``Sales Simplicity'' and BuilderMT Complete Integration; Bright Homes Implements the New Combined Systems.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CHANDLER, Ariz. & LAKEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 13, 2004 A Powerful Combination: Nation's Leading Sales Force Automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists. Tool Teams with Business Process Software and Timberline timberline, elevation above which trees cannot grow. Its location is influenced by the various factors that determine temperature, including latitude, prevailing wind directions, and exposure to sunlight. Accounting Package SalesSimplicity.Net and BuilderMT announced today that they have successfully integrated Timberline Production Management with SalesSimplicity.Net. SalesSimplicity.Net is a leading homebuilder sales automation Sales Automation - Sales Force Automation tool for production homebuilders. BuilderMT, developed for Timberline Office, is a leading workflow and production management system. SalesSimplicity.Net and BuilderMT simultaneously announced that they have just completed a successful implementation of their new integrated software Separate software components or applications that have been combined into one package. See integrated software package. suite with Bright Homes, an award-winning homebuilder in Modesto, California Modesto is the county seat of Stanislaus County in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 188,856. Current census estimates place the population at 206,300. . The combined power of these integrated systems will allow Bright Homes and its sales staff to use one common database when managing the entire homebuilding process, from working with prospects and buyers in the lot selection, contracts, plans and options processes, to managing the home building workflow, accounting, and production scheduling. Powered by the integrated strength of SalesSimplicity.Net and BuilderMT, Bright Homes will start 475 homes this year, a 27% increase over last year's number. Dennis Fredrickson, an independent consultant working with a Bright Homes, selected the software suite, and states that the SalesSimplicity.Net-BuilderMT combination will offer Bright Homes supreme control over its sales, options, and building data, which used to be dispersed over a number of systems. "Bright Homes has a large sales force, but until now, the sales process A sales process is a systematic approach for performing product or service sales. The reasons for having a sales process include seller and buyer risk management, achieving standardized customer interaction in sales and scalable revenue generation. was entirely on paper, and communicating the options selection data to the building side of the business was a challenge," said Fredrickson. "With this software, when we sell an option, it is defined once, and everyone is working from the same data. It's a dramatic improvement." "Integration of the sales and building production processes has long been a dream for many homebuilders, said Barry Forbes, president of Sales Simplicity. "We can finally offer it with this new integrated suite of products." "Having a powerful accounting system like Timberline is only half the battle for homebuilders," added Tom Gebes, president of BuilderMT. "Data is only as good as the processes it drives, and processes can only be perfected once the data can be shared in a transparent, companywide system. That's what we can offer Bright Homes." About BuilderMT Timberline Production Management was co-developed for Timberline(R) Office by BuilderMT and Timberline Software. BuilderMT offers two basic product lines for the production and small builder. BuilderMT's Production Management helps builders control construction costs, pinpoint variances, manage contracts, and trade and supplier costs. BuilderMT's Production Management System was designed to streamline workflow and optimize business practices by coordinating Timberline's accounting and estimating applications into one Totally Integrated Solution. BuilderMT's Production Scheduling helps manage and exchange information between field supervisors and corporate offices for small, custom or production builders. (Timberline is owned by Best Software, which encompasses the six North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. companies of The Sage Group plc.) For more information, visit www.BuilderMT.com. About Sales Simplicity Sales Simplicity Software Inc., based in Chandler, Ariz., is the creator and marketers of SalesSimplicity.Net, the leading sales automation, contact management, and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. tool for residential homebuilders. SalesSimplicity.Net automates, "calendarizes," and documents the sales and options-selection processes for new home buyers, their builders, sales agents, allied services, and financial groups. When a buyer or prospect enters the new home buying process, SalesSimplicity.Net registers, pre-qualifies, tracks and prompts action in the sale and up-fit of a new home. Now, with SalesSimplicity.Net, the new Web-delivered Sales Simplicity service, sales process automation can be accessed entirely over the Web. In addition to automation of the sales process, SalesSimplicity.Net offers dynamic live reports on total home price, disposition of deposited funds, new-home-options transaction history, lot and mortgage selection tracking, demographic & rent-vs.-buy analysis, and four different security level activity reports (builder, division, sub-division and agent). Reports from SalesSimplicity.Net can be generated and viewed through Crystal Reports(R). Written in Visual Basic and SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. , Sales Simplicity uses XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. to feed virtually any back-end production and/or accounting system. To increase speed and load times, SalesSimplicity.Net uses Application Streaming Application streaming is a relatively new form of software distribution method using application virtualization. By virtualizing the application and streaming blocks of executable code, it can be run on the client side before it is finished downloading. to provide high performance, stateless Refers to software that does not keep track of configuration settings, transaction information or any other data for the next session. When a program "does not maintain state" (is stateless) or when the infrastructure of a system prevents a program from maintaining state, it cannot take applications for the Internet. For more information call (480) 892-2500 or visit www.SalesSimplicity.Net. About Bright Homes Bright Homes is a second-generation, family-owned, land-development and single-family-home builder with operations in Central California Central California can refer to one of several divisions or regions of the U.S state of California:
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