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Product Description
Big Business is the award-winning business management
solution that seamlessly integrates four critical business functions;
sales, marketing, inventory, and finance. Big Business eliminates the
need for separate company database, contact management, inventory, and
accounting programs. It automates workflow and increases productivity
by centralizing important company data in a single system that can
grow as companies expand. Using high-performance relational database
technology, Big Business relates sales and marketing activities with
their bottom line impact on inventory and company finances.
With its Internet technology, Big Business gets small businesses
on the Worldwide Web by making online catalogs of products and
services in inventory. Users don't need to learn HTML or format pages;
Big Business does that automatically.
Big Business also supports the Big Business Web Server, which
lets local and remote users access important data via the most popular
Web browsers. Big Business Web Server opens small businesses to the
outside world, significantly expanding their capabilities and putting
them at the forefront of web technology.
Big Business is available in single-user and multi-user, client/server
versions. Business owners can start with the single-user version and
then move to the multi-user version and add users as their companies
grow. They can add the Web Server to either version.
Target Market
There are more than six million small businesses in the
United States, over half of which could use Big Business to manage
inventory and deliver products to the market. Big Business is
specifically targeted at growing companies with 1-99 employees in
retail, wholesale, distribution, or manufacturing that need to manage
large numbers of customers, transactions, and inventory items.
Product Positioning
Big Business is the first easy-to-use, fully integrated
business management and accounting solution for growing companies. It
offers a true workgroup solution that supports sales and marketing
activities and produces real-time reports and analysis of company
inventory and financial information. Big Business gets small companies
on the Web by making on-line catalogs of products and services.
Key Benefits
-Seamlessly Integrates Sales, Marketing, Inventory, and Accounting:
Big Business eliminates the need for separate software
products by integrating a contact manager with an inventory database
and an accounting program. Big Business provides a single point of
reference for current and historical information about a company's
business activities with its customers, vendors, inventory, and
transactions. This unprecedented integration increases productivity
and allows managers and employees to make more effective and informed
decisions to meet their business objectives.
- Grows with Companies:
Big Business meets the collaborative needs of small
business by automating workflow, facilitating communication, and
centralizing all company information. When companies need to share
this automation among multiple users, they can easily move to Big
Business Server, which handles many simultaneous users.
- Maximizes Sales and Profit:
Big Business is the complete small business management
solution that allows a small businesses to maximize profits and sales,
dramatically increasing their return on investment.
-Adds Value:
Big Business is competitively priced, providing the most
value to the small business, while delivering many more features than
its competition.
- Enhances Collaboration and Productivity:
Offering seamless integration of sales, marketing,
inventory, and accounting, Big Business helps
employees of a small business work together and share information,
allowing them to know at a glance how sales, marketing programs, and
all other aspects of their business infrastructure are affecting the
company's bottom line.
- Has an Easy to Use Interface:
Big Business is a powerful program that is also incredibly
easy to use. Its top-rated interface has won raves from numerous
industry publications. Users learn the program quickly because its
interface is based on real-world metaphors such as checks and deposit
slips that are intuitive and easy to fill out. Big Business also fills
in information wherever possible, saving users time from retyping
data.
- Offers Relational Database Technology:
Based on a relational database, Big Business centralizes
company data and details the relationship among different aspects of a
business.
- Delivers Advanced Technology:
The latest technologies are integrated into Big Business
to automate the entire business process and company infrastructure,
making the company more productive and profitable.
- Based on a Client/Server Architecture:
Big Business can grow with a company. The Big Business
multi-user, client/server version can scale up as companies grow.
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Gives Users the Ability to Have Internet and Intranet Capabilities:
The Big Business Web Server is an add-on to Big Business and Big
Business Server that lets users view Big Business data via an internet
or intranet. Users--either local or remote--simply run a popular
browser to view Big Business data, such as open orders, past
due payments, and inventory levels. From their client machines, users
can search for and print quotes, orders, invoices, and purchase orders.
To ensure the same system security as is available in Big Business,
the system administrator can control access to any area of Big Business
and can require passwords for all clients.
Key Features
- Optimizes Sales:
Big Business optimizes sales by generating customer quotes
with reminder notes, providing multiple bill to and ship to addresses,
evaluating profitability, creating sales orders and tracking shipping
histories, preparing customer invoices, and processing cash receipts.
- Improves Marketing:
Companies can improve their marketing with Big Business,
which maintains customer records with purchase histories, identifies
prospects using definable fields and tags, and produces targeted lists,
labels, and reports.
- Manages Inventory:
To further integrate company processes, Big Business
automatically generates purchase orders, tracks vendor back orders,
defines multiple price levels, and prepares custom price lists.
