Backstory
Backstory is an AI-powered sales pipeline intelligence platform designed to help revenue teams understand deal health, manage pipelines, forecast outcomes, and improve sales execution. The platform connects with CRM, email, calendar, meeting, and other sales systems to automatically capture calls, meetings, contacts, and account activity. Its AI analyzes engagement signals, historical performance, coverage gaps, risks, and opportunities to estimate close likelihood and explain why individual deals may be progressing or slipping. Stakeholder mapping helps teams identify the people involved in an opportunity and understand where important relationships or contacts may be missing. Backstory also provides deal-specific recommendations, AI sales coaching, renewal and retention insights, forecasting, and pipeline management tools.
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Veloxy
VeloxyIO Inc. makes AI-powered sales enablement and predictive forecasting software for Salesforce CRM. Our mission is to help Sales Reps engage in Salesforce and get more out of it than they put in, while giving Sales Management better forecasts and the analytics to see which actions truly drive the pipeline. The right data at the right time! Veloxy Mobile and Inbox automatically log actions like calls, emails sent, opens and replies, and make it painless to add and maintain information on the go, as a natural step in the sales workflow. These tools feed Sales Reps the right data at the right time based on their context, location and upcoming events, so they focus on priorities without having to look for anything. See which actions truly drive pipeline! Veloxy Analytics gives Sales Managers and Ops more accurate forecasts based on historical analysis of biases, plus the analytics tools to examine how different sales activities correlate to pipeline growth.
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Amazon Forecast
Amazon Forecast is a fully managed service that uses machine learning to deliver highly accurate forecasts.
Companies today use everything from simple spreadsheets to complex financial planning software to attempt to accurately forecast future business outcomes such as product demand, resource needs, or financial performance. These tools build forecasts by looking at a historical series of data, which is called time series data. For example, such tools may try to predict the future sales of a raincoat by looking only at its previous sales data with the underlying assumption that the future is determined by the past. This approach can struggle to produce accurate forecasts for large sets of data that have irregular trends. Also, it fails to easily combine data series that change over time (such as price, discounts, web traffic, and number of employees) with relevant independent variables like product features and store locations.
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Smart Inventory Planning & Optimization
Smart Software is a leading provider of demand planning, inventory optimization and supply chain analytics solutions headquartered in Belmont, Massachusetts, USA. Founded in 1981 Smart has helped thousands of customers plan for future demand utilizing industry-leading statistical analytics. Smart Inventory Planning & Optimization (IP&O) is the company’s next-generation suite of native web applications, helping inventory carrying organizations reduce inventory, improve service levels and streamline Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning.
Smart IP&O, hosted on Amazon Web Services, is a Digital Supply Chain Platform driving three applications: demand planning, inventory optimization, and dashboard reporting. Smart IP&O functions as a transparent extension of our customers’ ERP systems of choice, receiving daily transaction data and returning forecasts and inventory policy values to drive replenishment and production planning.
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