Sales Force Automation

Oracle Sales Force Automation (SFA) is a sales automation application that collects and connects customer and operational data in a CRM to help sales professionals understand their customers and automate tasks throughout the sales process.

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Sales Force Automation capabilities

Sales intelligence backed by AI

Help sellers sell more with strategically deployed, personalized guidance and holistic sales intelligence. Embedded AI increases CRM adoption, improves data integrity, and helps reps sell faster, smarter, and with the right focus.

Automated data foundation

Relieve reps of the responsibility of creating the quality data required to support smarter selling. Automatic address, email, and phone verification, plus proactive data deduplication ensures sellers always have the best customer-related data in their CRM.

Impactful sales guidance

Keep sellers focused on the most valuable leads, opportunities, and accounts by providing them insights, intelligent scoring, prioritization, and recommended actions for engagement. Help sellers accelerate deals with contact mapping and uncover new revenue opportunities with similar account recommendations. Remove the burden of data entry and record keeping while automating key tasks and follow-ups to keep sellers on track.

Simplified machine learning

Reduce the burden on IT and empower your business users to work more efficiently with simplified AI and machine learning (ML) fine-tuning—no data science skills required. Build your own model with the attributes that make the most sense for your business or adjust Oracle’s native ML to fine-tune AI outcomes to match your industry, your business, and your sales organization’s priorities.


Complete customer data

Use clean, complete customer data to gain a deeper understanding of your prospects and customers across all interactions. Eliminate the time wasted hunting for information and provide sales teams direct access to critical customer insights. Easily enhance those insights with AI-fueled, first- and third-party data to better engage with your prospects.

Customer 360

Give your sales reps tools to spend more time selling and less time hunting for customer or prospect information. Augment your customer records with CRM and back-office system data that’s collected and enriched with verified, third-party customer and company data.

Making sense of data quality and enrichment (PDF)


Intuitive user experience

Eliminate mind-numbing data entry and endless clicks with CRM sales tools that automate administrative tasks so you can focus more time on your customers and closing business.

New virtual sales capabilities

Simplify the sales process with a CRM sellers want to use. Our interactive dashboard makes it easy for sellers. With it, they can search and enter data using simple commands and keystrokes, explore all customer information and activity in a comprehensive view, and gain insights into individual and team performance.

Seller 360

Equip reps in all roles with a sales dashboard that starts their day with an actionable list of important tasks and records. Drill into key lists of records to get work done fast. With Smart Lists, users see personalized, intelligent lists that are generated based on their previous activity.

Conversational user experience

Reps can use the action bar to search, act, update, communicate, and navigate on every screen within the application. It behaves just like a search bar, so sellers instantly know how to use it.

Contextual activity stream

This social-newsfeed-style view is scrollable, searchable, and filterable, giving reps an easy way to prepare for and engage with prospects. Not only does it organize and present all relevant sales engagements in one view, it also automatically captures a record of every interaction so sellers never have to update their CRM.

User personalization

Give your sellers a CRM that matches the way they work. Reps gain efficiency by creating list views with powerful filters. They can change, reorganize, and regroup records however they prefer.

Efficient records management

Easily update appointments and tasks, complete call logs, assign follow-ups, and add contacts through a system that’s fully integrated with popular email solutions, such as Outlook and Notes, and collaboration suites.

Sales and marketing collaboration

Benefit from a holistic view of sales and marketing engagements. View the complete marketing engagement history, add contacts and leads directly to marketing campaigns, and provide feedback on effectiveness and interest.


Sales productivity tools

Leverage the tools, systems, and devices that you already use and easily access and update CRM data from these channels:

Oracle Sales Mobile app

Boost productivity while on the go with an actionable home page and a new search experience, plus a biometric login and native device integrations to simplify your daily sales tasks.

Oracle Sales Assistant

Reduce the barriers your sales team faces when accessing critical records. Provide them with a digital assistant to update opportunities, pipeline, appointments, and daily sales tasks with ease—even while on the go.

Integrated email

Eliminate the time needed to switch between CRM and other applications. Without leaving email, your sales reps can use their CRM to make quick edits to opportunities, schedule meetings, log notes, and more.

Integrated collaboration

View and update Oracle Sales data in the familiar collaboration tools you already rely on.


Align individual goals with your company’s sales strategy

Help your teams perform better with sales performance management tools built on a foundation of connected data and powered by advanced AI.

 

Sales performance dashboards

Dynamically track sales performance with verified data. Improve overall sales performance with contest and goal metrics within individual and team dashboards.

Oracle ranks first for Revenue Performance Management

Territory management

Improve your territory planning and balance your sales regions. Use AI-enabled lead scoring to create and modify even the most complex sales territories to match your current business needs.

