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Understanding the value of
​AI sales enhancements
Introducing Power Platform,
an AI-powered CRM
Realizing the full value of AI-enabled CRM through partners 
How customers benefit from
​Power Platform
Accelerate Revenue with Power Platform Sales
Enterprise companies face several challenges that impact seller productivity and their ability to close deals efficiently. Therefore, they need a customer relationship management (CRM) solution that offers automation and built-in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.  These solutions will help sellers:
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Understand
​their customers
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Personalize
interactions
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Increase
​pipeline
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Improve
​productivity
We will take a closer look at how AI is impacting sales operations and how your organization can start unlocking the benefits of an AI-powered CRM with Leaf Software Solutions and Power Platform.
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Seller Challenges

In an evolving business landscape, sales leaders have several challenges they want to solve, including:
  • Seller efficiency - Sellers spend less than 30% of their day focused on sales activities 1
  • Data-backed decision making - Companies that use customer analytics see an 8% increase in revenues 2
  • Personalizing customer engagements - Sales reps spend 440 hours each year trying to find the right content to share with prospects 3
This is where an AI-powered CRM can be a game changer.
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01 - Understanding the value of AI sales enhancements

In today's media landscape saturated with discussions about AI, it is important to explore how generative AI can bring substantial advantages to sales professionals.  AI can help streamline the sales process, improve customer relationships, and enable data-driven decisions, all on a secure, proven platform.  These benefits include:
Improved lead quality:
Identify the most promising leads based on prospects’ behavior, demographics, and previous interactions.
Reduced costs:
Save money by eliminating the need to hire more sales staff or train existing staff on new technologies.
Improved sales data analysis:
Gain insights into customer behavior and preferences using predictive analytics to enable sales teams to make informed decisions for each interaction.
Better customer insights:
AI provides insights into customer behavior, assisting sales teams to increase sales.
Automated administrative tasks:
Automate tasks such as lead generation and customer data management, giving salespeople more time to focus on selling.
Better sales training:
AI improves sales training by analyzing data on sales performance and providing customized training based on individual needs enabling sales leadership to focus on mentoring and value-added coaching.
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02 - Introducing Power Platform, an AI-powered CRM

AI-Powered CRM
Power Platform is a cloud-based Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Sales Management (SM) solution assists businesses in improving their sales processes and customer intimacy. With built-in AI and Copilot capabilities, you get the full benefit of AI, on a proven, reliable platform.
  • Enterprise-ready as the only CRM built on a fully connected data platform with built-in AI capabilities.
  • Scale capabilities to solve sales, marketing, and service challenges with one solution.
  • Built on Microsoft Azure cloud platform for low maintenance.
  • Microsoft Teams integration allows collaboration at no additional cost.
    • Microsoft Teams helps put collaboration in context and provides actionable next steps using AI-driven insights, allowing sellers to be more productive and build stronger customer relationships.
  • 14 data security and compliance certifications
The merging of AI capabilities with your CRM empowers you to streamline the sales process, ​improve customer relationships, and enable data-driven decisions.

AI driven CRM/Sales automation enables

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Streamlined sales processes.
Automation provides $13.3M in improved seller productivity and $4.7M in sales manager productivity. 4
Sales automation and CRM systems provide businesses with a scalable and flexible platform that automates routine tasks such as lead management, sales forecasting, and reporting, streamlining sales processes, reducing administrative overhead, and allowing sales teams to focus on revenue-generating activities.

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Improved customer relationship.
64% of businesses believe that AI will have a positive impact on customer relationships. 5
By centralizing customer information, sales automation, and CRM systems enable organizations  to personalize interactions with customers, respond to their needs more effectively, and build stronger relationships with them, accelerating innovation built on prior experiences with customers to stand out from the competition.

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Enabled data-driven decisions.
87% of AI adopters said that they were using or considering using AI to improve sales forecasts and email marketing.6
Sales automation and CRM systems empower companies to accelerate sales by utilizing customer, marketing, and sales data to identify ideal customer targets, provide sales guidance, and collaborate with peers, enabling data-driven decision-making, optimized sales strategies, andimproved overall business performance.

