Category: Sales Execution

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What Happens in GreatVines Stays in GreatVines

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“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…
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3 Ways to Simplify Training and Start Executing

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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

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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…
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How to use Surveys to Improve Execution at Retail

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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”

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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…
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6 ways to avoid scope creep in your next BI project

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One 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…
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Six Ways to Prove the Business Intelligence Data Matches in Your BI Solution!

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Are 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…
6 ways to prove the data matches in your business intelligence solution with business impact in the top right and blue dice in middle

GreatVines Development Methodology

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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…
6 ways to prove the data matches in your business intelligence solution with business impact in the top right and blue dice in middle

Filter Reports in Report Manager using Keywords

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Microsoft’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…