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- Welcome to Sales Forecast Pro v2.0 !!
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- Version 2.0 brings the following enhancements ...
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- 1. Custom Horizons for viewing your forecast summary.
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- In addition to the standard (1, 2, 3, 6 and all months) horizons,
- you can specify your own custom horizon. In addition to a date
- range, you can specify a list of Sales Opportunities and/or Products
- that will be used to filter your forecast records for display.
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- 2. Graphical (stacked bar chart) views of your forecast records.
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- Sales Forecast Pro presents your records by product by month.
- You can also choose between viewing total forecasted dollars or
- forecast probability dollar amounts.
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- 3. Forecast items can now be classified as "Closed"; thus allowing
- you to track records after you close the sale. These items can
- be viewed using the Custom Horizon feature.
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- 4. Export/Import capability.
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- You can now export your forecast records for use by management
- in preparing consolidated forecast. There is also an import
- feature that merges forecast records into your existing database.
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- We hope you enjoy these new features ... don't hesitate to let us
- know about additional features you need to make the most out of
- using Sales Forecast Pro.
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- Sales Forecast Pro.
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- We beleive that today's sales professional deserves an MS Windows
- based program that is fun to use when providing forecast data
- to management.
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- We have thus developed the intuitive, fun-to-use, 'Sales Forecast Pro'
- program for creating and maintaining one's sales forecast.
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- Sales Forecast Pro allows you to create and maintain forecast records
- so that you can produce forecast summaries in various formats. You can
- view your forecasted opportunitites in sorted tabular summaries, in
- stacked bar charts formats and on printed reports.
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- Sales opportunity records store ...
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- The opportunity description,
- The opportunity's sales cycle status,
- The product being forecasted,
- The planned closure date for the opportunity,
- The dollar amount for the opportunity, and
- The success probability percentage for the opportunity.
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- Each record can be classified as an "Actual Forecast" item, a "What If"
- item or a "Closed" item. These classifications allow you to filter
- the content of your forecast summaries.
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- Time horizons also allow you to filter the content of your forecast
- summaries. Standard horizons of 1, 2, 3, 6 and all months allow you
- to filter your summaries for various views into the future.
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- Combining the time horizons with the record classifications provides
- robust filtering combinations.
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- Now in Version 2.0, you can also define custom horizons combining record
- classifications with a date range and a list of opportunities and/or
- products to be used as filters.
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- You and your manager can combine your usage of Sales Forecast Pro by
- taking advantage of its Export/Import features. You can easily pass
- your forecast to your manager electronically. Your manager can then
- combine your forecast with the forecast of other sales professionals
- to produce a consolidated forecast for the entire group.
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- Installing Sales Forecast Pro.
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- Sales Forecast Pro is a Microsoft Windows application and thus should
- be installed from either the program manager or file manager. Simply
- placed the Sales Forecast Pro diskette into the appropriate drive and
- type [drive]:\INSTALL.EXE from the Run command under the File Menu.
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- Follow the directions on the screen and Sales Forecast Pro will install
- itself and build your program manager ICONS for you.
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