Category: Sales Execution

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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…
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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…
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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…
An Easy Step-By-Step Guide: How to hide unrelated dimensions in a business intelligence tool!

Hiding Unrelated Dimensions in a BI Tool!

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The main power of OLAP viewers (Business Intelligence Tools) is the ability for employees to do Ad Hoc reporting and analysis.  If one simply chooses the measures and dimensions they want to look at, the tool will return the data they are requesting…
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Microsoft’s Master Data Management as a system?

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Master Data Management (MDM) is important because dirty data means poor adoption, poor decisions and poor BI, but to think of it as a separate system is very difficult.[quote align=”right” color=”#999999″]Imagine SAP having to accept…
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How to Install Pubs Database in SQL Server 2012 in 1 query

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Upon request I published how to install Pubs database for SQL Server 2012. Several have had trouble attaching it following the guide for How to install Northwind for SQL Server 2012. One can download Northwind and Pubs here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23654 where…
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GreatVines National Account Authorizations and Mandates

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Welcome to the first in a new series of website posts dedicated to cutting-edge new features of GreatVines and Force.com in 2012. Hopefully by now you are already aware of and utilizing our new “Account Call” capability, affectionately…
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How Your Business Can Become A Social Enterprise

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Chatter is changing the way employees collaborate with one another. New, young sales reps grew up on the internet. This is how they communicate. This is how the world communicates. Now available for your business. Contact GreatVines to…
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Using Technology to Sell More Cases

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When you are in sales, time is money.  The more time you spend selling, versus other administrative activities, the more you will sell.  So, what are the 3 things sales reps absolutely need at their fingertips to make the best use of their…