Strategic Partners

The Sant Corporation partners with industry leaders who help sales people gain the competitive edge.

Salesforce.com is the market and technology leader in on-demand customer relationship management (CRM). Through its award-winning salesforce.com family of products including Salesforce.com (http://www.salesforce.com) and Supportforce.com (http://www.supportforce.com), the company provides a comprehensive suite of CRM applications to help enterprises of all sizes, industries and geographies meet the complex challenge of sharing and managing information on-demand.

Sant Suite connects with salesforce.com to retrieve contact information to merge throughout your document. It also writes a note in your salesforce.com history and includes a path to the actual document. Sant Suite is included in the salesforce.com AppExchange.

As a Microsoft Certified Partner, Sant is committed to providing high quality software solutions which leverage current Microsoft technologies. We pursue new and unique approaches to develop Microsoft-based solutions to meet the demanding needs of our customers. We back up this commitment by employing the strongest, most experienced, and skilled staff of certified Microsoft engineers.

The Microsoft Certified Partner Program provides customers a way to identify organizations that have proven their commitment and expertise in Microsoft technologies. Certified Partners must meet a stringent set of criteria, including specialized certifications and an extensive portfolio of real-world customer references, and are thus identified as the most skilled partners in specific solution areas.

Holden Advisors is a consulting firm specializing in helping companies develop long-term competitive advantage through highly differentiated products and services sold to customers. By utilizing our proven Value Discipline^SM approach, our clients are able to better align their product development, marketing and sales initiatives around a common set of corporate value propositions and customer needs. This holistic framework designed to help companies understand specific customer value drivers, sell & deliver quantifiable value while insulating themselves from competitive threats. Our proven methodology has helped companies such as AMD, Motorola, Metavante, and Standard & Poor's. www.holdenadvisors.com

First Research is the leading industry intelligence company that helps sales teams perform faster and smarter, open doors, and close more deals. First Research performs the “heavy lifting” by synthesizing hundreds of sources into an easy to digest format that a sales person can consume quickly to better understand a prospect’s business issues. Their Industry Profiles are updated quarterly and include Call Preparation Questions, Critical Issues, Industry Overviews, Business Risk Issues, Business Trends and Opportunities, and more.

Sant and First Research work together to provide high-quality content for companies to use in their sales documents. Using First Research, Sant’s writers can deliver content development services in half the time of traditional methods. More importantly, Sant’s customers are extremely satisfied with the quality of the work. To learn more about First Research, visit www.firstresearch.com.

Brightwork is a software firm specializing in work and project management solutions and tools for the Microsoft SharePoint product family.

• BrightWork Solutions is a suite of tailored work and project management solutions that all provide varying degrees of control and process to meet specific work and project management needs. BrightWork Solutions also facilitates the creation of in-house SharePoint-based work and project management solutions.
• BrightWork Reporter is a SharePoint web part that allows roll-up reporting across multiple SharePoint sites, forms and fields and displays the results in a single SharePoint view-like report, that can be printed, emailed or exported to a formatted Microsoft Excel document.

To learn more about BrightWork visit www.brightwork.com.

nFold (Pty) Ltd is a software specialist company based in Gauteng South Africa and serves the African continent on behalf of Sant Corp. In 2006, nFold was selected as a “Technology Top 100” company by the DaVinci Institute as well as being a finalist for “Most Innovative ICT Company” award managed by ForgeAhead. Founded in 2001, the company delivers software that works. nFold markets - primarily through its reseller channel - niche software solutions that are affordable, quick to deploy and deliver a specific business result. Its approach is to complement software with innovative deployment, training and support services. The company truly cares about customers and strives to provide consistently excellent service, with a smile. For more details visit www.nfold.com.

The Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) is committed to the advancement of the arts, sciences, and technology of proposal management. We are extremely proud of the fact that in a very short time we have grown into an internationally recognized association with membership and corporate sponsors from a diverse range of disciplines and industries who are committed to the pursuit of proposal excellence. Our journey has been one of promoting the professionalism of our members and shaping the future of the proposal profession in the United States and throughout the world.

In 2001, Dr. Tom Sant was named one of the first ever Fellows of the Association in recognition of his lifetime of contributions in the field of proposal writing.

By utilizing Point of Reference services, Sant customers can invite their prospects to listen to customer reference interviews online at their own convenience, eliminating time zone challenges and potential scheduling conflicts that can prolong the sales cycle and add additional costs. Sant customers can also organize and segment customer reference interviews by industry, size and business challenges to present prospects with the most relevant reference information available, giving them exactly what they need to make a decision. Once prospects receive a proposal, they have instant access to independently conducted, unscripted audio customer reference interviews which include complete written transcripts. Point of Reference services will help Sant customers to further increase productivity during sales proposal process, reduce costs and prevent customer reference burnout.