It‘s
flexible, so we can easily change a field or the
look of a particular screen. And the workflow,
reporting, and other tools help us connect
processes and track data from end to end,
including results from our sales and
marketing efforts.”
For help in initially implementing and setting
up the system, RBS turned to Microsoft Gold
Certified Partner UXC Eclipse. The team from
UXC Eclipse deployed the system in eight weeks.
This time frame included modifying fields
and other database components in Microsoft
Dynamics CRM and linking the solution to the
IBM AS/400 database and familiar productivity
tools, including Office Outlook, and BlackBerry
mobile devices.
“The flexibility of Microsoft Dynamics CRM
enabled us to easily connect to the platforms
and technologies that RBS already had in place
so that we could avoid the need to ‘rip and
replace‘ and could get them up and running
very quickly,” says Michael Olsson, CRM Project
Manager at UXC Eclipse.
Connecting Business Systems
To empower its sales and marketing teams, and
to connect these teams with other parts of the
organization, leaders at RBS sought to merge
data from the company‘s IBM mainframe with
the database in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. UXC
Eclipse worked with the technology team from
RBS, including IT Manager Jeffrey Bailey, and a
team from Bethpage, New York–based Central
have capability. With help from UXC Eclipse and
TenDigits Software, RBS implemented TenDigits
MobileAccess to enable the field sales force
to interact with Microsoft Dynamics CRM on
their BlackBerry smart phones, even without a
wireless signal. MobileAccess is a sophisticated
customer relationship management mobility
product specifically designed to securely extend
an organization‘s unique Microsoft Dynamics
CRM configuration to mobile smartphones.
“The capability to use Microsoft Dynamics CRM
on our existing BlackBerry phones has been
extremely important. It means we didn‘t have to
purchase new phones and, more importantly,
didn‘t have to replace the devices that our sales
team is accustomed to using,” says Bogdanski.
Consolidating Information
Role-based dashboards provide snapshots
of business performance on a variety of
dimensions. Through one dashboard, sales
managers can quickly evaluate open and won
opportunities for individual salespeople and
compare these values to company wide goals for
a given period.
Benefits
By implementing Microsoft Dynamics CRM and
linking this system with its IBM mainframe, RBS
now benefits from more rigorous and proactive
account management, improved marketing
efficiency, and enhanced customer service. As a
result, even in the face of formidable economic
challenges, the company has managed to
expand its operations and strengthen its position
against competitors.
“When a homeowner browses one of our
Perimeters showrooms or wants to know more
about specific products for a kitchen or bath
remodel, we can capture that information and
reach out with a personalized marketing piece
at the appropriate time,” says Bogdanski.
Planning and Managing Events
The company relies on its presence at various
trade shows and other events to generate
leads. Although organizing and managing these
events is a time-consuming process, it is a
critical component of the company‘s strategy to
strengthen brand awareness and drive demand
for its products and services.
RBS uses the Event Management Accelerator,
a free add-in for Microsoft Dynamics CRM that
provides a complete set of tools for planning
and budgeting, processing registration, sending
attendee mailings, and completing other
event-related tasks. “The Event Management
Accelerator dramatically cuts down on the
amount of manual work involved with organizing
events,” says Bogdanski. “And it builds on the
capabilities we already have for compiling and
analyzing customer information, providing us
with a richer understanding of their needs.”
Because event management processes are now
handled in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, sales leads
captured at events and post-event outreach
programs are seamlessly integrated with the
company‘s other lead-tracking, reporting, and
targeted marketing processes.
Going Mobile
For the RBS sales team, the ability to view and
update current account data from a mobile
device while visiting with a customer is a must-
4
5
might be able to further develop and expand
a customer relationship. If a longtime roofing
customer doesn‘t buy windows and doors
through us, the salesperson now has the
intelligence they need to actively pursue and
win that opportunity.”
Enhanced Competitiveness and 		
Capacity for Growth
Through custom dashboards, executives
now have the ability to instantly evaluate the
company‘s performance across a range of
metrics—from individual sales pipelines to
response rates for various marketing channels.
This gives executives the power to rapidly
adjust the company‘s response to a particular
market opportunity or competitive threat based
on empirical evidence, rather than solely
on industry experience. Moreover, improved
access to information has enabled employees
at every level of the company to deliver more
personalized service to customers.
“We‘ve always gone to market—even against
huge retail stores—based on our ability to
outservice and outperform our competitors,”
says Bogdanski. “Microsoft Dynamics CRM
enables our team to work more efficiently and
better connect with customers. It has played a
key role in our ability to sustain growth, even in a
tough economic climate.”
“The capability to use Microsoft
Dynamics CRM on our existing
BlackBerry phones has been
extremely important. It means we
didn‘t have to purchase new phones
and, more importantly, didn‘t have
to replace the devices that our sales
team is accustomed to using.”
