ProcessMaker Launches its Enterprise version

Colosa (www.processmaker.com) has launched a new fully supported commercial version of its workflow and business process management (BPM) software, ProcessMaker Enterprise Edition. Available immediately through Colosa and its global partners, the software is the company’s response to demands from the ProcessMaker community for a supported and enterprise scale version of the software.

ProcessMaker Enterprise Edition is a highly scalable, well supported, and user-friendly web based application that helps business and technology users manage business processes more efficiently and effectively. Business analysts can design processes using an intuitive interface that doesn’t require programming. An intuitive inbox allows employees to start new form driven processes or complete tasks passed to them by other users. Thanks to ProcessMaker, IT departments can now code less and better service the workflow needs of growing organizations.

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What is your Opinion on Selecting Open Source Software

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Recently Open Source Software covered some of the Positive News on

  • Investment in Open Source Software Set to Rise
  • Zenoss Releases 2010 Open Source Systems Management Survey Report
  • Forrester: Fast growth for open source software in enterprises
  • European Commission Invests EU: €3.34 Million On Open Source Projects

Would Like to know from you one best reason behind selecting Open Source Software – open source software

Getting More Powerful – Open source software – Zenoss Survey

Zenoss Releases 2010 Open source software Management Survey Report

Reveals flexibility, not cost, drives open source systems management adoption

Zenoss Inc., the corporate sponsor of Zenoss Core, recently announced the release of the 2010 Open Source Systems Management Survey.

Additional key findings in the 2010 Open Source Systems Management Survey include:

  • 98% of the survey respondents indicated usage of open source in their enterprises.

  • 71% of 2009 respondents indicated that open source software was easier to deploy up from 48% in 2008, 38% in 2007 and 26% in 2006.

  • When asked their degree of satisfaction with open source software on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 indicating most satisfied) users indicated an average level of satisfaction between 7 and 8.

  • 76% of system administrators in large enterprises indicate they prefer to use open source whenever possible.

  • BOSTON, MA–(Marketwire – August 11, 2010) –  LinuxCon — Zenoss Inc., the corporate sponsor of Zenoss Core, today announced the release of the 2010 Open Source Systems Management Survey.
  • Based on more than 950 completed surveys gathered at the USENIX Large Installation System Administration conference each year from 2006 and 2009 and within the Zenoss open source systems management community from 2007 through 2009, the survey’s purpose was to determine usage patterns for systems management software and particularly the usage of open source software to solve IT management needs of large organizations.“What’s telling about this survey is that flexibility, followed by lower costs, is the main driver for open source systems management adoption today,” said Mark Hinkle, VP Community at Zenoss. “Users indicated that the collaborative, transparent and free traits of open source management tools enable agility and provide numerous other advantages which result in a high degree of satisfaction with the tools as evidenced in the survey responses.”

Business Process Management tool in Today’s Business Environment

BPM Software is one of the most powerful business tool for managers for controlling and monitoring important and critical processes with a view to improve the same, it is considered as a heart of any organization as it provides primarily Business process automation which helps organization to run their business with greater efficiently, control and flexibility using perfect workflow management software.

In the business world where every department is too busy in completion of their own work/task lot of time, productivity, and other important resource is been wasted in completing the requests/incidence of different department. Hence one of the great innovation is the concept of Business Process Management (BPM ), which allows department to communicate with each other through technology, this important concept of Business Process Automation (BPA), or workflow management, allows  people, managers, for monitoring the performance of various business processes with identifying that necessitate resource reorganization and identifying benchmarks for further future improvements.

Here we come up with some of the Key benefits of a Business Process Management tool.

It track the tasks from different department, monitor performances, and it improves and maximize the performance of different departments

Business process management (workflow software) reduce the process lifecycle from initiation till completion.

BPM increase the Customer relationships by providing better and faster decisions to the queries.

BPM software ensure a faster ROI by increasing the performance of departments

Business process management has been very successful in providing add on advantage to various service providers across the globe with greater efficiency, control and versatility using efficient work.

For a demo on what are the features of BPM tool kindly check here

Celebrating Freedom with Open source software

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The use of Open source software is growing in the enterprises apart from India across the world for many best reasons such as businesses are reducing the cost and yes of course with the use of Open source software you have Independence on vendor selection for getting future. Remembered my previous posting of the Open source databases used by facebook and yes the recent one the advantage of using open source software for Justdial.

There are many open source tools available in the OSS toolkit that can be use for different enterprise and business requirement. Open source software give you independence of customizing and moulding the product in the manner you need apart from that you can create a complete enterprise solutions. Or mixed and match commercial software to meet your requirements. Open source software is already becoming the most efficient and powerful solutions for mission critical requirements of the business.Open-source software (OSS) is computer software with its source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change, and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose. Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative public manner. According to scientists who studied it, open-source software is a prominent example of open collaboration.

The open-source software development, or collaborative development from multiple independent sources, generates an increasingly more diverse scope of design perspective than any one company is capable of developing and sustaining long term. A 2008 report by the Standish Group states that adoption of open-source software models has resulted in savings of about $60 billion per year to consumers

The use of Open-source software is increasing as it reduces the development effort and costs which saves money of the organization and yes the ROI is much faster as compare to the proprietary software. Ease of Acquirement, Proper management, dynamic in nature, Cost effective, ease of enhancement, Independency of vendors and customization are some of the point where managers are adopting to open source software today.

Celebrating the 63rd year of India’s Independence

We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made!” –Albert Einstein

Advantages of using CRM for Education Industry

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CRM for Education Industry
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Education Industry including Schools/ University/ Colleges/ Management Institutes etc.  are becoming one of the basic needs of human being because of the fact for a human being to get higher education and lot of other factors.

