AAM Adopts PMAPS As Its Proposal Managment Platform April 25th, 2005 Westport, CT – PMAPS, Proposal Software, Inc.’s innovative Proposal Management and Production System has been successfully deployed at the insurance investment management company AAM. The company’s adoption of PMAPS is expected to result in substantially increased RFP flow-through volume, according to AAM Marketing Manager Lisa Weaver. “Our need for PMAPS is greater than ever because our company has experienced significantly stepped-up RFP volume,” she said, noting that by the end of first quarter 2005, AAM’s proposal team had responded to as many RFP’s as they had in the first six months of the previous year. “The efficiencies we anticipate by using PMAPS will be enormous,” Weaver remarked. Weaver explained that a major factor in her company’s selection of PMAPS was the software’s superior search capabilities. “When I first looked at PMAPS at last year’s PAICR conference, I liked the user friendliness of it. But I was most impressed by its Google-like search capabilities. Several proposal managers who were using competitive RFP software told me they had been forced to create their own proprietary system to do key word searches. PMAPS allows you to do much deeper and more sophisticated searches – for example, a search for the phrase “investment strategy” turned up all the RFP’s in which we had covered this topic. But even better, PMAPS allows us to do a search within a search – for example, within “investment strategy,” we can more narrowly search on “core bond” or “targeted duration.” “It’s amazing how many ways RFP’s can ask for the exact same information. Now that we’re using PMAPS, we’re not reinventing the wheel every time we get one asking for the same information.” Weaver explained that after only one hour of training, she was able to call upon information from the company’s most successful RFP’s done in the past. “Efficiency is key,” said Weaver. “Now that the preparation of RFP’s has been substantially streamlined by our use of PMAPS, our senior managers have more time to intelligently review completed RFP’s, rather than help assemble them.” About AAM About Proposal Software Proposal Software operates on four simple principles:
PMAPS will next be demonstrated live at the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) 16th Annual Conference & Exhibits, June 7-10, 2005 in Phoenix, Arizona. Information on the conference is available at http://www.apmp.org ### Contact Information: |