John Bogdanski, E-Commerce Marketing Specialist, RBS
Projected 30 Percent Increase in 	
Marketing Efficiency
Now that RBS has a comprehensive set of tools
for managing and segmenting lists, building
custom campaigns, and modifying templates for
reuse, the company has substantially increased
the efficiency of its marketing function.
Moreover, RBS expects to realize similar
efficiency gains in planning and executing on
trade shows and other events through the Event
Management Accelerator for Microsoft Dynamics
CRM. Given the anticipated reduction in time
required to create and launch campaigns and
organize events, the company plans to increase
its annual marketing output by 30 percent
without adding staffing or allocating additional
budget resources.
Improved Opportunity Management
Microsoft Dynamics CRM synchronizes with
the company‘s existing technology, including
its IBM AS/400 mainframe and mobile and
desktop tools, such as Office Outlook, Office
SharePoint Server, and BlackBerry smartphones.
This ensures that the entire staff has improved
visibility into critical business data without
requiring the company to replace the technology
that it has depended on for two decades.
Merging the accounting and product information
stored in the mainframe with the database in
Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides salespeople
with a clear view into the status and priorities
associated with each account. And the ability
to access a single, shared view of information
anytime, anywhere on a mobile device through
integration with TenDigits MobileAccess
empowers sales staff to more effectively
prioritize and act on key opportunities.
“Now that our sales representatives are
completely in sync with the back office, they can
identify trends and address customer concerns
more quickly,” says Bogdanski. “By the same
token, the sales team can now instantly see,
through visibility into subaccounts, where we
For More Information
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products and services, call the Microsoft Sales
Information Center at (800) 426-9400. In
Canada, call the Microsoft Canada Information
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Supply products and services, call (800) 378-
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For more information about UXC Eclipse
products and services, call (212) 965-6400
or visit the Web site at: www.uxceclipse.com
*UXC Eclipse acquired Cole Systems Associates, Inc. in
December 2012. This site was implemented under
Cole Systems.
Microsoft Dynamics
Microsoft Dynamics is a line of integrated,
adaptable business management solutions that
enables you and your people to make business
decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft
Dynamics works like familiar Microsoft software
such as Microsoft Office, which means less of a
learning curve for your people, so they can get
up and running quickly and focus on what‘s most
important. And because it is from Microsoft, it
easily works with the systems that your company
already has implemented. By automating and
streamlining financial, customer relationship,
and supply chain processes, Microsoft Dynamics
brings together people, processes, and
technologies, increasing the productivity and
effectiveness of your business, and helping you
drive business success.
For more information about Microsoft Dynamics,
go to: www.microsoft.com/dynamics
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  • 1. 1 Riverhead Building Supply Building-Supply Company Strengthens Service Edge over Big-Box Stores “Now that our sales representatives are completely in sync with the back office, they can identify trends and address customer concerns more quickly.” John Bogdanski, E-Commerce Marketing Specialist, RBS investment. By integrating with the company‘s existing technologies, including its mainframe, mobile devices, and communication tools, such as Microsoft Office Outlook, the solution helps improve visibility of critical data to drive better customer service. Now, with access to powerful tools for sales force automation and marketing campaign and event management, RBS has strengthened its competitive edge. Riverhead Building Supply (RBS) serves the needs of professional builders and homeowners throughout the New York metropolitan area. To accommodate current growth and capitalize on future business opportunities, company leaders began searching for a flexible, easy- to-use customer relationship management system. After a thorough evaluation, RBS opted to implement Microsoft Dynamics CRM to better connect its business processes, increase efficiency, and maximize the return on its IT Customer Case Study Industry Durable goods merchant wholesalers—Lumber and construction wholesalers Straight Talk To provide critical functionality to its sales and marketing personnel, RBS sought a flexible customer relationship management solution that could help the company maximize its return on existing technology investments. Solution With help from Microsoft Gold Certified Partner UXC Eclipse (formerly Cole Systems)*, RBS implemented Microsoft Dynamics CRM and linked the solution to its mainframe business system and mobile and desktop tools that its people rely on each day. Benefits • Projected 30 percent increase in marketing efficiency • Improved opportunity management • Enhanced competitiveness and capacity for growth
