CRM Tool Sales Simplicity Completes Integration to HomeSphere's BuildSoft Enterprise Project Management Software.Business Editors, High Tech Writers Project Management Software and Accounting System Now Has Seamless Link to Industry-Leading Sales Automation/CRM Tool HomeSphere, a leading provider of e-commerce, collaboration, bid management, software, and buyer incentive programs for the homebuilding industry, today announced that it has completed the integration of BuildSoft Enterprise (formally BuilderWorks) to Sales Simplicity(R). BuildSoft Enterprise, a Windows-based system driven by an 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. database, is geared toward builders building between 100 and thousands of homes a year. Sales Simplicity is a software tool that automates, "calendarizes," and documents the sales and options-selection processes for new home buyers, their builders, sales agents, allied services, and financial groups. By integrating the two software packages (a "front end" CRM/sales tool and a "back office" software system), new home contract and options-selection data now captured by Sales Simplicity will flow seamlessly to BuildSoft Enterprise's back office functions, like purchase order generation and the compiling of product lists for procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. . New home contract and options-selection data captured by Sales Simplicity includes such things as the option price and availability from the builder, per plan and per project, and custom option entries for items home buyers choose outside the range of a builder's standard option offering. This integration is a dramatic improvement over current practices, where data captured by a sales front end 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 like Sales Simplicity has to be manually entered into the builder's back office project management software. By eliminating re-entry RE-ENTRY, estates. The resuming or retaking possession of land which the party lately had. 2. Ground rent deeds and leases frequently contain a clause authorizing the landlord to reenter on the non-payment of rent, or the breach of some covenant, when the work, this integration helps to avoid the introduction of errors during the option-selection, product-procurement, and contract-creation stages of building a new home. Moreover, by integrating BuildSoft Enterprise and Sales Simplicity, builders can improve their operational efficiency, as they improve the home buyer's new home buying experience. Linking HomeSphere's BuildSoft Enterprise to Sales Simplicity will also automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. the capture of data at the point of purchase and link that data directly to BRI See ISDN. BRI - Basic Rate Interface , HomeSphere's manufacturer cash incentive management program, so that users of any of these programs can receive the benefits of regular cash incentive payments for ordinary course product purchases. "Integrating Sales Simplicity and BuildSoft Enterprise will save builders who use both systems a great deal of time and money just on the data re-entry," said Jim Waldrop, HomeSphere's chief executive officer. "But more importantly, this integration will increase new home buyer customer satisfaction because it automates and formalizes the option selection process, and reduces the high-profile errors that are an unfortunate hallmark hallmark, mark impressed on silverwork or goldwork to signify official approval of the standard of purity of the metal, also called plate mark. The hallmark was introduced by statute in England in 1300 and enforced by the Goldsmiths' Hall, London. of this stage of the building cycle." About Sales Simplicity Sales Simplicity Software Inc., based in Chandler, Ariz., is the leading sales automation Sales Automation - Sales Force Automation , contact management, and CRM tool for residential homebuilders. Sales Simplicity 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, Sales Simplicity 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 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. automation can be accessed entirely over the Web, even with just a dial-up connection. In addition to automation of the sales process, Sales Simplicity 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 Sales Simplicity can be generated and viewed through Crystal Reports(R). Written in Visual Basic and SQL, 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, Sales Simplicity 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 about Sales Simplicity, call (480) 892-2500 or visit www.salessimplicity.net. About HomeSphere HomeSphere Inc., based in Denver, is a leading provider of software and services for the homebuilding industry. Builders, contractors, manufacturers, and dealer/distributors can use HomeSphere solutions to leverage the Internet to access user-friendly, online information management, and tools for e-commerce, collaboration, scheduling, bidding, and communicating. Through HomeSphere's cash incentive program, BRI, its accounting and project management ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. systems, BuildSoft Enterprise (formally BuilderWorks), BuildSoft, BuildSoft Pro, and its online collaboration tools A collaboration tool is something that helps people collaborate. The term is often used to mean collaborative software, but collaboration tools were being used before computers existed, a piece of paper can for example can be used as collaboration tool. , TheJobSite and TheJobSitePro, HomeSphere already has contractual relationships with builders responsible for well over 25% of yearly U.S. housing starts, and over 70 leading manufacturers of residential construction products. In January 2002, HomeSphere announced that is has struck an alliance with Builderfinish, a Web-based virtual design center and options selection tool. Recently, HomeSphere became a financial partner and stockholder of Sales Simplicity Software, based in Chandler, Ariz. For more information about HomeSphere, visit www.homesphere.com. |
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