I’m excited to announce that our client, Spherion Staffing Services (a division of the SFN Group, Inc.), went live on SAVO! Spherion is a leading recruiting and staffing provider that specializes in placing administrative, clerical, customer service and light industrial candidates in temporary and full-time opportunities. As an industry pioneer for more than 60 years, Spherion has sourced, screened and placed millions of individuals in virtually every industry through a network of offices across the United States and Canada. Spherion named their SAVO site Empower with the intention of truly empowering their sales team to improve sales performance through sales enablement. The Spherion project team included a collaborative team of experts from sales effectiveness, sales operations and marketing. Congratulations to the Spherion project team for getting your sales team Empower-ed!

At SAVO, we have always been impressed by the work of the Illinois Technology Association and its membership base. Each year, the ITA hosts its CityLights Awards gala – the Midwest technology community’s premier award event honoring the achievements of Chicago’s vibrant technology community. Past recipients include SPSS, SmartSignal, NAVTEQ, and Feedburner, among others. This year, we’re delighted to know that we have been selected as a finalist for the prestigious Lighthouse Award.
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I am happy to announce that another SAVO client, CyberSource, is now live on SAVO!  With corporate headquarters based out of Mountain View, CA, CyberSource provides electronic payment and risk management services.  CyberSource solutions enable electronic payment processing for Web, call center, and POS environments.  Earlier this year the CyberSource Sales Operations team launched SAVO, branding their site “CORE” (CyberSource Online Resource Exchange) to internal users.   The internal launched focused on aligning relevant sales material with their sales methodology.  In upcoming sales enablement rollouts, CyberSource will launch CORE internationally as well as to their channel partners.  Congratulations to the entire CyberSource team on the successful launch of CORE!

Nobody can deny that using analytics to drive business improvement is more important now than it has ever been. Here at SAVO, we have been working to improve the analytics provided to organizations that use our software. With this in mind, we’re pleased to announce that the SAVO 12 Analytics Release is now live.
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Last week we had the privilege of hosting an engaging and informative dinner with Tom Disantis, Senior Director from the Corporate Executive Board. The dinner, held in Palo Alto, CA was attended by 25 senior Sales and Marketing leaders looking to gain an edge in understanding the behaviors that will help make their sales teams more effective. I thought it was a great evening, and it was enlightening to learn and share with industry leaders.
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