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As a sales expert, part of your daily routine is to supply customers and prospective buyers with up-to-date information about your products, reply to enquiries and prepare offers or presentations. Today, mainly the Microsoft Office programmes Word, Excel and PowerPoint are used for these tasks. There are often problems, however, when up-to-date product information are required.
For not only texts, but also pictures, tables and graphics are to put the product into perspective – not rarely they are tailored to a specific group or specific customers. Up to now, sales staff mainly solved this task by looking for the information in the company by themselves. Yet, this procedure is very time-consuming and does not always give the desired result.
Demands on efficient selling processes
- Central access to product information: All product data is to be accessed centrally, consistenly and media-neutrally. For this purpose, pictures and graphics in the right size, charts with an appropriate product choice and up-to-date texts in the designated language should be provided by a media-neutral database. The user should be able to gain access to all data relevant to him without having to search for a long time and comparing different data sets.
- Retrieve texts and images easily and quickly: Accessing the required media files simply and easily calls for a programme which filters the desired information quickly out of the data set and makes them available media-specifically, using a flexible search. Because you can indicate for which medium you need your product information, only results relevant to this selection should be displayed. This reduces errors in selecting the media files and ensures fast access to the designated information.
- Smooth integration of Microsoft Office: As a second step, it should of course be possible to transfer texts and images which have been retrieved to the corresponding office application. If the media elements are provided in the database media-specifically, a complex conversion or adaption of size is no longer necessary. Another current task is the individual compilation of PowerPoint presentations from single slides. Ideally, the required slides should be selected, combined to a master slide and merged to a new presentation.
The solution
crossbase.office makes creating sales documents significantly easier for you and your staff, and provides a uniform and professional quality. The self-explanatory programme offers companywide access to product information such as texts, pictures, charts, presentations and other media files.
Your sales, marketing and documentation staff select – e.g. by entering an article number – the product about which you need information, the desired language and the required quality (print / Office / Internet) and receive all available information at the push of a button. All documents generated with Microsoft Office, e.g. documentations and offers, are created faster and more professionally. Even for documents created individually, a uniform, up-to-date outward appearance is guaranteed.
A preview displays available pictures, tables, texts and product connections. Required elements are simply inserted into your Word document by means of the "paste"-button. Using existing slides, even PowerPoint presentations can be rearranged in the crossbase database and combined with a master slide of your choice.
We have compiled further information about the areas mentioned above in the following texts. By using the "back"-button in your browser you will be able to return to this page anytime.
- Pictorial data and media service
- Image and media database
- The crossbase solution at a glance
- Product overview crossbase.office
- Product overview crossbase.online [office]
- Product overview crossbase.online [print]
- These customers rely on crossbase
Act today and ask for our 36-page crossbase brochure on product data management and cross media publishing, or contact us and make an appointment for a consultation - free of charge and without obligation. Our consultants are looking forward to finding out more about your requirements and objectives.
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