Learn how Apttus has leveraged a world-class sales operations team to become the leader in Quote-to-Cash. Get a first-hand look at how Ankur Ahlowalia, Apttus VP of Sales Operations, built a winning ops team that stayed lean, embraced hyper-growth, and drove success.
Ankur is a former client of Apttus who joins us from Saba Software where his Sales Operations team led improvements in Quote to Cash cycle utilizing Apttus CPQ application which led to dramatic improvements in Win Rates and SaaS Bookings.
Ankur is a former client of Apttus who joins us from Saba Software where his Sales Operations team led improvements in Quote to Cash cycle utilizing Apttus CPQ application which led to dramatic improvements in Win Rates and SaaS Bookings.
Apttus overview (from old slide)
Cloud Quote-to-Cash (QTC) Leader
Built on Salesforce Platform
500+ Customers – 100+ F500
450,000+ Users in 50 Countries
1000+ Employees in 4 Continents
Cash Flow Positive for First Seven Years After Inception
100% YoY Growth Every Year
Founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Mateo, CA
Regular, in-depth content focused on Apttus’ unique positioning in the marketplace.
Awards that provide validation for our leadership team, product suite, and leadership, in particular the Deloitte Fast 500, Best in Biz awards, and entrepreneurial kudos for Kirk Krappe.
Validation for CPQ, E-Commerce, Billing and Order Management in recent and upcoming Tier 1 analyst reports from industry pillars Gartner, Forrester and more.
Process and methodology – nail down sales stages, steps, forecast categories, and activities within each step, reduce stages from 10 to 6, simplified (use one pager document from Ankur to fill this in)
Compensation – SPIFFS slide
Territories/org alignment - improving CRM data - account data cleanliness, parent/sub hierarchy, lead routing (screen shot of lean data/territory rep assignment), eliminated the territory conflicts
RFPs – slides added
Deal desk – slide 13
Order management – order form templates: getting from Ankur
CRM – dashboard screenshots, KPI tracking, etc. Ankur getting from Candice
Analytics & reporting – win rates, propensity analysis, screenshot of Excel sheet – Dan sent to Shailla
Renewals – GainSight screenshot from Ankur – clean up the shot and add Gainsight logo if its missing
Training and enablement – screenshot of saleshood
Strategy and planning – Targets, pipelines ratios, conversion ratios, capacity, projections – ankur to send aviso webinar – take screenshots from there – slide 10 from the PPT
Process and methodology – nail down sales stages, steps, forecast categories, and activities within each step, reduce stages from 10 to 6, simplified (use one pager document from Ankur to fill this in)
Compensation – SPIFFS slide
Territories/org alignment - improving CRM data - account data cleanliness, parent/sub hierarchy, lead routing (screen shot of lean data/territory rep assignment), eliminated the territory conflicts
RFPs – slides added
Deal desk – slide 13
Order management – order form templates: getting from Ankur
CRM – dashboard screenshots, KPI tracking, etc. Ankur getting from Candice
Analytics & reporting – win rates, propensity analysis, screenshot of Excel sheet – Dan sent to Shailla
Renewals – GainSight screenshot from Ankur – clean up the shot and add Gainsight logo if its missing
Training and enablement – screenshot of saleshood
Strategy and planning – Targets, pipelines ratios, conversion ratios, capacity, projections – ankur to send aviso webinar – take screenshots from there – slide 10 from the PPT
Process and methodology – nail down sales stages, steps, forecast categories, and activities within each step, reduce stages from 10 to 6, simplified (use one pager document from Ankur to fill this in)
Compensation – SPIFFS slide
Territories/org alignment - improving CRM data - account data cleanliness, parent/sub hierarchy, lead routing (screen shot of lean data/territory rep assignment), eliminated the territory conflicts
RFPs – slides added
Deal desk – slide 13
Order management – order form templates: getting from Ankur
CRM – dashboard screenshots, KPI tracking, etc. Ankur getting from Candice
Analytics & reporting – win rates, propensity analysis, screenshot of Excel sheet – Dan sent to Shailla
