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BusinessBook has very relevant features presented in extremely easy to use and even easier to configure manner to provide incredible ease of use for Small and Medium size businesses. SMEs need solutions that are easy, cost effective, not too complicated, and fast to deploy, BusinessBook is the answer...
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BusinessBook provides an easy to use web based solution to effectively manage your customer relationships and lead generation process. Many businesses spend too much time and money on lead generation without generating the anticipated results. In part, this is due to the poor capture of leads, poor lead tracking and a lack of understanding of your most profitable products, services and customers. BusinessBook eliminates this problem by placing you in complete control of your customer relationships and by focusing end users on customer satisfaction, retention and the progression of leads. With BusinessBook your business will see customer satisfaction sore, lead generation increase with less investment and a greater conversion of leads to opportunities. |
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Benefits
- Centrally Store all Customer Contacts and Communication
- Develop Better Communication Channels
- Improve the Capture of Sales Leads
- Improve Customer Satisfaction and Retention
- Improve Profitability by focusing on the Most Profitable Customers
- Deal with Unprofitable customers in the most cost effective way
- Target Marketing Communications at Specific Customer needs
- Easily access Decision-Driving information
- Measure the value of marketing lead generation programs
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BusinessBook provides your business with a structured mechanism to guide your sales management process from the initial identification of an opportunity through to final closure. With BusinessBook you have the power to standardize your approach to winning new business and to ensure all of your opportunities are being approached in the best and most efficient manner. By adopting a proven, repeatable process; setting strategy, assigning roles, forecasting and reviewing pipelines are far more effective with BusinessBook. |
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Benefits
- Improve Sales Efficiency and Reduce your Total Cost of Sales
- Increase Cross-selling and Up-selling opportunities
- Improve Customer Profiling
- Standardize Best Practices for Winning Competitive Deals
- Link your Sales Process and Customer Buying Process together more effectively
- Improve Sales Management and help your Sales people sell more effectively
- Improve Sales Forecasting and Pipeline Reviews
- Effectively manage leads through the Sales Cycle
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With BusinessBook, long gone are the days of searching for and locating the latest customer Proposals. Our highly intuitive web based solution provides a central repository for all of your proposals and quotations enabling you to search for and locate proposals with ease. What’s more, BusinessBook drives efficiency within your Sales Team, helps you sell more effectively and improve customer satisfaction by providing end users with real time access to previously successful proposals. |
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Benefits
- Standardize the use of Proposals and Quotations throughout your organization
- Centrally Store all Proposals and Quotations in a central repository
- Reduce the administrative costs associated with searching for and finding documents
- Improve customer satisfaction and response times
- Sell more effectively by easily accessing previously successful proposals
- Avoid lost documents and ensure documents are regularly backed up
- Reduce costs by removing your reliance on costly solutions such as SharePoint
- Ensure Document consistency through the central use of template documents
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Achieving an equitable balance between resource supply and project demand is a significant issue in today’s business environment. The greatest problem for many is that they rely on home-grown systems or numerous spreadsheets to achieve this objective. Such systems simply can´t stand the test of time and eventually hamper, rather than help to see a composite accurate resourcing picture. In addition, Our Project management part of the solution designed to provide project managers with an effective toolkit to deliver projects on-time and on-budget, whilst providing executives with a real-time view of project performance and profitability. Our online project management software is accessed via a highly intuitive, easy to use interface which provides users with all the tools they need to plans projects, collaborate with project team members, store documents, track financial performance, analyze project progress and update project status. |
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Many factors influence the final outcome of a project, with upfront planning and estimation two of the most crucial determinants to long term project success. Yet many organizations fail to carry out any form of estimation or place very little importance on the benefits it provides to the business, its individuals, its project managers, its executives and to the satisfaction of its customers. BusinessBook solves this problem by providing a consistent method of estimating your project resourcing levels and expenditure throughout the business. With BusinessBook you can easily understand a projects impact on resource capability and its impact financially on your operating budgets. |
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Benefits
- Achieve greater alignment between business objectives and technical estimates
- Provide Executives with more informed business decision making
- Ensure reliable project delivery dates
- Provide greater control over project costs
- Improve communication between management and the project team
- Increase project profitability and customer satisfaction through improved project delivery
