Interprise Suite 5.6 Scheduled for release Early Dec' 10

We passed through another year of Cyber Monday with Online sales surpassing Billion dollar mark and as we head into X-Mas Holidays we will see the holiday season trend to continue.

Talking about trends, Interprise has been busy cooking newer versions with some newer features the latest to hit their download section is Ver 5.6 we got in-sight to couple of features that will roll out and one of the interesting feature from SEO point of it is "Item Image Enhancement".


The item image enhancement makes it easier for merchants to create items and associate a file name instead of auto serialized numbers and giving it a proper name makes it even better and stands out in Search engines as engines index images based on filename of the image itself.
So instead of 100.jpg it we could say Canon-powershot-S90.jpg then it would make more sense for engines to index that and most likely show up in image search results on Google, Bing and others.

Here is a sneak peek at the screenshot of IS 5.6 Item Image Enhancement and we will discuss more features as 5.6 gets ready to release in a week's time, so stay tuned...

Interprise Suite 5.5 is now available for Public

Interprise Solutions has announced availability of its new version for public release and it's now available for download for existing customers. 

• Enhanced Performance
• Designed for PA-DSS compliance
• Paypal Express Checkout service integration
• New, faster installer
• New, online store demo database
• Improved cache engine
• Improved SDK
• Improved customization synchronization
  We did download and upgraded our client and noticed few changes overall "With 5.5 we’ve taken the most fully integrated eCommerce / CRM / ERP solution and made it even better with the addition of a two entirely new modules – live chat and shipping"

New Chat module catches attention for business owners since you don't have to pay expensive fees to integrate this on your eCommerce website. It took few hrs to read through chat documentation and set it up but once hooked it really adds value to your website.


You can setup different chat rooms for Sales, Returns and other departments and have the client/agents installed on your sales rep workstation and be able to monitor your web traffic and answer any question that's asked or you can invoke a conversation with the shoppers and help them by pushing the URL for the right product they are looking for, it really helps in conversion 


We will update more as we learn about the new features in 5.5 so stay tuned ...

Trends in e-Commerce Solutions

e-Commerce is also evolving as the market tightens in tough economy, shopping cart vendors need to evolve with newer technologies or integrate with 3rd party vendors or simply enough have to create interfaces for smart phone such as iPhone and Android, add social networking features and keep its ever growing customer base engaged in the market.

There has been 2 new developments in the field of e-Commerce:

Firstly Interprise Suite or Interprise Solutions are engaging themselves as pioneer integrated e-Commerce solution provider and will be launching the new e-Commerce plus edition of their ERP software which will allow customers to use the software and be able to scale their online business  with much easy and then eventually upgrade to licensed versions.

Secondly Aspdotnet Storefront one of the best .Net framework with 10000 customers was recently acquired by Vortx, for those who have not heard Vortx they use to be Dev Net partners with Aspdotnet Storefront and they liked the software so much they ended up acquiring them, it makes all the sense as they have developed the next generation mobile shopping solution using Aspdotnet storefront for smart phones.

Interestingly InterpriseSolutions e-Commerce (ISE) is also built on same .Net source code and Vortx wld be targeting Interprise customers to provide their cutting edge solution.

Customer Satisfaction, Interprise Suite's New Mantra

Having heard lots of negative comments over forums and discussion boards by few customers who are un-happy with Interprise Suite, either a) their expectation was too high or b) they were not able to use the product correctly...There is no product out there which is bug-free.

It's good to hear positive comments from customers, customers usually don't comment but very few do and we appreciate it, here is one such email that hit our inbox appreciating the IS team and thought of sharing...

"Thanks for your time and as I said to Curt yesterday that I like the new Interprise team. Proactive, responsive and can actually talk, understand and resolve. Hope you guys keep it that way.

Regards
Alok - Australia"

We like the positive energy from the new Interprise team, they are proactive and willing to hear your problems and fix them, trying to create a community of ERP users.

How to run Interprise Suite on iPad - Video from Ezra

Interprise on iPad - Now you can run IS on iPad by installing citrix app on iPad which connects to your server and ohhlaalaa you can run Interprise anywhere on the cloud. 




To read more about this visit Interprise Suite forums.

Dawn of the NEW Interprise Solutions

ERP vendor Interprise Suite is proud to announce their brand new website www.InterpriseSolutions.com breaking away from old management and old website, taking this into new direction and newer heights.

We like this new website much better than the old one since the new website delivers all the promises such as:

1. Creating a Marketplace for developers, resellers and solution providers to interact with prospect & customers.
2. Forums to interact with members of Interprise Suite
3. Ability to create your own Groups helping customers and keeping them engaged on topics often missed by the IS team or not able to serve on time - It's cool we created a new group called "E-Commerce - Niche Marketing on the web" do join if you are eBusiness owner.
4. Blogs, Webinars and more ...

With new website IS is also offering the product in different flavors to keep the spectrum of Small and Medium Business being addressed. with Interprise Small Business eCommerce (ISBE) for just $99 per month hosted solution and Interprise Suite, here is link to full feature comparison

We also have our plugin's listed on their website which can be viewed at http://www.interprisesolutions.com/index.php/Marketplace/

So all in all, this is a great new beginning for IS and wish them best of luck.

Search Engine Marketing - How to send a Press Release?

You need to consider Press Release as one of your marketing stretegy for SEM (Search Engine Marketing) it helps you to spread your important message across various websites, blogs and news media through RSS feeds, posts, trackbacks, tweets and other modes, thus creating a strong marketing buzz.

Few  points to consider for good PR article.

1. Identify a strong reason to publish an article, something that interest your audience

2. Pick the right keywords that you deal with your business for search engines

3. Add a logo, product image, free stuff that you can give away or even a catalog subscription

4. Proof read, select best distribution regions and media and publish

Here is link customer review of Coast Coin, rare coins and currency PR release.

Press release one of the services we offer for our Enterprise clients, ask us for SEO and SEM solutions to drive traffic to your website.

Mobile Solution for ERP Softwares, does it empower business owners?

Mobile space is growing faster each year with newer smart phones being introduced, the latest one is HTC Incredible powered by Android with 1GHz processor just enough to run all your office apps and to conduct your business. 

• What does this mean to small and medium business owners? 
• Does this new space empower them with more information at their finger tips?
• Do business owners really care checking their business on their phone while they are away from their office?

We are conducting a survey within our customer base to understand the business needs and if you think you can answer these questions please feel free to comment on this thread or send us an email by visiting www.Info-Sourcing.com 

Survey Questions

1. 1.    Do you have a smart phone like iPhone or Blackberry or windows based phones?

a.        If yes then, would you want to be able to check how your business progressing when you are away from your computer/office or remotely via phone?

b.      Has there been a situation where you needed to know certain information and you could have used to look up your Customer, Sales, Vendors etc that

2.     If you answered No to Question 1, do you think business owners would be moving fwd to purchase a smart phone to interact more easily with their backend ERP/Accounting/Sales system to have information at their finger tips?

a.       Do you see a potential in developing a mobile apps that interacts with ERP s/w to do certain tasks/activities?

3.3.  What would you pay for such kind of apps which provides instant access to your data?

4.  4.  Finally on scale of 1-to 10 with 1 being lowest and 10 being highest, how do you rate such features empowering business owners?

We will share our results and our findings with you all in few weeks from now.... stay tuned.

New Changes within IS for 2010

InterpriseSuite had new announcement that we were expecting for past few months, they announced today (Mar 8th, 2010) that they were internally acquired by group of private investors from Taylor Corp to kick start what was started earlier by Gary Harrison, to provide a great ERP product for customers and partners.

We look forward to work with new team (Gary, Curt and Yossi) as the work together to take this project to next step. With the change in management we have changes in physical locations too, the head office is moved from North Mankato, Minnesota to Culver City, California and relocation of support team from Cebu to Makati city.


We wish IS team that they bootstrap and get back on track to help its customers, partners and developers.

Several updates to our product line

• Release of “Version 5” (5.4) which will include…
• A number of new and improved features
• Support for Paypal and Google checkout on the cart
• Nearly 300 bug fixes
• Version 5.5
• Improved Inventory Posting
• Bug fixes
• Version 6.0 (Summer)
• Serial / Lot number Tracking
• Bin Tracking
• Plus much more…
• …and a few nice surprises.

eBay Plugin for Interprise Suite - Coming soon, eBay lowers listing fees

If you ever listed your products on eBay you would have come across eBay's expensive listing fees that had to be taken into consideration for listing your products with markup or having lesser profits.

But come March 30th 2010 eBay is dropping its listing fees lower allowing business owners to list more products and attract more traffic and more sales, a move that is welcomed by business.

Our eBay to Interprise custom utility will allow you to list your products from Interprise Suite on to eBay's site fully automated no need for double entry of  listings, it saves time, with eBay's new prices (Check their Fee Illustrator link) and our custom plug in you can now list all your products/ SKU's and drive more sales.

Call us for FREE demo of our innovative product to list your inventory on eBay and stay connected with Interprise Suite at all times.

Source: Read more about this eBay fees article on TechCrunch

E-Business made easy for Interprise Suite Customers

Happy New Year 2010, with new year let's roll up our sleeves and get under the hood to fine tune your business and get your vehicle on the road for better mileage. We claim ourselves experts at Interprise Suite solving some of the great mystery of ERP software and integration issues.

Our innovative Search Engine Optimization plugin (SEOptimizer) and Data Feed plugin (FeedBoost) will make your e-business easier, let us optimize your website within minutes maybe hours for 100,000 SKU's and get you readily indexed on search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing.

We are bringing our new innovative plugin FeedBoost to market allowing customers to configure, schedule and delivery data feeds to Google Base (Froolge), eBay and ShareASale affiliate marketing feed or better yet you need a custom feed we can customize it for you.

Feed your products over the web with our 2 new plugins. Feed your search engines for organic traffic through SEO and feed price engines for pay per click traffic.

Our team is dedicated to solve your business problems, we back it up with our great support available from our support portal www.MyERPHelp.com (registered customers only) website. Stay tuned for more details.