TAS Group - Press Release

SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The TAS Group, the world leader in sales effectiveness solutions, today announced Dealmaker QuickStart for Siebel CRM (QSS), a software toolkit to accelerate the integration of Dealmaker with Oracle’s Siebel CRM.

Dealmaker is an intelligent sales effectiveness software application that enables full integration of the The TAS Group’s sales methodology with the world’s leading CRM systems.

QSS is a software toolkit to accelerate the integration of Dealmaker with Siebel CRM. Using the prepackaged integration utilities, organizations that use Siebel CRM can now easily set up Dealmaker and quickly configure the technical conversation between Dealmaker and Siebel to deploy a sales effectiveness application that is both fast and secure.

With Dealmaker quickly integrated with Siebel, sales organizations can expect sales revenue to increase through built-in sales methodologies from The TAS Group. That’s because Dealmaker’s quick response time and easy-to-use interface encourages sales people to employ the system, thus increasing the CRM adoption rate.

When Dealmaker is integrated with Siebel, sales organizations see the following results:

* Increased user adoption through faster application response time and intuitive user interface
* Increased sales effectiveness through in-built Target Account Selling® methodology
* Increased return on CRM and sales training investments
* Increased sales forecast accuracy

QSS combines the qualities of an industry-standard service-oriented architecture (SOA) integration interface, productivity, ease of use, and flexibility with the qualities of an enterprise software application: security, integrity, scalability and availability –and it’s built for the Web.

“Dealmaker is designed from the ground up to be simple to use for the sales person, while still delivering the power of our proven sales methodologies,” said Donal Daly, CEO of The TAS Group. “Now with QuickStart for Siebel, companies that use Siebel can integrate Dealmaker in a matter of weeks, leverage their sales training and CRM investments and improve their return on investment on both. When companies integrate sales methodologies with their CRM systems, we’ve seen dramatic increases in both sales achievement and CRM adoption.”

According to the TAS Index Global Sales Effectiveness Benchmark Study – a study that compiled the experiences of over 1250 participants from around the world — companies that implement a sales methodology with a defined sales process and integrate both into their CRM system see an 89% increase in sales quota achievement and an improvement in CRM adoption of 42%.

QSS is available immediately beginning at $25,000.