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SymVolli forms strategic relationship with Streamwire

administrator — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:30:00 GMT

London, 23 August 2012: SymVolli Limited, a leading supplier of sales management and business optimisation systems, based in the UK and serving companies throughout Europe and the US, is pleased to announce the formation of a strategic relationship with Streamwire, the IT division of Serviced Office Group plc, to deliver the SymVolli suite of offerings as a cloud-based service.

George Petri, Managing Director of SymVolli commented:

“Interest in and demand for SymVolli, as a cloud-based system led us to an extensive review of the market to find the right infrastructure partner.

“Streamwire showed not only that it is a robust organisation which can deliver what we are looking to achieve at the right price, but most of all made us feel confident because of the personal touch that they brought into the everyday working environment.

“During the time that we have been testing the system with Streamwire, not only have they been receptive to what we were doing, but always responsive in a timely manner. This gave us great comfort in putting our system in their hands to be delivered.”

For further information, please contact:

SymVolli Limited
George Petri, Managing Director
Tel: +44 1276 537386
George.petri@symvolli.com

Notes to Editors

SymVolli is a leading sales management and business optimisation system, which helps organisation establish predictability, increase productivity, and maximize profitability within their business and sales activities to drive sustainable growth.

SymVolli Limited is a privately-owned UK business, which was established in 2010 to supply sales and marketing systems and services to small, medium and large commercial organisations.

Streamwire is a division of Serviced Office Group which supplies IT and technology services to both clients of the Group’s business centres and to third party customers.

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Trademark: SymVolli is a registered trademark of SymVolli Limited.

SymVolli, A Leading European CRM System For Organizations Wanting To Improve Sales Performance, Not Just Track It, Announces Expansion Into The U.S.

administrator — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Nomis, a leading supplier of sales performance management systems, based in the UK and serving companies throughout Europe has today announced its plans to expand into the US market.

George Petri, Managing Director of Nomis noted that “Interest in SymVolli, Nomis’s sales performance management system, and demand for SymVolli products and services in the US market has increased significantly over the past year and we need to have a US presence in order to scale our business.” “Now that CRM is widely utilized by corporations in the US, there is a demand to do more than to simply track sales activity, companies want to improve sales performance based on the way they operate their sales processes. SymVolli provides such a tool that can be customized for each customer,” he added.

As part of its expansion into the US, the company is pleased to announce that Dr. Malcolm Davies has been appointed to provide business development support for SymVolli within the US. Malcolm has a wealth of industry experience in marketing and sales having held executive positions in General Electric, Autodesk, Gehry Technologies and other high-tech companies.

“I am delighted to be part of the SymVolli team,” said Malcolm, “I have known George Petri for over 20 years and have followed the success of SymVolli closely. As US companies push to increase sales productivity, this is an excellent time to for them to consider SymVolli” he added.

For more information visit www.symvolli.com

SymVolli is owned by Nomis Limited, a privately-held UK-registered company established in 1992 to supply sales and marketing systems and services to small, medium and large commercial organisations.

SymVolli is a leading sales performance management system that helps organisation establish predictability, increase productivity, and maximize profitability within their sales activities to drive business growth.

SymVolli Version 8.0 is now available - the process driven sales performance management system

administrator — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT

Nomis is pleased to announce Version 8.0 of SymVolli, their sales performance management system. SymVolli is helping organisations optimise their performance in establishing predictability, increasing productivity, and maximising profitability within their customer facing environment.

SymVolli is about getting the most out of sales and as such it goes further than most CRM systems because a company’s business processes, which can be easily implemented within the system, are used as a datum from which results can be measured against and appropriate action can be taken to improve performance. “It’s like being up in a helicopter looking at the sale and deciding on a strategy as to how to proceed rather being on the ground trying to decide where to go next.”, says George Petri, Managing Director of Nomis Limited. “It is about process rather than just activity management, what other CRM and SPM tools seem to be based on”.

SymVolli has the functionality to manage:

An overview and further and further details can be found at http://www.symvolli.com/overview.aspx

Some of the key new features within the product are:

The Process Builder – This is an extension to SymVolli’s Qualification Profile that is used to qualify a sales opportunity. The Process Builder will enable organisations to map out their processes so that they can be used, not only to gather information about the sale, but also qualify the probability of success at any one time in achieving the sale. Furthermore, the Process Builder can now be used to implement an organisation’s marketing and customer service processes.

