FrontRange Solutions Releases GoldMine® 6.5 (email this article)

New Release of Popular CRM Solution Offers Enhanced Customization, Simpler Installation and Maintenance, and Added Flexibility for SME and Distributed Enterprises

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - December 8, 2003 - FrontRange Solutions USA Inc. (Company Profile, Past Stories, Case Studies), a global leader of integrated business relationship solutions, today announced the immediate availability of GoldMine® 6.5, the latest version in its award-winning customer relationship management (CRM) product portfolio.
 
GoldMine 6.5 provides small-to-midsized enterprises (SME) and distributed enterprises with a CRM solution that scales from one user to significantly large user groups while allowing organizations to manage customer relationships in the way that best fits their business. Whether an organization follows a B2C, B2B, or B2A relationship model, the seamless migration between GoldMine solutions -- GoldMine and GoldMine Corporate Edition -- future-proofs a customer’s investment with functionality such as the powerful new Record Type Administration Center that enables users to create, manage, and work with an unlimited variety of custom business entities.
 
As a company that relies on GoldMine to streamline a wide variety of projects, LeylandAlliance, a builder/developer in the forefront of the New Urbanist movement (www.leylandalliance.com), must successfully manage the contacts and communication involved in creating unique neighborhoods in some of the most desirable areas of the country. “While the ability to collect and analyze data is important to us, the real beauty of GoldMine is its ability to help the sales staff be more productive and therefore more successful,” said Monica Quigley, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for LeylandAlliance, LLC. “GoldMine’s organizational tools help the staff focus on selling and spending time with customers, while keeping track of business and moving the sales process forward.”
 
In addition to allowing GoldMine users to migrate to an increasingly powerful solution, the new release is especially useful to existing ACT!® and Microsoft® Excel and Outlook® users who are ready to upgrade from basic contact management to a business-focused, team-based solution. GoldMine 6.5 automatically detects these applications, prompting the conversion of existing contact data. GoldMine 6.5 also includes an improved Instant Sync option that enables remote users on a network to automatically synchronize and remain up-to-date on contact and calendar information.
 
“Our focus is to provide customers with a CRM solution that not only offers greater efficiencies to help them better meet their business objectives, but one that provides customer relationship continuity from small business to the distributed enterprise,” said Michael McCloskey, FrontRange Solutions CEO. “GoldMine 6.5 reinforces our commitment of supporting our individual-to-enterprise customers with a solution that is easier to install, customize, use and maintain while raising the bar in the CRM market.”
 
At the heart of new GoldMine 6.5 is the drive to provide products that are built as a “best fit” solution for SME’s and distributed enterprises and that work seamlessly with new complementary products and services. Additional new features in GoldMine 6.5 include:

  • Enhanced opportunity management including new opportunity management wizard, and new search and tracking capabilities
  • Record Types using a centralized configuration tool to create, manage, and work with an unlimited variety of custom business entities to reflect business models
  • Productivity functions such as at-a-glance list of past activities and auto-fill options to copy data with just a click, and control of details regarding material and projects
  • Newly redesigned, easy-to-use and centralized Reports Center
  • Free/busy scheduling capabilities for both users and contacts extends relationship management capability beyond the users of GoldMine, to include prospects, customers, vendors or partners.
  • HTML-based alerts, interactive ability that detects actions, notifies users of status updates and integrates problem solving features and key functions pertaining to email/mail/fax merging
  • Improved usability enhancements including auto-scrolling, navigation and drag and drop graphical abilities Complementary services and products include:
    • E-learning to assist users to quickly and easily get started with GoldMine and immediately leverage the advanced feature set
    • iGoldMine, the Web enabled solution that allows you access to your client and prospect information from anywhere, at any time
    • Extensive network of third party products from channel partner network, including integrated solutions
FrontRange has served over 1.2 million GoldMine users, with 200,000 customers that span 70 different industries, including insurance, real estate, government, financial and legal. With more than 90 percent of enhancements and new features driven by customer and end-users, FrontRange continues deliver high-quality products and services by engaging customer and partner feedback.
 
“Now, more than ever, GoldMine is the tool for building successful sales and marketing programs,” said Bob Ritter, President of First Direct Corporation, a FrontRange Premier Elite Partner. “We are excited about the new GoldMine, which is the most collaborative and rewarding version to date.”
 
Pricing and Availability
GoldMine 6.5 and GoldMine Corporate Edition 6.5 are available now and can be purchased through a network of over 1,000 FrontRange Solutions partners, as well as several retail, catalog and on-line stores. MSRP pricing starts at $199 for GoldMine and $495 for GoldMine Corporate Edition per user.
 
About FrontRange Solutions
FrontRange Solutions USA Inc. develops software and solutions that allow organizations to manage a wide variety of business relationships and provide exceptional service. Award winning solutions designed specifically for small- to mid-sized enterprises and distributed enterprise organizations include: industry leading GoldMine family of software for business relationship management, team-based contact management and sales forces automation; and HEAT software line for complete service management including Help Desk, Knowledge, Asset and Service Level Management. Over 1.2 million users worldwide in a variety of market-leading companies have relied on FrontRange Solutions technology. Customer companies include Coca-Cola, Shell Oil, Prudential Securities, Électricité de France, Mack Trucks, and Turner News Network. The company has won numerous software awards, including Software Magazine’s “Hot 500”, Call Center Magazine’s “Product of the Year”, Entrepreneur Magazine’s “Best Software, Users Choice Awards”, and PC Magazine “Editors’ Choice”.
 
An international market leader in customer-centric software for nearly 15 years, FrontRange Solutions is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with offices in California, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Australia, Singapore and China. For more information, call (800) 776-7889 or visit www.frontrange.com.
 

 

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