Partner Dashboard And Enhanced Partner EcoSystem Segmentation

EcoSoft 2.5™ Partner Segmentation Enables Targeted Channel Programs While Single-View Dashboard Facilitates Partner Monitoring

WANTAGH, NY, November 14, 2012 – Gorilla Toolz Inc., Gorilla Toolz Inc., developer of EcoSoft cloud software for partner relationship management, today announced the introduction of EcoSoft 2.5™. This upgraded version features capabilities to enhance the results of organizations selling through indirect sales channels by maximizing partner performance. EcoSoft’s automated social business platform simplifies communications with reseller ecosystems for dramatic efficiency improvement.

EcoSoft 2.5 also now offers Partner-to-Partner (P2P) collaboration features as part of its Social Business Partner Relationship Management platform. EcoSoft combines this PRM platform with a Structured Collaboration™ capability that delivers P2P collaboration possibilities to all participants in a channel ecosystem.

EcoSoft is a hosted/cloud software solution that turns companies and their partners into a social commerce enterprise. The EcoSoft 2.5 portal streamlines workflow and helps partners devote more time to meet customer needs. In addition, it helps eliminate major pain points that channel managers face. Solutions help solve channel conflict and portal clutter while improving partner performance visibility, sales lead hand-offs, and management of co-marketing campaigns.

By streamlining partner process workflows, EcoSoft enables OEMs to distinguish their channel management services from the competition. The portal eases partner access to relevant sales leads, marketing collateral, and technical support as well as registering deals.
“PRM is emerging as a go-to technology for optimizing the performance of partner networks.” says Tiffani Bova, Vice President, Sales Strategies & Channel Management at Gartner. “Combining traditional PRM with social business capabilities that engage resellers, is a fresh new way to improve partner network performance.”

“For companies that sell solutions through partner channels, EcoSoft eliminates wasteful partner activities,” says Jay Fruin, Gorilla Toolz Founder and CEO. “EcoSoft does this by creating a single ecosystem that streamlines workflow, delivers accurate data and boosts revenues by facilitating collaboration between companies and their sales channel partners.”

Key New Features Offered by EcoSoft 2.5™

  • Partner-to-Partner Collaboration: Detailed partner profiles and powerful partner search tools help resellers locate each other and collaborate. Each partner can easily search for other partner skill sets and locations, post opportunities for other partners, and find opportunities posted by other partners within the ecosystem.
  • Flexible Portal Configuration Settings: Enables flexibility in creating the appearance of partner portals and facilitates posting of banner ads, partner snapshots, and proprietary HTML. Features can be turned on and off easily, and administrators can update the portal on their own.
  • Partner Dashboard: Provides partner information via single dashboard for quick access to each partner’s skills profile, portal use, deal activity, performance, and achievement rating.
  • Internal Advertising: User-targeted advertisements can now be hosted and cycled through the banner section of each portal page to alert partners about events, promotions, other key programs and deadlines.

Key Enhanced EcoSoft 2.5™ Features

  • Salesforce.com Integration: Extends Salesforce.com integration to EcoSoft Professional and Group SFDC clients with integration points at three levels: Customers, Opportunities, and Partners.
  • Social Media Integration: Improves ability to communicate important messaging to partners by incorporating partner-focused LinkedIn, Twitter, and RSS feeds into partner portals.
  • Globalization: Allows channel managers to deploy partner portals in multiple languages without duplicating the website and enables offering of marketing material by country. Profiles of foreign partners can be more easily managed.

For more information about Gorilla Toolz and EcoSoft 2.5™, please email news@gorillatoolz.com

About Gorilla Toolz

Gorilla Toolz develops hosted software for B2B Partner Ecosystems. The company’s flagship solution, EcoSoft 2.5™, helps organizations gain air-tight control over their indirect sales channel by connecting customers, partners and employees. Today, companies around the world rely on EcoSoft 2.5™ portal software to manage partner ecosystems.

Whether organizations rely on channel partners, distributors, resellers, dealers or suppliers for their indirect sales, EcoSoft 2.5™ portals help to significantly boost sales and margins. At the same time, marketing, tighter budget management, audit controls, and compliance/governance are all dramatically improved. The EcoSoft 2.5™ robust software and powerful workflow systems combine to create superior partner networking.

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