Product Configuration - Leveraging on SymVolli’s capability to hold multiple price lists of products and services, the ability to add characteristics to products and services has been added so that information can be automatically used within a quotation or proposal, e.g. specifying for each CCTV camera its location, height, and viewing range, etc. You can now associate component products and services to key products so that they are not missed when creating a quote, e.g. installation is included with a server so when the server is used in a quotation the installation service is also included. Together, at the press of a button, a quotation or proposal can be easily generated, from the information entered into the system without the need for editing prior to sending to the client.

The Time Sheet functionality – This works with items that are quoted so that you can review the use of your resources. Furthermore, it can be used to measure the profitability of a project in terms of forecasted time versus actual time spent.

Nomis Limited is a sales and marketing solutions supplier to clients mainly within the ITC, finance, and professional services sectors

Trademarks: SymVolli is a registered trademark of Nomis Limited.

ANNOUNCEMENT: SymVolli 8.0

administrator — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:26:53 GMT

Nomis is pleased to announce SymVolli Version 8.0, the sales performance management system that helps establish predictability, increase productivity, and maximise profitability all through the application of science to the art of sales.

Be ready for the big unveiling next week where you can learn why SymVolli is such a powerful sales solution and how it can help you.

Global Consultants a SymVolli Strategic Business Partner

George Petri — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:08:11 GMT

We are pleased to announce that Global Consultants is now a SymVolli strategic partner. Global Consultants are one of the largest licensed independent corporate service providers, based in Larnaca, Cyprus. Global Consultants have developed a network of local and international business partners, affiliates and associates, through which they can offer expert services on company formation, both in Cyprus and in other worldwide jurisdictions, management and administration. Global Consultants offer core services such as auditing, accounting and business consultancy, tax planning and tax compliance, real estate investment advice, legal corporate consultancy, setting up of Cyprus International Trusts and International Collective Investment Schemes.

‘We see SymVolli as another building block in providing corporate services’ says George Panayiotou, Managing Director of Global Consultants. ‘Our clients want more than just accounting and investment advice. They are looking to us for advice on business performance and SymVolli is a key component in helping them does that’.

‘The business demands of today require us to work with business partners that are fully conversant with business issues and know how to handle them’, says George Petri, Managing Director of Nomis. ‘Global Consultants understand the business issues and with their expertise are in a strong position to add value to their clients’ business operations’

Global Consultants has been instrumental in the establishment and the development of the International Business Sector in Cyprus.

For further information contact:

George Panayiotou, Managing Director of Global Consultants on +357 24 629 800

George Petri, Managing Director of Nomis Limited on +44 1276 683449

Trademark: SymVolli is a registered trademark of Nomis Limited

SymVolli Covering the Customer Experience from Marketing to Support

George Petri — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:51:05 GMT

SymVolli's functionality has been expanded to give greater coverage of the sales process whilst still maintaining its revolutionary approach in managing and monitoring it, to deliver a pipeline that has credibility and leads to accurate and consistent sales forecasts.

The new features include:

· Seamless integration with dotMailer, one of the leading e-marketing campaign management systems

· Integration with Microsoft Outlook so that all email activity can be carried out from within SymVolli

· ‘Click to Dial’ so that any number can automatically be called from SymVolli

· A process builder incorporating the ability to set up the criteria to monitor the progress through the process, the definition and management of the information that needs to be collected, including any documents that are to be uploaded whether it is for marketing, pre-sales, post-sales, or customer support

· A formula attribute so that two or more numeric attributes can be used in a formula to calculate the result for the formula attribute

· Generating a Knowledgebase without having to maintain a separate database

For further information contact:

George Petri, Managing Director of Nomis Limited on +44 (0)1276 683449

Trademarks: SymVolli is a trademark of Nomis Limited. Microsoft and Outlook are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. dotMailer is a registered trademark of dotMailer part of the dotMailer Group plc.

Nomis Appoints M&N Business Intelligence in India for SymVolli

George Petri — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:37:57 GMT

In order to expand business in the Indian subcontinent, South East Asia, Australia, and USA, Nomis has established a business partnership with M&N Business Intelligence India LLP. M&N BI LLP shall be responsible for identifying alliance partners for SymVolli, Nomis’s sales performance management system, and implementation in India, Australia and South East Asia. In addition, M&N shall be responsible for marketing SymVolli among the SAP Business Objects partners across the world for which SymVolli makes a sound business proposition.

