The TAS Group Launches Dealmaker Sales Performance Insight on Salesforce.com's AppExchange, the World's Leading Business Apps Marketplace, at Dreamforce 2013

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 18, 2013) - SALESFORCE.COM -- DREAMFORCE The TAS Group today announced it has launched Dealmaker Sales Performance Insight on saleforce.com's AppExchange, empowering businesses to connect with customers, partners and employees in entirely new ways. Dealmaker Sales Performance Insight combines expert sales insights using smart sales analytics with built-in expertise and automated coaching to improve sales performance, solving the sales performance management and coaching problem for sales manager, using smart software. The announcement was made today at salesforce.com's Dreamforce 2013 in San Francisco. The TAS Group will be in booth N1905 in the Dreamforce Expo.

Built on the Salesforce Platform, the world's leading cloud platform for social and mobile business apps, Dealmaker Sales Performance Insight is immediately available for test drive and deployment on the AppExchange at www.appexchange.com.

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• "Front line sales managers are the critical link in any sales organization. We are enabling them do their job more effectively. By leveraging the social, mobile and open capabilities of the Salesforce Platform, the unique value we bring is the combination of deep sales methodology expertise and intelligent software applications. With decades of sales expertise and over a million hours of sales coaching built in, Dealmaker Sales Performance Insight takes the pain out of analyzing all the data the sales managers have to deal with, providing them with an informed foundation for their sales coaching," according to Donal Daly, CEO of The TAS Group. "Our customers asked us to provide a simple, but smart way to align sellers with the goals of their managers and help with motivation, so we have added goal-based badging and simple visualization to keep everyone on the same page. Making front-line sales managers more effective is really important to us and based on feedback from our beta users, we are making a real difference."
• "The future of enterprise apps is social, mobile and connected," said Leyla Seka, vice president, AppExchange and Partner Operations, salesforce.com. "Partners such as The TAS Group are leveraging the power of the Salesforce Platform to give companies the tools they need to create deeper connections with customers and accelerate their transformation into customer companies."

PRODUCT KEY FEATURES
Dealmaker Sales Performance Insight combines deep sales expertise, smart sales analytics and automated coaching to help analyze, visualize and coach sales performance. To make it easy for sales managers and sellers alike, it is presented in four separate insight categories:

1. Scorecard: Align, motivate and measure the sales team
2. Health: Establish the true value of the pipeline
3. Changes: Learn from the past to coach performance
4. Velocity: Optimize time spent in the sales cycle

Dealmaker Sales Performance Insight is native on the Salesforce Platform, fully mobile, Chatter enabled, and available through the AppExchange. Being a native app on the AppExchange make Dealmaker Insight available to be connected with other native apps on the AppExchange bringing the full power, security and reliability of Salesforce to the customer.

Dreamforce 2013 is the world's largest vendor technology conference, and expects more than 120,000 people to register to attend this year's 11th annual conference and experience the power of social and mobile cloud computing and connect with their customers in a whole new way. With more than 1,100 sessions and 350 cloud companies in the expo, attendees can participate in interactive sessions, hands-on training with cutting-edge technology, thousands of live demos and unparalleled networking. In addition, Dreamforce welcomes special guests Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook; Marissa Mayer, President and CEO of Yahoo!; and Deepak Chopra, Founder of The Chopra Foundation. Dreamforce 2013 offers attendees everything they need to accelerate their customer company transformation in four days, under one roof.

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About The TAS Group

The TAS Group helps sales professionals increase their sales velocity. Using TAS sales methodology and Dealmaker® smart software, companies find more deals, increase win rates, grow deal values and shorten sales cycles. Dealmaker sales performance automation software drives revenue growth for businesses worldwide, including market leaders such as Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, Unisys and Alcatel Lucent.

Dealmaker delivers real-time opportunity and account management, intelligent deal coaching, accurate sales forecasts, smart playbooks, self-paced learning, and predictive analytics, resulting in measurable sales growth. According to the Aberdeen Group, customers of The TAS Group realize 21 percent greater attainment of sales quotas.

For additional information visit The TAS Group website: http://www.thetasgroup.com.