Renewals – GainSight screenshot from Ankur – clean up the shot and add Gainsight logo if its missing
Training and enablement – screenshot of saleshood
Strategy and planning – Targets, pipelines ratios, conversion ratios, capacity, projections – ankur to send aviso webinar – take screenshots from there – slide 10 from the PPT
Process and methodology – nail down sales stages, steps, forecast categories, and activities within each step, reduce stages from 10 to 6, simplified (use one pager document from Ankur to fill this in)
Compensation – SPIFFS slide
Territories/org alignment - improving CRM data - account data cleanliness, parent/sub hierarchy, lead routing (screen shot of lean data/territory rep assignment), eliminated the territory conflicts
RFPs – slides added
Deal desk – slide 13
Order management – order form templates: getting from Ankur
CRM – dashboard screenshots, KPI tracking, etc. Ankur getting from Candice
Analytics & reporting – win rates, propensity analysis, screenshot of Excel sheet – Dan sent to Shailla
Renewals – GainSight screenshot from Ankur – clean up the shot and add Gainsight logo if its missing
Training and enablement – screenshot of saleshood
Strategy and planning – Targets, pipelines ratios, conversion ratios, capacity, projections – ankur to send aviso webinar – take screenshots from there – slide 10 from the PPT
Territory planning is the process of defining and assigning sales territories to commissionable employees from all of Apttus sales orgs, including: AE, Channels/Partners, Overlays
A sales territory defines the selling responsibilities of a commissionable employee, and typically consists of a list of accounts or a geographic region
Territories are commonly defined by one of these parameters: Geography or Named Accounts
Territory planning is the process of defining and assigning sales territories to commissionable employees from all of Apttus sales orgs, including: AE, Channels/Partners, Overlays
A sales territory defines the selling responsibilities of a commissionable employee, and typically consists of a list of accounts or a geographic region
Territories are commonly defined by one of these parameters: Geography or Named Accounts
Process and methodology – nail down sales stages, steps, forecast categories, and activities within each step, reduce stages from 10 to 6, simplified (use one pager document from Ankur to fill this in)
Compensation – SPIFFS slide
Territories/org alignment - improving CRM data - account data cleanliness, parent/sub hierarchy, lead routing (screen shot of lean data/territory rep assignment), eliminated the territory conflicts
RFPs – slides added
Deal desk – slide 13
Order management – order form templates: getting from Ankur
CRM – dashboard screenshots, KPI tracking, etc. Ankur getting from Candice
Analytics & reporting – win rates, propensity analysis, screenshot of Excel sheet – Dan sent to Shailla
Renewals – GainSight screenshot from Ankur – clean up the shot and add Gainsight logo if its missing
Training and enablement – screenshot of saleshood
Strategy and planning – Targets, pipelines ratios, conversion ratios, capacity, projections – ankur to send aviso webinar – take screenshots from there – slide 10 from the PPT
Apttus differentiators are used in the WHY APTTUS section of every RFP response and where formatting makes it possible in the response body
Process and methodology – nail down sales stages, steps, forecast categories, and activities within each step, reduce stages from 10 to 6, simplified (use one pager document from Ankur to fill this in)
Compensation – SPIFFS slide
Territories/org alignment - improving CRM data - account data cleanliness, parent/sub hierarchy, lead routing (screen shot of lean data/territory rep assignment), eliminated the territory conflicts
RFPs – slides added
Deal desk – slide 13
Order management – order form templates: getting from Ankur
CRM – dashboard screenshots, KPI tracking, etc. Ankur getting from Candice
Analytics & reporting – win rates, propensity analysis, screenshot of Excel sheet – Dan sent to Shailla
Renewals – GainSight screenshot from Ankur – clean up the shot and add Gainsight logo if its missing
Training and enablement – screenshot of saleshood