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Resource Capability Planning is one of the key success factors for any business which delivers projects or services. With BusinessBook your business has the power to analyze the impact of delivering projects and services on resource capability in real time, enabling you to better manage customer expectations, improve overall business productivity, exceed customer service level agreements and reduce costs. |
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Benefits
- Assess the impact of Resource Demand on your overall Resource Capacity and Capability
- Remove the administration cost associated with managing complex resource planning spreadsheets
- Enhance the overall Business Productivity through improved Resource Planning
- Reduce the time invested in Resource Scheduling
- Reduce Overtime and the reliance on temporary, contract or freelance staff
- Reduce missed deadlines and penalties for late delivery
- Enhance Customer Loyalty and Customer Satisfaction through timely delivery
- Identify long term training and recruitment requirements
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Project prioritization is beneficial to any organization independent of shape, size of focus, as it enables you to prioritize project related work against each other to define a sensible, optimized order of work. In fact at Atlantic Global we believe it is an essential process for any growing business, as making use of your scarcest resources to maximize benefit whilst removing project failures is without doubt a huge challenge and one which can provide the greatest benefit. That’s why with BusinessBook we have greatly simplified the project selection and prioritization process, enabling you to quickly and easily assess the potential return of your project investments versus the resource and expenditure demands and potential risk. |
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Benefits
- Ensure your Project Portfolio is fine tuned to deliver a greater return on project capital investment
- Accurately select a portfolio of projects that stands to better deliver an enterprise strategy
- Ensure an improved rate of successful project delivery
- Improve resource management, ultimately delivering savings in resource costs per units delivered
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To guarantee the successful delivery of any project, a period of planning is required before the project commences. BusinessBook provides a simple, easy to use toolset to help your business effectively plan the tasks, activities, roles, responsibilities and deliverables required by each project. By helping your business plan projects in a clear and consistent method, BusinessBook helps avoid the disappointment of failed and overdue projects by reducing risk and providing exact timings and decisions points which help ensure projects are delivered on-time and to budget. |
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Benefits
- Provide clear visibility of outline and detailed activities for your Projects
- Minimize Risk to the final outcome and delivery of your Projects
- Provide Clear Goals and Objectives to Resources
- Easily identify who is Accountable for each aspect of the Project
- Deliver Projects On Time and within Budget
- Avoid project Failure and Disappointment
- Measure the Earned Value of your Projects and Services
- Publicize Major Deliverables from the Project to all Stakeholders
- Provide exact timings for key decisions and points of review
- Avoid Project Overruns and un-expected costs
- Measure Project Progress, Performance and Status in Real Time
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Resource scheduling provides an essential component for establishing the feasibility of your project plans and for setting realistic customer expectations. By scheduling resources in BusinessBook before projects commence, your project managers will be able to assess the flexibility they have over the use of specific resources, align tasks and work packages with resource availability, and where resources are unavailable and delays are not an option, project managers can consider alternative approaches, trade off’s or the re-prioritization of work. For businesses with less structured or more volatile resourcing requirements, BusinessBook provides the ability to optimize resource utilization levels and increase revenue by providing the ability to quickly assign best fit available resources based on skills, experience and location, to efficiently fulfill resource requests and to manage out resource conflicts. |
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Benefits
- Improve Resource Utilization
- Reduce Time on the Bench
- Reduce the Administration Costs associated with the inefficient scheduling of resource
- Increase Revenue through optimizing the use of your best fit resources
- Improve Customer Satisfaction through Better Achievement of Customer SLA's
- Identify Skill Shortages and Training Requirements
- Improve Project Delivery by tying Deliverables to Resource Availability
- Increased transparency of resource levels and individual/team workload
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Effectively managing project deliverables is important for any organization, independent of size or focus, in fact, this is especially important for small or growing businesses with less mature project management processes where there is no formal process of defining business cases or the benefits associated with each project. Deliverables are different to project milestones in that they represent the quantifiable goods or services produced as the result of a project. Whether tangible or intangible, BusinessBook provides Executives with real time visibility into the status of each deliverable and a clear overview of how the business will profit or benefit from each project. |
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Benefits
- Provide Executives with clear visibility into the key deliverables of your projects
- Provide clear evidence of Project Progress and Benefit
- Reduce the administration involved in producing Business Cases through a standardized method of defining deliverables
