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Pivotal Professional ServicesA Continuum of Services for Optimum Business Agility and Performance

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Business Agility is a Competitive Imperative

The pace of business today demands that your organization have the ability to move and act quickly. Let the Pivotal CRM team help you turn this challenge into an opportunity. By combining our industry-leading CRM platform and applications with insightful services, you can create a flexible environment that delivers what you need: simplicity, agility, and results. We can help you lower costs, maximize return, and mitigate risk, while helping you achieve your CRM strategy for maximum long-term agility.

Achieve Business Agility with Expert Help

It is stark but true: if your business isn’t agile, it is at risk.

We operate in a world where business needs and technology are inextricably linked. Every change in the business environment generates hundreds, even thousands, of changes in IT infrastructure. New business opportunities, increased competition, new business strategies and processes, industry regulatory changes, mergers, and acquisitions—all of these drive process change and impact technology.

For many businesses, the goal is to transform themselves into adaptive enterprises in which flexible technologies and methodologies sustain a continuous cycle of improvement—one that’s increasingly responsive to business demands. That means business processes shouldn’t be hard-coded; neither should the services businesses rely on.

That’s the advantage of Pivotal Professional Services. We provide the depth and breadth of services businesses demand: a continuum of services and proven methodologies; a range of pricing options for a predictable, cost-effective implementation; knowledge transfer to continually maintain a high degree of performance; and responsibility for our services andyour success.

To develop into an adaptive enterprise, you need a partner who is accountable not only for their services and technology, but for your results. Our practiced, knowledgeable Professional Services team has partnered with hundreds of customers worldwide to help them realize their unique CRM vision. Teaming up with us gives you access to the services and methodologies needed to ensure that the technology that supports your processes is up and running—fast —and that it delivers maximum business value over the full lifetime of the solution.

For many businesses today, their chief goal is to become adaptive enterprises.

“Strategic Planning Assumption: By 2009, the average lifetime of an enterprise’s business processes will fall by 50 percent (0.8 probability).”

Gartner, “How to Create a Smart CRM Strategy andChoose Technology Wisely,” W. Close, December 1, 2004

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The Pivotal Professional Services Advantage

Depth and Breadth of Expertise: Benefit from unrivaled, world-class CRM expertise focused on your business. Our practiced, knowledgeable Professional Services team has partnered with hundreds of customers worldwide. We’ve documented our processes and methodologies from our many projects—building a library of best practices that can help you implement the latest technologies while reducing costs, speeding time to benefit, and increasing agility.

Continuum of Flexible Services: Obtain the precise kind and level of assistance you need, whenever you need it. We offer a variety of services—custom or packaged—suitable for any organization. Whether you prefer a traditional pricing model, fixed-price contracts, milestone-based payments, service-payment holdbacks, or price protection, we can provide you with a truly unique and affordable solution: we ensure that your CRM solution is implemented for the lowest total cost.

Proven, Rigorous Methodology: Take advantage of highly effective methodologies that deliver fast, cost-effective, low-risk Pivotal CRM implementations. Based on industry-leading best practices and drawing on our extensive customer-engagement experience, our proven Rapid Productivity Methodology (RPM) can help guide you through all the phases of an implementation. This approach takes full advantage of resources throughout our organization, mitigating risk and ensuring overall project success.

Accountability and Partnership: Evolve confidently with a partner that stands accountable for our technology and your success. We work with you to maximize the technical and business benefits of your solution and ensure that your CRM system is delivered on time, on budget. Results-sharing partnerships are critical to your success: project teams are measured and compensated according to your success through results-sharing agreements and milestone-based payments.

Pivotal Professional Services: The Key to Business Agility

Business agility requires a flexible, adaptive CRM infrastructure that allows your business to manage and control the impact of change, turning it to your advantage. Your goal? A responsive and proactive—not reactive—organization. That means that the services that support your business goals must be just as flexible as the technology that enables your CRM strategy.

Business processes shouldn’t be hard-coded; neither should the services businesses rely on.

Balance multiple conflicting objectives—maximize return, mitigate risk, and increase agility—in the midst of an unprecedented amount of change.

