Market Perspectives

Economic uncertainty has organizations focused on sustained, profitable growth. Ensuring profitability is more complex, however, with mixed-revenue models like subscriptions and usage-based offers. Omnichannel selling brings different costs, and margin is typically examined as a post-sale event when it’s too late to influence profit.

Sales leadership and operations teams can ensure their most effective outcomes by properly managing territories, quotas and incentives. In that journey, sales teams struggle to reach their full potential if they do not orchestrate their efforts and optimize every week and month of the year. The need for immediate access to up-to-date information shared by sales professionals, managers, operations teams and leadership is critical to meet everyone’s expectations. Unfortunately, most sales organizations are operating with a disparate set of tools and legacy applications that do not facilitate selling based upon territories or quotas and lack management visibility for potential incentives.

The current sales cycle software space is one of complexity. Business-to-business sales across all industries are becoming more complex and require more care in their management. The rise of the subscription economy is one example contributing to this complexity. Buyers are not just buying one product at a time, but rather could be buying multiple products over different periods of time, with renewals on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis.

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