Resolve to Extend the Value of Your CRM with These Fast, Simple Integrations

Your SugarCRM system is the workhorse of your sales organization. It centralizes customer data and processes, empowering users to better understand and engage with consumers –wherever they happen to be in the pipeline.

But are your users making the most of what the SugarCRM ecosystem has to offer?

Here are three simple tools to drive productivity, shorten sales cycles and improve overall CRM adoption and ROI. Before we turn the calendar to the New Year, resolve to optimize your SugarCRM deployment by adding on these fast, simple integrations:

Electronic Signature – Speed the Sales Cycle

One of the most tedious phases of the sales cycle is the seemingly endless back-and-forth around sales proposals, quotes and contracts. Typically sales agents need to email or (gasp!) fax quotes and contracts to prospects and customers – which delays the close of a sale, and adds unnecessary friction into the sales process. However, with e-signature tools like DocuSign integrated with a CRM system, reps can fire off quotes right from the CRM that are signature enabled. All a customer needs to do is digitally sign, and viola! – the deal is done. No more emailing, printing, signing, scanning, emailing, etc. And, closed deals are inputted right into the CRM system, so reps can immediately see the effect of the deal on their path to quota.

D&B for Sugar: Improve data quality and agent productivity

Sugar is great at managing the flow of leads to sales reps. However, there is an ocean of information available about every prospect and company that is likely not immediately available to a sales rep inside Sugar. By leveraging the breadth of data in D&B for Sugar, sales reps can seamlessly access and consume myriad data points to ensure they have accurate and timely information that can help them be more prepared along every stage of the sales cycle.

D&B for Sugar empowers sales agents with a number of valuable data points around millions of companies, including:

• The company’s latest financials
• Recent changes in locations, leadership, regulatory filings
• Unstructured data such as social media, news and market insight
• Corporate linkage information
• Accurate contact information for decision makers

CPQ – Simplify Complex Product Sales

Configure, price, quote (CPQ) tools help automate the arduous tasks around configuring product bundles, optimizing pricing, and building compelling sales quotes. Modern CPQ tools like EndeavorCPQ are fully mobile, and highly intuitive – making it easier than ever for sales reps to use. EndeavorCPQ’s system launches from a Sugar quote and guides the sales person through the quoting process, making recommendations and ensuring that all product and pricing is 100% accurate. It saves all quote data back to Sugar and provides the ability to generate a PDF, Word, Excel or email quote for immediate delivery.

These are just three of the myriad tools inside the SugarCRM ecosystem designed to boost sales reps’ productivity, close deals faster, and cut some fat out of the sales process. To see more cool integrations and connectors for Sugar that your team can use to their advantage – check out Sugar Exchange.

So, how will you resolve to optimize your SugarCRM deployment in 2015?