Outlook's Traditional Advantages Plus the Power of CRM
SalesDesktop takes full advantage of Outlook's traditional strengths as an organizer, planner, and E-mail client. By adding new functionality, SalesDesktop provides the most comprehensive way to stay organized and in-touch with your customers.
Calendar
- One unified calendar with both personal commitments, and Salesforce.com items represented
- The features of MS Outlook's calendar manager (such as meeting requests and scheduling options) are now applied to Salesforce.com events
- All calendar events can be further associated with CRM information such as leads, opportunities, or accounts, providing a clearer context for scheduled appointments and meetings
- One Touch conversion/updating of a calendar event to Salesforce.com
Tasks
- One clear and unified task list including both personal and Salesforce.com tasks
- The power and features of MS Outlook's task manager applied to Salesforce.com tasks (task categories and task assignment)
- Tasks are easily associated with Salesforce.com components (leads, accounts, contacts, cases) through convenient drop-down menus, providing all pertinent details needed to complete any task
- One Touch conversion/updating of a task item to Salesforce.com
Messaging
- Same intuitive and powerful e-mail client with added functionality
- Outlook rules apply
- User prompted when new email contact is received
- One Touch linking to Salesforce.com
- Seamlessly link messages to CRM records based on information contained in the message: sender, subject, content
- Mine every useful detail and maximize the value of information from incoming customer emails
- Create or update contacts, leads, opportunities or any CRM component
- Track information contained in a message, compare it with current CRM records, and run an update process if the information differs
