
Ashwini Kumar Dalai articles

Ashwini Kumar Dalai
Principal Product Manager


Account-based seller insights improve sales account manager effectiveness
Busy sales account managers prioritize their activities by mining information from their accounts. But manually making sense of all that unstructured data is tedious and can lead to erroneous assumptions. They can end up focusing on the wrong activities, which results in a lower impact on business outcomes.
Optimize Dynamics 365 Sales product usage with new reports!
Data is one of the key resources to making informed, contextual decisions.
Email address validation improves seller conversion rates
Sellers rely on email to reach out to contacts when working on deals. The new email address validation feature in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales flags email addresses in your customer relationship management (CRM) system that are in the wrong format or have an expired or fictitious domain.
Duplicate lead detection increases sellers’ productivity
To be effective, your sales team has to trust that the leads they’re getting are of good quality and that someone else isn’t working on them. If your sellers are calling leads that are assigned to another salesperson—or that aren’t real—they’re wasting time.
Use a performance dashboard to optimize seller activities
When sellers follow a predefined set of activities from day to day, they will usually be more productive. These best practices, or sequences, guide sellers. Dynamics 365 Sales Premium recently announced a preview of the reporting capability for sequences.