SmartCatalog™ Releases Powerful and Intuitive New Rule Manager

SmartCatalog™ releases powerful and intuitive new rule manager allowing product managers, sales engineers or even power sales users to author and rapidly deploy complex rules in four easy steps, and requires no coding or programming. Endeavor sees this as a clear differentiator to the competition and expects record adoption of SmartCatalog in 2007

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) January 21, 2007 -- Endeavor Commerce, publishers of SmartCatalog™ (www.smartcatalog.com), a best of breed guided selling and configuration solution for CRM and eCommerce, announced today the full version release of the new SmartCatalog™ 6.0 Rule Manager.

The new version of the SmartCatalog™ Rule Manager is the administrative tool that allows product and sales stakeholders, managers and engineers to efficiently create and deploy product and pricing rules for CRM and/or eCommerce systems. In order to provide an easy, intuitive experience during the rule building process, the Rule Manger has been re-architected to utilize a tree view, drag and drop GUI along with a simple, easy to use, rule dialog builder. The new version will allow users to create rules in four easy steps and requires no coding or programming.

The Rule Manager has been completely designed in Microsoft .NET Windows 2.0 Forms Application and is written in Microsoft's C# language. The Rule Manager connects directly to any Product Catalog or database in order to retrieve the necessary variables required to build and execute complex rules.

SmartCatalog™ enables companies to increase revenues and profits by making the quote-to-order entry process fast, easy and 100% accurate. It is an ideal solution for companies that sell complex products and services. Whether the need is to add a Guided Selling tool for fast, professional quotes and proposals, a Sales Configurator to ensure 100% accuracy or an eSelling solution to process all quotes and orders across all sales channels, the SmartCatalog solution is proven and available today.

"As a best of breed sales configuration solution, it is mission critical that we empower product and sales business stakeholders with tools that can rapidly and easily deploy complex business rules. It really comes down to the business rules and your ability to rapidly deploy and conform to those rules. We view this as a major core enhancement as well as a clear differentiator to our competition which in fact we expect will propel the adoption of SmartCatalog to record levels in 2007," said Sean Myers, Endeavor Commerce's CEO and Founder. "Not only do we make the complex sale simple, you can now say we make complex rule execution easy.", quipped Mr. Myers.

About Endeavor Commerce, Inc.
SmartCatalog™ by Endeavor Commerce is making the complex sale simple™. SmartCatalog™ is a best-of-breed sales configuration solution that is extensible to any commerce channel. SmartCatalog helps manufacturing, distribution, retail and service companies around the world increase revenues, profits and customer satisfaction by making the quote, proposal, order and post-sales process fast, easy and 100% accurate. Visit Endeavor Commerce at www.smartcatalog.com.

Contact:
Steve Brown
sbrown (at) smartcatalog.com

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