BrokerForce® Takes to the Road
Road warriors take their data on the road and stay up to date with the home
office.
A sales orders program is inherently a multi-user application and sales reps must
ensure that contact and order changes made on the road are incorporated into
changes made by colleagues at the office. With BrokerForce® Enterprise™ we
make the backend database replicable so that a replica of the
office database can be taken on the road. Changes to both copies can be made
independently and merged together at a later time via
the Internet. The key is synchronization, bi-directional synchronization!
Many sales representatives still take orders the old fashioned way, writing them
down and turning them in over the phone or faxing their hand written notes to
the office for someone else to enter. As a result, there are
transposition errors, order delays, and often, variances are not discovered
until it is too late. More daring reps take the hot potato master copy
of the data on the road. Unfortunately, it seems like this copy always gets
damaged or written over by another older copy. The field and the home office are
out of synch!
Replication enables users at different locations to share and synchronize the
changes they are making to the database. We make your Enterprise
data 'Replicable' so that we can create clones of your data. Next, we
create full (all customers, all orders, all vendors) or
partial (rep filtered) replicas for use at alternate locations on laptops,
desktops and tablets. The 'Partial Replica' option
is selected to restrict the dataset to a specific sales rep. A rep specific filter may be applied to limit
access to sensitive information. Only customer, contact, and orders information
for the rep selected is transferred to the partial replica. When changes need
to be passed, click the 'Synchronize Internet' button to exchange data updates.
Price lists and invoices go to the reps and the reps orders go to the central
database.
A Hybrid replica provides all customers yet order history is limited to just that reps customers, contacts, and order history.
This enables a rep to place an order for any other rep without the bloat of order history outside their territory.
BrokerForce™ provides your office, road warriors, and home offices with the
real time tactical intelligence they need. Principals or representatives can take a replica of the
data to their home or on the road knowing that the orders they take or updates
to contact records they make can be synchronized with the main office's master
copy at any time. New vendors and products can be added, and order adjustments
made at the central office at the same time. The data can be synchronized at any
time it's convenient via the Internet.
There's no need for a back office server, network, or to maintain a reliable
high-speed Internet connection. We handle all of that at our secure data
center where we have a better than 99.99% uptime record over 5 years. It's
the ultimate form of off-premises backup.
BrokerForce synchronization is the most efficient bidirectional synchronization
there is! Most synchronizations are under 15 seconds with only the changes being
passed in both directions. There's no need to 'Refresh' an entire product
database, only the updated products, customers, and orders are exchanged.
Got a new computer or had to format a hard drive, no problem! Just put in a data
request and we'll replace the data with another replica.
Any
number of replicas can be made to accommodate any size sales force. Each rep
only has his/her customers, contacts, and orders. There's no user level
password security to administrate. All changes are propagated to the replicas
from the master copy and vice versa.
DataForce will host your Internet hub replica and take the worry out of the
related network and security administration. Your reps can synchronize to the
hub replica from anywhere with any Internet connection using the highest speed
available.