- Performs Accounting Professionally:
Users can now manage their company's finances without
learning complicated accounting procedures. Big Business maintains
accounts payable and receivable, generates complete accounting
information and financial statements, reconciles accounts, prints
deposit slips, keeps a general journal, transfers funds between
accounts, and manages cash flow. It also prints checks, deposit slips,
and other financial printouts and reports.
- Creates Internet Web Pages:
Big Business automates the process of creating and
maintaining a catalog of products or services on the Internet. Users
can select the items, item descriptions, prices, and pictures they
want Big Business to format into HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) web
pages. Big Business creates three-level web pages and manages all the
appropriate links. This feature allows Internet users of all levels to
easily create their own web page catalogs.
- Delivers Multi-level Security:
Big Business offers multi-level security, allowing
administrators to lock individual users out of tabs, quickpops, terms,
and exports to protect sensitive company data.
- Includes Reports and Forms Customizer:
Users can create completely custom reports and forms using
Big Business' built-in reports and forms customizer. Users can use the
customizer to analyze data, format printouts, and create customized
reports. The powerful customizer offers a full-featured WYSIWYG
reports and forms writer that has full access to the information in
Big Business.
- Provides Built-in Notes:
Big Business' built-in notes are like having an e-mail
system for all Big Business users. Notes allow users to attach comments
directly to individual contacts or transactions and electronically
send them to other Big Business users. Using notes alone, users can
send and receive mail messages and schedule appointments and meetings.
- Delivers Drill Down Capabilities:
Big Business includes an unprecedented drill down capability that lets users
simply double-click to drill down to specific cards, invoices, or other data in the
software and find detailed information without having to search through manual files.
- Offers On-line Help:
To further simplify small business management, Big Business provides
context-sensitive assistance throughout
the application.
- Connects to Payroll Products:
Big Business supports third party payroll products from
Aatrix Software (Macintosh only) and CheckMark Software.
Users can import journal entries and check information from
these payroll systems to print employee checks and track employee
payments.
- Offers Multiple Bill To/Ship To Addresses:
Users can store multiple bill to and ship to addresses
that can be selected from a pop-up menu.
- Calculates Commissions and Royalties:
Big Business calculates commissions and royalties. Commission codes and rates
can be added to employee cards. Big Business allows users to select a number of methods
to calculate commissions and royalties.
- Converts Contacts:
At the click of a button, Big Business converts contacts to customers or
vendors.
- Offers More Chart of Accounts:
Big Business provides over 90 default chart of accounts
for a variety of company types, including attorneys, clubs,
distributors, publishing companies, computer dealers, farms, beauty
salons, bookstores, bridal shops, chiropractors, interior designers,
drug stores, graphic artists, photographers, printers, shoe stores,
and travel agencies.
- Supports International Taxes, Formats, and Currencies:
For international sales management, Big Business lets users replace the dollar sign with a foreign currency symbol from one of 16 English speaking countries. In addition, users can modify number formats for various international currencies. Big Business 2.0 also adds VAT and GST tax capabilities, allowing users to have an unlimited number of tax entities per tax.
Services
Free technical support is available to new Big Business
users for the first 30 days, and a range of affordable support programs
are offered for ongoing assistance. In-depth training videos, training
seminars, and accounting CDs are also available. Big Business provides
a consultants' referral service of Authorized Big Business Consultants
and VARs for those customers who desire face-to-face support from a
local resource.
System Requirements
Macintosh System Requirements
|
Processor |
Recommended RAM |
Hard Disk |
| Single-user/Client |
68040 or Power PC |
16MB/24MB |
50MB |
| Server |
Power PC |
24MB |
50MB |
System 7 or higher required
Ethernet required for Server
Individual systems may require more RAM if other software applications
are run simultaneously. Additional hard disk space will be required as
company information is added to the system.
Windows System Requirements
|
Processor |
Recommended RAM |
Hard Disk |
| Single-user/Client |
486/66 or Pentium |
16MB/24MB |
50MB |
| Server |
Pentium |
32MB |
50MB |
Windows 95 or NT 4.0 required
Ethernet required for Server
Individual systems may require more RAM if other software
applications are run simultaneously. Additional hard disk space will
be required as company information is added to the system.
Network Requirements
Big Business requires an ethernet network for multi-user
installations. 10BASE-T (Twisted pair cable) ethernet networks are
preferred to 10BASE-2 (coaxial cable/Thin ethernet) ethernet networks
(10BASE-T networks are inherently more reliable since they use a star
topology as opposed to a station-to-station daisy chain. The active
hubs used by 10BASE-T networks are able to isolate individual network
faults to preserve the entire network's functionality).
Big Business
Since 1993, Big Business has been developing comprehensive,
award-winning business management software for the
Macintosh and Windows platforms. Big Business is available in
single-user and multi-user, client/server versions.
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