Social CRM Software promotes sales campaign effectiveness.September 30, 2008 -
OracleŽ Sales Campaigns combines graphical application for creating and analyzing sales campaigns with various social networking opportunities such as tagging, ratings, and comments. Also available, Oracle Sales Library is graphical application for finding, assembling, downloading, and sharing sales content. It also includes social networking tools and enables leveraging of most-effective sales materials to optimize business closings and presentation building.
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Original Press release
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Oracle Announces OracleŽ Sales Campaigns and Oracle Sales Library Based on the Oracle Social Applications Framework
New Sales Applications Enable Further Productivity Enhancements via Enterprise 2.0 and Social CRM
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 -- Oracle OpenWorld --
News Facts
-- Oracle announced Oracle(R) Sales Campaigns (http://www.oracle.com/applications/so...) and Oracle Sales Library (http://www.oracle.com/applications/so...) -- two new Oracle Social CRM Applications (http://sales.oracle.com/en-us/) built on the Oracle Social Applications Framework.
-- These applications help increase the productivity and effectiveness of salespeople by fostering collaboration from the bottom-up, and are designed to complement Oracle's Siebel CRM (http://www.oracle.com/applications/cr...) and Oracle CRM On Demand (http://crmondemand.oracle.com/en/index.htm) to help increase salesperson productivity.
-- Oracle Sales Campaigns combines a graphical, intuitive application for creating high-quality sales campaigns with an array of social networking opportunities such as tagging, ratings and comments.
-- With Oracle Sales Campaigns, sales representatives can execute proven programs most likely to yield that deliver higher response rates and lead conversions, as well as quickly and easily generate, manage and analyze the effectiveness of their e-mail marketing campaigns.
-- Oracle Sales Campaigns includes embedded pre-built analytics to monitor email campaign responses and segments contacts based on their response.
-- Oracle Sales Library is a highly graphical and easy-to-use application for finding, assembling, downloading and sharing sales content.
-- With a rich set of social networking tools for rating, reviewing and tagging slides, Oracle Sales Library enables representatives across an organization to quickly and easily leverage the most-effective sales materials to close business quickly and save time without needing to build presentations from scratch.
-- Today's announcement supports Oracle's strategy of delivering complete, integrated and end-to-end product suites on an open, standards-based middleware and database architecture. Oracle's approach helps customers to simplify computing environments, lower cost and risk, and provides greater choice and flexibility.
Oracle Social Applications Framework
-- The Oracle Enterprise Social Applications Framework enables users to share information within their communities, or across communities.
-- By providing a strong foundation to extend Enterprise 2.0 and Oracle Social CRM applications in any size deployment, the Oracle Social Applications Framework encompasses all the benefits of social networking in a secure enterprise model that helps maintain appropriate levels of application access, and more importantly, appropriate access to proprietary company information.
-- Oracle Social Applications Framework provides enterprise level governance containers that control the access to Oracle Enterprise Social Networks, yet allows collaboration across social networks such as sharing content and campaigns and allows multiple social networks to benefit from company's collective data set.
-- Oracle Enterprise Social Networks allow members, such as sales reps and marketers, to collaborate and leverage social intelligence to help dramatically improve sales effectiveness. Users can easily create and join Enterprise Social Networks, invite others, share information and leverage the wisdom of the crowd to enhance productivity.
Supporting Quote
-- "The introduction of Oracle Sales Campaigns and Oracle Sales Library enables salespeople to identify qualified leads and target them with the most relevant sales tools and techniques more efficiently than ever before," said Oracle Senior Vice President of CRM Anthony Lye. "By leveraging social networking to improve the sales cycle these applications are another strong example of Oracle's dedication to breaking new ground in the latest technology revolution, keeping us at forefront of innovation in Social CRM and Enterprise 2.0."
Supporting Resources
-- Oracle Social CRM Applications (http://sales.oracle.com/en-us/)
-- Social CRM Blog (http://blogs.oracle.com/socialcrm/)
-- Oracle Sales Campaigns (http://www.oracle.com/applications/so...)
-- Oracle Sales Library (http://www.oracle.com/applications/so...)
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