Business Development

Collis (www.collis.nl) is a very succesful company which focuses on design, development and testing of information technology systems. With three offices in the world (Leiden,The Netherlands, Boston and Singapore) they cover most parts of the world. Within Europe Prospectory performs Business Development for Collis in Scandinavia, Iceland, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, the Baltic states and the former Sovjet Russian states.
The Business Development activities vary from creating leads to closing the deals. Berend van Geffen, Vice President Sales & Marketing Collis: "People from Prospectory are in a way acting like being employees of Collis. Not only in creating leads and closing the deals but also in giving first line support to our customers. It gives us that comfortable feeling that we know the region is managed in a professional way and the maximum return will come out of it.".

Microsoft is one of the biggest companies on the planet, but like every other organization its success is build on people. Having the right people for the right job is one of Microsoft's key strenghts and Prospectory is honoured to help the software giant with supplying manpower for specific projects. Interim and project managers and assistants have been appointed to help Microsoft in the Netherlands build Business Intelligence partnernetworks, organize the BI marketing efforts and establish relationships in the BI market.
Furthermore, Prospectory assists in creating evidence for several new products by executing the marketing side of rapid deployment programs (e.g. for Windows Server) and offering help when it comes to establishing a reference program for Microsoft Dynamics aka Microsoft Business Solutions. Arjan Oude Kotte, director at Microsoft: "Prospectory has helped us to find the right person to strengthen our team; they have proven to be a reliable partner over the past few years.".