  • 2. 2 Difficulty Creating Targeted Marketing Campaigns RBS also needed a more systematic way to process customer information captured at the point of sale or at one of the many trade shows that its employees attend. Without the tools or the processes in place to quickly identify which customers preferred which brand of windows or flooring, for example, RBS found that creating marketing campaigns was extremely time consuming. “We really had no systematic way of tracing revenue back to a specific mailing or event. It was always a challenge to justify marketing costs if you couldn‘t point to some kind of ROI,” says Bogdanski. Based on input from Bogdanski and other leaders at RBS, the company began searching for a solution to automate lead tracking and enable sales and marketing teams to efficiently share information. Executives placed a priority on gaining visibility into sales and marketing performance through built-in reporting tools and customizable dashboards. Solution RBS evaluated several customer relationship management solutions, including offerings from Oracle and Salesforce.com. RBS selected Microsoft Dynamics CRM because of its ease of use and extensibility. Executives were Situation Family-owned Riverhead Building Supply (RBS) has been in business for more than 60 years. Based in Shirley, New York, the company specializes in distributing lumber, roofing, windows, doors, and other building materials to professional builders, contractors, and architects throughout the New York metropolitan area. Despite the global recession, RBS has expanded its business. In 2009, the company acquired Heritage Wide Plank Flooring and added two dealer locations in Rhode Island, marking the first time RBS has operated outside of New York. “One of the main reasons we‘ve been able to expand in a down economy is that we‘ve stayed focused on providing the personalized service that some of the bigger dealers, and especially the large retail outlets, are hard pressed to provide,” says John Bogdanski, E-Commerce Marketing Specialist at RBS. In addition to its chain of 11 stores for professional builders, RBS operates five retail showroom locations under its Perimeters® brand. By offering hundreds of design options— everything from custom molding and cabinetry to distinctive hardware—these stores give homeowners a chance to plan every aspect of a custom remodel project. Cross-Team Collaboration With the addition of new stores and product lines and a burgeoning workforce of more than 400 employees, RBS faced the challenge of effectively sharing information across lines of business. For two decades, the company used an IBM AS/400–based system to handle core business functions. Although the system excelled at handling accounting, shipping, and inventory management, it offered limited functionality for sales and marketing staff. “Even in the best- case scenario, when a salesperson had devised a system of tracking leads and opportunities, that data was completely locked down,” says Bogdanski. “No one else in the organization had timely access to that information, so sometimes lucrative deals were left on the table.” “The Event Management Accelerator dramatically cuts down on the amount of manual work involved with organizing events. And, it builds on the capabilities we already have for compiling and analyzing customer information, providing us with a richer understanding of their needs.” John Bogdanski, , E-Commerce Marketing Specialist, RBS
  • 3. 3 Park Data Systems. The team linked the two systems by using the Scribe Insight adapter to automate the transfer-of-account and product catalog data. “With the integration capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, together with Scribe, we created a seamless connection between the two systems,” says Olsson. “Accounts are automatically synchronized with account owners, and custom fields and entities in Microsoft Dynamics CRM are preserved in the data transfer.” Now, from within Microsoft Dynamics CRM, RBS sales and marketing staff can view detailed, up-to-date account and subaccount details, including transaction history and credit information. A custom tab on account interface also presents manufacturer incentives to facilitate cross-sell and upsell opportunities. Automating Sales and Marketing RBS sales staff use the lead-tracking tools in Microsoft Dynamics CRM to ensure responsive, timely communication with prospective customers. The built-in workflow capabilities make it easy for RBS to track and manage the lead-routing process so that sales managers can assess the progression of each lead and troubleshoot delays. The marketing team also takes advantage of capabilities for managing and segmenting lists, combined with tools for developing and customizing campaign templates to drive more effective marketing initiatives. In building its campaigns, the RBS marketing team uses workflow tools to create unique activities tailored to distinct customer classes. This gives the team the ability to create focused communications targeting a number of different customer classes under the umbrella of a single campaign. particularly excited about completing the installation quickly and rapidly gaining self- sufficiency so that RBS could use internal IT resources to modify the solution over time as needed. “Microsoft Dynamics CRM offered everything we were looking for,” says Patrick Carberry, Project Manager at RBS. “It integrates with Microsoft Office Outlook, so people are familiar with how it works and they want to use it every day. It‘s flexible, so we can easily change a field or the look of a particular screen. And the workflow, reporting, and other tools help us connect processes and track data from end to end, including results from our sales and marketing efforts.” For help in initially implementing and setting up the system, RBS turned to Microsoft Gold Certified Partner UXC Eclipse. The team from UXC Eclipse deployed the system in eight weeks. This time frame included modifying fields and other database components in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and linking the solution to the IBM AS/400 database and familiar productivity tools, including Office Outlook, and BlackBerry mobile devices. “The flexibility of Microsoft Dynamics CRM enabled us to easily connect to the platforms and technologies that RBS already had in place so that we could avoid the need to ‘rip and replace‘ and could get them up and running very quickly,” says Michael Olsson, CRM Project Manager at UXC Eclipse. Connecting Business Systems To empower its sales and marketing teams, and to connect these teams with other parts of the organization, leaders at RBS sought to merge data from the company‘s IBM mainframe with the database in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. UXC Eclipse worked with the technology team from RBS, including IT Manager Jeffrey Bailey, and a team from Bethpage, New York–based Central