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A Continuum of Services Tailored to Your Needs

When it comes to developing innovative approaches to design, implementation, and management of your CRM solution, Pivotal CRM is an industry leader. We have extensive experience assessing, designing, delivering, and managing solutions tailored to the unique needs of diverse businesses.

Look around your enterprise. Applications. Databases. Servers. Networks. Critical processes. ERP and legacy systems. Users inside and outside the firewall. Once you start to think about it, you’ll see the many areas where you could benefit from improved performance, reduced risk, and tighter alignment between your systems, processes, and business requirements.

Our experts will collaborate with you to define a CRM strategy that aligns with your business objectives and assess what it will take for your organization to implement your strategy. The use of a trusted advisor with knowledge and expertise in architecting and implementing an adaptive CRM infrastructure can facilitate CRM planning, streamline deployment, and help establish a framework for delivering measurable results. At every stage—from planning CRM strategy to outlining business requirements to building and deploying the technology—we’ll work with you to define the scope and timeline that makes the most sense for your business.

We understand that organizations vary with respect to their business needs and technical expertise implementing CRM technology. In response, we can provide partial assistance, or we can lead the entire implementation for you. We offer several fixed-fee, packaged implementation services that balance the drive toward rapid results, with the discipline required to ensure adoption and achieve long-term CRM success.

What ensures a successful deployment in one company may not mean the same for another. We understand that every business is unique, and we provide the depth and breadth of services to meet your business’ needs. That’s the advantage of Pivotal Professional Services.

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Pivotal CRM Traditional Implementation Services Some organizations don’t have the resources or infrastructure to implement a CRM system on their own. We can provide complete implementation services—with predictable results —helping you realize the full potential of your CRM vision with speed and efficiency.

We follow our Rapid Productivity Methodology (RPM): a powerful methodology that combines an effective, proven process with a set of project guidelines and pre-built tools. We developed RPM by consulting with users during hundreds of implementations around the world. We then distilled their feedback to refine our expertise and create a consistent, repeatable framework for future implementations. Project management and milestone-review services support the program to ensure that your project remains on track. For you, this translates into results: a quicker return on your investment and a lower total cost of ownership.

Pivotal CRM FastPath Implementation Services Our Pivotal CRM FastPath Implementation Service is a rapid approach to implementing andautomating marketing, sales, or service capabilities in a short, fixed timeframe, at a fixed cost.Pivotal CRM FastPath helps you implement a CRM application predictably—in 30 days or less—and evolve at your own pace as your business demands. Following a structured methodology, using a standard project plan and pre-defined processes and customization options, you can shorten the time to upfront results, verify that the solution is right for the organization, and benefit from a technology platform that also provides the long-term flexibility you need to extend and enhance your original solution.

The Pivotal CRM Expanding Continuum of Services

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Pivotal CRM AssistIn some cases, only partial implementation assistance is required. This may be the case if your organization already has a dedicated staff leading the implementation, strong IT capabilities in-house, and a clear understanding of your business needs. Pivotal CRM Assist is there to help out as needed.

Many of our customers have turned to us for guidance and recommendations to ensure their technology implementation follows best practices. In these cases, for example, development teams may want to sit in on technical sessions to familiarize themselves with the best way to adapt CRM technology to existing business processes. Our advisors can help complement and support your in-house team to the extent required.

Pivotal CRM Test Drive Program With Pivotal CRM, you can try it—before you buy it. For businesses just becoming interested in the potential of CRM, embarking on a comprehensive process of due diligence to ensure the system produces exactly the results required—reliably, quickly, and measurably—is the way to go. The Pivotal CRM Test Drive Program allows you to evaluate the results of Pivotal’s CRM technology with minimal risk—in your own environment, with your own information—before making a full-scale investment.

If your organization wants to demonstrate the benefits of a CRM solution quickly in one business area, such as marketing, the Test Drive Program for CDC MarketFirst is a perfect start. The Pivotal CRM Test Drive program is a meaningful, full-fledged pre-purchase engagement. It gives your users a chance to use the system exactly as they would post-purchase so they can discover the difference it can make for them and achieve results quickly that can be communicated to other key decision-makers, facilitating a more rapid purchase decision.

