NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Allego, the leading mobile video sales learning platform, today announced record results for the first half of 2017, including both new customer acquisition and growth in business from existing customers that renew and expand their deployments. These strong results reflect Allego’s dedication to customer success as well as growing market awareness that a learning platform tailored to the specific needs of sales teams drives higher quality customer conversations and better performance.
During the first half of 2017 Allego added a record number of new blue chip customers including AB (AllianceBernstein), ALKU and Resource Real Estate, Inc. Successful customers renewing and expanding their deployments include SAP and BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) among others. Altogether, Allego hits the mid-year mark with more than 50,000 global users across eight different industries.
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“Allego is fortunate to work with some of the world’s best sales and sales learning teams, and we are gratified that our focus on their success produced such strong first half results,” said Yuchun Lee, CEO and co-founder of Allego. “Q2 was the best performing quarter in Allego’s history. We also introduced Allego v 4.3, with great new features for measuring training effectiveness, integrating new learning content, and keeping learning fun and engaging for salespeople.”
QUARTERLY HIGHLIGHTS:
Releases Allego 4.3
Allego’s latest release strengthens
support for sales organizations’ needs across the full spectrum of
learning -- curriculum, reinforcement, and just-in-time learning. Allego
4.3 includes new tools to measure the value of training with greater
precision and more accurately target training investments. It allows
trainers and L&D professionals to share learning management system (LMS)
content through Allego to more effectively reach Sales audiences. Allego
4.3 also strengthens sales rep engagement by showing how their knowledge
and mastery stack up against peers with a newly-designed home screen and
expanded leaderboards. Better content search now empowers customers to
facilitate self-directed learning with even greater effectiveness.
Partnerships with Wilson Learning and Wholesaler Masterminds
In
May, Allego announced a partnership with Wilson
Learning to offer customers a complete and continuous sales
enablement solution. Under the partnership, Wilson Learning will make
Allego’s platform available to customers and prospects seeking an
automated, mobile-first approach to their sales learning capabilities,
while Allego will offer its users a gateway to Wilson Learning’s
extensive portfolio of learning solutions.
Allego also announced a partnership with Wholesaler Masterminds®, a provider of professional coaching and content for wholesalers and their leaders, that enables organizations in the financial services distribution community to access Wholesaler Masterminds’ proven practice management content, coaching techniques and best practices through the Allego platform. Additionally, Allego customers seeking to maximize the effectiveness of their sales learning content can work directly with Wholesaler Masterminds to strategize and create dynamic and relevant videos that successfully address skill gaps.
Sales Success Summit Draws Nearly 100 Allego Customers
In
June, Allego hosted the first annual Allego
Sales Success Summit (S3), drawing nearly 100 members of the Allego
community to strategize, share best practices and preview the Allego
roadmap. At S3, Nuveen won the first annual Trailblazer Award, created
to highlight new and innovative ways companies use Allego to transform
sales enablement and training. Nuveen was selected based on its
innovative use of Allego to quickly communicate breaking news and
product updates to its sales team, train reps and onboard new hires
faster, more effectively coach reps, and deliver on-demand investment
strategy and market commentary to the sales teams so they have the
freedom to learn on their own.
Allego Captures Multiple Industry Awards
In June, Allego was
honored with two Customer
Sales and Service World awards: a Gold in the Cloud Computing/SaaS
Product or Service for Sales for v 3.7.1 and a Bronze in the Customer
Service & Contact Center Department of the Year category. In February,
Allego received two Silver Stevie®
Awards in the categories of “Customer Service Department of the Year
– Computer Software – Up to 100 Employees” and “Sales Training Product
of the Year” at the eleventh annual Stevie® Awards for Sales
& Customer Service.
About Allego
Allego’s sales learning platform boosts sales
performance by harnessing the power of mobile to transform enablement
and training through video content sharing. With Allego’s mobile-first
platform, organizations can create and curate the best content from the
field and corporate office to better train and collaborate with
distributed sales teams, without the time and expense typically
associated with in-field coaching or on-site training. Users can easily
access relevant, quality content, anytime, anywhere, allowing them to
capture their best ideas, master their pitch and accelerate their
performance. Tens of thousands of global users across a range of
industries have adopted Allego to improve sales success. Explore further
at www.allego.com.
