Avidian Announces Prophet for Palm to Provide Sales Management for Mobile Sales Professionals; Microsoft Outlook-Based Sales Management Software Now Available for Handheld Devices.SEATTLE -- Avidian Technologies today announced Prophet for Palm, extending desktop sales and contact management functionality to Palm handheld devices. Available as an add-on to Avidian's award-winning Prophet sales software for Outlook, Prophet for Palm enables mobile and remote professionals to take their sales information on the road. "Avidian is committed to creating solutions that help Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see . Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. users be more effective," said Tim Nguyen, co-founder and CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. of Avidian Technologies. "Prophet for Palm is a cost-effective and easy-to-use tool for enhancing productivity and increasing business opportunities. It enables professionals to take an Outlook-based sales management Sales Management Role and Goal Importance of sales management is critical for any commercial organization. Expanding business in not possible without increasing sales volumes, and effective sales management goal is to organize sales team work in such a manner that ensures a system with them and work anywhere from their Palm devices." Unlike traditional CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. or sales management software, Prophet is built into Outlook, thereby eliminating the need to manage multiple contact databases or toggle To alternate back and forth between two states. toggle - To change a bit from whatever state it is in to the other state; to change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1. This comes from "toggle switches", such as standard light switches, though the word "toggle" actually refers to between separate applications. Built on the .NET platform, Prophet works entirely inside Outlook and easily integrates with other critical business capabilities. As a result, Prophet turns Outlook data into the building blocks of an effective sales management solution. With Prophet for Palm, executives and sales professionals can easily and conveniently access critical information from their Palm-based handhelds. Users can create, edit or delete opportunities on the Palm as well as add or review notes, activities and contacts. Upon their return to the office, users can then synchronize See synchronization. Prophet updates made in their Palm devices to their desktops or servers. Prophet for Palm also enables geographically dispersed sales teams to create, edit, manage and post sales opportunity details and centralize cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. them for sales managers sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → to use. By extending sales management support to handheld users without adding additional software or synch converters, Prophet for Palm also reduces IT support requirements while maximizing existing IT investments. "I've been a Prophet user for over a year now and found it intuitive and easy to use," said Bob Thardarson, VP of sales & marketing for Cequint Inc. "Prophet for Palm will allow me to focus on closing deals by creating, editing and managing contacts and opportunities anywhere I go." Pricing and Availability Prophet for Palm is available now as an add-on to Prophet for an estimated retail price of $99.95 from Avidian Technologies (www.avidian.com) as well as from Amazon (www.amazon.com). About Avidian Technologies Avidian Technologies is a software development firm specializing in creating solutions for users of Outlook and Exchange. Prophet 2004, developed by Avidian Technologies on the .NET platform, is the leading sales management software built inside Microsoft Outlook. The company is headquartered in Seattle. For more information, please visit www.avidian.com. NOTE TO EDITORS: If you would like additional information on Avidian Technologies and its products, please view the company's Web site at www.avidian.com. All prices noted are in U.S. dollars and are valid only in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Avidian and the Avidian logo are trademarks or registered trademarks, in the United States and certain other countries, of Avidian Technologies. Additional company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the individual companies and are respectfully acknowledged. |
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