Salesforce is the backbone of our client's marketing, product, sales, and support operations. However, a prior implementation left the platform with operational gaps. To address these challenges, they enlisted Penrod’s Salesforce Advisory Services to create a strategic vision that would put the platform in a better state.
Penrod provided a comprehensive roadmap detailing the necessary fixes, enhancements, and architectural improvements, resulting in an optimized platform tailored to its unique genomics business model. Impressed by the quality of Penrod’s advisory services, our client collaborated further with Penrod’s Salesforce Managed Services to elevate their platform to new heights.
Poor Data Integrity, Duplicate Data Models, Poor User Experience, and Inefficient Processes
Penrod Managed Services
Unified Data Model, Faster Operations, Actionable Reporting Across Data Types, and Less Technical Debt
A thorough audit by Penrod revealed data, process, and organizational issues in our client’s Salesforce platform. These issues caused inefficient processes across the organization’s marketing, sales, and support teams. Penrod grouped the issues into data, operational, organizational, and technical categories.
The health of a Salesforce organization is highly dependent on data quality. In the case of our client, duplicate accounts, contacts, and leads had become the norm. All of these issues caused multiple problems.
First of all, the lack of automated match rules and input validation resulted in human errors during data entry. Furthermore, merging data structures from acquired businesses led to multiple record types, preventing users from cross-referencing accounts, leads, and contacts quickly. Single accounts often had unique records spread across two or three different types, complicating reporting, account management, and cross-selling efforts.
The data hygiene issues mentioned further complicated lead, case, and contract management processes, leading to inefficient marketing, product, sales, and support operations. Manual processes, unorganized page layouts, unnecessary fields, and a lack of validation rules made basic operations challenging.
Salesforce’s flexibility is one of its key advantages. The right partner can tailor an implementation to fit unique business processes. The efficiency of these processes creates a competitive advantage.
However, the previous implementation partner had not tailored our client’s Salesforce platform to its distinct business processes, notably how it manages accounts and assets. Our client oversees a large number of field assets and manages distributors with multiple locations. Unfortunately, the account and asset hierarchies were not structured to align with this model, resulting in inefficient processes and poor user experiences.
Our client's Salesforce enhancement process was entirely ad-hoc. Support staff added features in response to individual requests rather than following a cohesive vision for the platform. These enhancements were often implemented without adhering to best practices, resulting in low adoption rates and disjointed processes that frequently went unused. As these enhancements piled up, particularly those built on legacy features, our client accumulated technical debt that impacted platform performance.
Penrod leveraged the roadmap created during its Engage Advisory Services. They prioritized fixes on a structured roadmap, resulting in a platform tailored to our client's unique processes and business model built for the long term. Penrod implemented the following:
Penrod's Salesforce Managed Services helped our client transform Salesforce into an ideal platform tailored for its business model. Data hygiene improvements resulted in a unified data model, empowering cross-referencing, account management, and reporting capabilities.
Operational efficiencies were gained through automation, leading to improved lead and case management. An updated organizational structure provided better account management with complex hierarchies and distributor relationships. As a result of managed services, our client reduced its technical debt, improved user adoption, and achieved a more integrated, efficient system, supporting their mission in genomics with actionable insights and streamlined performance.
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