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Establish Evaluation Criteria.
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Must be very specific and objective to be effective.
- Does Data Provider support ON-PREM?
- When building criteria, consider that Company is an international company.
- Cost must be discussed (though fees should be non-existent or very low for these trials.
- How does the Data Provider handle Corporate Family Trees (Parent Accounts, etc.)
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Select "100" Accounts (only -- no Contacts) from PROD MSCRM.
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Based on 33** & Annual Revenue, etc.
- Specific criteria TBD by Sales & Marketing
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Expected results: What Accounts matched, enriched data, KeyID, and related Contacts.
- Specific expected results TBD by Sales & Marketing
- What will the Data Providers let us have?
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Add Accounts to a static Account Marketing List FOR EACH DATA PROVIDER in PROD
- This allows us to determine where Account's data came from.
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From PROD MSCRM, Company IS exports and sends "100" list (ACCOUNTS ONLY, no CONTACTS) to EACH Data Provider.
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Expected results: What Accounts matched, enriched data, and related Contacts.
- Expected results TBD by Sales & Marketing
- Company IS imports the "100" Accounts (INCLUDING Contacts) into POC MSCRM.
- Data Providers return their enriched set.
- Company IS runs a First Pass Process (against POC) on the results from EACH Data Provider.
- Sales & Marketing analyze the First Pass results from EACH Data Provider.
- Initialize POC MSCRM.
- Company IS imports ENTIRE returned "100" Accounts and Contacts for Data Provider into POC MSCRM (note: NOT PROD).
- Install and evaluate CRM Integration in POC (note: NOT PROD) for Data Provider.
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Sales & Marketing determine what process to verify the data returned from Data Providers.
- Calling?
- Sales & Marketing evaluate results.
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Sales & Marketing analyse all results and make a recommendation.
- Compare Accounts only for matching "100"s.
- Compare CONTACTS returned from Data Providers
- Repeat for each Data Provider