‘SymVolli is a product set up to be used for business intelligence purposes since it not only incorporates Business Objects, but comes with the most common fields already set up in the ‘Universe’ so that they are easily accessible for anybody to use to construct their reports and dashboards’, says Apoorv Chaturvedi, President of M&N. ‘It is a cost effective product since the cost of using Business Objects is included in the SymVolli licence.

‘We are excited to be working with M&N since there knowledge of the business intelligence market sector is very strong’ says George Petri, Managing Director of Nomis Limited. ‘Coupled with the contact knowledge of the SAP Business Objects partners worldwide makes it an ideal partnership in expanding SymVolli’s presence in the market place.’

About M&N Business Intelligence India LLP: the firm was started in the year 2010 for marketing useful specialized solutions in Business Intelligence domain based on SAP, Microsoft and SAS technologies. The firm is jointly owned by Bhuwan K. Chaturvedi and Apoorv. Bhuwan has more than 25 years of top management experience in Indian corporate world. He plays the role of strategic thinker and mentor. Apoorv is an MBA from George Washington Univ. Washington DC. He has over six years of work experience in US working in same domain. He is President of the company.

SymVolli can revolutionise the effectiveness of company’s workforce. By understanding the sales process, managing and monitoring it, it is possible to deliver a pipeline that has credibility and leads to accurate and consistent sales forecasts. This is easily achieved with SymVolli because it takes snapshots of the sales forecasts presented by sales teams over time, holds them in a database and produces trends and variations from the "norm" to encourage and enable accurate sales forecasting to build trust in the figures for senior management.

Nomis and M&NBI believe that SymVolli offers a very good value proposition for wide range of businesses and hence, hope to expand its reach and use rapidly.

For further information contact:

Apoorv Chaturvedi, CEO of M&NBI on +91 8802466356

George Petri, Managing Director of Nomis Limited on +44 (0)1276 683449

Trademarks: SymVolli is a trademark of Nomis Limited. Business Objects and the Business Objects logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects SA or its affiliated companies in the United States and other countries.

SymVolli & Aberdeen Group Partnering In The Research Of "Sales Forecasting & Business Analytics"

administrator — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:45:00 GMT

Announcement: Nomis is pleased to announce that SymVolli has just been included in the Aberdeen Research Group’s survey “Sales Forecasting & Business Analytics”. Click here to complete the survey. The report is scheduled to be released in July and all participants of the survey will receive a free copy normally available from Aberdeen at $399.

Going4Growth Partners With Nomis Limited And SymVolli

administrator — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:19:00 GMT

As we are tackling the business critical issue of sales performance improvement we need to develop our business partner channel based on people who have the expertise in this field and who are comfortable in dealing with senior management. Graham Whittle is a professional that has the experience both in sales performance improvement and in dealing with senior management. We at Nomis Limited and SymVolli look forward to a long and prosperous partnership with Going4Growth.

"As a Sales & Marketing Professional, I am always looking for ways in which I can add further value to my clients." said Graham Whittle, Managing Director of Going4Growth. "A recurring theme I hear from business owners is the challenge of how to manage a company working with sales forecasts they can’t trust. Typically, this is because they offer low predictability being based on the ‘gut feel’ of sales people and often times stuffed with low quality leads. Symvolli uniquely addresses this challenge head on: it enables business owners to see the future more clearly and to make investment decisions with confidence."

Graham Whittle is an experienced Sales & Marketing Professional with a successful track record working with both SMEs and larger international corporations. During his career, Graham has devised and implemented sales & marketing growth strategies for industry leaders in manufacturing, distribution and services across a wide range of industry sectors in the UK and overseas. He has managed marketing programmes in Europe, the Middle East, USA, SE Asia and Australia. Graham established Going4Growth in January 2005.

Going4Growth works with the owners and directors of ambitious companies that are not winning as much business as they deserve, and who have taken the decision to make a fundamental change to their sales & marketing activities. Typically, these companies have hit a sales 'glass ceiling' and are frustrated in their efforts to break through by winning many more new clients to achieve their growth objectives. This is often despite having spent a lot of money, time and effort on various sales & marketing initiatives and 'good ideas'. Going4Growth helps them to develop and implement effective sales & marketing programmes that deliver £000s of profitable new business and realise their growth ambitions.”

TSSI Systems Limited – Leading UK Manufacturer Of Biometric And Document Security Solutions Order SymVolli

administrator — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:29:00 GMT

It might seem that in a world of recession that business is slow. You might also get the impression that every business has battened down the hatches and are currently waiting for the media to tell us it’s OK to come out again. However, nothing is further from the truth. Business is flourishing and some businesses are taking a very positive attitude in developing and improving their business processes. This is exactly the case with TSSI, one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of biometric and document security solutions who a few weeks ago ordered SymVolli as their sales performance system.

TSSI are amongst a group of companies who have met the challenges of modern economics to expand and grow their businesses and as such required a system to help develop their sales process and manage their growth needs.

TSSI is a leading supplier of technology solutions for the verification of personnel and documents. TSSI offer security solutions for a variety of industries including the Police, automotive, healthcare entities, retailers, defence, public sector and financial services.

John Barker, General Manager and Head of Sales commented 'The sales team at TSSI have used a common sales tool that was perceived to be more than adequate, but once you questioning why a prospect has been sitting at 75% probability on a forecast sheet for several weeks it soon becomes apparent that a better solution is required. We appear to have found it and with excellent support from Nomis Ltd we are now able to match prospects against specific criteria to suit our business model. Being able to highlight issues on accounts early within the sales cycle means we will become more proactive and that in turn will lead to a much-improved movement within our forecasting. Being able to generate sales reports and produce proposals all on a standard house style from within the same product will make a significant difference to the efficiency of the sales department without damaging our brand identity.'

George Petri, Managing Director of Nomis Limited, the developer of SymVolli said "we are fortunate to have a company such as TSSI as a customer because they have such varied challenges from high product demand to managing the channel and are going to be using SymVolli not only to track their sales forecast but to manage their sales process and beyond. We look forward to working with TSSI in pushing the boundaries of SymVolli to help them achieve their objectives."

IOD West Surrey Branch Sales Forum – Top Level Sales Exploration

administrator — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:56:00 GMT

I have been a member of the IOD for a number of years now and have often found the help and support that underlies the philosophy behind the IOD as an institution a truly inspirational thing. It was this basis that I approached Chris Ragg, the Branch chairman of the IOD West Surrey Branch about setting up the West Surrey Sales Forum so that top level executives, managers and directors could discuss sales issues no matter the size of organisation or market sector.

It is no secret that I am passionate about sales as a subject and that I believe that above all ‘Sales’ is the life-force by which any organisation, whether it is non-profit, fortune 500 or SME, lives by. Without the ability to sell, a company flounders and many of the ideas that many in the sales world talk about with regards to changing attitude, improving processes, fostering different mentality and culture etc. cannot happen unless the top level company directors have themselves embraced the idea of sales into the organisation.

The West Surrey Branch Sales forum intends to be a platform where discussion and ideas about sales can be thrown around and mulled over. Like the philosophy that drives the IOD itself, I see the sales forum as a way of developing an atmosphere where individuals can explore their own ideas with others so that they can improve their business. The last meeting that was held was on 21st May and we had a very lively discussion on the theme of ‘What is stopping me selling more’ some great discussions.

The sales forum is open to all IOD members and will be held at the Y Centre, Guildford on the following dates:

Thursday 16th July 07:15-08:45
Thursday 17th September 07:15-08:45
Thursday 19th November 07:15-08:45

For more information contact me directly or visit the IOD West Surrey branch website at www.iod.com/westsurrey

SymVolli And Leading BPM Vendor Integrate Performance With Process

administrator — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:58:00 GMT

Shortly we will be announcing the official press release of our OEM partnership with Orbis Software which has opened up many channels of opportunity for our clients in managing their performance by integrating it with the powerful capabilities that Orbis Software's TaskCentre gives. TaskCentre's powerful Business Process Management (BPM) capabilities marry up nicely with SymVolli’s sales performance objectives giving customers an opportunity to drive efficiency as well as measuring effectiveness.

"The Sales Performance Management arena is an exciting market for our BPM Suite. Removing the repetitive workloads from sales representatives will have a positive impact on their results." said Mathew Lidster, Sales Director for Orbis Software.

