Tyco Fire & Security Standardizes on Salesforce in 22 European Countries and Seven Languages
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"Salesforce was chosen because this web-enabled, hosted system offers rapid implementation, minimal up-front technology investment, and future integration to our ERP environment."
Challenge
- Reliance on country-specific, un-coordinated sales systems
- No common, central system for viewing sales opportunities, proposals and other customer information
- Minimal management insight into sales performance
Solution
- Deployed Salesforce SFA and Force.com Builder to 700 sales teams in 22 countries and seven languages to create a single, comprehensive view of the customer across multiple channels
Results
- Improved cross-selling capability
- Increased the company’s focus on customer management
- Enhanced sales collaboration on international sales opportunities
- Helped the company adhere closely to the Six Sigma sales methodology for
continuous sales process improvement
- Quick and simple to adapt the system to unique and diverse needs
- No up-front technology investment and drawn-out deployment; minimal impact on IT resources

