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Sales and Marketing Integration Solution for Techswitch , Inc. Capstone Initiatives, LLC. Drew Zimber, Jerry Cotellessa, Joseph M Friesen, and Rita Lam (Team 3 - ISMT E-200 Fall 2012). Techswitch Company Profile.
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Sales and Marketing Integration Solution for Techswitch, Inc. • Capstone Initiatives, LLC. Drew Zimber, Jerry Cotellessa, Joseph M Friesen, and Rita Lam (Team 3 - ISMT E-200 Fall 2012)
Techswitch Company Profile • Boston based software company, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. • Primary focus: IT software in three distinct product markets: Network Management, Managed File Transfer, and Messaging. • Reorganization into three divisions in 2008, resulted in annual revenue growth of greater than 20% over a four year period. • In 2012, management has identified a decline in sales growth, and has issued a Request For Proposal.
Problems to be Solved and Required Functionality • Integrate Sales and Marketing systems. • Automate Sales and Marketing business processes. • Provide website analytics capabilities. • Improve visibility of Marketing campaign effectiveness. • Develop company wide Marketing and Sales campaign protocols. • Provide simplified dashboards and reporting tools. • Consolidate company data sources into a single Data Warehouse.
Project Goals • Integrate Sales and Marketing systems to establish an end-to-end view of the Sales Lifecycle. • Develop corporate wide standards for all Marketing campaigns. • Provide consistent evaluation tools of ongoing and histsorical Marketing activities. • Implement a corporate wide Data Warehouse for future Business Intelligence and data driven decision-making across all three divisions.
Implementation Phases • Inception - Kickoff meeting, User and Management requirements, • Use Cases, and Project Readiness Documentation. • Integration - Data cleansing, mapping data fields to Salesforce, Setup User Roles & Accounts, Website integration, and Campaign procedurals. • Pilot Testing / User Acceptance - Sandbox training, Use case executions and review. First pass at problem resolution process. • Training - All users and consumers participate within Marketing and Sales. Staggered over 2 weeks with individual follow-up sessions. • Transition - Move from pilot to production environment. Enable user accounts, disable existing tools. System audits.
Project Timeline Deployed as a “green-field” implementation Then entire Marketing campaign process will be revamped to utilize Marketo.
Revenues, Costs, and Return on Investment Capstone Initiatives proposes the implementation of Marketo, a Marketing Automation platform designed to integrate with Techswitch’s existing Salesforce CRM systems and backend systems.