Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for analyzing a sales process workflow to increasing sales productivity. In embodiments, the system comprises a sales person activity recorder that monitors and records sales-related data according to one or more data categories from one or more data sources; a prospect activity recorder coupled to the sales person activity recorder, the prospect activity recorder monitors and records an interaction associated with a sales prospect; and an analytics processor coupled to the sales person activity recorder, the analytics processor synchronizes sales-related data from one or more data sources, and analyzes, based on at least the interaction, some or all of the data to obtain a result, the analytics processor generates and outputs, based on the analysis, a result that comprises at least one of a progress report, a ranking of prospects, and a sales performance score.

Abstract: A computer has a device driver and an operating system that call a consolidated buffer service routine to coordinate the transfer of data between a main memory and an external device. The consolidated buffer service routine includes a memory preparation service routine and a memory checking service routine. The memory preparation service routine coordinates data transfers between the external device and the memory with the operating system and a data cache, and with other data transfers. The memory preparation service routine ensures that the buffer remains assigned to the memory ranges until the memory checking service routine relinquishes the buffer. Before calling the memory preparation service routine, and I/O preparation table is set which defines the addresses and the type of addresses of the buffer, the size of the data to be transferred, the page size of the buffer, and flags defining data flow and type.