Solutions
Business Manager
Manage your customer interactions and
business activities easily with a fast, flexible and affordable CRM
software solution.
Ideal for small and medium sized
businesses.
What is CRM ?
Put simply, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is an industry
term for software solutions that help companies of any type to
manage customer relationships and business opportunities in an
organised way.
Through customer relationship management, businesses can gain
insight into the behaviour of their customers and their own business
operations so as to ensure that
customers are served in the best possible way. This critical
business knowledge, is paramount to the success of any business.
Polymedia Business Manager is a CRM
solution containing a comprehensive array of features and
functionality which can be used as a central solution for managing
customers, contacts, associates, projects & time billings, call
centres, help desk, activities and customer related documents, to
name but a few.
Also available as a web-based solution
for the management of dynamic website content (i.e. content
management) such as eCommerce scenarios, knowledge-based systems,
etc.
Key Features

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Account &
Contact Management
Manage customers and other businesses as well as related contact
persons. Flexible customer classification, customization and
integration with Microsoft Outlook.
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Project
Management
Manage your projects / jobs and monitor progress interactively.
Create budgets, add time/billings and view budgeting & profitability
analysis for each project (in tabular form & graphical charts).
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Incident
Management
Handle customer support incidents, enquiries & issue handling.
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Activity
Management
Manage all customer interactions including tasks, calendar
appointments & phone calls.
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Document
Management
Attach any type of electronic document to a customer account,
project, activity or other. Documents can include Microsoft Word,
Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook Emails, images and even video content.
Create new documents automatically from templates with Microsoft
Word automation.
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Products &
Services
Manage your products and services; Create customer contracts and
maintenance schemes; Control customer assets.
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Timesheets &
Billings
Personal timesheets and project billing analysis. View employee work
by day, week, month, year and project to name but a few.
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Call Centre &
Activity Dispatch Centre
Track incoming phone calls & tasks and quickly and easily allocate
them to the appropriate staff.
No more need for post-it notes!!!
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Help Desk &
Knowledge Bank
Create a knowledge bank and resources for problem solving and
references for your business activities.
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Customer Asset
Management
Manage the products and services assigned to each customer
(including serial numbers and other product characteristics).
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Mass-Mailing
Fully customizable personalised marketing & sales campaigns via
Email / Fax / SMS / Mail-Merge / Labels) |

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News & Event
Management
Manage company news and events and publish this information to your
website.
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Membership
Management
Manage membership schemes and members. Track member interactions and
loyalty points. Print labels and perform mass-mailing.
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Training Centre
Management
Create training courses and track participants, interactions,
grades, credits and history. |
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Clients
Some of our clients who are currently using this application as a
Windows and/or Web-based solution include:
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Also Includes The Following Tools

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Personal
Dashboard
Each person has their own personal dashboard, showing all their
current activities including the following:
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Upcoming
appointments |
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Projects
(where the person is the project manager) |
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Tasks / To-Do
List (by customer account, project and priority) |
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Pending phone
calls |
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Timesheet
summary |
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Overview of
their entire work load |
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Activity
Journals & History
View a chronological presentation of all interactions regarding a
customer or project (including tasks, appointments, phone calls,
documents, billings, etc.)
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Call Centre
The call centre module allows you to quickly and efficiently accept
incoming phone calls & requests, and quickly dispatch them to the
appropriate member of staff.

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Timesheet /
Quick Billing
Module to allow for the quick entry of billing items & daily
timesheet entries.

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Charts &
Reports
Create a wide variety of reports and print or save them as PDF
documents. View bar charts and line graphs for various statistica
data.

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Pivot Tables
(Data Mining)
Use the advanced and highly customizable 'pivot table' functionality
to analyse your data in an unlimited number of ways. Just think of
the question and get the answers you need in a few simple steps!
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Export
Export and data to Microsoft Excel or other format.
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Broadcast
Wizard & Mail-Merge
Create mass-mailing broadcasts via email, fax or SMS (text
messaging).
Print labels of any type
Perform Microsoft Word mail-merge.
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Document
Templates
Use document templates as a source for new documents and store
everything centrally.
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Security
Implement an unlimited number of security levels and groups not only
for your users but also for your content. This way, access to
information (e.g. documents) can be restricted to users based on
organisational hierarchy and departments.
In essence, implement vertical and horizontal access to content
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Login and get
started...
Once you login, the animated, interactive start screen presents the
most important, recent information you need.

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Individual &
Group Calendar
Ability to view individual or group calendars. (Also allows for the
drag-and-drop of scheduled activities from one persons calendar to
another).



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Microsoft
Outlook Connectivity
Customer & contact information, projects, tasks, appointments, phone
calls can quickly and easily be sent to your Microsoft Outlook with
a single click.

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Microsoft Word
Automation
Automatically fill Microsoft Word template documents with customer
information. For example, merge a template 'proposal' with a
specific customer to create a new document containing the specific
customer's information in the appropriate position(s) within the
document.
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Access all
customer information from one place
View the following sample customer "Account" and
individual "contact" forms.
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More Screen Shots...

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Account
The customer "account" it at the core of the system. Here you can
define your customers, associates and other business you interactive
with. From here you also have access to all other information
related to the account (e.g. contacts, projects, activities,
documents, products, services, billings, etc.)

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Contact
Manage each individual contact you interact with. Notice the
Microsoft Outlook icon on the toolbar which allows this contact to
be sent to Microsoft Outlook with a simple click. (This feature is
also true for accounts, projects, tasks, activities, and more...).

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Projects
Manage customer related projects and coordinate your workload with
all team members so as to ensure the correct execution of each job.

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