Version 2.0 Assimilates Knowledge Management Tools and Proposal Management Best Practices, Simplifying and Easing Cross-Departmental Acceptance, Teaming Collaboration and Reducing IT Burden
SAVANNAH, GA -- May 30, 2007 -- Octant announced the launch of
Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals™, Version 2.0, a
revolutionary suite of proposal tools that help companies gain a
competitive advantage by standardizing, automating, and
simplifying the way business development and proposal managers
create and manage proposal materials across the enterprise. The
announcement was made at the
Association of
Proposal Management Professional's 18th Annual Conference held
in Savannah, Georgia, May 30 through June 2.
With Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals™ (EMS for
Proposals) 2.0, Octant significantly enhances the effectiveness
and efficiency of business development and proposal teams by
incorporating key knowledge management concepts to the product.
EMS for Proposals™ 2.0 provides greater control and visibility
through all aspects of the sales and business development
process. 2.0 features and enhancements eliminate wasted time and
effort spent searching for critical information, whether within
a single business unit or document or across teams and
information distributed across the world.
Enhancing the Productivity of the Enterprise: More than
Document Management
EMS for Proposals™ manages related information, improves team
collaboration, standardizes and simplifies the proposal process
and ultimately leads to an improved end product that wins.
Octant offers EMS for Proposals™ as a suite of proposal tools
tailored to address the cross-departmental and geographically
dispersed needs of sales and proposal management professionals.
The new version is available for immediate delivery and is
available in several versions, including the popular
Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals, SharePoint® Edition.
"With our new offering, EMS for Proposals™ 2.0 greatly extends
our powerful platform across internal teams, back-office systems
and external teaming partners," said Lynda L. Benjamin, Vice
President of Product Development at Octant. "The rollout of the
new version requires little training, increases user acceptance
rates, while quickly increasing productivity across the
enterprise."
More than Collaboration and Content Management:
Enhancing Proposal Writers to Executive Management Capabilities
Octant's SmartTools™ reduce the risks associated with inaccurate
information. Octant provides the proposal teams with the unique
tools that support quick and deep searching of existing content
and the ability to cross-reference against new materials. EMS
for Proposals™ provides the right tools at the right time to the
right people throughout the organization.
End-to-End Proposal Management: From Theory to Practice
"With today's information overload and multiple ways to retain
proposal content, it is an overwhelming task to control the
disparate business development and proposal management content,"
said Scot Johnson, CEO of Octant. "This release was designed
from ground up to meticulously meet the specific needs of
proposal managers and their teams. We have created an extremely
powerful yet user-friendly approach to improve our customers'
proposal management process, using knowledge management
practices; this ensures the best practices are leveraged to
create the most compelling, effective proposals possible."
About Octant
Octant was born out of the need to help organizations
respond quickly and intelligently to customer requests. As such,
Octant has created a suite of tools to connect the right people
with the right information at the right time, to help
organizations of any size become more agile, more responsive and
more effective.
We solve business problems by delivering a set of
collaborative capabilities in the context of how people already
work today. As a result, we empower individuals to drive new
modes of collaboration and more efficient processes, enabling
better information sharing, increased productivity, and strong,
long-lasting relationships between employees, vendors, partners
and prospects. For more information about Octant and our
proposal software solutions, please visit us at
http://www.octantsoftware.com to
contact us or
to request additional product information.
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Contact:
Kelli Lehr
Octant
703.652.8966
www.octantsoftware.com
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