ABAS Global Customer Forum "Trends 2011"

Online, October 13, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Karlsruhe - Customers, software partners, and cooperation partners from all over the globe gathered during September 23rd and 24th in Karlsruhe, Germany to see new trends and innovations about abas ERP. abas ERP is the best fit for mid-market companies seeking technological and organizational changes while moving towards an economic recovery and increasing productivity.

30 Years of Innovation
For the first and last time, Wolfgang Dannemann, initiator and mastermind of abas ERP, took the stage and shared his visions he had when crafting abas Business Software 30 years ago. His vision was to develop a business software that runs on standard operating systems with a multi-tiered architecture, that gives companies flexibility and upgradeabilty. 30 years later, abas ERP is the best fit for mid-market companies seeking technological and organizational changes while moving towards an economic recovery and increasing productivity. Focusing on flexibility and software modernization, abas changes with its customers as products, markets, strategies and competitors changes. The multi-tiered architecture allows users to write business rules into the system easily and simply adapt to new demands.

The value of globalization and abas ERP
Alan Salton, President of ABAS USA, first addressed the need of a global ERP system and later presented an international project portal created by ABAS that is about collaboration and knowledge sharing, real time concurrencies, reducing costs, faster ROI, and the visibility to milestones, and goals.
The world is changing, and new opportunities are appearing every day. Globalization, once the domain for only large companies, is now presenting new markets for growth for small to mid market companies. As more companies in the mid market are recognizing the value of globalization, the ability to build new markets without significant IT investment is enabling growth, profitability, and competitiveness.

abas Business Software is multi-currency and offered in more than 30 languages, with additional languages available upon request. Customers can work with the same database in different languages, enabling simplified workflow and communication between foreign subsidiaries. ABAS increases transparency and optimizes the flow of information between international businesses, aligns global business functions and manages the connections to outside stakeholders. abas is uniquely qualified to successfully implement your international project. No other company has the combination of a unified partner network, strategic orientation, globally enabled software, and international implementation methodology that defines the roadmap to success.

Technological Highlights
Many new features were put on display, demonstrating how abas ERP can contribute to increased productivity and making the system even simpler for users to operate. Each year ABAS examines and optimizes 33% of the source code and includes it in the annual upgrade. ABAS is always state of the art and compatible with new requirements and cutting edge technologies.

An user-centric and role based ERP system
Simplicity, visualization, and managing processes are the key for a user-centric and role based workplace. Different users have different responsibilities and an integrated BI in forms of charts, mashups , and dashboards allow users to individualize their role-based workplace. Users are able to define their own processes and easily connect with add on solutions via drag and drop functionalities.

Managing your opportunities
Extended CRM functionalities with the Infosystem "Opportunity Overview" allow users to easily manage their sales process, create and manage tasks for yourself and others, and enter notes for customers and prospects. All business correspondences can be archived with an optional DMS (Document Management System) to give your customers a high value of customer intimacy.

abas eB - New Design, New Functionalities, Search Engine Optimized
A new search engine optimized catalog-structure with embedded product videos and social media connectivity will help companies to increase their web marketing and online revenue. Getting instant feedback from customers, employees and suppliers increases service quality within your entire organization.

Mobile access with abas Business Software
Today, having access to your company data at all times is a must. Regardless if you are on the road, at customer's site, or just being on the golf course. abas lets you connect to your ERP system to access, view, or edit customer data for example with any smart phone (iphone, Blackberry, etc).