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While prolonginator is not a real word, it should be because we all know people like this! If one is in your sales or support team your business has a big problem. High levels of responsiveness are absolutely essential in both B2C and B2B worlds. Consider a car buyer who has researched dozens of models, made meticulous comparisons, and finally made the decision to buy. The pro ...

Led Zeppelin famously said, "Yes, there are two paths you can go by but in the long run there's still time to change the road you're on!". They were not talking about Sitecore and Salesforce but there are two integration paths you can follow, syncing or staying afloat by transacting in real-time. Why and How to Integrate Sitecore with Salesforce First, let's look at t ...

Integration optimizes productivity so users don't need to constantly transition from one system to another. They remain contextually focussed on one system that transparently delivers the data they need from the other. Micro Focus Content Manager, or TRIM, has been the rock of enterprise digital record management since it played an important role in the electronic file and dig ...

How do you stop users from saving documents to their local drives when they need to be in the Record Management System? The answer is simple: Make it easier to save the document in the RMS Make it easier to find the document in the future Do that, add some more benefits, and recalcitrant users will never re-offend! System integration is just one way to achieve this. I ...

Selling is just one step in the sales and marketing process! A weak link in this process is the sales/marketing interface. This is where marketing-generated leads are handed to the sales team and sadly, where important sales intelligence is lost. Further, because the interface is typically primitive and the data flow is in one direction, the sales team cannot influence the le ...

Websites are traditionally "owned" by the marketing team but sales revenue can potentially explode if marketing concedes some ground to the sales team. "Sacrilege, not in my lifetime" I hear marketers say but relax, it's only a few minor concessions. The Case For ten years, FuseIT has been introducing innovative features that let sales reps leverage Sitecore analytics and per ...

This article takes a high-level look at some of the problems integration solves. Why is it a high level look? Recently I got lambasted by a somewhat angry group of end-users for talking technical while hosting a round table. In my defense, I'd mentioned something technical and momentum just kicked in. To them, I was disconnected from reality and needed a hard reboot or someth ...

Yes, strong words in the title so if you are dismissive, or short on time, jump to Use Case 3 and read it twice. In the world of sales, these are powerful features. Integrators can get so tied up with the technical detail they lose sight of the proverbial forest. Yes, fitting virtual square pegs into round holes is interesting (and rewarding) but creating value around business ...

Technology can easily add complexity when it should do the opposite! This is particularly true in the software integration space where connector tools promise simplicity but typically add complexity as you navigate the constraints of the tool. By aiming for simplicity, you have introduced another technology to further muddy the waters. The good news is integration is not rocke ...

Let's look at using syncing to implement some typical workflows in Sitecore and Salesforce. What is syncing? It's the replication of data from one system to another and functionality that tries to keep both data sets up-to-date. The alternative is having a single source of truth and accessing the data when you need it in real-time. Does that mean syncing creates a double sourc ...