Salesforce Delivers First-Year ROI of More Than 1000 Percent at DecisionOne
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"Thanks to the insight Salesforce provides into our pipeline and account relationships, we have substantially increased our win rates, renewal rates, and average deal size. Salesforce has been bottom-line profitable in the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars every month, and we recouped our initial investment in just four months."
Challenge
- Needed real-time visibility into revenue forecast
- Existing system and tools could not meet objectives of new customer engagement model
- Desired centralized, easy-to-use solution to facilitate collaboration among virtual account teams
- Wanted rapid deployment with minimal IT requirements
Solution
- Chose salesforce.com's on-demand Salesforce Enterprise Edition over Siebel and SAP
- Implementation and training assistance provided by salesforce.com's Supportforce Professional Services
- System live and customized to match internal processes within one month of purchase
- 140 users; disconnected salespeople have mobile access via Offline Edition
Results
- First-year ROI calculated at 1150%
- Increased new business win rates, renewal rates and average deal size
- Substantial cost reductions
- Improved forecast visibility and accuracy
- Improved collaboration and much greater insight into customers, sales process and critical sales data

