
Sales success can be measured in a number of ways: revenue, pipeline/funnel, profitability, cost of sales, number of contacts, and revenue per salesperson. Creating customer opportunities is no easy task. Managing these opportunities can be just as difficult. Salespeople can use collaboration solutions to manage extensive territories and regions, keeping in touch with customers without having to physically be there.
Sales teams can use collaboration tools to keep in regular contact with customers and partners without having to visit on-site. Sales managers can use video to have face-to-face discussions with salespeople, customers, or partners to better evaluate and qualify opportunities. Managing and maintaining relationships with each customer can be a major challenge due to geographical distance. Collaboration solution remove this distance barrier, allowing visual interaction with customers from practically anywhere.
Enterprises, on average, reduced sales-related costs by 24% by using video conferencing.

- Wainhouse Research, "Benchmarking the Benefits of Videoconferencing Deployments"
Quarterly Business Reviews
Sales is the engine for driving financial success or failure of a business. Quarterly business reviews (QBRs) are regularly-held quarterly meetings that check the health of the business at hand, as well as the individual sales opportunities in the funnel. Travel costs historically tend to spike each quarter as division heads bring employees together for QBRs, designed to keep teams focused on key objectives. Polycom solutions allow executives and senior sales leaders to meet regularly—and effectively—without the hassle or expense of travel.
Polycom Telepresence Solutions – Polycom’s complete portfolio of high definition telepresence solutions ranging from personal telepresence solutions to immersive telepresence solutions are ideal for a number of sales functions including pipeline reviews, team meetings with dispersed teams, sales training and quarterly reviews. Technologies such as loss packet recovery and H.264 High Profile optimize image quality even in low-bandwidth areas.
Polycom Security and Remote Access – The Polycom Video Border Proxy™ (VBP™) NAT/firewall traversal solutions remove communication barriers and allow teams to collaborate more effectively over video. Supplanting or integrating with existing firewalls to provide a trusted route for remote users into room and personal telepresence and traditional video conferences, the Polycom VBP series also optimizes video quality by prioritizing video traffic over data traffic and providing both shortest-path routing and traffic shaping—ideal for dispersed sales teams.
Polycom Infrastructure Solutions – Designed to increase user adoption of video collaboration tools and maximize ROI, Polycom conference platforms deliver unmatched performance, flexible resource optimization, and high quality user experiences to all parts of your organization. For sales leaders with globally dispersed management teams, a solid infrastructure and bridging solution is essential. Recording and archiving options help distribute communications more widely and can help meet compliance needs for certain industries.
Polycom Recording and Streaming Solutions – Polycom Recording and Streaming solutions enables sales teams to create, manage, and deliver real-time and multiple sources of content to browsers, desktops, conference rooms, auditoriums, and more. This enables a comprehensive and visually compelling communication strategy that spans executive and corporate communications, training, and shared knowledge across the organization. Recorded pipeline sessions can be reviewed by senior management to better manage corporate expectations, and provide appropriate forward guidance.
Polycom Professional and Support Services – As investments in IT resources decline, internal staff are often faced with shortages in bandwidth and/or technology-specific expertise. In addition, geographically dispersed collaboration solutions make it difficult to effectively deploy and support these technologies. By utilizing Polycom’s global network of industry and technology experts, financial institutions receive assistance with the assessment, planning, implementation, and support of new technology, at a fraction of the cost of additional, internal headcount.
Polycom provides a suite of collaboration solutions that are: