beforeSales launches new version of SFA software

By siliconindia   |   Monday, 09 December 2002, 20:30 IST
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BANGALORE:beforeSales has launched its new edition, beforeSales Professional 3.0 Edition. The company will pursue an aggressive marketing and pricing strategy and has formed alliances with Fabmart and several retail chains to make the product available across the country. beforeSales, Chief Architect, AV Bhaskar, said, "beforeSales Professional Lite is ideal for small workgroup users and good for sales teams of up to 10 users. However, the advanced (Enterprise) version of the Professional Edition can cater to medium and large sales organizations up to several hundred users." "The Enterprise version also comes with an optional module that supports Web Clients, so that mobile sales force can login, view and update their relevant sales related data from cyber cafes. The other optional module is the SMS mobile integration, which includes alerts and queries to the server, by the field sales force, through their mobile phones," he added. beforeSales Professional Lite is available off-the-shelf-product for single users and small businesses. Enterprise versions can be sourced directly from the company. beforeSales Professional Lite has an introductory price of Rs 3,900 for a single node license. The key enhancements in the new version include combination of thick client and web client with enterprise backend database and web server, runs on any standard Microsoft Windows platform, supports scaleable backend databases, web clients / web server and SMS integration options available with base version of Professional Enterprise Edition. Users can also be on LAN/WAN or can access through Web Clients anywhere in the Enterprise edition and a query builder is there for users to generate customized reports.