Cincom announces CONTROL:Acquire.CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 1996--Cincom Systems Inc. today officially unveiled CONTROL:Acquire(TM), the latest addition to its comprehensive array of enterprise management products. CONTROL:Acquire is a suite of software products that supports the activities associated with bidding for and winning profitable business. It is the only package on the market designed specifically to manage the entire sales cycle, including prospecting, product configuration, estimating, and proposal development. By automating this normally labor-intensive process, CONTROL:Acquire can help cut sales overhead and consistently meet deadlines. CONTROL:Acquire includes the following components: Configurator Workbench, Estimating, Proposal Management, and a work breakdown structure (project) Work Breakdown Structure - (WBS) A division of a project into tasks and subtasks. The tasks are numbered to indicate their relationship to each other. WBSs are indespensible for project planning, particularly when estimating time and resource requirements. tool, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS WBS - Work Breakdown Structure ) Planner. Configurator Workbench Configurator Workbench captures and stores companies' product and configuration rules. It then leads users (salespeople or customers) through each step of the configuration process, prompting them to choose product parts and features. Next, it compares the selected configuration to its "knowledge bank" of product information, ensuring that the user has requested a valid and buildable build·a·ble adj. Suitable or available for building: "The problem was finding a site that was well located, appropriately zoned . . . and buildable" Sam Hall Kaplan. product. Benefits include avoiding expensive rework and reducing order-to-shipment cycle times. Estimating Estimating automates the development and maintenance of product cost estimates, and can help improve the timeliness, quality and accuracy of proposals. Estimating draws upon all sources of historical and current cost and product data to aid in the development of an accurate estimate. Product structures can be imported from Configurator Workbench or from your company's manufacturing applications. Proposal Management Proposal Management automates your company's process of responding to RFPs and inquiries. It provides the capabilities to maintain prospect and contact information, log inquiries and their requirements and can pull in supporting data from Estimating and WBS Planner, as well as produce the proposal. Proposals can also send sales orders to your order entry system and produce quotations. WBS Planner WBS Planner creates and maintains projects, project elements and project schedules. Projects can be tied to specific proposals and allow for multiple revisions. WBS Planner creates a graphical work breakdown structure from which the user can update project details and summarize information. CONTROL:Acquire is a segment of Cincom's CONTROL(TM) product line. CONTROL is a portfolio of applications that addresses the complete business cycle of companies that build highly engineered products. CONTROL:Acquire is fully integrated with the other components of the CONTROL portfolio. CONTROL:Acquire can also be used with other manufacturing, order entry and financial systems as a comprehensive tool to manage all aspects of manufacturing operations Manufacturing operations concern the operation of a facility, as opposed to maintenance, supply and distribution, health, and safety, emergency response, human resources, security, information technology and other infrastructural support organizations. . Platforms/Availability CONTROL:Acquire is currently available on Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups A version of Windows 3.1 introduced in 1992 that added peer-to-peer networking. See Windows. (operating system) Windows for Workgroups - (WFW, WFWG) A version of Windows 3.1 which works with a network. Although stand-alone 3. 3.11, with server components available on IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , VAX (Virtual Address eXtension) A venerable family of 32-bit computers from HP (via Digital and Compaq) introduced in 1977 with the VAX-11/780. VAX models ranged from desktop units to mainframes all running the same VMS operating system, and VAXes could emulate PDP models OpenVMS, Alpha OpenVMS, HP/UX HP/UX Hewlett-Packard UNIX operating system HP/UX Unexploded Human Particulate Operating System , AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. and Digital UNIX See Tru64 Unix. . Pricing Pricing starts at $56,000. -0- Cincinnati-based Cincom Systems (Cincom Systems, Inc., Cincinnati, OH, www.cincom.com) One of the largest and most experienced software companies in the world. Founded in 1968 by Thomas Nies, who has the distinction of being the longest-serving company chief in the industry, Cincom sells manufacturing, financial and has been developing and marketing quality business software to leading organizations worldwide for more than a quarter of a century, and is now among the world's largest software companies The Forbes Global 2000 includes the following list of the world's largest software companies. Relative rank Global rank Name Country Sales ($bil) Profits ($bil) Assets ($bil) Market Value ($bil) 1 54 Microsoft United States . The company is one of the few in the industry that offers business applications for manufacturing companies, as well as complete solutions for object-oriented and fourth-generation language application development, client/server and object-relational database, workflow automation, and document solutions. For more information about Cincom and its products, contact the company by E-mail at info@cincom.com, by phone at 800/543-3010, or visit Cincom's World Wide Web site at http://www.cincom.com. EDITOR'S NOTE: The below email addresses contain an "at" symbol between "info" and "cincom.com" in the first address and between "greg" and "hsr.com" in the second address. This symbol may not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: Cincom Systems Inc., Cincinnati Ronald R. Hank or Virgil Gaines, 513/662-2300 info@cincom.com or Hensley Siegel Rentschler, Cincinnati Greg Farnum, 513/671-3811 greg@hsr.com |
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