  • 4. have capability. With help from UXC Eclipse and TenDigits Software, RBS implemented TenDigits MobileAccess to enable the field sales force to interact with Microsoft Dynamics CRM on their BlackBerry smart phones, even without a wireless signal. MobileAccess is a sophisticated customer relationship management mobility product specifically designed to securely extend an organization‘s unique Microsoft Dynamics CRM configuration to mobile smartphones. “The capability to use Microsoft Dynamics CRM on our existing BlackBerry phones has been extremely important. It means we didn‘t have to purchase new phones and, more importantly, didn‘t have to replace the devices that our sales team is accustomed to using,” says Bogdanski. Consolidating Information Role-based dashboards provide snapshots of business performance on a variety of dimensions. Through one dashboard, sales managers can quickly evaluate open and won opportunities for individual salespeople and compare these values to company wide goals for a given period. Benefits By implementing Microsoft Dynamics CRM and linking this system with its IBM mainframe, RBS now benefits from more rigorous and proactive account management, improved marketing efficiency, and enhanced customer service. As a result, even in the face of formidable economic challenges, the company has managed to expand its operations and strengthen its position against competitors. “When a homeowner browses one of our Perimeters showrooms or wants to know more about specific products for a kitchen or bath remodel, we can capture that information and reach out with a personalized marketing piece at the appropriate time,” says Bogdanski. Planning and Managing Events The company relies on its presence at various trade shows and other events to generate leads. Although organizing and managing these events is a time-consuming process, it is a critical component of the company‘s strategy to strengthen brand awareness and drive demand for its products and services. RBS uses the Event Management Accelerator, a free add-in for Microsoft Dynamics CRM that provides a complete set of tools for planning and budgeting, processing registration, sending attendee mailings, and completing other event-related tasks. “The Event Management Accelerator dramatically cuts down on the amount of manual work involved with organizing events,” says Bogdanski. “And it builds on the capabilities we already have for compiling and analyzing customer information, providing us with a richer understanding of their needs.” Because event management processes are now handled in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, sales leads captured at events and post-event outreach programs are seamlessly integrated with the company‘s other lead-tracking, reporting, and targeted marketing processes. Going Mobile For the RBS sales team, the ability to view and update current account data from a mobile device while visiting with a customer is a must- 4
  • 5. 5 might be able to further develop and expand a customer relationship. If a longtime roofing customer doesn‘t buy windows and doors through us, the salesperson now has the intelligence they need to actively pursue and win that opportunity.” Enhanced Competitiveness and Capacity for Growth Through custom dashboards, executives now have the ability to instantly evaluate the company‘s performance across a range of metrics—from individual sales pipelines to response rates for various marketing channels. This gives executives the power to rapidly adjust the company‘s response to a particular market opportunity or competitive threat based on empirical evidence, rather than solely on industry experience. Moreover, improved access to information has enabled employees at every level of the company to deliver more personalized service to customers. “We‘ve always gone to market—even against huge retail stores—based on our ability to outservice and outperform our competitors,” says Bogdanski. “Microsoft Dynamics CRM enables our team to work more efficiently and better connect with customers. It has played a key role in our ability to sustain growth, even in a tough economic climate.” “The capability to use Microsoft Dynamics CRM on our existing BlackBerry phones has been extremely important. It means we didn‘t have to purchase new phones and, more importantly, didn‘t have to replace the devices that our sales team is accustomed to using.” John Bogdanski, E-Commerce Marketing Specialist, RBS Projected 30 Percent Increase in Marketing Efficiency Now that RBS has a comprehensive set of tools for managing and segmenting lists, building custom campaigns, and modifying templates for reuse, the company has substantially increased the efficiency of its marketing function. Moreover, RBS expects to realize similar efficiency gains in planning and executing on trade shows and other events through the Event Management Accelerator for Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Given the anticipated reduction in time required to create and launch campaigns and organize events, the company plans to increase its annual marketing output by 30 percent without adding staffing or allocating additional budget resources. Improved Opportunity Management Microsoft Dynamics CRM synchronizes with the company‘s existing technology, including its IBM AS/400 mainframe and mobile and desktop tools, such as Office Outlook, Office SharePoint Server, and BlackBerry smartphones. This ensures that the entire staff has improved visibility into critical business data without requiring the company to replace the technology that it has depended on for two decades. Merging the accounting and product information stored in the mainframe with the database in Microsoft Dynamics CRM provides salespeople with a clear view into the status and priorities associated with each account. And the ability to access a single, shared view of information anytime, anywhere on a mobile device through integration with TenDigits MobileAccess empowers sales staff to more effectively prioritize and act on key opportunities. “Now that our sales representatives are completely in sync with the back office, they can identify trends and address customer concerns more quickly,” says Bogdanski. “By the same token, the sales team can now instantly see, through visibility into subaccounts, where we
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