Access Commerce Receives Positive Rating In Leading Analyst Firms Sales Configuration MarketScope Report.CHICAGO & TOULOUSE, France -- Access Commerce (Euronext:7424), today announced that the company has received a Positive rating in Gartner's "MarketScope for Sales Configuration: 3Q07" (October 29, 2007 by Gene Alvarez). Cameleon eConfigurator, which is part of the Cameleon Commerce Suite, helps companies eliminate errors and non-value added activities, decrease cycle times and improve customer satisfaction, resulting in increased revenue and a reduction in sales and operational costs. The Gartner report states, "Sales configurators reduce complexity and improve productivity by helping salespeople sales·peo·ple pl.n. Persons who are employed to sell merchandise in a store or in a designated territory. or customers in a self-serve environment match customer needs to unique products and service offerings. Sales configuration systems are used to configure STO, ATO ATO Australian Taxation Office ATO Ambito Territoriale Ottimale (Italy) ATO Alpha Tau Omega ATO Air Traffic Organization (FAA) ATO Arab Towns Organization ATO Air Tasking Order ATO Assemble To Order and ETO ETO abbr. European theater of operations [ship-to-order, assemble-to-order and engineer-to-order] products as well as non-product information such as pricing, discounts, and customized financing plans." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Gartner, a Positive rating indicates the company "demonstrates strength in specific areas, but execution in one or more areas may still be developing or inconsistent with other areas of performance." "Companies continue to struggle with complex pricing and configuration rules. Extensive use of spreadsheets to calculate prices and create quotes results in annoying delays and costly errors. Spreadsheets are complicated to maintain, and everyone seems to end up with a different version," said Kurt Haller, Executive Vice President at Access Commerce. "In addition, many companies that have adopted earlier generation configurators find them difficult to deploy across sales channels and international markets, creating artificial barriers to improved responsiveness and effectiveness. Cameleon helps companies overcome these problems with a proven, flexible solution that quickly delivers results." The Cameleon eConfigurator is a powerful product configurator solution capable of meeting the widest range of complex selling needs. Instantly manage any number of product features, service or pricing variations to guarantee quotation and order accuracy across every sales channel. Cameleon easily integrates with existing enterprise systems to deliver compelling benefits: * Cut days or weeks from quote and proposal development cycles * Produce more quotes and orders with less people * Present relevant up-selling and cross-selling options to increase margins * Eliminate errors that impact customer satisfaction, increase fulfillment costs and delay cash receipts * Reduce order-to-fulfillment cycle times and deliver products more quickly Cameleon eConfigurator is part of the Cameleon Commerce Suite of multi-channel e-commerce applications for sales teams, channel partners and self-service customers that are fast and easy to deploy. About the MarketScope The MarketScope is copyrighted 2007 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability mer·chant·a·ble adj. Suitable for buying and selling; marketable. mer  chant·a·bil or fitness for a
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About Access Commerce Access Commerce is an international provider of E-Commerce and Configurator software. The Cameleon Commerce Suite from Access Commerce helps companies sell products and services through multiple sales channels and provides a common point of order capture across the enterprise. Cameleon optimizes complex selling and ordering processes by orchestrating core business functions that include e-commerce, electronic catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. and guided selling Guided Selling is a concept that enhances the sales process of customer specific products and services. Guided Selling enables organizations in an automated fashion to analyze customer needs, determine the proper features, products and services and to translate the result into a , product and service configuration, advanced pricing and promotions, quote and proposal generation, and order management. Employees, channel partners and customers use Cameleon to eliminate errors and non-value added activities, decrease cycle times and improve customer satisfaction, resulting in increased revenue and a reduction in sales and operational costs. Access Commerce is headquartered in Toulouse, France and Chicago, Illinois. Customers include Eaton Corporation This article is about an industrial manufacturer. For other meanings see Eaton. Eaton Corporation (NYSE: ETN) is a diversified industrial manufacturer with 2006 sales of $12.4 billion, putting it at 198 on the Fortune 500 for 2007. , Golf Pride, Invacare, Legrand, Leroy Merlin Merlin, in Arthurian legend, magician, seer, and teacher at the court of King Vortigern and later at the court of King Arthur. He was a bard and culture hero in early Celtic folklore. In Arthurian legend he is famous as a magician and as the counselor of King Arthur. , Manitou Manitou supreme deity of Algonquin and neighboring tribes. [Am. Indian Religion: Collier’s, X, 91] See : God , Pages Jaunes (Yellow Pages), Perceptron 1. perceptron - A single McCulloch-Pitts neuron. 2. perceptron - A network of neurons in which the output(s) of some neurons are connected through weighted connections to the input(s) of other neurons. A multilayer perceptron is a specific instance of this. , Perkins Engines In this List of Perkins engines, family type refers to the two letter designation Perkins gives each engine. This nomencleture was introduced in 1978 under Perkins' new engine numbering scheme, where the family type is encoded in each unique serial number. , Saint-Gobain, Schneider Electric Schneider Electric (Euronext: SCHN) is a French global company. It was founded in 1836 by two brothers, Joseph and Adolphe Schneider, who took over a troubled foundry at Le Creusot. , Sud-Ouest Mutual Insurance, Tait Electronics, ThyssenKrupp and X-Rite. Cameleon is a trademark of Access Commerce SA and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other product and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners. For more information, visit www.access-commerce.com |
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