In my previous posting, I covered with the features of the Educational crm implemented by Bista solutions for one of the leading institute so let’s have a look on the ROI (Return on Investment) or simply the advantages for education institutes such as schools/ University for implementing this educational Customer relationship management software.

There are many other advantage apart from the advantages considered below for student, institute and for vendors etc.

  • Increase in the revenue

With this educational CRM institutes such as schools/ University increase their revenue because the lead is properly converted into an account with the help of dormancy module.

  • Reduction in the cost of expenses

This Educational CRM allows your institute to have a proper allocation of your money in different areas such as advertisement for different course, road show, other external vendors for raw leads etc. as this CRM provides you with the graphical view of how much return every medium is providing you in terms of the expenses incurred.

  • Proper Lead tracking with no errors

This education CRM allows you proper lead tracking and reduction in the errors or duplication of entries into your institute which ultimately reduce the time of the executive for following up with the similar lead which is admitted from different source and also it provides you further merging if there is any duplicate entry is made.

  • Less sales cycle

This education CRM allows you to have a less length of your sales cycle as due to dormancy module every lead is properly nurtured with the lead history on where the most time is been given for converting the lead into an account.

  • Increase in margins with reduction in Cost of Acquisition per student

As my first point covered that it increase the revenue not only because the lead is properly converted into an account but because of the lead is properly nurtured which reduce the chances of loss of the lead which can increase the margins of the university schools, and other institutes.

  • Increase in customer satisfaction:

This education customer relationship management software allows the customer with higher satisfaction as every stage of the lead is been integrated with predefine SMS and email with different course so when an inquiry is made by the student immediately after completion personalized emails/ sms is sent to the mobile number and email provided by the caller, which build more confident in the mind of the student.

Forrester: Fast growth for open source software in enterprises

Some 46 percent of businesses have implemented open source software, or plan to pilot it this year, according to a Forrester Research survey of 2,200 IT executives in the UK, France, Germany, the US and Canada.

France and Germany lead the open source adoption, with 58 percent and 49 percent respectively, having implemented or planning to implement the software, Forrester stated in the ‘Open source software goes mainstream’ report. The UK is slightly behind this average, at 40 percent.

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CRM for Education Industry

Education CRM by Bista Solutions provides your education institute many facilities in terms of sales force management, sales management, lead tracking, This Educational crm application improves the customer responsiveness with much proper view of the customer life cycle of your education institute or University.

It is design to reduce the cost of acquisition on every student in your university/school/institue, as leads or enquiry may lost or missed if proper follow up is not done, Keeping in mind one of the critical point for acquiring the student with proper follow up,  Bista solutions offers you with Customized CRM software where the scope of missing your customer  is very less as automatic reminders are sent to both Management as well as students, from the enquiry stage till the fees payment inventory distributed to students etc.

This customer relationship management software is been implemented in one of the leading Institute of India which offers various educational courses such as management studies, medical hotel management to name few. This software allows you with automatic updates to the students with the help of sms, emails etc. and to the Executive in terms of Dashboards, Pending activities, Pop- up windows.

Other basic facilities are it has a calendar module, quickly adding the leads, courses, no duplication of entries if the inquiry is made from various sources such as campaign, road shows, etc.

Lead Management: One of the most important module is the Dormancy Module which offers facility to set time or days limit for the follow up say for e.g. when an enquiry is made a lead is generated on an initial level so to see that whether the student who made that enquiry have downloaded the enquiry form or not it sent automatic sms and email to the student stating to download/purchase the enquiry form as well it pop up in the software for the follow-up on to the same.

Reporting: Admin can check reports in different groups such as Hot leads of the month/week/day etc. or Enquiries of the day both in graphical as well as in tabular format and of course you can check the history of the lead such as the time spent on each lead by the executive from the enquiry stage till the fees payment stage. Reporting also includes custom reports which can be done as per the requirement of the client.

Campaign management: This module in the Education CRM of Bista solution offers you to maintaining the campaign with all the budgets you have with the expected response and revenue. It also provides you with mass mailing activity and do not disturb email/Short Messaging Service facility.

Lead Tracking and Sales Generation : This module offers you with tracking of leads in terms of which activity say for eg Advertisement, Road shows, SMS campaign etc providing you how much of lead & how many are interested in the admission etc.

Student Information Systems: This education CRM allows you to have a comprehensive view of each student in terms of document submitted at the time of examination, other entrance exams results, and other documents can be stored with the information of each student.

Integration: This software offers you to get integrated with your ERP software or Accounting software so that the chance of duplicating the entry in two systems is zeroed. Also if you have EPBAX system available then this Education CRM system offers you the integration* with the same where you get a pop-up when an incoming call comes and on a smarter way your executive picks and make calls.

The above were some of the modules there are lot of other features in this Education CRM and further you don’t have to pay for other licensing cost in terms of users  and apart from that this can be further customized as per your requirement. Schools and universities can improve efficiency in a cost effective manner and get more from their existing resources with this Customer Relationship Management (CRM) for education industry. Also as we provide you with the source code for further future modifications.

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Odoo – New Partners

 

Odoo (previously known as OpenERP) India is now partnered with Bista Solutions, provider of Open source management tools such as Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management, Business Process Management with other customization and integration. Odoo partnership is selected by Bista solutions as Odoo is one of the best Modular Open Source ERP tool available in the market today and this partnership will build more benefit for the clients during the implementation and maintenance.

The CEO of Bista Solutions  said that “It gives me great pleasure to announce that we are now official partners of Odoo. This shows our commitment to building a successful business around our Odoo implementation”.

Bista solutions have many years of experience in Implementing Odoo for clients across the globe with exclusive customization in the software. Bista solutions development centre is located in India with branches in USA and Canada which gives capability to serve the globe easily.

Odoo partnership page is here