Oracle Helps Midsize Organizations Quickly and Easily Migrate to Oracle Sales Cloud

New Oracle partner solutions streamline CRM migration for midsize organizations by reducing complexity, cost, and business downtime

EMEA — December 4, 2014

News Summary

The rise of the always-connected customer, third-party data providers, and data-driven marketing has significantly increased the amount of customer data available to sales teams. To capitalize on the opportunities this wealth of data presents, growing midsize organizations often need to migrate to more advanced customer relationship management (CRM) solutions that can use the data to increase sales and optimize efficiency through enhanced mobility, analytics, partner relationship management, and industry-specific capabilities. Oracle’s new Oracle Accelerate for Oracle Sales Cloud simplifies and streamlines such migrations, enabling partners to help customers quickly and easily transform their sales operations with Oracle Sales Cloud.

News Facts

• To simplify and streamline CRM migration, Oracle has introduced Oracle Accelerate for Oracle Sales Cloud, a new solution that enables partners to minimize business downtime for customers migrating to Oracle Sales Cloud.
• With Oracle Accelerate for Oracle Sales Cloud, Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) partners can help midsize customers accelerate transitions from incumbent CRM providers and reduce complexity in the migration process, while enhancing data integrity.
• The program offers rapid implementation tools, templates, and process flows to reduce time to productivity by simplifying the migration to Oracle Sales Cloud. In some cases, customers can be migrated to Oracle Sales Cloud in just a few weeks.
• With the transition complete, midsize organizations can benefit from the enhanced mobility, analytics, partner relationship management, and industry-specific solutions delivered by the Oracle Sales Cloud.
• By providing a simple, intuitive, insight-driven, and mobile-enabled solution, Oracle Sales Cloud equips sales teams with the processes, tools, and resources they need to help increase sales, reporting capabilities, and customer understanding.
• Additionally, customers can leverage powerful integrations with other best-of-breed customer experience (CX) applications including Oracle CX Cloud’s Oracle Marketing Cloud, Oracle Social Cloud, Oracle Service Cloud, and Oracle Configure, Price, and Quote Cloud (Oracle CPQ Cloud) solutions.
• Part of Oracle Applications Cloud, Oracle CX Cloud applications empower organizations to improve experiences, enhance loyalty, differentiate their brands, and drive measurable results by creating consistent, connected, and personalized brand experiences across all channels and devices.
• Sixteen Oracle partners, including Hitachi Consulting, BPI OnDemand, and Enigen UK, now offer Oracle Accelerate for Oracle Sales Cloud, with more partners expected to offer the solution over the coming months.

Supporting Quotes

• “We are excited to see so many partners embrace Oracle Accelerate for Oracle Sales Cloud. Clearly the market is looking for fast ways to migrate from legacy systems, and our partners are embracing this trend,” said Steve Cox, vice president, midsize applications business, Oracle. “These fast migrations help our midsize customers rapidly transform their sales organizations with a new set of capabilities designed to enhance sales team efficiency and help drive revenues.”
• “We’ve created accelerators right across Oracle’s customer experience suite to help midsize enterprises simply and easily move to Oracle Sales Cloud, Oracle Marketing Cloud, and Oracle Service Cloud from other cloud-based applications,” said Alex Love, managing director, Enigen UK. “We’ve tested them in our own business and designed a blueprint to ensure every project is quick and cost effective.”

• “Our customers are asking for much more than a pipeline tool. They demand real productivity gains,” said Fred Wilkinson, managing director, BPI OnDemand. “Thanks to Oracle Sales Cloud, we now have access to insights anywhere, anytime, and on any device, which has enabled us to improve sales productivity.”

Supporting Resources

• Oracle Accelerate
• Oracle Customer Experience Applications
• Oracle PartnerNetwork
• Oracle Sales Cloud
• Oracle Sales Cloud Facebook
• Oracle Sales Cloud YouTube
• Oracle Sales Cloud Twitter

• Connect with Oracle Accelerate on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn

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