Account4 Sends Competition Back to School; New Software Release will Dominate Professional Services Automation -PSA- Market.Business/Technology Editors NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 2000 Account4, developers of the first 100% thin-client PSA (Professional Services Automation) An information system designed to organize, track and manage all opportunities, work, resources, costs, revenues and invoices to improve the productivity and efficiency of the workforce. Internet-based application have done it again. With the latest release of their Account4(R) software, they have not only pushed the envelope of thin-client design (no desktop Java or Active-X), but they now offer the most complete solution, available today, in the PSA software category. Account4 expects Release 4 to be the product of choice for helping large Corporate IT and Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. organizations (PSOs) run their operations. Account4 software is already a favorite among organizations looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a secure, web-based application See Web application. that is highly accessible and easily deployed. With Release 4, these existing back-end strengths have been combined with enhancements to the browser-only front-end that dramatically improve the ease of learning and using the system. Dick Artus, Senior Vice President of Marketing comments, "We have not seen another thin-client product that offers users the conveniences - such as drop-down menus, pop-up calendars, and on-the-fly report filtering - that they are accustomed to with desktop office systems." Account4, a leading provider of management software to IT service organizations for over a decade, has also enhanced the contact, client, and sales opportunity management capabilities of its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. to meet the needs of Corporate IT departments that are beginning to sell services externally for profit, as well as PSO's for whom billable services are the primary form of revenue. "Successful service delivery, and in turn customer satisfaction and retention, starts with the sales cycle. When a significant opportunity enters the pipeline, a ripple should be felt through the organization, and the wave should crash at the feet of your workforce suppliers," says CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and President John Lucas John Lucas may refer to:
The enhanced software functionality enables Sales personnel to formulate estimates and bids with an eye on workforce capacity and skills, and at the same time provides the rest of the organization the ability to forecast revenue and the demand for resources. 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. the Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. , "By 2003, 33% of all e-business projects will be suspended, deferred or cancelled due to the unavailability of key IT and non-IT business skills and resources." It is the type of information sharing that Account4 Release 4 brings that will make the difference between who does or does not survive the IT resource crisis. Account4 Release 4 will debut next week at the Information Week Fall Conference in Tucson, Arizona and the Project Management Institute (PMI See Private Mortgage Insurance. ) Fall Symposium in Houston, Texas. "There is a heightened focus on customer-oriented solutions," notes Dick Artus. "In developing Release 4, we collaborated with our customers, industry analysts, media and trade organizations and incorporated their input. Initial feedback from these parties based on pre-release demos is that we really hit the mark! We expect Account4 to make a huge splash during the upcoming tradeshow season." About Account4(R) Software: Account4 is a fully integrated, Web-based, end-to-end PSA solution grouped into three major areas that mirror the business model of a typical professional services organization (PSO PSO - Oracle Parallel Server ) or corporate information technology (IT) department: Business Development, Service Delivery and Administration. Account4's thin-client (browser only) architecture coupled with a central repository provides users the ability to access, share and collaborate on key data integral to the success of their business. About Account4: Account4 (www.account4.com) develops Internet-based software products and services that enable PSOs and corporate IT departments to successfully manage projects and increase the utilization, productivity, effectiveness, and retention of their workforces. Over the past 13 years, Account4 has provided solutions to a premier customer base of over 150 companies representing over 267,000 licensed users. |
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