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Title: Projecting Big at a Smaller Company


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Projecting Big at a Smaller Company
Track Service And Support Executives
  • Rodney Bell, Actuate Corporation
  • Tim Hicks, Mystic Tan, Inc.
  • Olivier Bouchard, Taleo Corporation

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Moderated By
Andrea Miller
Senior Sales Engineer
salesforce.com
Rodney Bell
Manager, Applications Development
Tim Hicks
SVP Sales, Marketing Service
Olivier Bouchard
Director, Support Operations
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Speaker Bio
  • Rod Bell is the Manager of Applications
    Development for Actuate Corporation.
  • Rod Bell manages a team of admin, technical and
    functional staff who develop and maintain the
    systems primarily for the Actuate Customer
    Service and Finance Business Units.

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Speaker Bio
  • Tim Hicks is the Senior Vice President for Mystic
    Tan, where he is responsible for U.S. and
    Canadian Operations including Marketing, Sales,
    Technical Support and Customer Service.
  • Tims challenge and mission is to lead the effort
    to reenergize, restructure and recommit Mystic
    Tan to its customers by providing the Sales,
    Marketing and Support teams with the tools to
    improve their ability to manage and deliver
    outstanding customer service.

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Speaker Bio
  • Olivier Bouchard is the Director of Support
    Operations for the Global Customer Support
    Organization at Taleo
  • Olivier is leading teams responsible for
    maintaining the infrastructure that enables
    Customer Support including incident management
    systems, knowledge management, business
    processes, hiring training, new product
    introduction, telephony configuration, and
    reporting
  • Olivier has a many years of experience managing
    Customer Support organizations with an extensive
    background in CRM systems

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Rodney Bell Manager, Application Development
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All About Actuate Corporation
Actuate Corporation is dedicated to increasing
the richness, interactivity and effectiveness of
enterprise data, for everyone, everywhere.
Actuate delivers the next generation RIA-ready
information platform for both customer and
employee-facing applications.
  • INDUSTRY Software
  • EMPLOYEES 577 as of June 30, 2008
  • GEOGRAPHY Global
  • USERS 2000
  • PRODUCT(S) USED SFA, Service Support, DBAmp,
    RingLead

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Why salesforce.com?
  • salesforce.com was in place as our SFA tool.
  • SaaS is a good fit for our needs.
  • We were looking for customer facing
    functionality.
  • The Web Services API.

10
How are we using the portal?
  • Integrated seamlessly with our support website.
  • Full case management functionality to our
    customers.

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How are we using the portal?
  • Integrated with knowledge base.
  • Utilizing the Salesforce.com security model.

12
Our Experience?
  • Portal functionality and Standard functionality
    works harmoniously.
  • We found a rich web services API.

13
What next?
  • Continue to add spit and polish to our support
    website.
  • Further enhance case management functionality.
  • Provide richer customer profile functionality.
  • Track and provide customer entitlement/compliance
    information.

14
Tim Hicks SVP Sales, Marketing and Service
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  • INDUSTRY Skin Care Color Management
  • (This is a fancy way of saying Sunless Tanning)
  • REVENUE 20Million
  • ACCOUNTS 5000
  • EMPLOYEES 60
  • GEOGRAPHY Global
  • USERS 25
  • PRODUCT(S) USED SFA, Service Support, Customer
    Portal

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WHY CRM?
  • Mystic Tan Needs
  • Marketing Effectiveness
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Organizational Efficiency
  • Technical Support
  • Data Management
  • Quick Implementation
  • Low Ongoing Support

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Why salesforce.com?
  • Salesforce.com Strengths
  • Campaign ROI
  • Customer Portal
  • Lead and Opportunity Management
  • Service and Solution Module
  • Integration Capabilities
  • Web Based
  • Premiere Support
  • Mystic Tan Needs
  • Marketing Effectiveness
  • Customer Satisfaction
  • Organizational Efficiency
  • Technical Support
  • Data Management
  • Quick Implementation
  • Low Ongoing Support

18
THE CUSTOMER PORTAL
  • Our Vision
  • Technical Self Help and Incident Reporting
  • Customer Specific History
  • Online Order Processing
  • Bright Ideas Program
  • Training, Marketing and Support Materials

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OUR EXPERIENCE
Mystic Tan is excited about our new partnership
with Salesforce. The implementation and
integration with our existing systems has been
effortless. We believe the opportunity to improve
our internal Sales, Marketing and Service efforts
will only be outshined by the successful
implementation of the Mystic Tan Customer Portal
which will add significant value to our customers
and measurable positive impact to our operating
profit.
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Olivier Bouchard Director, Support Operations
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  • INDUSTRY Software as a Service (SaaS)
  • EMPLOYEES 1,000
  • GEOGRAPHY Global
  • USERS 350
  • PRODUCT(S) USED SFA, Service Support, Customer
    Portal, CTI, SLA Management, Data Loader, Cast
    Iron, etc.

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Why salesforce.com?
  • Decision between Seibel Salesforce
  • One single view of our customers
  • We selected Salesforce for
  • Application Features, Configurability, Reports
    Dashboards, SLA Management, CTI, SSO
    Capabilities, etc.
  • Specific to the Customer Portal
  • Robust application
  • Configurability was key
  • Scalability for growth

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Customer Support Portal
  • Global Migration Deployment
  • Internal Portal
  • Customer Portal
  • Single Sign On
  • 4000 Contacts
  • 1000 New cases
  • 32 Routing rules
  • 25 Queues

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Incident Web Conversation
  • Internal Comments (Public)
  • Email Notifications (both ways)
  • Transactional Survey

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Next Steps...
  • Expose Internal Knowledge Base (Solutions tab)
  • Deploy Customer Portal with recent acquisitions
  • Deploy Customer Portal with Taleo Partners
  • Case sharing between Accounts feature
  • ODP Certification Audit Core Assisted modules
  • Continue investing in certification programs
  • Deploy other languages (WorkBench)
  • Introduce Live Chat (AppExchange)

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Manager, Applications Development
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SVP Sales, Marketing Service
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Director, Support Operations
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