Empowerment Evaluation
“Let’s cut the sales rhetoric and get on with the facts!”
This chart shows some of the Empowerment Tool Features where you can assign a point value (0= No importance thru 10=Very important) as they apply to your business. The Practical Examples are provided to so you can relate to a similar requirement in your business. The Other column is provided to compare another software product with our Empowerment Tools.
| RAMS | Other | Value 0-10 | Feature | Practical Examples |
| YES | _ | _ | Create Data Tables | Can I add my own tables to track my sales leads and log my sales contacts? |
| YES | _ | _ | Modify Data Structures | The Customer Name is only 30 characters long. Can I change the size to 40 and have it automatically changed on every screen and report in the system? |
| YES | _ | _ | Personalize Labels | I want to use your Customer Group entry to track the Salesperson. Can I change the label prompt to Salesperson and have automatically changed everywhere including reports? |
| YES | _ | _ | Create Indexes | I want my salesperson to have fast access to their customers only. Can I add my own index for this? |
| YES | _ | _ | New data on existing table | The city has a requirement to have the legal plot number on each account. Can I create a new data entry for this? |
| YES | _ | _ | Exchange Data with other applications | We can save 5 cents per postcard by having them print in Carrier Route order. Can I export the billing address, have another program update the carrier route information and then have it update the customer in RAMS? |
| YES | _ | _ | Relate your entry form to RAMS entry form | Can I display my personalized Phone Call Log details right next to the customer when viewing their information and add a new record so I can track follow-up? |
| YES | _ | _ | Referential Integrity Change | If I change the salesperson, will it automatically change it on all the customers with the old salesperson? |
| YES | _ | _ | Referential Integrity Delete | If I delete a customer, will it automatically delete all of the Phone Log history information if I want? |
| YES | _ | _ | List Validation | Can I make sure the Salesperson’s Name is picked from a list to eliminate entry mistakes and validated so reports are accurate? |
| YES | _ | _ | Membership Validation | We must identify every type of recycled material a customer might produce which requires multiple selections in a single entry. Can we have a validated multi-select list that’s easy to understand and insures proper entry for reporting? |
| YES | _ | _ | Form Builder data types | What kind of data Types with Validations do the entry forms automatically create? Text with Lists, freeform Text (memo) with Membership Lists, Dates with Calendar, Time with Clock, Number with Ranges, Checkbox and General (Pictures, Photos, Word & Excel documents). |
| YES | _ | _ | Form Builder Pages Frames | Can I easily design more sophisticated entry forms that include multiple pages? |
| YES | _ | _ | Form & Menu Security | Can I make sales information only available to Salespeople, and make some of the data on my forms only available for viewing and change by the sales manager? |
| YES | _ | _ | Hooks and In/Out Tray Action Items | Can the Next Contact Date on my Salesperson entry form automatically trigger a contact reminder message to that salesperson on a specific date and time? |
| YES | _ | _ | Work Flow | On certain Work Orders we have to report the liquid waste’s acidity. Can we track this along with the Work Order and report it to the customer on the invoice? |
| YES | _ | _ | Upgrader | Are all Empowerment settings maintained on when I upgrade? |
| 100% | _ | _ | Total Empowerment Tools Value Score* | |
| *Total Empowerment Tools Value Score: 160-80 High, 80-40 Medium High, 40-20 Medium, 20-0 Low | ||||