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Prophet CRM and Avidian in the News |
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| Avidian Releases Prophet Ultimate OnDemand Edition |
| Available on-premise and now also as a secure cloud offering, the Prophet Ultimate OnDemand Edition includes features like Prophet Instant, a social component that allows users to "follow" a specific sales rep, contact, or company, and to receive instant notifications on opportunities or contact activity...Read more |
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| Products of the Week ( 9, 2012) |
| Avidian’s Prophet Ultimate OnDemand Edition is an Outlook-based CRM solution for cross-organizational use. As a software plus service, customer data is now stored in Avidian’s secure cloud for a more maintenance free experience...Read more |
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| Avidian Releases Prophet Ultimate OnDemand Edition |
| Available on-premise and now also as a secure cloud offering, the Prophet Ultimate OnDemand Edition includes features like Prophet Instant, a social component that allows users to "follow" a specific sales rep, contact, or company, and to receive instant notifications on opportunities or contact activity...Read more |
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| How to Buy Small Business CRM |
| With the Prophet 5 contact management and CRM package, Avidian Technologies took a different tack, building the CRM functionality inside Microsoft Outlook. Prophet leverages Outlook’s existing data and functionality so you have calendaring and email along with centralized contact management, sales opportunity management, reporting and more within a single, familiar interface...Read more |
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| Speck Design Empowers Its Sales Force by Implementing CRM Software |
| Once Speck Design realized they needed a CRM solution, management took their top three solutions to the sales team and asked them which they would embrace, which they would hate and why. The response he got back was that Avidian’s Prophet was hands down above the others because it is built inside Microsoft Outlook...Read more |
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| The Value of a True CRM Tool |
| Elobau selected Avidian’s hosted CRM solution, Prophet OnDemand. This benefited Elobau because as a software-as-a-service, Avidian shouldered the burden of maintaining the backend equipment and data storage in its secure cloud. This gave Elobau access to their customer data on demand via the Web and freed them from having to deal with any of the routine IT management activities associated with the solution...Read more |
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| Avidian Announces Outlook-Based CRM Tool for Blackberry |
| Avidian Technologies is known for its cloud-based and on-premise software solutions for users of Outlook and Exchange. The company boasts of a Microsoft Outlook-based customer relationship management software product line. Avidian has just announced an enhancement in its product line with the addition Prophet Mobile for BlackBerryRead more |
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| Avidian Named to the Inc. 5000 List for Third Consecutive Year |
| For the third consecutive year, Avidian has been named to the Inc. 5000 list, which measures revenue growth for U.S.-based, privately-held, independent companies. This places Avidian among the year’s fastest growing and most promising private technology ventures in the United States...Read more |
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| How to Choose CRM Software |
| Managing customer relationships can be a daunting task but also a very rewarding one. Luckily, there's business software that will help you. Here's how to select the right customer relationship management software for your business....Read more |
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| Short Message Service (SMS): Untying the Mobile Tether |
| With more robust smartphones and the expansion of high-capacity wireless networks, CRM applications can operate more effectively wherever they’re used. To assess where CRM is at with the mobile workforce, Customer Interaction Solutions approached several leading firms....Read more |
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| The Prophet of CRM |
| Prophet integrates seemlessly with outlook providing a set of enhanced CRM and sales tools from within outlook....Read more |
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| A Is for Adoption |
| A provider of contact center solutions implements CRM to eliminate shelfware and to use tools the company already had in place....Read more |
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| To Buy or Rent |
| CRM software is available in a multitude of flavors, but a crucial decision every business must make is whether to go with an on-premises solution or a hosted one....Read more |
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| U.S. Chamber of Commerce |
| The Blue Ribbon Small Business award is about more than recognizing financially successful businesses. It’s about honoring those that show a commitment to their employees, sound business practices, and bettering their communities...Read more |
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| 2G+, 3G, 4G-LTE Versus Wi-Fi |
| What method are road warriors, using critical-data-and-bandwidth intensive solutions such as CRM applications, and whose employers (or themselves if they are self-employed) are juggling wireless costs, to choose and where?...Read more |
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| Deal Radar: Deal Radar 2009: Avidian Technologies |
