March 2004                                                                                               4

IN THIS ISSUE:

 Soffront's suite of Portals

 Customer of the month - PayPlus Software

 Leads Management in TRACKWeb 8.0.0.2

Soffront CRM Q&A

Soffront's suite of Portals

Soffront announces the release of new versions of its three portals: 

Soffront Customer Portal:
Soffront Customer Portal aspires to meet the customer expectations of online service and deliver information on a cost- effective basis. It gives a quick view of customer's most important information. 

Soffront Partner Portal:
Soffront Partner Portal extends the power of Soffront CRM to your partner enabling an extended enterprise. It enables you to effectively collaborate with your partner, streamline sales efficiency and ultimately increase mutual profitability.

Soffront Employee Portal:
Soffront Employee Portal extends the power of Soffront CRM to your employee’s desktop. It enables you to effectively collaborate with the employees, streamline ticket submissions and ultimately increase employee productivity. 

Click here for more information on the Soffront's suite of portals.


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Leads Management in TRACKWeb 8.0.0.2

Soffront CRM 8.0.0.2 follows the best practices in leads management. The built-in workflow allows distributing leads to your internal sales or tele-marketing team, before they are assigned to outside reps. The tele-marketing / internal sales team qualifies the lead. The qualified lead is assigned to the appropriate representative, based on required criteria or a combination of multiple conditions.

Specify multi-conditional criteria based on one or more fields to identify and isolate duplicate leads. Mark duplicate leads based on exact or partial match. Define noise words such as 'Corp.', 'Ltd.' etc. to standardize the search of duplicate 
leads.

The leads from the Web-based campaigns are transferred to the CRM database automatically. With Soffront Sales Automation, know who is the lead assigned to and the lead status. With Soffront Marketing Automation, maintain a track of campaigns that produced the lead and measure its ROI.

Click here for more information on Soffront CRM 8.0.0.2.


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Soffront CRM Q&A 


Question: I want my domain users to use their Windows login for TRACKWeb. Can I do it?

Answer:
Yes, TRACKWeb supports seamless Windows authentication. Use the following steps to enable Windows authentication:

1. On the Task Bar, click Setup.

2. From Users and Groups Setup, click  Authentication.

4. Select Windows Authentication. The Setup Windows Authentication dialog box appears.

5. Select Use Windows Authentication.

5. From the Windows domain name list, select the Domain Name where TRACKWeb is installed from the dropdown list

6. From the User Group list, select one user group from the TRACKWeb user groups displayed in the dropdown list. This would be used by TRACKWeb when an NT user logs in.

7. Click OK.


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Customer of the month - PayPlus Software

PayPlus software (www.payplus.com), a leading solution provider for Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs), is using Soffront CRM to provide superior service, consolidate databases, and save time. Although a division of PayPlus Software, SLS Triad, had been using the helpdesk module of Soffront CRM for seven years, the company updated all software and purchased 
additional modules in April of 2003. 

According to Jeff Zickler, President, PayPlus Software:

"In order to improve customer support, we needed a software solution that would combine several disparate databases throughout the company and allow us to track issues, guaranteeing resolution in a timely manner. Prior to Soffront, we were 
using an in-house application that was becoming very expensive to update and maintain. 

The Soffront solution is a more cost-effective and robust solution. Although many companies claim that their software is customizable, in reality, it isn’t. The problem with customizing an application is that if you make too many modifications, 
you won’t be able to accept updates from the software vendor. 

Soffront allows us to tailor the software to meet our specific business processes without the fear of experiencing problems when we update. Because PayPlus has two separate divisions with very different business processes, Soffront’s customization capabilities are very important to us. Because Soffront is Web-based, all employees have access, resulting in a dramatic escalation in visibility. We’ve redesigned the dashboard so that the first thing anyone sees when they log in is the open calls. With visibility like that, calls don’t stay open for long. We are confident that tickets get opened, prioritized and resolved quickly. 

Instead of several databases with conflicting data, we now have one coherent and consistent database. All of our historical data for the past three years has been converted into Soffront CRM, allowing technicians to do a quick search or query by example. This capability saves a tremendous amount of time when resolving current issues. 

In the past 60-90 days, I’ve received more voice mail and email messages from happy customers with positive comments regarding support than I have received in the last previous 2-3 quarters."


About PayPlus
PayPlus Software is the leading software provider for Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs). More PEOs use PayPlus more than any other PEO software. PayPlus is designed specifically to operate PEOs and/or temporary staffing companies and is the only PEO software developed by PEOs for PEOs. A powerful, comprehensive PEO software system, PayPlus Software is easy to use and affordable. 


To read more on this press release, click here.


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Soffront CRM Q&A 


Question: I want to set up email notifications for myself. This rule will apply only to me and not all users. How do I do it?

Answer:
Set up a notification rule in TRACKWeb that applies only to the individual who defines the rule. This is different from the administrator provided notification rules that are based on the workflow and are applicable to the specified users in a user group. Example, as the product manager of a particular product, you can specify a rule to receive email notification when a ‘severe’ ticket pertaining to the product is raised.

Define the rule from the Setup > Notification Rule menu in TRACKWeb. Click New from the menu, choose the object, specify the action and set the filter condition that will trigger the rule.


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