Improving Sales Proposals
In today's business-to-business sales environment, companies need to streamline sales processes to remain competitive. A proposal solution built on the Microsoft Office System uses familiar technologies to improve processes and can help sales teams respond to opportunities faster. Gartner Research indicates that a proposals solution can "allow a sales organisation to deliver a greater quantity of accurate, timely and well-packaged proposals and quotes so that opportunities are not missed because of an inability to generate a response."
API Software is a Microsoft Gold Partner with recognised expertise in delivering business solutions based on the Microsoft Office and SQL Server platforms. Having attained both the Microsoft Information Worker and Data Management competencies we are ideally positioned to assist our clients deliver solutions based on the Microsoft platform.
Sales organisations can start to see benefits from a Microsoft Office-based proposals solution almost immediately. Some of these benefits include:
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Decreasing proposal turnaround time by 20 to 50 percent: Eliminate repetitive manual tasks; reduce time required to find and reuse the best information from company databases; prevent the need for proposals authors to switch between applications; use a collaborative portal to decrease the number of handoffs between authors. |
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Reducing costs by more effectively deploying resources: Deploy fewer resources in a streamlined proposals development process; avoid duplication of efforts by retaining critical expertise; rapidly integrate the solution with deployed Microsoft technologies. |
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Growing revenues by increasing win rate and participation: Create highly compelling, accurate, and up-to-date proposals; submit a greater number of proposals with fewer resources; focus efforts on the most promising leads based on systematic evaluation of risk and return; author proposals compliant with your customer’s standards and government regulations. |
