...the industrial-strength, 100% web-based business solution for sales, revenue, and product forecasting including sales opportunity tracking and contact management.
ezforecast - has been designed to solve the challenges of forecasting product demand, revenue stream (cash flow from sales), and sales projections of medium to large-scale, multi-divisional and/or geographically dispersed companies with a direct-to-customer sales force and/or multiple distribution channels (i.e. OEM, VARS). ezforecast - solves the problem of collecting data to be used in forecasts by providing an intuitive user interface that allow sales reps and value added resellers (VARS) to track their sales opportunities. The data collected consists of product identification, projected ship dates, the close date of the entire deal, the confidence in the deal close date and value, and the opportunity progression through the company defined sales cycle. ezforecast - solves the problem of raw opportunity values being forecasted without sales-management oversight and weighting. Managers have the ability to apply an override confidence value and close date. Until an opportunity has been viewed by a sales manager, the opportunity does not appear in upper management forecasts.
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ezforecast - solves the problem of evaluating opportunity progression by providing a delta report (a.k.a. a variance report). The Delta report allows a sales manager to pick two dates in time and generate a report that displays opportunity progression over the time period. The Delta report captures changes in status (step of the sales cycle), confidence, close date, and total forecasted value. (Sales reps who continually "slip" opportunity close dates into the future, become visible!) ezforecast - solves the problem of cross-departmental account penetration information sharing. ezforecast - solves the problem of "sales team" forecasting. ezforecast - solves the problem of poor HTML report printing by providing printer friendly PDF reports with graphs. ezforecast - is a 100% web-based enterprise solution that will work on any web-server software that supports JavaServlets (provide list here). ezforecast - is easily adaptable to work with existing JDBC compliant databases such as Oracle and Sybase. Features include: Sales Forecasting with manager impact weighting Revenue Forecasting with manager impact weighting Product Forecasting with manager impact weighting Opportunity Tracking Account Opportunity Summaries Price Quotations Inter-Divisional Account Data Sharing Contact Management
ezforecast: The first 100% web-based architecture. Unlike most competitive products, ezforecast has not been constrained by previous client-side component architectures. As such, from its inception, it has been a web-server application utilizing JAVA, Java Servlet, and JDBC technology as defined by Sun Microsystems. All access to ezforecast is through a common web browser interface such as that found in Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator/Communicator. This allows ezforecast to be rapidly installed and made immediately available to a global community of users via the internet or intranet.
Software-Services Ratio. The Software versus Services Ratio to implement ezforecast is on the order of 1:1 (cost of services approximately equal to the cost of the software). Whereas, with the industry average, the cost of services is four times the cost of the software for implementation of competing products.
August Schell: A Total Solution Company. Some of our competitors provide necessary utilities as "additional charge" options.   Imagine buying a forecasting system and then being told that in order to maintain your product price list (a core component of your system) you will need to purchase a separate tool! At August Schell we NEVER put our customer in the position of having to go back to management for additional budget just because they were not experienced enough to ask for the necessary utilities up front. August Schell provides the entire suite of utilities required to build and maintain your ezforecast implementation in one comprehensive package. There are no separately priced utilities required to fully maintain your system. In other words, August Schell provides a complete and comprehensive system in a single product offering.
ezforecast: A Global Solution. ezforecast is a web-based solution that enables companies to work in the global community by providing internet or intranet access to the company data. Upgrades to the software are as simple as loading a new version on the web-server. As a web-based solution, the upgrade is immediately available to the global community.
The Success is in the Setup. The most common complaint we hear about the competitive products, from their installed customer-base, is how the cost to implement is exhorbitant, often an exponential increase over the cost of the software. The primary reason for this is the cost of setting up a complex underlying data foundation. To combat this, and therefore drastically reduce the cost of implementation, ezforecast was designed to work with a series of simple to understand business data objects. (See the ezforecast Frequently Asked Questions for examples of the ezforecast business objects.) By defining these objects in their simplest form, a company can bring up a fully functioning installation within a matter of days or weeks versus months or even years.