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Pivotal CRM Technical Account Management Gain anytime access to a Pivotal CRM expert to ensure you get the most out of your investment. Pivotal CRM Technical Account Managers (TAMs) have in-depth product knowledge and insight: they know more and have done more with Pivotal technology than anyone else. They are a dedicated resource available on short notice for enhancements and modifications, whether planned or unexpected.

TAMs are senior technical resources responsible for providing guidance, coaching, and recommendations. Their job is to ensure Pivotal CRM applications and the technology infrastructure on which they are built are working properly and living up to their full potential. They ensure that your implementation is on track and that your system is robust. TAMs can help you improve your overall deployment strategy, integrate data with more systems, follow best practices, and take advantage of newly released software. They can work with you to proactively plan future phases and extensions to your system and help map our product roadmap into your CRM strategy.

Pivotal CRM Performance Health Check Services Perhaps you are experiencing slow performance over the WAN, slow mobile synchronization times, or data hygiene issues on mobile devices. Whatever the situation, every Pivotal CRM system, regardless of size, complexity, or maturity, can benefit from Pivotal CRM Performance Health Check Services. Whether companies want to proactively prevent problems prior to implementation or need to optimize performance after deployment, we can provide recommendations that keep systems running smoothly.

Pivotal CRM Performance Health Check Services is a diagnostic and optimization service that ensures your organization’s CRM investment meets the performance, stability, and reliability standards your users demand. In just five days, we provide a complete analysis of your technology, including your servers, network, and clients. We provide you with recommendations that outline exactly what can be done to enhance or stabilize your system. If desired, we can assist in the implementation of our findings.

As your business evolves, so will your CRM requirements. It’s likely that you’ll want to build on your existing investment in CRM, making changes as you go and as new opportunities arise. Pivotal Professional Services can help you capitalize on change and develop more nimble business processes.

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“I had a high degree of confidence in the Pivotal Professional Services team. One of the things I requested was that the same team lead this upgrade because they were so familiar with the earlier upgrade.”

- Pivotal CRM 5.1 Upgrade Customer

Pivotal Hosted CRM Hosted CRM can be a great choice for organizations that don’t have (or want) the IT support and expertise to manage a strategic information technology system in-house. It gives you access to all of the functionality in the Pivotal CRM applications without the hassle of having to support or maintain them. You don’t have to worry about incremental upgrades to the system—we take care of everything for you.

Our hosting services range from outsourcing hardware to managing turnkey applications. We can manage the system and infrastructure, so you can focus your efforts on the way the applications are used; you benefit from a single point of contact for service and support, with a 99% availability guarantee.

Pivotal CRM Upgrade ServicesPivotal CRM Upgrade Services brings together the tools, methodologies, and expertise necessary for a predictable, low-risk upgrade. We will help you select, plan, and implement the most effective upgrade path or we’ll customize a plan for you, providing the quickest way to gain from new functionality delivered in the latest platform and applications.

Pivotal CRM Upgrade Services allows for a quick start and substantially reduces implementation workdays —saving time and money. From defining requirements to analyzing, building, testing, and deploying, our proven upgrade methodology ensures that your project succeeds as planned. Before any work begins, we will estimate the effort required. We’ll help you prioritize which customizations are to be retained and recreated as you move forward, and which are no longer required due to the new features and functionality available in the latest version of the product.

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Pivotal CRM Solution Development Centers

To create a CRM solution that truly meets your needs—or to adapt to evolving business priorities—look to Pivotal CRM Solution Centers for assistance and expertise. Pivotal CRM Solution Development Centers help companies react quickly to emerging business challenges, providing a quicker path to results.

With pressures to reduce costs and risks associated with deploying new technology, Pivotal CRM Solution Development Centers help you to implement quickly and create customizations following best practices—allowing you to meet your business-specific needs. Effective, thorough testing in a real-world environment, using your data, delivers a higher-quality implementation at a lower project cost. A focused, dedicated environment means your project moves quickly, allowing you to test and fine-tune your customizations and deploy in your environment rapidly.