- Streamline the Business Case sign off process and reduce queries by providing clear deliverables for each project
- Drill into past project successes or failures based on the deliverables achieved
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For many businesses the prospect of generating a project budget is daunting, especially if little project management experience exists. However, the project budget is an essential tool for measuring the performance and progress of any project. That’s why with BusinessBook, we have greatly simplified the process of generating project budgets, in fact, it is as easy as automatically generating a budget based on your estimated resources and planned expenditure or by creating a budget directly from your project plan. For more advanced budgeting requirements, BusinessBook provides both top down and bottom up budgeting, whereby budgets can be created by building up a profile of your resource costs, travel, supplies, equipment and other indirect costs or by simply entering your budgeted figures directly into the system. However, you choose to manage your budgets, BusinessBook end to end solution will ensure you can monitor budget, versus actual versus planned to ensure you have an accurate picture of your current budget and future financial projection in real time. |
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Benefits
- Reduce the administration costs and errors of managing and consolidating multiple budget spreadsheets
- Provide a standardized format for producing and tracking project budgets throughout the business
- Identify potential budget slippages and overruns before they occur
- Gain real-time visibility into the financial performance of each project
- Ensure an accurate picture of past, present and future budget performance
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BusinessBook provides an effective toolkit to ensure the successful management of the products or services you deliver. With BusinessBook your project managers have the tools required to lead their team and implement an effective strategy to bring your projects to fruition. Your clients will benefit in the knowledge that their input has a direct effect on the project delivery process and your workers will benefit from having a clear understanding of their stake in the project and their role in its delivery. The beauty of managing projects in BusinessBook is its flexibility; if you discover a smarter direction, with BusinessBook you have the flexibility to take it. |
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Benefits
- Enhanced effectiveness and efficiency in delivering products and services
- Improve, increase and enhance customer relationships through on-time delivery and implementing customer input
- Increase your flexibility to deal with changes in project scope or to take a smarter direction
- Greater market standing and competitive edge through excellent project performance
- Improved Quality of products and services through better efficiency and effectiveness
- Improved quantity through the greater efficiency and the coordinated use of resources
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Throughout humanity, people have historically recognized that working together can accomplish more. However, many businesses ignore this fact and continually allow individuals to pursue their own objectives which are loosely tied to project or organizational objectives. BusinessBook eliminates this, by providing your business with an ideal platform to encourage your project team members to work in synergy and share knowledge throughout the project management process. With each team member making an individual contribution towards a common goal your business will quickly benefit from greater innovation, better problem solving, greater efficiency in project delivery and a reduction in the cost and impact of absent resources. |
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Benefits
- Accomplish more by working together
- Combine the skills, perspectives and experiences of individuals in a single repository
- Provide multiple perspectives for innovation and problem solving
- Transfer knowledge between team members more effectively
- Limit the impact of absent resources on project delivery through shared knowledge
- Reduce costs and increase flexibility through improved team synergy
- Create more feasible solutions to problems through better team collaboration
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Take risk management to the next level. With BusinessBook your business has the ability to manage risk in a pro-active manner. Long gone are the days of consolidating spreadsheets or numerous emails to gain an accurate overall picture of project risks. By managing risks in BusinessBook your business has real time visibility into the status of risks at every stage in the project management process , what’s more a series of mitigating actions can be implemented to manage out risk and limit its impact on the quality and final delivery of your projects. With BusinessBook you have the ability to deliver project on time and to budget, every time. |
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Benefits
- Minimize Risk to the final result and delivery of your Projects
- Deal with uncertain project events in a pro-active manner
- Minimize the Impact of Project Threats
- Ensure Projects are Delivered On Time and To Budget
- Deliver Projects with the Quality demanded by Sponsors
- Prepare and Defend against Risk in a Planned, Measured, Manner
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Accurately tracking project progress is not only a huge challenge for many businesses, it is essential for ensuring the successful delivery of any project. BusinessBook provides your business with a standard and repeatable method of capturing project progress and reporting status. From your end users updating the percent complete of their tasks, through to project managers carrying out a full project review and submitting a fully auditable project status report, BusinessBook provides a simple toolkit to ensure all project stakeholders have a clear, consistent, real time view of project progress and status. |
