November 2004                                                                                                 4

IN THIS ISSUE:

  Customer of the month – Art.com

  Soffront On-Demand Service

  Have you upgraded to 8.0?

Soffront CRM Q&A

Customer of the month – Art.com

Art.com, the world’s leading online art market place uses Soffront CRM to enhance internal communications, enforce processes and improve customer service.

According to Andrew Gill, IT Manager, Software Systems “Soffront CRM has allowed our IT department to be much more organized – we now have a global view of all outstanding IT issues and can more accurately monitor the status of numerous projects”. With the help of the Soffront CRM the company is capable of improving the customer satisfaction by resolving the issues faster than before and the communication is enhanced.

As explained by Gill, Art.com was able to modify Soffront CRM to fit their organization’s requirements exactly. “Soffront CRM provides a cohesive, common interface for managing all parts of the IT organizations”, continued Gill. “We can track and resolve help desk tickets and defects more effectively and easily customize the software to meet our changing needs.”

Soffront is well known within the industry for its customizable and easy-to-use software. “Soffront CRM provides interfaces that allow a user to add fields on the fly, modify the views of each object, add new database tables, link the new databases to other parts of the system and create workflows for them-all without writing a single line of code,” explained Manu Das, Soffront’s president and the founder. He added “when these changes are completed, the system automatically generates all the code that is needed to present the system to the user – a unique approach in the CRM industry not available in other systems.”


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Have you upgraded to 8.0?

A significant number of our customers have upgraded to 8.0 and they are excited about it.

Features:

  • Enhanced user interface

  • Convenient personalized dashboard

  • Web-based customization

  • Standards based email integration

  • Robust and effective Campaign Management and ROI reports

  • Flexible, user friendly, and customizable Quotation

  • Easy-to-use auto escalation rules

  • configurable territory management and lead distribution

  • Powerful two dimensional and user configurable matrix reports

  • Location ready international version

  • Support for NT and LDAP authentication

  • Data import from diverse databases

  • Superior batch actions facilitating multiple edits


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Soffront On-Demand Service

Soffront's hosted CRM model - an “On-Demand” service available since 2001 offers tangible benefits over similar offerings from other vendors. With Soffront Hosted ASP, you'll be free to focus on your business, and not worry about infrastructure requirements, maintenance, and upgrades.

This hosted CRM offering is delivered over the Web and completely accessible from your Internet browser at a monthly, per user price, and can be deployed in days.

Soffront Hosted ASP provides the flexibility of low up front costs with the same power that Soffront’s enterprise customers have enjoyed for years. This also offers an easy migration path to an on-premise Soffront CRM solution.

Some of the key advantages of Soffront over other vendors -

  Soffront On-Demand Salesforce Siebel On Demand
Years of experience with Mid-market companies 12 8 1
Same functionality for Hosted or On-premise
Software
Yes No No
Ability to create new tables/forms Yes No No
Auto-generate code for forms processing Yes No No
Ability to easily define relationships between
tables
Yes Limited Limited


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Soffront CRM Q&A 


Question: What security settings are required to import/export information between TRACKWeb and Microsoft Outlook?

Answer:
1. From the File menu, select Tools -> Internet Options.
2. From the Internet Options dialog box, click the Security tab.
3. Determine if you are running TRACKWeb from the Internet or from your Local Intranet, select that icon, and click Custom Level.
4. From the Security Settings dialog box, verify that Enable is selected for Initialize and script ActiveX controls not marked as safe. If it is not, change the setting.

NOTE: Before you can import or export information between Outlook and TRACKWeb, your administrator must map the fields in TRACKWeb with the respective fields (properties) in Outlook.


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Soffront CRM Q&A 


Question: How to setup default dashboards for my Sales users?

Answer:
1. Log on to TRACKWeb.
2. On the Toolbar, click Tools.
3. From Manage, click Gadgets. The Gadget Manager screen appears.
4. Click the Dashboard Layout icon.
5. Select the user group for the Sales users, select a dashboard, and arrange the gadgets per your layout.
6. Click Save to set this dashboard layout as the default dashboard.


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