Sterling, VA - November 27, 2006. Today Octant announced its
Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals™, SharePoint™ Edition.
Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals™ is a web based proposal management and sales proposal software system, enables internal and remote team members to create, manage, and generate powerful proposals by leveraging the existing investments of Microsoft SharePoint in the corporate and mid-market enterprise.
Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals™ SharePoint® Edition Solves American
Institutes for Research Proposal Management Needs
Octant’s Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals™ helps customers reduce costs and increase the efficiency of the complete business development and sales proposal process. American Institute for Research (AIR) is one of the largest behavioral and social science research organizations in the world. AIR’s mission is to ensure improvements occur in education, health and the workplace, while supporting and encouraging practitioners and organizations to adopt appropriate research-based practices. The AIR mission is based on the foundation of ensuring that public understanding and policymakers are informed by sound research. With that mission, comes the need to manage an incredible amount of proposal based information.
Terri Horn, Director of the Proposal Resource Center at the AIR states, “The
Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals™, SharePoint™ Edition provided us a flexible platform to build our dedicated and centralized Proposal Resource Center that supports the proposal management needs of our entire company. The system allows us to use our specific proposal management best practices. We especially appreciate the web-based nature of the system that allows staff in our offices across the country to easily collaborate on proposal preparation.”
Proposal Managers and Business Development teams are the ultimate business benefactors of this strategic relationship. This solution delivers the deep support of Microsoft SharePoint technologies within corporate IT groups, while Octant’s
Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals™ SharePoint™ Edition manages the processes, resources, and intellectual property associated with proposal management and business development.
Terri Horn further affirms, “We love the integrated dashboard report system that permits anyone in the firm to see what solicitations are under consideration, as well as what proposals are under preparation and their disposition. This helps one program team to know what others are doing and promotes collaboration across the firm.”
Octant’s choice to extend its system into the
Microsoft SharePoint®
Server family helps customers rapidly implement a new
generation of proposal management and proposal generator
applications, which have the capability to dramatically
improve proposal win rates while lowering costs. “This
solution has great application for professional services
firms and member based organizations. Octant’s
Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals™ SharePoint™ Edition tackles one of the
biggest challenges these entities face. That is the
ability to harness intellectual property of winning
proposals across teams for repeatable success,” said
Christine Zmuda, Solution and Services Partner Manager
at Microsoft.
Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals™ and Microsoft® SharePoint™
- More than Document
Management
“One of the largest misconceptions in the proposal
management and business development industries is that
traditional document management software packages can
solve proposal management collaboration and version
control needs. Document management is only about 5% of
the solution and without our additional software, these
document storage locations will also fail to be a truly
effective system,” said Scot Johnson, interim CEO of
Octant. “We expect that our customers will be able to
leverage their current investments and standardizations
to see immediate operational efficiency, platform
dependability and accepted reliability.”
“Designing our
Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals™ SharePoint™ Edition to
take advantage of Microsoft SharePointtt was an obvious
strategic advantage to both Octant and Microsoft.” said
Lynda Benjamin, Octant's Vice President of Product
Marketing and Management, “The powerful combination of Octant’s
Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals™ and the Microsoft SharePoint®
platform provides an easy to use, practical tool,
designed specifically for proposal management needs.”
Octant's
Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals™ is ideally
suited for businesses of all sizes. It supports one of
the most common goals and objectives businesses and
enterprises are placing into practice today: the
standardization on an integrated portal management and
document management platform. To keep up to date with
the latest Octant’s
Enterprise Management Suite for Proposals™ SharePoint™ Edition, please visit:
http://www.octantsoftware.com
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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