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Benefits
- Provide a consistent method of tracking project progress throughout the business
- Reduce the administration costs associated with consolidating spreadsheet based status reports
- Deliver more projects on-time and to budget through accurate progress reporting
- Reduce project overruns and slippage by identifying issues earlier
- Ensure executives have real time visibility into the overall status of projects
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Keeping track of your employee timesheets and expenses and updating project progress has never been easier with BusinessBook. Quick and easy to use, BusinessBook provides your business with an effective solution to fully automate the capture, submission and approval of time and expenses, to update project progress in a consistent manner, to improve project cost control and to measure, monitor and analyze the productivity and utilization of resources. By capturing your time and expenses in BusinessBook your business is able to improve cash flow and revenue recognition by fully automating your project time billing process. |
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Benefits
- Improve Timesheet Compliance
- Fully automate Timesheet Capture, Submission and Approval
- Easily Capture and Control Project Costs
- Improve Resource Productivity
- Analyze Chargeable Utilization
- Reclaim Tax on R&D Expenditure
- Capitalize Project Time
- Measure Chargeable vs. Non Chargeable Time
- Monitor Staff Absences
- Automate the Expense Submission process
- Reclaim VAT on Mileage Expenses (UK Only)
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BusinessBook helpdesk features enable your business to response to your customer issues and queries in a more timely, productive and effective manner, increasing customer satisfaction and forging your relationship as a valued supplier. What’s more, your employees will work in a far more structured manner, saving time and ensuring each customer receives the level of care your SLA’s demand. Quite simply, by improving your Helpdesk Management with BusinessBook, your business will benefit from an increased volume of happy customers, which directly affect your bottom line in the form of increased profits for your business. |
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Benefits
- Improve Customer Service
- Speed up response times through a structured approach and by sharing knowledge between resources
- Improve your effectiveness by providing a consistent structured method of responding to customer issues
- Reduce the cost of supporting your customers through greater efficiency
- Provide managers with visibility into the effectiveness of helpdesk staff
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BusinessBook provides a cost effective easy to use toolset to fully automate the billing all of your products and services. With BusinessBook you can easily improve cash flow, maximize revenue and reduce billing errors. BusinessBook billing functionality is ideal for all organizations and enables you to automate the most basic billing types such as time and materials, as well as easily implement more complex billing requirements such as fixed price, milestone, capped and repeat billing. |
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Benefits
- Improve Cash-flow by automating the end to end Billing process
- Centrally Store all Contracts and Purchase Orders
- Analyze Project Profitability, Work in Progress and Revenue Recognition
- Significantly reduce billing errors
- Reduce Billing administration and reimbursement times
- Analyze at Risk Revenue through late project delivery
- Gain real time visibility of Contract Status
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BusinessBook Supplier Management features will enable your business to track key supplier and product information. In addition to helping you manage the placing and receipt of supplier orders, BusinessBook will also provide an easy means of storing the documentation that relate to those orders. Your organisation can quickly adopt a more efficient and structure approach when dealing with your suppliers, saving time and increasing the confidence with which you deliver projects to your customers. Your business will benefit from a more transparent supplier management process which directly affects your bottom line in the form of increased profits for your business. |
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- Improve Supplier Management Service
- Structured approach to Ordering Goods from your Suppliers
- Improve the confidence with which you deliver projects to your customers
- Improved transparency will help focus managers on which processes need improving.
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BusinessBook has a very easy to use and powerful Report Writing Engine that is fully integrated into the solution. Predefined data views let you quickly find the data that you are looking for with the need to understand the underlying solution architecture. Quickly generate column, crosstab or graphical based reports that can be output to directly to html, xml, Microsoft Excel or PDF file formats.
A unique feature is a powerful and convenient facility to embed context-sensitive reports into any screen within the application providing a highly flexible means of promoting management information without the user having to search for it. BusinessBook comes with a pre-defined library of reports that have been developed with our customers and packaged for everyone's benefit. You can choose to add your own reports or you can edit or copy the pre-defined reports to meet your business requirements. |
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- Quickly define the Management Reports that you need to drive your business.
- Embed powerful context sensitive reports to market the information contained within your business.
- Restrict access to reports based on user login credentials.
- Quickly transfer the information into other file formats and applications.
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