April 14, 2014 at 23:36We invite you to a test drive of the powerful business car Simple Business
We drove our horse for repair - a beautiful and powerful Simple Business CRM machine. For the winter, we drove it to MOT, completely replaced the engine and did a little tuning. And from the scooter "Simple Business" for iOS, we made a motorcycle. So, the new version of Simple Business for Windows 1.9.0.0 Dearborn and the new version of Simple Business for iOS are ready for a test drive.
Transition to a new database management system (new motor)
The most important thing that we did in the process of maintaining our organization management system “Simple Business”, Is a replacement engine. The engine, in our case, is a database management system. We switched to a more powerful and faster Firebird system. Significantly increased the speed of all program objects — loading comments feed in tasks, loading voluminous tables (for example, client databases), searching, and so on. Of course, for new users, practically nothing has changed - with a small amount of data, the old system also worked quickly. But our regular customers, who have been working in the program for a long time, are large companies that have a lot of information and, in fact, we are incredibly happy with this "new thing". Figuratively speaking, if before the company responded to customer requests in the same way as an ordinary car drives on a city road, now it’s like a race car along a highway.
Comments, Reminders and History of Changes in the Client Base
Three excellent functions have appeared in the CRM module, in which the client base is maintained. This is a comment on the customer’s card, plus e-mail correspondence and reminders. Previously, correspondence was also stored in one place - in the task, but for each client it was necessary to create a separate task and then work in it, open it if you need to see something, now - comments on the client and correspondence are stored directly in the client’s card, no tasks need to be created. Reminders for comments on the client’s card are updating the brake system, the most important thing. Now you will definitely not forget who and when to call - a reminder will pop up at the right time. The third updated feature is the history of changes in the client base.Now you can see when, who and how changed any record for any client.
Formatting phone numbers, a new quick start wizard, new window icons
A few more "chips" of the new version (tuning). The possibilities of touch control of the system have expanded (relevant for new laptop models with touch screens). The formatting of phone numbers has been added, for example, in the employee’s questionnaire (now the code is separated by brackets, and the number itself is separated by hyphens to facilitate perception), and now in the client database you do not need to write the number strictly in the international format to call it - the phone number is now You can write in any form (with spaces, brackets, etc.). A redesign and simplification of the wizard to quickly start working with the program has been made. In telephony, we turned off the music for calls to external numbers, so that managers could hear why they did not reach the customer — busy or unavailable, and so on. Almost all the icons in the program windows were replaced with more modern and beautiful ones.
Well, the business car is ready for a test drive, we invite you to ride !
New version of iOS application.
Along with the new Windows version, the updated Simple Business application for iOS devices has also been released.. And if earlier it was rather an additional version to the main Windows and web, then now we can say that the iOS application has become an independent and full-fledged version of the program. Now you can work only with the application - the creation of the organization, its editing, the invitation of employees to the organization; change of access rights to projects; creation of cases, their implementation, transfer, change of importance, commenting, reminders of cases in the news feed and building a route to the place of business in the application cards of your device; Created and edited contacts; The opening of files attached to comments appeared in third-party applications for working with them. This despite the fact that all the other most important functions in the application have been around for a long time. You can try a new application either in the AppStore under the name "Simple Business", or bylink .
We wish you a pleasant test drive of new products!
Transition to a new database management system (new motor)
The most important thing that we did in the process of maintaining our organization management system “Simple Business”, Is a replacement engine. The engine, in our case, is a database management system. We switched to a more powerful and faster Firebird system. Significantly increased the speed of all program objects — loading comments feed in tasks, loading voluminous tables (for example, client databases), searching, and so on. Of course, for new users, practically nothing has changed - with a small amount of data, the old system also worked quickly. But our regular customers, who have been working in the program for a long time, are large companies that have a lot of information and, in fact, we are incredibly happy with this "new thing". Figuratively speaking, if before the company responded to customer requests in the same way as an ordinary car drives on a city road, now it’s like a race car along a highway.
Comments, Reminders and History of Changes in the Client Base
Three excellent functions have appeared in the CRM module, in which the client base is maintained. This is a comment on the customer’s card, plus e-mail correspondence and reminders. Previously, correspondence was also stored in one place - in the task, but for each client it was necessary to create a separate task and then work in it, open it if you need to see something, now - comments on the client and correspondence are stored directly in the client’s card, no tasks need to be created. Reminders for comments on the client’s card are updating the brake system, the most important thing. Now you will definitely not forget who and when to call - a reminder will pop up at the right time. The third updated feature is the history of changes in the client base.Now you can see when, who and how changed any record for any client.
Formatting phone numbers, a new quick start wizard, new window icons
A few more "chips" of the new version (tuning). The possibilities of touch control of the system have expanded (relevant for new laptop models with touch screens). The formatting of phone numbers has been added, for example, in the employee’s questionnaire (now the code is separated by brackets, and the number itself is separated by hyphens to facilitate perception), and now in the client database you do not need to write the number strictly in the international format to call it - the phone number is now You can write in any form (with spaces, brackets, etc.). A redesign and simplification of the wizard to quickly start working with the program has been made. In telephony, we turned off the music for calls to external numbers, so that managers could hear why they did not reach the customer — busy or unavailable, and so on. Almost all the icons in the program windows were replaced with more modern and beautiful ones.
Well, the business car is ready for a test drive, we invite you to ride !
New version of iOS application.
Along with the new Windows version, the updated Simple Business application for iOS devices has also been released.. And if earlier it was rather an additional version to the main Windows and web, then now we can say that the iOS application has become an independent and full-fledged version of the program. Now you can work only with the application - the creation of the organization, its editing, the invitation of employees to the organization; change of access rights to projects; creation of cases, their implementation, transfer, change of importance, commenting, reminders of cases in the news feed and building a route to the place of business in the application cards of your device; Created and edited contacts; The opening of files attached to comments appeared in third-party applications for working with them. This despite the fact that all the other most important functions in the application have been around for a long time. You can try a new application either in the AppStore under the name "Simple Business", or bylink .
We wish you a pleasant test drive of new products!