Cincom Systems releases Cincom Acquire enterprise sales portal software’s new component
Cincom Systems has announced that Quotation and Proposal Management is a new component available on its new enterprise sales portal software, Cincom Acquire.
Cincom Acquire is an enterprise sales portal solution for companies that sell complex products and services.
Cincom Acquire is designed to fill the gaps in traditional CRM- and ERP-based systems such as guided selling, channel and distributor collaboration, sales and product configuration, quotation and proposal management, project and bid management and contract and order management.
Cincom Acquire’s Quotation and Proposal Management component enables sales teams to spend more time closing deals and less time producing documents.
Cincom Acquire’s Quotation and Proposal Management component can be easily integrated with a product configurator, business rules engine, workflow management or other components.
Specifically, Cincom Acquire’s Quotation and Proposal Management component provides the following:
- A centralised quotation database
- Customer and contact information
- Knowledge-based document configuration
- Automated generation of complex proposals based on document templates
- Integration of product and configuration data
- Proposal revision control
- Knowledge-based workflow automation
- Complex costing and pricing
- Multi-language/multi-currency support
- Automated sales-order generation
Cincom Acquire has helped manufacturers selling industrial engineer-to-order or configure-to-order products successfully streamline their sales, design, and proposal processes by delivering critical product and sales knowledge to the point of sale, while significantly reducing quote to cash time.
Cincom Systems has helped manufacturers reduce proposal generation time from five days to 15 minutes, decrease time to close a sale by 80% and cut lead times from 14 weeks to six weeks.
Built on the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server architecture, Cincom Acquire makes use of the Microsoft tools that employees use every day such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Project.
Cincom Acquire includes out-of-the-box integration with SAP, salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and other systems. Cincom Acquire was nominated for Microsoft’s 2008 Office Business Application of the Year.
4-Aug-2008