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Bridging the CRM User Adoption Gap with Riva Server-side Integration. Beyond the Outlook Plug-in. Stéphane Zanoni CTO, Head of Research Omni Technology Solutions stephane@omni-ts.com www.omni-ts.com . Agenda. Accelerate Dynamics Adoption – Fill User Adoption Gaps
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Bridging the CRM User Adoption Gap withRiva Server-side Integration Beyond the Outlook Plug-in Stéphane Zanoni CTO, Head of Research Omni Technology Solutions stephane@omni-ts.com www.omni-ts.com
Agenda Accelerate Dynamics Adoption – Fill User Adoption Gaps How Riva Helps Solve the Last Mile Gap Challenges Riva Overview Riva Live Demo Summary / Questions
Last Mile Challenges – Audience Poll • What causes lack of adoption? • CRM doesn’t align with business processes • Outlook plug-ins don’t do what I need • Users don’t want to change the way they work • Complexity (real or perceived) • Takes too much time (sales people aren’t paid for data entry) • Mobile phone integration challenges • Double data entry • Poor integration • Lack of management buy-in • …
Who are the Gap Users? Outlook Web Access users who need to synchronize Mobile users who are so disconnected they can’t benefit from the Outlook plug-in Users who need to synchronise recurring appointments iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, or ActiveSync users who would like to see their opportunities, cases, quotes on their devices Accounts with Macs or GroupWise that need to sync
Who are the Gap Users? Users who need to synchronize with more than one instance of Dynamics CRM or with two different CRMs Accounts that need to sync custom fields or that have custom requirements (display Service Activity notes on mobile devices) BPOS (Exchange On-line) users whose needs aren't being met with the Outlook plug-in Accounts where administrators want to control what gets synched to user accounts
What are some of the Plug-in Challenges that Cause Gaps for Outlook Users ? • Need to be installed and maintained on your laptop, desktop and/or home machine • Support and desktop issues caused by upgrading the desktop OS, version of Office, Exchange or version of Outlook • Limited to one instance of CRM • Perceived complexity • Separate and different applications needs to be installed on your BlackBerry, iPhone or ActiveSync mobile devices
How Does Direct Server-side Synchronization Help Solve the Problem?Transparency - Simplicity Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Web Access, BlackBerry, ActiveSync devices, Entourage for Mac, Mac Mail / iCal / Address Book and all GroupWise clients
Think of Riva Integration Server as a bridge or gateway between... Exchange and GroupWise
Riva’s Server-side Advantages • No-touchTM integration (no software to install on clients) • Transparent to Exchange, GroupWise and CRMs • Compatible with hosted or on-premise CRMs and Exchange and GroupWise running on all server platforms • No new infrastructure or firewall changes required • Turns all email clients into transparent integrated CRM clients with support for caching and remote modes
Riva’s Strongest Asset: Transparency Transparent integration for all Exchange and GroupWise email clients becomes an integral part of your CRM business processes Transparent, bi-directional synchronization of appointments, phone calls, tasks, notes, address book contacts, accounts and organizations Transparent synchronization of opportunities, quotes, sale orders, invoices, cases and others from CRM* to Exchange/Outlook and GroupWise. *Synchronised modules are CRM specific
Riva ConnectBarTM , AssignToTM and SmartConvertTM See: www.omni-ts.com/crm-integration Riva ConnectBarTM allows you to review and edit opportunities, quotes, projects and cases directly from your Exchange client. Riva AssignToTMallows users to drag-and-drop/copy emails and automatically archive them against an existing CRM opportunity, case or quote. (The email is archived into the opportunity history.) Riva SmartConvert Drop FoldersTMallows users to drag-and-drop/copy emails into a SmartConver folder from all Exchange clients. Riva converts the email into a new opportunity, case, quote, etc. in your CRM.
Riva SmartNotesTM and Recurring AppointmentsM Riva SmartNotesTMallow users to view and update Service Activies Notes from all Exchange clients – highly desirable for mobile technicians. Riva Recurring Appointments translates Outlook recurring appointments series into linked CRM appointments. Modifying an individual recurring appointment or the entire series in Exchange or CRM automatically updates the target appointment(s).
Opportunity Folder - Contains HTML Email Representations of Your Opportunities
Live Presentation: Riva Client Experience: OWA and Outlook ClientRiva Management Interface
Riva Helps Close the User Adoption Gap: • Highly scalable, server-to-server solution • Transparent to end-users - no plug-ins or mobile applications to install and manage • Resolves many of the causes of lack of adoption or decreased satisfaction by users who aren’t able to fully leverage the Outlook Client Plug-in
In Summary • Server-side installation - quick to deploy – no plug-ins to install or update on any client machines or mobile devices • Supports Dynamics CRM hosted or on premise • Supports hosted or on-premise Exchange 2010, 2007, 2003 and GroupWise 7.0.3 and 8 • Supports ALL Exchange and GroupWise desktop, web and mobile clients including Macs, BlackBerry, iPhone, … • Provides Advanced Integration and Interoperability with ConnectBar, AssignTo, SmartConvert, SmartNotes and Recurring Appointments • Riva Live: Cloud-based CRM integration – try it on-line at:https://www.rivasync.com
Thank you! Use our Contact Us linkto get more information about Riva. Aldo Zanoni CEO and Managing Director Omni Technology Solutions 780.423.4200 Ext. 232 www.omni-ts.com
Outlook, Entourage, Snow Leopard and GroupWiseClient Screenshots
