For a corporation to survive it needs customers. An enterprise needs new customers and has to retain existing customers as well. Business management software provides tools to accomplish both. We will be discussing how this software can help your business get new customers and keep the ones you already have.

Business management software can help secure new customers through different functional elements. Stored documents and templates can be leveraged to create reusable proposals. Historical or parametric data in the application can be used to set competitive pricing for the reusable proposals. Resource data can be employed to determine pipeline availability within the proposals.

Data on existing customers can be mined to retain the ones you have. The business management software can flag customers with whom we have not communicated with in a certain amount of months. Knowing this you can reach out and speak to the customer and reestablish contact. The application can, if for example there are product updates, output a list of customers that this can be communicated to. These communications represent opportunities to improve customer loyalty, sell or up sell products and services.

Quality drives the expansion of a repeat customer base. There are many quality approaches and systems. One aspect that all quality systems have in common is the acquisition and use of metrics or key performance indicators (KPI). Metrics are a diagnostic source for quality professionals. It tells them if there are systemic problems, what is working, what can be improved and what processes or procedures are going well or have been optimized. Business management software can be a diagnostic source to assure quality.

Metrics can be used to provide intelligence across multiple business sectors. Management software can output data for business decisions by providing information on true costs, historical timelines, resource availability or over allocation trends and more. The application, over time, will contain a wealth of data that can be used for estimates, proposals, projections and bids.

Business management software can be used to manage key documentation, important customer information and parametric data of prior projects and programs. The software can be linked or integrated to other functionalities or applications increasing it utility to the business. For example, the application can link scheduling software, resource pools, collaboration functionality and the business management components together making it useful to project managers, sales and other executives.

Knowing the difference between what has been budgeted and what has been spent, in real time, is critical information. Having accurate financial and resource utilization information can determine which projects, programs or business initiatives succeed or fail. Software can provide this type of accurate and timely data.

Use business management software to get new customers and keep the ones you have. Leverage the software to continually improve the quality of your business. Take advantage of its tools to make better more intelligent business decisions based on objective metrics and Key Performance Indicators. Optimize the many professional skill sets in your organization by giving them the tools they need to be effective. This can be done by linking the available functionalities allowing all managers to see critical data in context.