Sales Enablement companies in Canada – Canadian Sales Enablement solutions

Given that I (about me) moved back to Toronto, Canada, I would like to take a look at the Sales Enablement players here in Canada. Sorry for all the self-promotion.

My world-wide list of players is here.

This list for Canada was last updated on April 25, 2014:

Amacus see Innovative Information Inc.

April Dunford the Toronto based founder of Rocket Launch Marketing has a deep understanding of Sales Enablement. See this blog post by her as an example.

AvayaLive™ Engage avayalive.com is web conferencing in virtual 3D environments for meetings, training, sales & support. It came out of research and development / incubation at Nortel Networks in Ottawa, but is now owned by Avaya. It allows collaborative web browsing and accessing/presenting marketing material in its on-demand, web-based, immersive collaboration environment.

BizSphere Sales Web and Content Landscape by BizSphere AG bizsphere.com were initially developed for IBM and Nortel Networks. A suite of Sales Enablement software solutions for global businesses with a complex portfolio [of products, services, & solutions] and large sales force / channel partners. Lets them access the right person or the right information in the right format, in the right place at the right time to move sales opportunities forward. Full disclosure: I work with them and can do demonstrations here in Canada.

Brick Street Software, Inc. brickstreetsoftware.com more on the marketing automation side of things: Their solution called CONNECT is multichannel marketing for carrying on conversations with customers and prospects over multiple devices as they go about their day. “With its single platform architecture, you have unified views of each consumer—across all channels to engage, drive sales, and develop loyal relationships.” They have offices in Toronto, Boston and elsewhere.

Combionic GmbH combionic.com German company with collaboration software connecting people, processes and information “in context” and across applications. Enabling sales people and partner organizations with a cloud-based slide library and other solutions that benefit from a very deep integration (via plug-ins) into the Microsoft Office world. Full disclosure: I work with them and can do demonstrations here in Canada.

Envisica Inc envisica.com Alberta, Canada based firm more on the “consulting for Sales Enablement” side of things. Wayne Regehr, President at Envisica Inc. used to be Vice President at SAP Canada, Inc.

Igloo Software igloosoftware.com based in Kitchener, Canada. They don’t use the term ‘Sales Enablement’ but it is a social intranet (Enterprise 2.0 style) for small, medium or large businesses who want to work better – with their employees, partners or customers. Cloud-based platform, so you can work from anywhere on any device with a web browser, inside or outside your firewall. [...] blogs, calendars, file sharing, forums, microblogs and wikis…

Innovative Information Inc. amacus.net Makers of Amacus, a selling solution + coaching application that improves B2B sales productivity by revealing Return-on-Effort in Business-to-Business sales. “prospecting radar that could tell you who to talk to, when to talk to them and what to talk to them about, would that give you more time?” Along with their President John Cousineau they are Vancouver based

MING Labs minglabs.com German User Experience (UX) Design company. Their founders were behind the UX/UI of BizSphere (see above). Mobile responsive website and app design&development (HTML5, iOS, Android, Windows8, BlackBerry, etc); also portfolio & marketing consulting. Full disclosure: I work here and represent them in Canada. See this case study as an example

SalesChoice Inc saleschoice.com a lot more on the CRM system side of the definition of Sales Enablement than I would normally go. Co-Founder Cindy Gordon is also the founder of Helix Commerce and Toronto based.

SAVO Group savogroup.com Chicago based, but has people in Canada. SAVO Sales Enablement software provides solutions that improve the sales process, ramp and retain sellers, and ensure consistency in sales messaging.

SKURA SFX Sales Enablement solution skura.com Oakville, ON, Canada. Skura SFX is a next-generation Adaptive Sales Enablement platform built for the Sales Rep and Company of the future. Puts the salesperson and the customer at the center of the equation by providing the capabilities, features, and usability required for real customer engagement, and real sales enablement.

VONICAL vonical.com Ottawa, Canada based full-service agency: Web application development, user experience & interaction design, sales enablement tools & training, gamification & reward platforms, etc. Providing sales enablement as a service.

Woople woople.com Hosted video-based sales enablement platform. Target content to staff & measure its adoption. Woople was developed by the Canadian company Big Bang Technology which said in December 2012: “Not currently accepting new clients”.