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Concentra selects RemoteWare(R) to support remote communications for laptop-based sales configurator; Point of sale configuration and proposal generation brings the enterprise to the customer.


BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 1995--Concentra Corporation (Nasdaq:CTRA CTRA Canadian Therapeutic Recreation Association
CTRA College Terrace Residents' Association
CTRA Canadian Telecommunications Resellers Alliance
CTRA Committee To Restore America
) a leading supplier of sales and engineering automation software announced today that it has selected XcelleNet., Inc. to supply remote communications (1) Communicating via long distances.

(2) See remote control software.
 capabilities for Selling Point selling point
n.
An aspect of a product or service that is stressed in advertising or marketing.

Noun 1. selling point - a characteristic of something that is up for sale that makes it attractive to potential customers
(TM), a laptop-based sales configuration and proposal generation system.

Selling Point enables the sales representative to specify high-level customer requirements and to generate product configurations, next-best alternatives, realistic 3D visualizations of the customized product, feature/benefit summaries, complete product proposals, and finally, order fulfillment Order fulfillment (in BE also: order fulfilment) is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery of a product to the customer. Sometimes Order fulfillment  information -- all in real time at the point of sale.

Selling Point's open architecture is designed for easy integration with enterprise applications such as engineering and manufacturing systems, contact managers, opportunity managers and marketing encyclopedias This article contains a list of encyclopedias, including projects to create new works. Because the number of works that can be considered encyclopedias is very large, this list does not attempt to be comprehensive. . Sales representatives can perform complex costing and engineering at the point of sale using RemoteWare as the foundation to the enterprise systems located at remote corporate sites. This connectivity reduces sales cycle time, iterative it·er·a·tive  
adj.
1. Characterized by or involving repetition, recurrence, reiteration, or repetitiousness.

2. Grammar Frequentative.

Noun 1.
 proposals and more importantly, ensures accurate quotes and reduces losses associated with misconfigured orders.

RemoteWare is software used by organizations to provide their remote and mobile computer users with timely access to essential business information. RemoteWare provides organizations with the communications and applications infrastructure necessary to create, deploy and manage large scale remote and mobile computing Using a computing device while in transit. Mobile computing implies wireless transmission, but wireless transmission does not necessarily imply mobile computing. Fixed wireless applications use satellites, radio systems and lasers to transmit between permanent objects such as buildings  solutions. "Selling Point is the first laptop-based configurator that truly brings the enterprise to the point of sale," said John Bacon

For other people named John Bacon, see John Bacon (disambiguation).


John Bacon (November 24, 1740 – August 4, 1799) was a British sculptor.

Born in Southwark, he was the son of a wood carver from Somerset.
, XcelleNet's president. "RemoteWare is optimized for just this kind of application -- one that allows salespeople sales·peo·ple  
pl.n.
Persons who are employed to sell merchandise in a store or in a designated territory.
 to have access to all the necessary tools to meet customer requirements regardless of location."

About XcelleNet

XcelleNet, Inc. (Nasdaq:/NM:XNET XNET Cross Net Debugger
XNET Extended Network
) develops and markets RemoteWare, software used by organizations to provide their remote and mobile computer users with timely access to essential business information. RemoteWare provides organizations with the communications and applications infrastructure necessary to create, deploy and manage large scale remote and mobile computing solutions. Examples of solutions deployed with RemoteWare include order entry, inventory query, reports and price list delivery, and product catalogue updates. Over 1000 organizations worldwide have licensed RemoteWare to manage the exchange of information between central systems and over 314,000 field personnel, branch operations, customers, suppliers, channels-of-distribution or other constituents who routinely work away from those systems.

For more information, contact XcelleNet, 5 Concourse Parkway, Suite 850, Atlanta, GA 30328, 770-804-8100.

About Concentra

Concentra Corporation is the leading provider of object-oriented sales and engineering software solutions. Using Concentra's software, market-leading companies worldwide in the aerospace, automotive, industrial equipment and construction industries are creating customer-driven product designs, product configurations and sales proposals in minutes, not months. Headquartered in Massachusetts, the company operates from offices across the US, Europe and Asia.

For more information, contact Concentra Corporation, 21 North Avenue, Burlington, MA 01803-3301, 617-229-4600 or info@concentra.com.

CONTACT: Janet Page or Mindy Aronin

Concentra Corporation XcelleNet

617-229-4669 770-698-2948

jpage@concentra.com mindy.aronin@xcellenet.com
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