| Avidian’s Prophet has three main competitive advantages. Since it is built into Outlook, there is no need to flip between two applications all the time or manage multiple contact databases. Second, Prophet is simple and can be up and running in a few days or even a few hours if the SaaS version is used. Third, it is built to leverage existing Outlook...Read more |
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| Prophet OnDemand Premium Edition |
| Prophet OnDemand is the Software as a Service (SaaS) version of the award winning, Outlook-based, Prophet CRM software and gives sales teams working within Outlook an easy-to-use sales CRM solution without having to purchase or maintain server software...Read more |
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| Avidian Named to the Inc. 5000 List for Second Consecutive Year |
| For the second consecutive year, Avidian has been named to the Inc. 5000 list, which measures revenue growth for U.S.-based, privately-held, independent companies. This places Avidian as one of the year’s fastest growing and most promising private technology ventures in the United States...Read more |
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| Minority Small Business Champion of the Year: James Wong |
| Avidian CEO James Wong has been named Washington State Minority Small Business Champion of the Year by the Washington Small Business Administration. Wong received the honor for many reasons, including his impressive track record in founding successful companies....Read more |
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| Six Ways to Get Your Employees to Use CRM Software |
| A guaranteed way to increase your company's sales is to have a system in place to manage your sales activities. Having a custom relationship management (CRM) system that is easy and gets used by the sales team is a great step towards that goal....Read more |
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| CRM Awareness Among Small Businesses |
| In , Avidian Technologies conducted a survey among 200 small business owners, ranging between one to 1,000 employees, in an effort to gauge their knowledge of CRM…Of those companies who said they are considering implementing CRM, most said they would consider Quickbooks and Outlook as their CRM products...Read more |
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| How to Get the Most Out of Outlook |
| Many of us have a love-hate relationship with Outlook—yes we hate it because sometimes it crashes unexpectedly, or it takes an extra three to ten seconds to do something that we didn't expect. But I believe for the most part many of us do like Outlook and its intuitive nature...Read more |
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| Despite the Slumping Economy, You Can Increase Sales |
| Many people are still using a yellow notepad, Word or Excel to help them keep track of sales. This system takes lots of time and is prone to lots of errors. Today, many contact and sales management tools can easily help you figure this out with a few clicks of a button...Read more |
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| Customer Relationship Management (CRM for SMB) Survey |
| The Customer Relationship Management (CRM) survey Avidian commissioned from Market Tools held some unexpected results regarding CRM familiarity and association. Small to medium businesses (SMBs) are unfamiliar with the terms CRM and Software as a Service (SaaS)...Read more |
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| Shake Your Moneymakers |
| Sales technology isn’t about data entry; it’s about closing more and bigger deals. SFA can help, but only if businesses know what to look for and how to use it. What follows is a look at three main technological arenas where salespeople can become more effective: mobility, social computing, and analytics...Read more |
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| A Good Outlook on Outlook |
| Earlier this year the company released Prophet 5, the newest version of the Outlook-based contact management and CRM solution, offering greater usability and more advanced contact management features integrated with Outlook, eliminating the need to toggle between applications...Read more |
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| Mobile CRM: Staying Connected |
| When considering which options are most important, some should be at the top of the list. Here are some suggested must-have features to look for when trying to find the perfect mobile CRM solution...Read more |
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| Five Ways to Make SEO Work for You |
| How much attention do you pay to search engine optimization? Many marketers give it short shrift, not understanding that it can be the difference between success and failure....Read more |
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| Outlook vs. Software Fear |
| By using Outlook – something most sales guys already use on a daily basis – Prophet gets past that fear and gets a head start on adoption....Read more |
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| Avidian launches Prophet 5 |
| Unlike traditional big iron CRM or sales management software, Prophet is built into Outlook, eliminating the need to manage multiple contact databases or toggle between separate applications....Read more |
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| CRM's Avidian Launches Prophet 5 |
| Prophet 5 includes improved usability and more advanced contact management integrated with Outlook, "eliminating the need to shift between multiple applications."....Read more |
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| Avidian's Outlook is Simple |
| That fact is hardly lost on Avidian Technologies, which announced today the release of its CRM software for small and midsize businesses (SMBs): Prophet 5.....Read more |
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Press Contact
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Aaron Searle
(801) 373-7888
aarons@connectpr.com |