Strategy and planning – Targets, pipelines ratios, conversion ratios, capacity, projections – ankur to send aviso webinar – take screenshots from there – slide 10 from the PPT
Process and methodology – nail down sales stages, steps, forecast categories, and activities within each step, reduce stages from 10 to 6, simplified (use one pager document from Ankur to fill this in)
Compensation – SPIFFS slide
Territories/org alignment - improving CRM data - account data cleanliness, parent/sub hierarchy, lead routing (screen shot of lean data/territory rep assignment), eliminated the territory conflicts
RFPs – slides added
Deal desk – slide 13
Order management – order form templates: getting from Ankur
CRM – dashboard screenshots, KPI tracking, etc. Ankur getting from Candice
Analytics & reporting – win rates, propensity analysis, screenshot of Excel sheet – Dan sent to Shailla
Renewals – GainSight screenshot from Ankur – clean up the shot and add Gainsight logo if its missing
Training and enablement – screenshot of saleshood
Strategy and planning – Targets, pipelines ratios, conversion ratios, capacity, projections – ankur to send aviso webinar – take screenshots from there – slide 10 from the PPT
Process and methodology – nail down sales stages, steps, forecast categories, and activities within each step, reduce stages from 10 to 6, simplified (use one pager document from Ankur to fill this in)
Compensation – SPIFFS slide
Territories/org alignment - improving CRM data - account data cleanliness, parent/sub hierarchy, lead routing (screen shot of lean data/territory rep assignment), eliminated the territory conflicts
RFPs – slides added
Deal desk – slide 13
Order management – order form templates: getting from Ankur
CRM – dashboard screenshots, KPI tracking, etc. Ankur getting from Candice
Analytics & reporting – win rates, propensity analysis, screenshot of Excel sheet – Dan sent to Shailla
Renewals – GainSight screenshot from Ankur – clean up the shot and add Gainsight logo if its missing
Training and enablement – screenshot of saleshood
Strategy and planning – Targets, pipelines ratios, conversion ratios, capacity, projections – ankur to send aviso webinar – take screenshots from there – slide 10 from the PPT
Process and methodology – nail down sales stages, steps, forecast categories, and activities within each step, reduce stages from 10 to 6, simplified (use one pager document from Ankur to fill this in)
Compensation – SPIFFS slide
Territories/org alignment - improving CRM data - account data cleanliness, parent/sub hierarchy, lead routing (screen shot of lean data/territory rep assignment), eliminated the territory conflicts
RFPs – slides added
Deal desk – slide 13
Order management – order form templates: getting from Ankur
CRM – dashboard screenshots, KPI tracking, etc. Ankur getting from Candice
Analytics & reporting – win rates, propensity analysis, screenshot of Excel sheet – Dan sent to Shailla
Renewals – GainSight screenshot from Ankur – clean up the shot and add Gainsight logo if its missing
Training and enablement – screenshot of saleshood
Strategy and planning – Targets, pipelines ratios, conversion ratios, capacity, projections – ankur to send aviso webinar – take screenshots from there – slide 10 from the PPT
Process and methodology – nail down sales stages, steps, forecast categories, and activities within each step, reduce stages from 10 to 6, simplified (use one pager document from Ankur to fill this in)
Compensation – SPIFFS slide
Territories/org alignment - improving CRM data - account data cleanliness, parent/sub hierarchy, lead routing (screen shot of lean data/territory rep assignment), eliminated the territory conflicts
RFPs – slides added
Deal desk – slide 13
Order management – order form templates: getting from Ankur
CRM – dashboard screenshots, KPI tracking, etc. Ankur getting from Candice
Analytics & reporting – win rates, propensity analysis, screenshot of Excel sheet – Dan sent to Shailla
Renewals – GainSight screenshot from Ankur – clean up the shot and add Gainsight logo if its missing
Training and enablement – screenshot of saleshood
Strategy and planning – Targets, pipelines ratios, conversion ratios, capacity, projections – ankur to send aviso webinar – take screenshots from there – slide 10 from the PPT