LeanData

We are a sales consulting firm comprised of former operators that implement tech-enabled strategies at high-growth companies. This includes the careful selection of sales 2.0 technologies that increase efficiencies across the workload of sales and revenue operations professionals. LeanData is one of the few technologies that we always recommend for companies that have achieved some level of scale and sophistication (multiple territories, 1000s of inbound leads per month, specialized sales roles, etc).

LeanData orchestrates all of the demand flowing into an organization (typically in the form of leads) and allows very precise logic for routing that demand based on account data, opportunity data, and other business logic. Essentially it solves the problem of connecting customer interest to the best person in your organization that can serve that interest. Typically companies have a painful slew of Salesforce Lead Routing Rules in place before adopting LeanData. Not only are those rules difficult to update/maintain, they simply can't account for most of the routing use cases that you encounter at scale. Most often we see Revenue/Sales/Marketing Ops owning LeanData, but it directly benefits sales, sales development, marketing, partnerships, and customer success functions.

When we first contacted LeanData Lead2Account Matching Engine, we were struggling with a truly automated Round Robin system for new leads. Salesforce.com claims they have a solution, but it only works for batch uploads, not for leads that flow in real-time. LeanData Lead2Account Matching Engine quickly solved this issue, and then some. By providing capabilities to handle fairly complex filters, and rules around which leads to send through a Round Robin, and which to direct to specific people. Since our initial implementation. We've also used Account2Account, which is a perfect complementary piece together allows us to manage our entire lead/account/opportunity territory assignment. Again, something that Salesforce.com has but in a much more complex and rigid way.

We use LeanData to help with matching across objects and enabling automation in our Salesforce.com instance. With LeanData, we are able to effectively sort and classify new leads by matching them against account data and deduplicating against other leads and contacts. This is foundational for our ability to scale our use of SFDC across many records (>100k) and across a growing team of users (>20 users at the moment). We're fairly confident in LeanData's ability to scale as our team scales for the foreseeable future.

This is a great product for lead distribution, account matching, lead transferring that is extremely automated and works for even the most complex routing rules.