
What Happens in GreatVines Stays in GreatVines
Articles, Retail Space Management, Sales Execution, Trade Promotion
“The key to this business is personal relationships” — Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) quoting famous (but fictional) sports agent Dicky Fox
We live and work in a relationship-driven business. The key drivers are not merely…

3 Ways to Simplify Training and Start Executing
Articles, Sales Execution
The best sales reps in the industry all have their own way of working that they become very comfortable with. But even the best aren’t maximizing their selling opportunities. An important part of our training is showing how GreatVines…

How GreatVines made the “Shift” to faster data processing
Articles, Data Analytics, Events, Sales Execution
Redshift is a massively parallel processing (MPP) columnar database system that was recently added to Amazon’s stack of cloud services. It is often brought up in the context of “Big Data” (think: scanning through Petabytes…

How to use Surveys to Improve Execution at Retail
Articles, Retail Space Management, Sales Execution
Lots of companies do surveys. Surveying is important, especially at the beginning of key selling periods to drive execution, but most companies do it all wrong and waste the effort they put into the survey.
You have…

How To Improve Your Results by “Getting in the Game”
Articles, Retail Space Management, Sales Execution
Many companies in our industry are doing things the old fashioned way. Their common practice is to review monthly reports of sales summarized by geography and or product, then react by applying pressure to “do better” down the chain…

6 ways to avoid scope creep in your next BI project
Articles, Data Analytics, Sales ExecutionOne of the greatest threats to a successful Data Warehouse/Business Intelligence project is scope creep, and the consequence is often a poor return on investment – or even failure, if not managed properly. We define “scope creep” simply…

Six Ways to Prove the Business Intelligence Data Matches in Your BI Solution!
Articles, Data Analytics, Sales ExecutionAre you struggling or worried that the business intelligence solution you spent money on won’t be utilized fully? Are your employees resistant to change, or are you hearing rumblings in the break room that your staff is dreading the use…

GreatVines Development Methodology
Articles, Sales Execution
We asked our Director of Software Development, Christian Warden, to write up a description of the development methodology we use at GreatVines.
Axioms of Software Development
The GreatVines development methodology follows…

Filter Reports in Report Manager using Keywords
Articles, Data Analytics, Sales ExecutionMicrosoft’s Report Manager has already proven its capabilities as a powerful frontend portal, for easy distribution of reports to the business. The folder based interface in a browser makes navigation intuitive and comfortable for most users…