PMAPS 2006, 10th Generation of Leading Edge Proposal Management Software, To Be Released

May 2nd, 2006 Westport, CT – PMAPS 2006, the tenth generation release of the leading edge proposal management software Proposal Management and Production System (PMAPS), will officially be released on June 1, 2006. The announcement was made today by John A. Laurino, CEO of Proposal Software, Inc., developers of PMAPS.

According to Laurino, requests and suggestions by current PMAPS clients had a major impact on the over 150 productivity improvements included in the upgraded version, PMAPS 2006.

“PMAPS has always been about reflecting  “best practices” proposal workflow, rather than the software. We have always stayed intensely focused on the proposal professional team or individual who relies on PMAPS, and who truly live each day with any proposal workflow issues.  We’ve been developing a tool since 1994 to help those professionals do the best job possible."

“In developing this tenth generation of PMAPS, we again went directly to our client’s proposal teams for direction. These are highly experienced, seasoned proposal professionals who use PMAPS to turn around high volumes of Requests for Proposals (RFPs) under very tight deadlines.  They gave us substantial input that directly led to many of the changes in the latest version.”

“Almost every one of our clients contributed to the upgraded version,” said Proposal Software, Inc. chief technology officer Steven N. Heffter. 

Major improvements in PMAPS 2006 include the following:

• The Document Assembly module has been completely re-engineered, from the receipt of the RFP to delivery of any finished RFP or customer facing document.
• PMAPS will now allow proposal teams to create a “library” of data available to the entire company through the Internet through the Document Portal. Since PMAPS does not require multiple licenses for multiple locations, this enables unlimited search and document retrieval access by every employee in even global companies, at no additional cost. As with all PMAPS features, this separate Web portal application requires minimal IT support and zero user programming.
• The contact management module, which until now has been integrated with Outlook, is now also integrated with the individual or team calendar function in Lotus Notes.
• PMAPS 2006 includes a “data bridge” that pulls data from any external CRM source, including InterAction, Salesforce.com, Saleslogix.com, Siebel, SAP, Microsoft CRM, and NetSuite, among others.  Direct integration is also available for many of these CRM solutions which allows any screen from these applications to opened directly within PMAPS 2006.
• A host of new search features has been added to PMAPS’s trademarked SmartSearch™ functionality, providing PMAPS 2006 users with “best in class” search capabilities.

“Our company, Proposal Software, Inc., is totally focused on developing and servicing proposal management software,” said Laurino. “Because proposals are becoming more frequent, more complex and more important to the sales and marketing function, we see a greater need to stay committed to providing cutting edge solutions for proposal professionals.”

About Proposal Software
Proposal Software provides the ‘best in class’ comprehensive proposal management platform. Clients include leading financial services, healthcare, investment management and a wide cross-section of Fortune 1000 corporations including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Blue Alternative Asset Management, ING Investment Management and WellPoint family of healthcare companies.

Current PMAPS clients include Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Blue Alternative Asset Management, ING Investment Management, Merrill Lynch, Baring Asset Management,
AAM-Investment Management, Fred Alger Management, and the WellPoint family of healthcare companies.

Contacts
John Laurino, Proposal Software, Inc., (203) 226-1600
Jessica Bram, Jessica Bram Communications, (203) 227-3250

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