Salesnet Announces Significant Product Upgrades to Enterprise On-Demand CRM Solution; New Product Enhancements Deliver Customers Superior Functionality - Preview Salesnet's Upcoming 25th Anniversary Edition Release.BOSTON -- Salesnet, the leading provider of on-demand CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. software focused on driving sales effectiveness, today announced a significant upgrade to its enterprise product offering, introducing over 50 product enhancements designed to improve the end-user experience. These new product additions also serve as a precursor precursor /pre·cur·sor/ (pre´kur-ser) something that precedes. In biological processes, a substance from which another, usually more active or mature, substance is formed. In clinical medicine, a sign or symptom that heralds another. to Salesnet's upcoming 25th Anniversary Edition anticipated for a winter release, which will include over 250 wide ranging features that broaden Salesnet's CRM footprint The amount of geographic space covered by an object. A computer footprint is the desk or floor surface it occupies. A satellite's footprint is the earth area covered by its downlink. See form factor. 1. into Campaign Management, Lead Management, Product Catalogs, Order Management, and much more. "These latest product enhancements uphold up·hold tr.v. up·held , up·hold·ing, up·holds 1. To hold aloft; raise: upheld the banner proudly. 2. To prevent from falling or sinking; support. 3. Salesnet's 'continuous improvement' philosophy in addressing overall system usability How easy something is to use. Both software and Web sites can be tested for usability. Considering how difficult applications are to use and Web sites are to navigate, one would wish that more designers took this seriously. See user interface and usability lab. , performance and reliability," said Jonathan Tang tang, in zoology tang: see butterfly fish. , President and Co-Founder at Salesnet. "It is this philosophy that will also be the impetus Impetus is a stimulus or impulse, a moving force that sparks momentum. Impetus may also refer to:
In this current release, Salesnet is introducing over 50 direct feature product enhancements to its flagship on-demand CRM solution, each geared toward their enterprise customers. The focus of this release is designed to streamline the end-user experience, further simplifying configurations and adding more flexibility to the Salesnet solution. Key new product enhancements include: --Deal Fields in Communication Manager - Allows users to easily create proposals, quotes, and opportunity summary documents using the Salesnet MS Word integration, at four times the speed. --Custom Field Enhancements - Allows even finer-grain control of custom field attributes: user/position-based default values, user/position-based access to individual dropdown field values. --Reporting Privileges - Includes the ability to control multiple levels of access to the reporting engine. --Deal Import Wizard Instructional help in an application or system development environment that guides the user through a series of multiple choice questions to accomplish a task. For the most part, wizards are more effective than the help menus found in most applications, which often border on the atrocious. - Includes the capability to create and import deal records, extensive to round-robin 'deals' to sales groups within the organization and newly added ability to "stagger" deal creation across a period of time. --Formulas within Formulas - A second release of its calculated fields feature which enhances the capacity for companies to calculate values based on other fields by using embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. calculated fields within other calculated fields. --Record-to-Record Relationships - Includes extensive capabilities to define record relationships between like objects (i.e. Parent Company" & "Subsidiary). This feature also offers the ability to create and define different kinds of relationships within the application such as hierarchical and list based and allows users to relate one deal to another deal (i.e. upsell, cross-sell.) --Account/Contact/Deal Update Tool -Allows customers to update existing records in Salesnet in bulk, which is ideal for companies that frequently need to update the customer address and contact information from an external data source. --Navigation and Performance Enhancements - Includes many navigational enhancements that reduce the number of clicks needed to accomplish a given task. "Sixty percent of our inquiries are from companies that have a CRM solution in place, but are not satisfied with its performance. We have always promoted Salesnet as an alternative to competitive solutions with confidence and with these impressive new features Salesnet has made the sell that much easier," said Ian Hendry, Director at Entelegen Ltd, a Salesnet partner. "All of the enhancements are outstanding, however, most significant for our customers is the 'Deal Import' function, which simplifies migration from other contact management and CRM systems, broadens the number of deals a sales team can manage, and expedites the sales cycle." In addition to the new enhancements, Salesnet also announced today, the launch of the latest version of their industry-leading OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and private labeling product, Salesnet OEM v.2 which includes several significant enhancements that enable partners to more easily brand the solution and gain immediate ownership of their customer relationships. (See also 'Salesnet Unveils Latest Version Of Private Labeling Product - Salesnet OEM V.2' - August 8, 2005.) About Salesnet's 25th Anniversary Edition The new features encompassed in the upcoming 25th Anniversary Edition, while anticipated for a winter release, can be previewed via a dedicated website. Beginning this month, this website will reveal several new features each week for Salesnet customers and prospective customers to review, culminating in the 250th feature being uncovered directly prior to the launch of the 25th Anniversary Edition. For more information, please visit www.salesnet25.com. About Salesnet Salesnet, the leading provider of on-demand CRM software focused on driving sales effectiveness, delivers solutions that empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems companies to sell more. Since 2000, Salesnet's hosted CRM solutions have served as proven alternatives to expensive, complex, packaged or premise-based CRM software. Organizations such as American Express American Express (NYSE: AXP), sometimes known as "AmEx" or "Amex", is a diversified global financial services company, headquartered in New York City. The company is best known for its credit card, charge card and traveler's cheque businesses. Incentive Services, Birch birch, common name for some members of the Betulaceae, a family of deciduous trees or shrubs bearing male and female flowers on separate plants, widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere. Telecom, Software AG, Sovereign Bank, and Tellabs use Salesnet to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and profitability of global sales organizations. Salesnet's Guided Performance Selling (GPS) strategy leverages software-as-a-service, configuration-as-a-service(TM), integration-as-a-service(TM), and administration-as-a-service(TM) to offer products and services designed to drive the fastest ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). in the CRM industry. In addition, Salesnet's exclusive Customer Success Roadmap strategy is aimed at driving ongoing business value with on-demand CRM. Salesnet, headquartered in Boston, provides additional information on its products and services at: www.salesnet.com/sp/e.asp?id=196. |
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