Touchstone CRM and The TAS
Group Announce
Partnership
16 January 2012: Touchstone Group’s Microsoft
Dynamics CRM division, Touchstone CRM, has joined forces
with 'The TAS Group'. The partnership significantly extends
Touchstone’s solution and business intelligence offerings to
include integrated sales effectiveness automation based on the
award-winning Dealmaker® software from The TAS Group.
Touchstone’s B2B Sales Accelerator solution delivers Dealmaker
intelligent software with integrated sales methodologies, all
within Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Sales and business development teams
can now take full advantage of a range of powerful, dynamic and
flexible business intelligence including sales reporting, dashboard
and data visualisation that can improve forecasts and insights into
sales pipelines. TAS sales methodology, tightly integrated into
Dealmaker software, has helped more than 650,000 sales
professionals globally find and close deals using a rapid and agile
sales process.
“I am delighted with the Partnership between Touchstone CRM
and The TAS Group,” said John Paul, Business Solutions Manager
at Touchstone CRM. “One of our key focus areas is helping B2B
companies extend their capabilities around being more effective in
Strategic Selling. This is greatly extended by the power of this
partnership and the Dealmaker solution."
Touchstone’s Sales Accelerator solution based on Dealmaker
software from The TAS Group provides intelligent benefits for sales
professionals, leaders and operations including:
- Increased confidence for sales leaders through greater forecast
accuracy and coaching
- Deep integration to provide end-to-end analytics based on
accurate, objective data in real time
- Configurable scoring system, resulting in reduction in cost of
sales
- Automated forecast updates
- Account management maps to uncover business problems and
solutions
- Effective use of social media to leverage community knowledge
and identify problem areas, enabling proactive coaching
“Touchstone CRM are thought-leaders and innovators in
adopting successful and fully integrated solutions across the UK.
At Microsoft, we are confident that the partnership between
Touchstone CRM and The TAS Group will enhance a great product and
bring a unique solution offering to the UK market. We look forward
to a long, successful relationship,” said Jeremy Haisman, UK
Dynamics Partner Lead at Microsoft.
“Companies with challenging sales cycles and high value
transactions can achieve greater success with their opportunity
management, thanks to the integration of Dealmaker and Microsoft
Dynamics, delivered by Touchstone,” said Donal Daly, CEO of
The TAS Group.
“The partnership ensures that UK businesses can easily take
advantage of the most advanced sales performance automation to sell
smarter and analyse better.”
Touchstone CRM is part of Touchstone Group. Incorporated in
1982, the Group has more than 650 active customers and employs over
130 staff with market-leading experience in delivering successful
projects. International recognitions include the Microsoft
President’s Club 2011 and a Microsoft Partner Excellence Award in
2011.
About Dealmaker
Dealmaker® intelligent
software helps you sell smarter and analyse better. Real-time
automated deal coaching, sales process methodology, and smart
reasoning deliver predictable, repeatable sales results. Dealmaker
can be integrated with Salesforce CRM, Microsoft Dynamics CRM,
Oracle CRM On Demand, Siebel CRM and SAP CRM, or with any third
party software application through the Dealmaker application
programming interface (API).
About The TAS Group
The TAS Group®
delivers unique business value from the tight integration of two
disciplines: intelligent software applications and deep sales
methodologies. According to the Aberdeen Group, customers of The
TAS Group realize 21% greater quota attainment. Dealmaker®
intelligent software is the engine that drives revenue growth for
more than 850,000 sales professionals in more than 65 countries,
from small private companies to market leaders like Xerox,
International Turnkey Systems and Alcatel Lucent.
For additional information visit http://www.theTASgroup.com and
read the Dealmaker blog at http://www.dealmaker365.com.