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Business Administrator: Features

Running a business is a sophisticated process by any standards. To carry out the full scope of its work, Business Administrator is laden with state-of-the-art features and facilities.

Running a business is a sophisticated process by any standards. To carry out the full scope of its work, Business Administrator is laden with state-of-the-art features and facilities.

Description

  • A sophisticated business management powerhouse designed specifically for SMEs
  • Hi-Tech systems often available only to very large companies
  • Countless business processes managed by nine highly focused managers
  • Natural fit with BAWorld, providing Business Administrator with access to the outside world, data and software upgrades
  • Works straight from the box
  • Two types of licence on offer: Adboard licence (free to use) and Full licence

Critical Missions-key points

  • To cut time and expense of administration and bureaucracy
  • To simplify management processes
  • To gain access to performance management and other facilities available only to large companies
  • Virtually zero IT cost after installation

The experience

  • Highly desirable, colourful graphical interface
  • High visibility, highly focused, simple-to-use command system
  • Live system with live information feedback through dedicated information bar
  • Highly automated system

Highlights…

  • Powerful mass marketing functionality
  • Comprehensive contact management system
  • Your own sophisticated, in-house call centre management system
  • Full trading capabilities
  • Full financial management capabilities
  • Live business reporting
  • Automatic administration management systems
  • Supply management systems
  • Point of sale functionality
  • Cash and account management
  • Automatic credit control management
  • Invoicing features dual currency

Manager focus

  • Business Manager - for powerful business reporting and business management
  • Contact Manager provides a wealth of systems for accurate management of contacts and staying in touch with them
  • Contact Relations Manager (CRM) to review and stay in touch with your communities
  • HR Manager to manage your personnel
  • Finance Manager to provide high level financial reporting and management, and includes a host of financial tools
  • Project Manager to manage the initiatives that drive your business
  • Trade Manager to manage and drive trade through your business
  • Supply Chain Manager (SCM) to simplify the ordering process and seek cost savings

In addition,

  • Business Administrator Network to work with like-minded people using Business. If you go to meetings you efficiency on meeting people on a minute-by-minute basis will be quite low - with the Business Administrator Network they will be all around you at any given time

Facilities by manager

Business Manager

  • Run multiple businesses under one legal entit
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  • Business performance reporting
  • A complete range of sales performance information from a host of views
  • Property management
  • Trigger financial systems start up

Contact Manager

  • Manage contacts by company and person
  • Automatically add new contacts to project and marketing lists
  • Type contacts quickly through Fast Track Data Entry
  • Import marketing lists through Names Import in minutes
  • Fast access to communications directly from Contact Managers information bar
  • Management of geographical regions, even International
  • Manage contact duplication and merging
  • Conversion of contacts to customers suppliers and/or staff
  • Contact search by name
  • Industry consolidation
  • Contact deletion and recovery systems
  • Automatic system cleansing

CRM - Contact Relations Manager

  • Collaboration and CRM
  • Find out who knows who to cross reference relationships
  • Review internal/external relationships
  • Review what was said on recent conversations
  • Follow up on conversations to develop business lines
  • Share conversation information with colleagues to help develop accurate relations
  • Ad-hoc relationship building between disparate parties

Finance Manager

  • Financial performance charting of turnover, cash flow, and a host of other financial issues
  • Edit and manage a range of fiscal policies, including business mileage allowances, tax rates, etc.
  • Dedicated systems for managing, monitoring and making tax payments, and management of tax credits
  • Cash book reconciliation and management of bank charges
  • Management of business bank accounts and assignment of accounts
  • VAT reporting tools for VAT registered businesses
  • Management of currency exchange rates, enabling trade in multiple currencies
  • Debt management facilities
  • Petty cash management
  • Asset management systems (including worth etc)
  • State of Finance reporting

HR Manager>

  • Entry of personnel information
  • Management of system privileges: control who can see what, control whether they have any access to the system
  • Personnel management - salary, dividends, national insurance, tax code, contracted hours, annual leave, agency staff
  • Disciplinary action management
  • Payroll run
  • Quotation builder for companies that send out service quotes

Project Manager

  • Create new projects: projects drive business initiatives
  • Various purpose-built models for project focus
  • Project phases to manage the throughput of projects and business initiatives
  • Stealth Marketing to provide huge focus on marketing projects
  • Dedicated contact list management
  • Marketing output to a variety of media, including phone, mail, email, BAN, fax, VoIP, IM
  • Export data for Word merge
  • Create messages with Business Administrator to create a fully automated system
  • [Timeline management]
  • Easily add contacts to projects through powerful search facilities
  • Contact follow up systems to provide force to project initiatives through powerful phase management
  • Add comments on conversations to keep CRM up to date
  • Easily move contacts around project phases in preparation for new project initiatives
  • Manage project budgets

Supply Chain Manager

  • SCM is an end-to-end supply chain management system
  • Add details of suppliers as well as details of supplier accounts
  • Systems to set up automatic ordering systems
  • Easily create, view and manage orders
  • Inherently creates bulk orders to provide the opportunity to negotiate discounts
  • Monitor posting orders to improve SCM performance and sensitive order management
  • Submit orders through a variety of media
  • Manage deliveries and manage discrepancies
  • Manage supplier invoices and credits, and manage discrepancies
  • Stock list management, including automatic and stealth stock level management
  • Supplier payments automatically added to the financial systems for automatic accounting
  • Manage finance on investments
  • Access to powerful asset management facilities

Trade Manager

  • Management of customer accounts
  • Set up new customers
  • Charge for time, expenses, stock sales and a host of other items in a way that is organised and managed
  • Credit Control systems for managing invoicing, with automatic debt recovery initiation systems
  • Systems for managing invoice disputes in Credit Control
  • Invoices can show figures in multiple currencies
  • Dedicated systems for receipt of customer payments
  • Highly sophisticated systems for managing cash sales
  • Trading Board is designed especially for sales and trading desks
  • Cash register is Business Administrators POI system for cash sales - can be touch sensitive with the right equipment
  • Mail order support systems
  • Dispatch management systems for accurate management of getting stock to customers
  • Management of internal and external expenditure
  • Pricing Board for automatic stock price management
  • Package management to easily manage the packing of stock into value-added commodities, or to split product packs into more profitable units
  • Bookings system, so that your time, products or revenue-generating assets can be booked by customers

The business

  • A powerful system to focus on the activity within your business
  • The business houses diaries, journals, NewsDesk, Things to do, wishlists
  • Watches over they system and your business alerting you of tasks that are urgent
  • Powerful search facilities scans virtually all business information
  • Running commentary in main application on everything that’s happening

Outside the managers

  • Outposts to connect to web databases, but not for the faint-hearted
  • Chameleon server system - a serving computer manages the background systems (known as the Shadow Systems) and can be any computer
  • Sophisticated licence management system - you choose the licences you want and when
  • On-board backup systems for use when nothing else will do
  • SpringBoard helps new users find the commands they are looking for
  • Powerful media library and management system
  • Large on-screen display for relevant pictures and albums
  • Stationery editor for creating stationery for use with Business Administrator

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