Workflow and process are an important part of being effective in the business world and SymVolli's focus on concentrating on how and why sales happens can now be integrated with process automation so that company procedures can be kept to - and less information get lost

"By using such a powerful tool as TaskCentre within SymVolli we are helping our customers to work smarter not harder" said George Petri, Managing Director here at SymVolli. "At the most basic level we help our clients automate repetitive tasks, and at the highest make sure that key milestones are not missed in workflow processes such as getting, checking and authorisation for issuing of a proposal to a client."

History Is Made… Now Let Us Look To The Future

administrator — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:05:00 GMT

Today is a historic moment as the world starts to comprehend the momentous decision that the American public have made in their presidential election. This blog has been purposefully devoid of politics for a number of reasons, ultimately because politics can be such an emotional subject that can potentially distract and affect discussions on any number of subjects. However in such a point in time it is very difficult to somehow divorce the euphoric feelings of such an event from what is happening in our lives even though here; we are thousands of miles away from what is happening.

Whatever your political affiliation what can’t be dismissed is that with this election the world’s collective holding of breath can now be let out and we can all look to the future, hopefully with a little optimism. What does this mean for business leaders, executives and sales individuals here in the UK? Directly, very little but I think that in a time where good news has been sorely lacking the positive affirmations of electing Barack Obama have great potential in inspiring us to achieve greater things even in harder times.

Who would have thought even five years ago that the US would elect an African-American president? The fact that this has actually come to pass surely illustrates the greatest lesson that we all can learn from and that is ‘anything is possible’.

Silver Bullet In Sales Webinar – A Chance To Learn From The Best

administrator — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:09:00 GMT

I have been fortunate enough to have spoken to Craig Elias many times and can personally attest to the creativity that Craig, as a sales professional and entrepreneur, brings to the sales industry as a whole. For those who don’t know him, Craig is the creator of Trigger Event Selling and for over 20 years has been the top sales performer at every company that he has worked for. His impressive resume includes coverage in some of the US top news and sales journals with one of the pinnacles of his career winning $1 million in a global “Billion Dollar” competition.

On the 17th September (not long now) Craig is hosting one of the largest webinars for business leaders, entrepreneurs and sales and marketing professionals. This webinar will deliver the proverbial “silver bullet” in sales to those who want to increase and maximise their business potential.

I strongly urge anyone who wishes to learn more and improve to go check out Craigs site to learn more on the "Silver Bullet in Sales" webinar or to register for the event here.

Sales Bloggers Unite For The Greater Good Of Sales Everywhere

administrator — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:14:00 GMT

It may sound like a tagline from a movie…think Wall Street crossed with X-men, but a group of sales professionals have decided to unite together to form a super force of sales bloggers with the sole aim of improving sales for all.

You can imagine the possible voice for such a trailer – “Where business fears to tread, one such group of sales individuals grouped together to fight for justice, freedom and better sales everywhere”.

In all seriousness though, this isn’t such a flippant tagline, sales needs strong minded professionals to champion the role of sales people and sales managers within organisations. In a sometimes isolationist industry where competition, fear and bad sales practices are constantly hampering great talent and drive, a resource where clarity and collective wisdom is just the panacea that sales professionals really need.

There are plenty of talented individuals who are offering great help but no-where, I think, has there been an active collaboration between sales professionals in differing areas of business to come together to offer their help and expertise in a sales collective. Over the coming weeks, the name of this group and the website where the group will operate from will be announced, but what I can tell you is that the site will offer quality original posts from all the members as well as a regular e-book for download to sales professionals.

For a detailed look at the group participants visit each of their profiles here:

Brad Trnavsky - creator of the sales social network salesmanagement 2.0

Craig Elias - creator of Trigger Event Selling

Colin Wilson - Sales Pipeline Expert

Ian Brodie - Professional Business Services Advisor

Karl Goldfield - Sales Lead Generation and consultative sales training expert

Nesh Thompson - sales system developer

Skip Anderson - Sales Trainer and Selling To Consumer Expert

Jim Klein - Business Coach and Sales Trainer

Tim Rohrer - Media Sales Expert

Tibor Shanto - Sales Strategy and Revenue Attainment Expert

Watch this space for more details on further developments of this dynamic group of individuals.