By making the most of our Solution Development Centers, we can decrease costly onsite development time substantially. In most cases, at least 20% of onsite development and customization costs can be eliminated by taking advantage of our Solution Development Centers; through them, you receive our expertise and best practices, along with the skills and tools necessary to deploy or modify your Pivotal CRM solution.

Pivotal CRM Solution Development Centers offer a risk-free environment in which to develop, test, and validate solutions and customizations on the latest technologies—speeding time to benefit, reducing project costs, and increasing agility.

Pivotal CRM Education Services

Your IT personnel need to integrate and consolidate data, systems, processes, and teams to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of core processes. They need to provide easy, secure access to information and applications—anywhere, anytime—in the office or on the road. They need to transform business processes to better serve everyone’s needs. These are requirements brought by a rapid pace of change; they demand that your organization adapt quickly.

When you implement a new CRM application or as your company adapts to changing conditions, you may find that you have new training needs and priorities. We can help you capitalize on change: we can train your customizers and administrators to deliver what you really need—simplicity, standardized processes, and agility; we can train your business users to use the system effectively.

We offer several learning options to help your company become productive quickly. Whether you need to train large or small groups—onsite or online—you have the flexibility to decide how, when, and where you want the training to take place. You can choose from a number of standard Pivotal CRM courses or we can customize training to produce the results you need. You select the delivery method that makes the most sense for your company and CRM success. We work to help you capitalize on change to deliver a higher-quality customer experience.

Pivotal CRM helps enable the adaptive enterprise. But it’s not just technology that must be adaptive, it’s the people who use it. Empower your people with the knowledge they need to use your CRM solution to its maximum potential.

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Pivotal Global Technical Support

When you rely on a CRM solution to complement your business strategy, it’s critical to get prompt responses to technical questions that affect your system’s performance. Pivotal CRM offers an array of support services to answer your technical queries accurately and reliably—from anywhere in the world.

From incident management to providing product documentation, Pivotal Global Technical Support takes advantage of the practical expertise we have gained from thousands of CRM implementations. You gain from valuable insights and guidance—anytime, anywhere. From our three global hubs we provide support when you need it. When you want fast access to fixes and updates or want to keep up to speed on new technology, you can get exactly what you need by logging in to our secure, online Customer Portal.

We work to meet your business requirements: user effectiveness and system availability. We’re dedicated to ensuring your systems continue to drive your business success.

Pivotal CRM Customer Office

Customer satisfaction is a top priority. We know that to ensure your complete satisfaction, we must continually develop our business relationships and processes; this means listening to you and working with you to improve your experience.

The Pivotal CRM Customer Office is focused on extending the success of your CRM implementation. Our Customer Success Managers act as advocates on your behalf, with the collective goal of ensuring that your experiences with the Pivotal CRM team are of the highest possible quality.

Once you become a Pivotal CRM customer, a dedicated Customer Success Manager (CSM) is available to listen and act for you in your relationship with us. When required, your CSM will escalate technical issues on your behalf and champion change internally. The intent is to identify trends, prioritize issues, and facilitate programs to improve your complete Pivotal CRM experience.

Customer Success Managers know the details of your business processes, yourimplementation, your future plans, and your preferred model for engagement; they help youexamine how you can increase your business agility and grow to meet new challenges.

Our commitment to you extends well beyond your initial implementation.

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The Pivotal Professional Services Advantage: We combine expertise, methodologies, and services to accelerate implementations, customize CRM to fit unique workflows, improve operations, minimize risk, transfer knowledge, enable long-term ROI, and reduce total cost of ownership. The end result? A truly agile business, ready to respond to every change and challenge ahead.

Pivotal Professional Services

The Pivotal CRM team strives to help organizations achieve meaningful CRM results by delivering a collaborative and flexible set of services that are designed to meet the unique requirements of each Pivotal CRM customer. Drawing on our extensive technical and industry knowledge and proven methodologies, we give companies the speed and predictability of a CRM solution completed on time, on budget, and customized to each customer's unique way of doing business.

Learn more about the wide range of implementation, optimization, and upgrade services that accelerate and increase return on your Pivotal CRM investment, while reducing total cost of ownership. Contact our Customer Office at +1 877-748-6825 or [email protected]. Customers outside of North America should send an e-mail to [email protected].

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