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Ready, set, implement!

Have you ever given yourself 30 days to finish something? How about burning off those last five pounds before swimsuit season? Polishing off that screenplay that’s been in your bottom desk drawer since 1995?  Breaking the Guinness World Record for most consecutive pogo stick jumps?

How about properly and efficiently implementing Salesforce CRM, Salesforce PRM, or Salesforce Service and Support across your entire business?

Apprivo Quick Starts let you do just that, getting your business up and running in less than 30 days.

But we don’t just turn it on and leave you hanging. We handle everything, from an initial review of your … Continue Reading

Portals: To build or to buy?

Building customer and partner portals in-house is a lot like that model airplane project you started with Dad—it seemed like a good idea at the time, but was ultimately a lot more work and less fun than either of you expected.

A recent IDC study, which you can read in full here, found that participants experienced five key benefits when building custom enterprise applications on the Force.com platform, compared to traditional in-house development. Continue Reading

Is it time for a Salesforce Tune-Up?

One of my favorite scenes from Erskine Caldwell’s Tobacco Road is when Dude Lester’s car breaks down. Dude angrily confronts the woman who sold him the car, demanding an explanation. She checks the engine and sees that it’s completely dry—not a drop of oil. “Oil?” says Dude. “You never told me I had to put oil in it!”

Even the finest machinery (or in our case, software,) won’t work at an optimum level without an occasional tune-up. If it’s been awhile since your business implemented Salesforce, or if your business has grown or changed significantly since implementation, then it might be … Continue Reading

Your gut is good. Apprivo Special Pricing is better.

Think fast! One of your sales reps or channel partners sends you a special pricing request at the eleventh hour. There’s no time to do any research into how this will impact your business, and this is a must-win deal. Time to go with your gut, right?

Well—don’t get me wrong. It isn’t that I doubt the abilities of your gut. In fact, I’m confident that your gut has made a lot of great decisions in the past. But there is a more reliable—not to mention defensible—solution that you might want to try.

Apprivo Special Pricing provides the transparency you … Continue Reading