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| December 2006 |
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| Prophet 4.0 Personal Edition |
| “If business sales leads seem to be trickling through your fingers, you need a good customer relationship management (CRM) application to help you keep closer track of your sales opportunities. Avidian's Prophet 4.0--a simple and easy-to-use CRM add-on for Microsoft's Outlook--can help you convert mere opportunities into actual sales.”...Read more |
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| December 2006 |
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| The CRM Conundrum |
| “How much time do your employees — particularly your sales people — spend in Outlook? Given the popular e-mail client's ubiquity, chances are the answer is — a lot. Avidian decided to better leverage that time in Outlook by turning the personal information manager into a full-fledged sales CRM application.”...Read more |
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| December 2006 |
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| SFA for Outlook Will Be Prophetable |
| - “Avidian releases the latest version of its Outlook-based sales and contact management solution, and looks forward to leveraging Office 2007 and Vista within the immediate future.”...Read more |
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| October 2006 |
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| Winner – Go Mobile Silver Star |
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Prophet for Palm is a mobile add-on to the Stand-Alone and Server editions of Avidian's Prophet 3.0. If you are an Outlook 2000, XP or 2003 user, Prophet offers you and your business a great mobile solution.
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| October 2006 |
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| Re: Tooling |
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Prophet for Palm is a sales
management system built into
Microsoft Outlook. By doing so,
many of the headaches associated
with mobile sales tools like
syncing databases or switching
back and forth between multiple
applications are avoided.
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| September 2006 |
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| Setting high standards for software |
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James Wong and Tim Nguyen
developed a software program
that helps sales professionals
become more organized and
effective. Their customers
include more than 15,000
companies, including AT&T and
Dell ... Read more |
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| September 2006 |
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| Turn a Prophet |
| - James Wong and Tim Nguyen were in for the ride of their lives when they created Prophet 3.0, a sales and contact manager for Outlook. The software, which enhances Outlook's functions, has salespeople hooked. ...Read more |
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| August 2006 |
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| Changing CRM Processes |
| - Changing CRM Processes CRM software is more about customer information management than customer relationship management. It’s all about two things—improving the processes to be able to drive more revenue and creating improvements in a way the team can understand, value, and execute...Read more |
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| July 2006 |
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| July 2006 |
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| Prophet 3.0 Enterprise |
| - Avidian Technologies' Prophet 3.0 Enterprise adds a new wrinkle to CRM by integrating directly into Microsoft Outlook. The product has an effective tool set for small teams that want a simple way to organize contact and opportunity data...Read more |
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| June 2006 |
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| E-commerce Best Practices Make Perfect |
| - CRM magazine presents what some of the best minds in the industry have to say…Ideally, the personal touch should start before shoppers ever get to your site. James Wong, CEO of Avidian Technologies, knows that customers don't come if they can't find you. "Do the right sort of marketing: Be found when people are looking for you or something like you," Wong suggests...Read more |
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| May 2006 |
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| Avidian Upgrades CRM Product Prophet 3.0 |
| - Bellevue, Washington-based Avidian Technologies has announced that it now provides support for Terminal Server and more advanced User Permissions in Prophet 3.0, its Outlook-based sales software. Both features are available to existing customers as an update and will ship with all subsequent Prophet purchases. These added features are designed to give companies using Prophet “greater control over their sales data and easier access for all users”....Read more |
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| April 2006 |
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| March 2006 |
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| The CRM Conundrum |
| - If you don't want to commit to a whole new CRM platform, but still need to kick your sales tactics up a notch, consider Prophet 3.0 from Avidian Technologies. This on-premise app is actually an add-in for Microsoft Outlook, leveraging your existing contact database but adding features such as enhanced contact management… and an opportunity-management console. And if you know how to use Outlook, you'll be able to figure out Prophet....Read more |
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| March 2006 |