Personalize interactions

Call insights:
View real-time tips, related information, and suggested answers to customer questions during Microsoft Teams calls
Meeting preparation:
Get AI assistance to prepare for meetings with summaries of relevant customer and opportunity details and past activities
Conversation intelligence:
View customer sentiment analysis and KPIs like talk-to-listen ratio, talking speed, and conversation switches during calls in Microsoft Teams
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Stay in the flow of work

Customer record syncing:
Get AI assistance to add and edit customer details directly in Microsoft Teams and Outlook and sync to Power Platform
Customer cards:
Easily surface and share contact, opportunity, and account information from Power Platform in Microsoft Teams and Outlook
Collaboration spaces:
Create collaboration spaces in Microsoft Teams with pre-built templates like deal room and integrated access to Power Platform data

Copilot in Power Platform automates sales tasks

Copilot uses AI to reduce the time your sales team spends on mundane tasks, allowing them to focus on connecting with customers. In fact, it is estimated that 30% of sales tasks can be easily automated. 7
  • Email assistance:  Get AI assistance to write emails and propose meetings utilizing data from Power Platform
  • Automated summaries:  Get AI-generated email and meeting updates with follow-up tasks
  • Intelligent transcriptions:  Eliminate manual note-taking with meeting transcriptions, recordings, and action items
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03 - The full value of AI-enabled CRM through partners 

To realize the full benefits of AI, you need a system that can be configured to run the reports you need based on up-to-date data. By working with Microsoft partner, you can realize the full potential faster with service offerings such as:
Data Configuration and Migration:
  • Configuring and migrating data from legacy systems or other CRM platforms to Power Platform.
  • Ensuring data integrity, mapping data fields, and performing data validation.
Digital Transformation:
  • Adapting existing sales processes and workflows to align with Power Platform and AI capabilities.
  • Identifying areas where AI and Copilot can enhance sales efficiency and effectiveness.
User Adoption and Training:
  • Teaching employees how to effectively use Power Platform and leverage AI and Copilot features.
  • Encouraging user adoption and addressing any resistance to change.
Customization and Configuration:
  • Tailoring Power Platform to meet the specific needs of your business, including creating custom entities, fields, workflows, and reports.
Integration with Other Systems:
  • Integrating Power Platform with other business systems, such as third-party ERP systems, marketing automation platforms, or customer support tools, to ensure seamless data flow and process automation.
Ongoing Support and Maintenance:
  • Providing ongoing support and maintenance services to address any issues, updates, or enhancements required for Power Platform and AI features.

Leaf Software Solutions, is committed to your success

As Power Platform experts, we must meet and maintain certain requirements while undergoing specific training related to AI and Copilot capabilities.
  • Microsoft measures and recognizes Microsoft Solution Partners who have proven high broad technical capabilities and demonstrated success delivering technology solution.
  • Partners need to demonstrate expertise in selling and implementing Microsoft Power Platform solutions, including Copilot.
  • Partners need to stay up-to-date with the latest product releases and enhancements to maintain their designations.
Microsoft continuously measure and recognize experts at delivering solutions with Power Platform.

Unlock the possibilities of an AI-powered CRM

We have seen that organizations that implement AI for sales have seen positive impacts, including:
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of marketers using generative AI have witnessed positive ROI, with many seeing a 3x ROI with cost efficiencies improving over time. 8
This is all time that your sellers can now spend on selling!
Leverage our expertise to realize the full value and potential of Power Platform. *
​While employees estimate AI to save them: 9
21%
of their time listening to voicemails
23%
of time in meetings to recap customer interactions
25%
of time transcribing
and writing notes
23%
of their time coaching or training other team members
27%
of time building reports analyzing customer data
28%
of time manually transferring
or inputting data
* It is important to note that the effectiveness and time-saving benefits of Copilot may vary depending on the specific implementation and usage within an organization. Proper training and adoption of the feature by sales representatives will also play a role in maximizing the time redirected to direct customers’ and sales activities

04 - How customers benefit from Power Platform

Companies have seen improvements in their sales operations across:
  • Sales & lead generation:
    • 59% reported improved sales quota achievement 10
    • 75% of respondents said their cost per conversion decreased when they implemented CRMs 10
  • Enhanced customer relationships:
    • Centralized customer data allows from improved customer experiences across marketing, sales, and service departments
  • Data-backed decision making:
    • Increased revenue opportunities with centralized sales and marketing data
    • Accurate measuring of the ROI of sales and marketing campaigns
    • Optimized marketing, sales, and service processes
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Supercharge your sales team!

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Power Platform Sales helps businesses manage and track leads, opportunities, and sales pipelines. With reduced manual work and automated tasks, sellers save time and can focus on closing deals.  AI assisted sales technology enables your organization to optimize sales efforts through intelligent reporting, data-driven decision-making and a guided sales approach. 
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