BoostUp vs. SalesDirector.ai

Well Suited Scenarios: 1) Organizations that are particularly interested in accurate and timely forecasting, especially PE-owned firms that have significant growth commitments; 2) Organizations where managers are particularly time-constrained and need assistance prioritizing when/how to intervene and assist their reports throughout the sales process. Less Well Suited: 1) Companies that have very short sales cycles (i.e., especially a one-touch close) where longitudinal deal insight is less valuable.

Incentivized

Any sales director that needs better insight into the strength of the opportunities in the sales pipeline can use the program. And no additional information needs to be entered into SalesDirector. The reps can do what they normally do and SalesDirector will start collecting information from CRM, emails, calendar and call logs to start building an overview of the deal and its likelihood to close in the time frame selected by the rep. Any sales leader that wants to make better sales forecasts or wants to coach their reps to be more effective and successful will benefit from the program.

Incentivized

• Opportunity Analysis - provides objective analysis and feedback based on activity and the depth of the relationships needed to close an opportunity.
• Forecasting - provides excellent information on committed, upside and pipeline deals, and provides great insight into the health of the deals contained within
• Integrates - Provides seamless integration, and leverages data from multiple sources to provide its analysis and guidance. Emails, meetings, and contacts are all gotten from Microsoft Exchange, and married with the opportunity information coming from Microsoft CRM. Elements like relationship mapping are added by SalesDirector.ai, and these combined data sets provide insights not easily obtained by these various sources individually.
• Reporting - An ever growing set of reports that helps sales people and sales managers improve their approaches and performance.

• Would be helpful to receive notifications about at-risk deals based on whatever triggers we configure rather than only seeing that in the dashboard.
• Generally happy w/BoostUp and can't think of any additional items at this time.
• It would be great if we could link multiple opportunities that are associated with a common sales effort (for example, where there is one opp for the initial land and additional opps for potential expansion) to make it easier to update "next steps" and other fields associated with those opportunities.

Incentivized

• I don't have enough experience with this or other sales forecasting, sales coaching tools to recommend changes. The interface isn't perhaps the prettiest I have seen, but it gives the user the information in an easy to understand form. And most sales reps hate any new system, and all of ours seemed to be able to use the software and get information about their deals from the software quickly after they started using it.

Incentivized

SalesDirector is more comprehensive and advanced than the add-ins I've tried.

• Identify close-able deals quicker
• Real-time sales coaching
• No more "happy ears" dependence

Incentivized