Deployment & Administration
Deploy anywhere, manage centrally
BuyDesign's modular, Internet-centric deployment architecture lets you get the right tools into the hands of all your sales people, regardless of where they work. You can deploy the system online as a website, distributed to laptop or desktop PCs, or both. In any case, you manage one system and one data repository with the confidence that everyone’s information is always be up-to-date.
BuyDesign is the only packaged solution with this kind of power, flexibility, and ease of management.
- Online deployment allows sales people and/or customers around the world to access the system via a secure web site using a standard web browser and Internet connection.
- Offline deployment enables you to offer downloadable, easy-to-install applications that dealers, distributors, sales people, and others can use on their own computer to perform BuyDesign functions while staying continually current with automatic updates.
- Combined deployment lets you offer your sales partners, sales people, and/or customers the option to work with BuyDesign in the manner that best suits their needs.
The tools to synchronize global sales channels
BuyDesign InTouch gives your system administrator the tools to keep product information and software versions continually synchronized and up-to-date for users of offline BuyDesign components. It also provides the ability to define and deliver messages to both online and distributed users, as well as the infrastructure for management of web services to support Internet-based communications among all members of your multi-level sales channel.
- Content management automatically keeps all BuyDesign users synchronized with your latest information and software, including:
- Product information, pricing, configuration rules, etc. held in the central BuyDesign repository.
- BuyDesign software version.
- User and license management makes it easy to manage both online and offline system users and their access to various BuyDesign applications.
- Message broadcasting makes it easy to deliver various types of messages to both online and distributed BuyDesign users; e.g:
- Highlight new products, product options, pricing changes, promotions, etc.
- Messages can include a hyperlink to a web page for more details.
