Enterprise-wide address and company data management
Maintain addresses. Assign read and edit rights. Use contacts and company data enterprise-wide.
Contacts is the efficient way of entering and managing the addresses of your customers, suppliers and business partners. Contacts enables you to cut search times and costs while increasing your productivity.
Overview address management software
Common business situations Efficiency for every department Easy address management Modern technology for teamwork Targeted customer information and addressing International deployment Transparent customer and project structures Summary
Further material
Address management, contacts and company data for IBM Lotus Notes Domino Presentation of the enterprise-wide address management based on IBM Lotus Notes Domino
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Common business situations
Many different personal address lists, stored locally and difficult to synchronize
Many duplicates due to distributed data sets
Incorrect and incomplete addresses
Inconsistent address lists
Unregulated access to information
Time lost comparing addresses for mass mailings or print labels
Imprecise target group selection creates a scatter effect and generates costs
Distribution lists not maintained
Time-consuming address maintenance
Efficiency for every department
Contacts gives you a flexible user interface along with features for managing and using addresses efficiently. You enter the addresses and make them available for letters and e-mails.
Easily customize to your personal requirements using freely definable information fields
Integrate Contacts as the address module for your e-mail system. Contacts gives you standardized address and contact information in every department of the organization. No more island solutions in the field or in the office.
Economical price and logical functionality means address management for IBM Lotus Notes Domino can be installed standard for all users.
Easy address management for IBM Lotus Notes Domino
- City and area codes automatically proposed and checked for plausibility using the zip code.
Address your customers in the right way. When you enter and manage data, Contacts helps you with selection lists, input assistance and zip and phone details for user-friendly, error-free, fast processing. E-mail addresses are computed automatically. International address formats guarantee you correct country formats for addresses.
Use the quick entry wizard to enter new addresses from the clipboard. The system automatically recognizes the correct fields for the address data - this is as simple as it can be.
Contacts provides a variety of standard fields with which to manage your address information. You also get additional fields for managing data according to customer classification. Plus it is no effort to define additional fields and default values.
You may want to flag certain contacts, such as VIPs, so that your staff will know exactly who to write to.
Use your own settings such as customer classifications and other personal details in the address to compute mailing lists automatically. Your mailing lists are always up to date.
Role-based navigation guides you through the intuitive interface, making work easy even in complicated installations. Data is stored correctly and information can be found quickly. New staff is up and running quickly and efficiently. Extensive search features simplify your work in practice.
Modern technology for teamwork
Contacts integrates all the latest communication tools. Sending e-mails is easy with IBM Lotus Notes Domino – even to multiple customers and employees at the same time. The e-mail address is automatically copied to the mail.
Allocating service teams enables all team members to access the right information in complete security.
Lotus Sametime features lets you know when the right contact in your company is at their desk so you can immediately engage them in conversation via chat. Saving you time and making you more productive.
- Fast e-mail creation and telephone dialing from the address.
The new CTI Interface add-on module helps you with daily customer contact. Just select the phone number directly from the address. When calls come in you receive all important information about the caller directly on your screen. And any calls that arrive while you’re not there are naturally documented.
Mobile workers can exchange data with the central server at any time. Contacts also allows you to link and synchronize any contact information safely with Palm, Handheld and Pocket PCs using the Mobile CRM module.
With the new GEDYS IntraWare 7 Web Client, you can access all your contact and other information any time and anywhere via the Internet. This means that everyone can work completely flexibly and with the latest data from wherever they are – be it at the office, on the road or at home.
Targeted customer information and addressing
- Individual dashboards and rule-based searches provide graphical reports and important information at a glance.
With Contacts you can document companies, from 7.21 with location units and departments, the right contact person, their preferred method of communication, the correct form of address and salutation, and the correct address format for their country settings. A few clicks is all it takes to give you the latest figures about existing customers and structures, enabling you to identify new potential and develop cross-selling strategies.
The Pump module allows you to import data from other systems. One click is all it takes to get the latest figures about existing customers and structures. Use the extensive search options to select the right target group. Adding keywords makes it easy to assign addresses to the right mailing lists and allocate your customers to precisely the right categories.
A free PDF generator is integrated for the perfect printing of mailing addresses. Define customized print templates and use them to print any documents, overviews and master data lists from Contacts.
Exporting selected addresses and master data to MS Excel is simple.
International deployment
Contacts is a multilingual application, so all employees can use the same application wherever they are based. They simply select the language for their working environment in the settings. Which means it is easy and quick to create reports even across different countries.
You can store any number of international address formats. Simply select the country in an address and the correct postal format is displayed immediately.
The new Language Configuration technology allows companies to translate some or even all of an application into any language themselves – without the need for additional programming. International companies find that this increases the acceptability of the software in other national organisations.
Transparent customer and project structures
- Assign projects easily to addresses.
Of course you can use Contacts to map relations between contacts, such as between different contacts in one company. You can even represent group structures hierarchically by means of links. This gives you a rapid overview of the relationships between your customers, business partners and suppliers – more background information for your work.
Contacts has an integrated project management feature with a range of project types including project phases. You can easily create new projects from a template and assign such project specific information as distribution lists, external and internal participants as well as correspondence and forms. The integration of a Workflow and stand-in rules makes your project work efficient and comfortable. Use the project management to assign projects and project-specific information clearly to companies and individuals.
Summary of your advantages with the Contacts module
Intuitive use
Great depth of functionality
Authorization concept for data security
Mobile integration for travelling
Cross-departmental deployment
Enterprise-wide addresses and master data for customers, suppliers and business partners
Standardized central address management throughout the organization
Cost reductions, higher productivity
Reduced search and preparation time for addresses
Transparent, role-based access
Error-free address management for high address quality and customer satisfaction
Company hierarchies can easily be mapped
Automatic and manual mailing lists
Full Sametime integration
Comprehensive input support
Freely expandable and configurable fields, subforms and keyword lists
Mail integration: use as central address book
Integrated PDF generator for meaningful address lists
All data files can be replicated
Multilingual thanks to unique LC technology
New dimension in scalability for future growth
Individual organization mapping for faster processes
Intuitive and flexible Web front-end on J2EE basis
Close integration with OpenOffice, MS Word and Excel
Economical price and logical functionality means address management can be installed standard for all users.
Efficient functional expansion
Benefit from the efficient functional expansion by the use of the following modules:
Office - document and correspondence management
Portal - centralized access and easy searching for all Notes applications
Mailing - mass mailing via e-mail, letter and fax
CTI-Interface - interface for connecting the telephone with the computer |