NEC Corporation of America delivers technology and professional services for networking, IT, and identity management. NEC serves carrier, SMB and large enterprise clients across multiple vertical industries via direct and indirect sales channels.
NEC’s ITPG division was searching for a solution to track all marketing and sales efforts and roll up data across all business units: VPCC, ASPG, Servers, Software to standardize performance reporting and extract key metrics. ITPG has a large direct and indirect sales channel and tracking key partner performance coupled with direct sales performance was challenging. NEC issued an RFP to select the right consulting partner with both enterprise Salesforce.com implementation experience and business process expertise. Key requirements for NEC included: improving visibility into direct/ indirect sales and marketing across business units, consolidating multiple Salesforce.com instances, standardizing data formats, improving performance metrics measurement, and alleviating internal bandwidth constraints, and sharing best practice knowledge.