High-Tech Manufacturing

Filling the Gap in the High-Tech Supply Chain

Hundreds of high-tech companies—including industry leaders such as Cisco and Dell—have standardized on the Salesforce platform.

In an industry where the only constant is change, Salesforce provides immediate sales and demand visibility and high confidence forecasting that ensures efficient resource allocation across the company. There is no infrastructure to set up or maintain, and you have the ability to rapidly customize and reconfigure processes in real-time to meet changing market conditions.


Loved by the Sales Force

With award-winning ease-of-use, fast implementations and point-and-click customization, the on-demand Salesforce solution has helped hundreds of high-tech companies like Motorola and Ricoh Technosystems generate ROI in the quickest possible time frame.


Success with on-demand is a welcome change after years of frustration with implementing expensive on-premise enterprise applications that were often plagued with poor user adoption, broken functionality, and complex customization. Today, salesforce.com customers are finding success by rapidly extending, customizing, integrating, and deploying tailored Salesforce applications that are used across global organizations with minimal training.


 

True Visibility in Rapidly Changing Markets

In the world of long and complex sales cycles of high tech, manufacturers need the visibility throughout the sales process and not just near-term orders, to better plan their outsourced, offshore operations. Salesforce provides true demand visibility through the sales process for better accuracy and collaboration across global partners for tight alignment and planning with rapidly changing market conditions. Companies like F5 Networks, Motorola, and Qualcomm Incorporated have successfully deployed Salesforce across business units and partners around the globe.


 

Integrated Channel Partner Management

Salesforce Partners delivers comprehensive functionality for the full partner life cycle, including recruiting, marketing, selling, and measuring results. With Salesforce Partners, you can automate and improve your most critical channel processes and gain complete visibility—so you always know your best sources of business, your coverage model, and your top-performing partners.


 

Pre-Integrated Applications to Power High-Tech Leaders

High-tech companies are turning to the AppExchange—the world’s first marketplace for on-demand business applications—to extend the power of Salesforce with point-and-click ease. The AppExchange now has more than 625 pre-integrated solutions including Quoting and Configuration, Supply Chain Management, Sales Forecasting, Demand Planning, and Workflow Automation.


 

The Agility to Adapt to Changing Markets

To have 360-degree visibility across your enterprise and your partners, you need to provide your end users with the right tools, gather and consolidate data from disparate systems, and easily create reports and executive dashboards. Salesforce SOA and the on-demand Force.com platform makes these once-cumbersome tasks simpler, enabling seamless desktop and process integration with back-office, transactional, and market data.


Salesforce solutions are known for their flexibility and ease of customization. Now, with the Force.com platform, high-tech companies can even build their own unique on-demand applications to meet their specific organizational needs.