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Case Study

Sales Effectiveness Dashboard Drives Insights for 200+ Users

How a major P&C auto insurer used existing speech and desktop analytics tooling to build a Power BI dashboard that gave sales leaders at every level a real-time view of team performance, behaviors, and process adherence



What Is a Sales Effectiveness Dashboard and Why Does It Matter? 

Sales leaders in insurance contact centers typically have access to more data than they can use and less insight than they need. Performance numbers exist, but they live in separate systems, arrive on different schedules, and require manual effort to connect into anything that tells a coherent story about why one team is converting and another is not. By the time that synthesis happens, the coaching moment has passed.

A sales effectiveness dashboard solves the synthesis problem by combining interaction analytics, behavioral indicators, and process adherence signals into a single view calibrated to each leadership tier. Team leads get the agent-level detail they need to coach specifically. Division leaders get the market-level patterns they need to allocate attention and resources. When that visibility is built from tooling the organization already owns, the return on investment is immediate and the barrier to adoption is low.

Client Opportunity

 A major P&C auto insurer's direct sales organization needed a better way to understand what was driving performance differences across teams, markets, and divisions. Sales leaders had access to data, but it was fragmented across systems and required manual effort to synthesize into anything actionable at the coaching level. Andrew Reise was engaged to build that capability using the contact center analytics tools the client had already deployed.

The Challenge

 Building a useful sales effectiveness tool from existing infrastructure required solving several distinct problems.

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Performance data existed across multiple systems with no unified reporting layer

Speech analytics and desktop process analytics each captured a different dimension of sales performance, but they lived in separate platforms with no built-in connection between them. Bringing those signals together into a coherent picture of what was driving performance differences required building the integration and query logic from scratch. The data was there; the synthesis layer was not.

Leaders needed different views of the same data

A team lead coaching an individual agent needs granular behavioral detail: which steps are being skipped, where calls are losing momentum, what language patterns correlate with successful closes. A division leader scanning across markets needs pattern recognition at a different resolution entirely. Building a single undifferentiated dashboard would have served neither tier well, and a tool that does not match the decision it is meant to support does not get used.

Adoption had to be designed in from the start

Analytics tools fail not because they are poorly built but because they are not embedded into the workflows where decisions actually happen. A dashboard that requires a leader to leave their existing routine to access it will sit unused regardless of how much insight it contains. Contact center optimization requires treating operationalization as a core deliverable, not an afterthought.

Benefit realization tracking needed to be in place before the project closed

Improvements in sales conversion rates and reductions in leadership diagnostic time are real and measurable, but only if a baseline and measurement framework exist at launch. Without that structure, the dashboard's impact remains anecdotal, and anecdotal impact does not support continued investment in analytics capabilities or justify expansion to additional teams.

Our Role

Andrew Reise was engaged to design and build a sales effectiveness dashboard that unified the client's existing speech and desktop analytics data into a single, tiered reporting tool calibrated to the decision-making needs of sales leaders at every organizational level.

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Goals and Strategy

The engagement began by establishing a goals, desired outcomes, and strategy framework with client stakeholders to ensure the dashboard was built around the decisions leaders actually needed to make, not just the data that happened to be available. That diagnostic step defined which performance signals mattered at each organizational tier and set the design constraints for the reporting architecture. 

Interaction Analytics

Andrew Reise developed the queries, speech analytics categories, and desktop process analytics reports needed to surface the behavioral and process adherence metrics that explain performance differences at the agent and team level. The integration logic connecting the two platforms was built at the query layer, producing pre-structured data that fed the Power BI dashboard without requiring ongoing manual synthesis. The result was a live, unified view of sales performance built entirely within the client's existing tooling.

Adoption and Benefit Realization

Andrew Reise supported the sales leader rollout directly, embedding the dashboard into existing workflow touchpoints rather than treating it as a separate tool to be checked independently. Benefit realization plans were developed at launch to track improvements in sales conversion rates and reductions in leadership diagnostic time against pre-launch baselines. That measurement structure ensured the dashboard's impact would be attributable, not just observable, from day one. 

Industry
Financial Services/ P&C Auto Insurance

Case Study Attribute
Contact Center Optimization/ Interaction Analytics/ Sales Effectiveness

Results

  • Over 200 users and 7,200 views recorded in the first three months
  • Speech and desktop analytics data successfully integrated into a single dashboard
  • Dashboard deployed across team, market, division, and company levels
  • Sales leader rollout and adoption supported directly by Andrew Reise
  • Benefit realization plans established at launch
  • Entire result achieved within the client's existing analytics tooling

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Most sales organizations are already sitting on the data they need to coach more specifically and convert more consistently. The gap is usually not the data itself but the layer that makes it usable at the moment a leader needs to act. If your sales team is working from fragmented reporting and manual diagnostics, that is a solvable problem — and it is often solvable with contact center optimization tools you already own. 

 

FAQs

 

How did Andrew Reise integrate speech and desktop analytics into a single dashboard?

The integration was built at the query and category layer within each existing platform, not through a new data pipeline or middleware investment. By developing the right speech analytics categories and desktop process analytics queries in advance, we ensured the data feeding the Power BI dashboard was already structured around the performance and behavior metrics that mattered to sales leaders. The dashboard itself visualizes that pre-processed output rather than raw system data. 

How was the dashboard designed to serve leaders at multiple organizational levels?

Each tier (team, market, division, company) has different decision-making needs and different tolerance for granularity. The dashboard architecture accounts for that by providing views that reflect the actual questions each level is trying to answer. Team leads need to identify specific coaching opportunities for individual agents. Division leaders need to see which markets are trending and why. Read our contact center analytics guide for more on how to structure analytics programs around leadership decision needs. 

What does benefit realization tracking involve, and why does it matter?

 Benefit realization plans establish the measurement framework before a tool goes live so that improvements can be tracked against baseline rather than estimated after the fact. In this engagement, Andrew Reise developed the plans for tracking sales conversion improvements and leadership time savings from the point of rollout. Without that structure in place at launch, the dashboard's impact is real but unmeasurable, and unmeasured improvements do not support continued investment in analytics capabilities.  

Does Andrew Reise work with analytics platforms other than the ones used in this engagement?

Yes. Andrew Reise works across the major speech analytics, desktop analytics, workforce management, and quality management platforms used in contact center environments. The approach in this engagement (diagnosing the specific reporting gap, building within existing tooling, and designing for adoption) applies regardless of the underlying platform. The goal is always to make the tools an organization already owns do more useful work. Learn more about our contact center optimization services or speak with an expert.
 

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