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| On-Demand CRM |
| - Like Salesnet, SAP's offering requires Internet Explorer to access the site due to its use of ActiveX controls for providing synchronization capabilities with Outlook and Lotus Notes, and IE-specific code. In this regard, SAP is behind newcomers such as Avidian and SugarCRM, which take a service-oriented architecture approach to synchronization, taking advantage of Web services to provide this functionality rather than requiring the download and installation of separate clients...Read more |
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| March 2006 |
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| Brandrud ‘Prophets’ from CRM Tool |
| - Brandrud…wanted to find a tool that allowed them to take control of the sales process but that was reasonably priced and easy to use. After exploring various alternatives including Act (from Sage Software) and GoldMine (from FrontRange Solutions), they chose Avidian Technologies' Prophet, a CRM tool that works inside Microsoft Outlook....Read more |
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| Feb 2006 |
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| How Much CRM is Enough? |
| - Many companies are asking themselves, “Do I need full-scale Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software to improve my operations and increase sales?” Businesses should think through what they really need from a CRM software solution…Pick the wrong CRM software-(either too complex, or with too few features--and your company could be saddled with a costly deployment that hinders productivity instead of helping it....Read more |
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| Feb 2006 |
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| Sold on Solutions |
| - Another solution with a focus on contact management is Avidian’s Prophet 3.0, which integrates directly with Outlook. “Our premise is, if you’re already using Outlook for your basic productivity stuff and what you need is sales features, you’re forced to look at another application…,” says James Wong, CEO of Avidian, “…when what would solve the problem is if Outlook had those sales features. And that’s precisely why we created Prophet 3.0, which is sales software built right into Outlook, so you’re dealing with one application, one contact database, one calendar.”...Read more |
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| Feb 2006 |
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| Avidian Technologies' Prophet Professional 3.0 |
| - Avidian Technologies provides another option: Prophet 3.0, a Windows PC plug-in for Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2003 and XP. The software is available in three Windows client configurations--Standard, Professional and Enterprise--all targeted at smaller organizations. The Professional version, which I tested, includes peer-to-peer sharing of opportunity data, providing a welcome compromise between maintaining dedicated in-house servers and using an on-demand CRM suite. It also has a sales assistant feature and filtering options for opportunity data and reports...Read more |
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| Feb 2006 |
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| Meeting CRM Demand |
| - Bellevue-based Avidian Technologies LLC, while not yet entrenched in an on-demand philosophy, has made its money by basing its entire product, Prophet, on its ability to integrate with Outlook. Prophet 3.0 is the latest version of Avidian Technologies' CRM system.....Read more |
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| Winter 2006 |
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| Contact Management Solutions |
| - A key benefit of Prophet is its close association to Outlook. Wong says, "Our philosophy is, don’t try to change peoples’ work habits." By utilizing existing contact lists in Outlook and familiar Outlook screens, extensive retraining is not required. Prophet can be up and running in a matter of hours...Read more |
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| Jan 2006 |
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| Best Small Business CRM Software Solutions for MS Outlook |
| - Recommended. Great, easy-to-use, Award-winning Outlook embedded CRM solution that happily runs on a peer-to-peer network without the need for MS Exchange Server. Prophet is excellent value for money, and ideal for small business with a sales process that needs management. Costs approx. $150 per user. Their newly released version is a winner!...Read more |
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| Jan 2006 |
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| Avidian Technologies’ James Wong Radio Interview |
| - Having spent more than 15 of the past 24 months traveling around this country of ours, I have to tell you that James has hit the nail well and truly on the head with Prophet. The way that he has carefully tailored his product to the needs of the market illustrates the fact that this man is listening to what the customer has to say. With 10000 users inside three years, his company is an outstanding example of what can be done in a tough and competitive market if you are prepared to do the hard yards. This achievement is all the more significant when you realize that it has been done without any additional investment, all of it has been self funded… If (you) are thinking of taking on a Contact Management system, and (you) should be, take a look at 'Prophet' ; in my view its setting the standard for all small business Contact Management needs....Read more |
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Spencer Parkinson
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