Abstract: Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for sales process integration. Aspects of the invention may comprise connecting one or more sales processes having at least one of a plurality of contexts to one or more external processing resources. The contexts may comprise, for example, offer, vertical, channel, geography and customer. Notwithstanding, sales process related information may be acquired from one or more of the external processing resources and the acquired sales process related information may be processed. Resulting sales process related information may then be communicated to one or more of the sales processes. Acquiring sales process related information may occur in real-time or at a time subsequent to connecting one or more of the sales processes. Additionally the sales process integration may also include managing communication between one or more sales processes and one or more external processing resources.

Abstract: Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for processing sales process related information to create a sales process. In an embodiment of the invention, the processing of sales process information may include acquiring sales process information from at least one of a plurality of information resources and creating a historical information store using the acquired sales process information. Accordingly, rules may be created based on the acquired sales process information in the historical information store and a resultant sales process may be generated based on at least a portion of the created rules.

Abstract: Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for modeling sales processes and may comprise acquiring sales process information related to at least one existing business model and defining one or more parameters that may be utilized to characterize a practice related to one or more existing or hypothetical business models. Accordingly, rules may be created based on one or more defined parameters which identifies one or more of the best practices. The created rules may then be utilized to model a new sales process. Rules from best practices may be adaptively combined with one or more received manual inputs. A created rule may be generic and therefore, applicable to a plurality of contexts. A created rule may be specific and applicable to a particular context. Generic and/or specific rules may be combined and utilized to model a sales process.

Abstract: Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for sales process configuration. In accordance with an aspect of the invention, in response to an opportunity to create a sales process, a sales process configurator may be adapted to determine at least one context associated with the opportunity. At least one step may be discovered based on the least one context and at least one sales activity may be discovered based on the context. The sales process configurator may be adapted to combine one or more of the discovered steps and/or one or more discovered sales activities to create the sales process. In an embodiment of the invention, the discovery of one or more steps and/or the discovery of one or more activities may be achieved dynamically by the sales process configurator.

Abstract: An indexable cutting insert of the type having a corner radius and a corner angle adapted for finishing operations comprises a pair of substantially parallel spaced apart faces and at least one peripheral side surface being substantially normal to said faces. A pair of straight cutting edge extend away from the corner at the juncture of the peripheral side surface and a plane positioned closely adjacent and below the juncture of a respective face. To break the chips formed during cutting, a chip breaker recess extents rearwardly and along the cutting edges. The chip breaker recess includes a descending control surface leading to the bottom of the recess followed by an ascending control surface. The descending control surface comprises a first and second planar descending control surface with the first surface being at a shallow angle and the second surface being at a steep angle.