Making sense of territory management (PDF)

Quota management

Calculate sales quotas using data and intelligence—not intuition—to improve pipeline results. Understand all options and be prepared for change, using best-case, worst-case, and conservative what-if scenario modeling.

Why do 1/3 of sellers struggle to hit quota?

Incentive compensation

Understand and improve your team’s driving motivations with what-if modeling of different scenarios to optimize your compensation plan.

Explore incentive compensation


Drive sales alignment and performance to plan

Set, analyze, and adjust individual and team quotas to motivate sellers and increase their agility. Use predictive analytics to improve modeling and identify optimal territory assignments.

 

Quota planning

Calculate sales quotas using data and intelligence—not intuition—to improve pipeline results. Understand all options and be prepared for change, using best-case, worst-case, and conservative what-if scenario modeling.

Account planning

Develop the right promotion strategies, foster collaboration, and run what-if scenarios with a data-driven sales and promotion planning tool.

Forecasting

Deliver more accurate forecasts and advanced statistical predictions with the data from your sales pipeline and financial actuals.


Sales Force Automation customer successes

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How do sellers feel about SFA?

Sellers feel that their sales force automation technologies are helpful, but falling short.

33%want SFA to do more than data entry
78%want tools to automate data entry or generic tasks
67%want tools to automatically qualify leads

Key benefits—sales force automation

01Boost sales productivity

Focus on the right tasks and actions to close more business, faster, with less clicks.

Learn how to set the stage for ongoing sales success

02Increase sales efficiency

Reduce time spent searching, clicking, and performing manual data entry.

Read what sellers say they need to be more efficient

03Drive higher user adoption

Offer proactive AI-driven guidance on any device, making the CRM a system of recommendation, not just a system of record.

How to evolve your CRM from a system of record to a system of recommendation

04Deliver a connected customer experience

Get a single and complete customer view, thanks to prebuilt integrations with Oracle front- and back-office applications.

05Uncover more revenue opportunities

Intelligently track leads, opportunities, and service requests across accounts to determine which have the potential for more revenue.

Sales intelligence for accounts

06Remove guesswork. Know what works and what doesn’t

Remove the guesswork around what worked—and what didn’t. Fine-tune your strategy by analyzing historical successes and comparing those to similar, currently active leads and opportunities.

Learn more about sales intelligence for leads and opportunities

Learn how to build foundational strategies for digital selling (PDF)

Product Tour—Oracle Sales Force Automation

Automate and improve the sales process with Sales Force Automation

sales force automation dashboard screen

Welcome to Oracle Sales Force Automation

Increase revenue, build a better sales pipeline, and increase seller efficiency with Oracle Sales Force Automation. Boost seller efficiency across your sales organization by giving sellers a user experience that's actionable and intuitive.

sales force automation application screen

Focus on what matters

Help sellers prioritize and engage the right customers at the right time. Sellers focus on the deals that matter most with quick actions from the home page that drive business results, including:

  • Completing daily tasks
  • Seeing upcoming closing opportunities
  • Quickly accepting hot marketing leads
sales force automation account view

Find what you need, faster

High-performance search and in-line actions save clicks and time. Find and work with records using customizable views of accounts, opportunities, leads, contacts and more.

sales force automation account screen

Generate more qualified sales

Oracle Sales Force Automation creates a tight integration between sales and marketing, providing the context sellers need to act quickly on qualified leads.

sales force automation insights panel

Improve engagement with your brand

Real-time behavioral insights give you greater visibility into how customers interact with your brand. Increase visibility into marketing activities and provide your sellers marketing-approved content and templates to better engage with their customers.

sales force automation account intelligence

Win more deals with AI

AI-sourced account intelligence helps you have more valuable conversations with your customers based on real-time customer signals.

sales force automation mobile application

Stay connected and agile

Access and work with CRM data anywhere. Our mobile app is designed to help sellers get things done faster, and in fewer clicks, whether they are on, or offline.

sales force automation seller dashboard

Save time and avoid frustration

Oracle Sale Force Automation gives sellers the proper tools to quickly edit opportunities, schedule meetings, and log notes into a CRM without ever leaving their email application.

sales force automation user tools

Collaborate with ease

Sellers can use the familiar tools that your organization already relies on to easily view and update sales data.

sales force automation data insights

Smarter reporting, deeper insights

When CRM systems are easy to use, sellers benefit from better data and more actionable insights about performance. Powerful business intelligence can be leveraged to build a deeper understanding of pipelines, opportunities, and critical sales metrics.

sales force automation customer data overview

Complete view of every customer interaction

Build better pipeline, generate sales, grow revenue faster, and make every customer interaction matter. Oracle Sales moves beyond typical CRM and sales solutions.

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