Today MarketingPilot Software LLC announced MarketingPilot 8. MarketingPilot 8 demonstrates MarketingPilot's vision, product leadership and commitment to innovation in marketing software. Release 8 is a major new release with new features in several critical areas:
Marketing Plans
MarketingPilot 8 adds advanced marketing planning features which enable users to create comprehensive marketing plans, perform SWOT and TOWS analyses, route marketing plans for approval, associate plans to programs and campaigns. Users can seamlessly integrate planning, execution and result tracking.
Teams
MarketingPilot 8's new Team function is designed to support the needs of large organizations. Teams enable users to separate the work performed by different teams while providing enhanced levels of management visibility and control.
Scheduling
MarketingPilot 8's new scheduling function provides tools to help manage the workload of individual workers and teams. MarketingPilot's Contact Scheduling functions help users assign work more efficiently.
Marketing Database
MarketingPilot 8 includes a number of enhancements to the marketing database which make it easier to use and more powerful.
Business Development/CRM
MarketingPilot 8 includes many enhancements to its contact, client and vendor management capabilities. MarketingPilot MarketingPilot 8 includes many CRM enhancements including enhancements to opportunity management, sales process management, forecasting and business development. MarketingPilot MarketingPilot 8 includes user interface and performance improvements that address the specific needs of client-facing users.
Project Management
MarketingPilot 8 includes many enhancements to task and job management:
- Redesigned Job and Task Dashboards improve productivity and ease of use.
- Link tasks to opportunities and components.
- New task replies facilitate reassignment of tasks when additional information is needed.
- 1-click time slips, email, notes and replies.
- Improved task chaining; when tasks are deleted MarketingPilot automatically 'heals' workflows.
- Improved date shifting upon completion, enables workflows to automatically accelerate timelines when tasks are completed early or are cancelled.
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- Save-and-new accelerates data entry.
- Improved security.
- Performance enhancements.
- Enhanced task dashboard adds enhanced grouping, customization, sorting and filtering options. New 1-click buttons speed up task processing.
- New mass update features enable users to update or reassign multiple tasks in a single operation.
- User defined sequencing of project-related tasks makes workflow easier to manage.
- Enhancements to 'hot' task functions.
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Project Estimates
MarketingPilot 8 adds powerful new project estimating functions that enable users to create detailed cost and revenue estimates for projects and compare estimates with actual costs and revenue.
Media Buying
MarketingPilot 8 includes many enhancements to media buying including:
- New Billing dashboard helps speed up the billing process.
- Enhanced media order and invoice dashboards add enhanced grouping, customization, sorting and filtering options.
- New media vendor invoice Reconciliation dashboard facilitates order reconciliation and AP approval.
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- New 'web I/O' web-based insertion order approvals facilitates sending media orders to vendors and tracking response and acceptance.
- 1-click order and invoice approval.
- Enhancements to Tearsheet features to support verbal confirmations and enhanced comment logging.
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Financial Management
MarketingPilot 8 includes many enhancements to financial management including:
- Enhancements to AP to enable users to view line item details of each Payable.
- New customizable AP dashboard adds enhanced grouping, customization, sorting and filtering options.
- Enhanced order and invoice dashboards add enhanced grouping, customization, sorting and filtering options.
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- New Billing dashboard helps speed up the billing process.
- Support for MICR check formats.
- 1-click routing for approval for financial transactions.
- New Vendor Invoice Reconciliation dashboard facilitates order reconciliation and AP approval.
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New Reports
MarketingPilot 8 includes many new reports:
- Bank Reconciliation
- Budget Worksheet Report
- Cash Receipts
- Client Estimate Report Cost & Price
- Expense Item Listing Report
- Expense Listing by Job Report
- Item Price List Report
- Maintain Task Report
- Media Order Clearance
- Media Purchased by Client
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- Media Sold by Client
- Open PO Balance by Account
- Open PO Balance by Vendor
- Opportunity Summary Report
- Opportunity Report
- Order Discrepancy Report
- Order Reconciliation Listing Report
- Sales by Rep (Cash)
- Time Slips Report
- Unit Sales by Item (Cash) Report
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Security
MarketingPilot 8 now provides LDAP/Active Directory integration for centralized access control management and to enable users to login to MarketingPilot using their Windows User ID and Password.
Performance Improvements
MarketingPilot 8 includes many enhancements to improve performance. In MarketingPilot 8 we continue to implement performance-enhancing features of Microsoft Silverlight, SQL Server 2008 and ASP.Net 3.5.
On Demand or Licensed
Users can subscribe to MarketingPilot on demand or purchase licenses for installation on an in-house server.
Prices
Contact Sales for a price quote.
Availability
MarketingPilot 8 will be available in June, 2009 for new and existing customers. Visit the Support Download Center to check upgrade availability. |
