Project Tracking

The complete solution to managing the process of winning new business

Specifically designed for prime contractors, sub-contractors, organisations providing professional services and suppliers of products, materials and support services Pursuit organises the information that helps win the contract The total solution for managing the processes of business development, contact networking and marketing and preparing project submissions and contract tenders.

Pursuit integrates every stage of the new business process

How do you manage the challenges of generating new business? If you do not have the convenience of a centralised, all-embracing management and information resource that links every aspect of business development, marketing, project submissions and new contracts bids and tenders activity, consider the advantages you could gain by using Pursuit. Pursuit is a multi-module management system tailored to the needs of organisations engaged in:

• project prime contracting
• professional services
• sub-contracting
• joint ventures
• the supply of products, materials or support services

From identifying opportunities onwards

The Pursuit system handles every last detail, right down to the targeting of guests for corporate entertaining and events. It integrates planning, administrative and operational functions and other activities involved in:

• identifying new opportunities
• marketing intelligence acquisition
• monitoring competitors
• lead generation
• the tender preparation process
• the project submission process
• preparing of quotations

A strategic management tool

Pursuit allows you to instantly categorise new opportunities according to contract type, value and timescale, cross-referenced with details about known contacts within a potential customer's organisation and records of partners, sub-contractors and suppliers whose experience or services might be appropriate to the project. The system can also provide a ready means of evaluating relative competitiveness and the likelihood of success based on the analytical assessment of other bidders and your own organisation's track record with past projects of a similar nature. In parallel with its virtues in assisting the winning of new business, Pursuit can serve as a highly effective strategic management tool that greatly simplifies tasks such as resource planning, forward budgeting and the preparation of profit forecasts.

Heavyweight recommendation

Tried, tested and fully proven, Pursuit is in operation with a growing number of major organisations in the construction, civil engineering and allied contracting fields, giving heavyweight testimony to its effectiveness and capabilities. The Pursuit system can be installed at a departmental level or organisation-wide and on laptops. It utilises records transferred from existing databases and can connect with other existing systems and data services such as EMAP Glenigans and ABI. Whether information about new projects and opportunities is systematically researched or is informally acquired during the course of contact with customers and suppliers, Pursuit is designed to ensure that knowledge is automatically pooled and follow-up actions are efficiently co-ordinated.

A standardised system with built-in adaptability

Pursuit's range of business development process, marketing activity and administration modules are designed to ensure that nothing is left to chance. The system can be set up to automatically generate progress monitoring reports and activity schedules, give instant access to project information and tender criteria and operate a consistent structure for the assessment and selection of contract or project partners, suppliers and sub-contractors.

Matched to your specific requirements and business procedures

Standardised systems can be supplied which are configured to the precise needs of individual building and civil engineering organisations, electrical, mechanical and other sub-contractors, products and materials suppliers, architects, quantity surveyors, consulting engineers and other professional services organisations, commercial and residential property developers and property management, facilities management and support services businesses.

Even the Christmas card mailing list

To support the process of preparing tender submissions and bid documents, Pursuit's facilities can include CV compilation and a built-in digital photographic archive. On a different level, it even takes care of Christmas card, gifts and diary recipient lists.

Infinite scalability and connectivity

Although Pursuit is an all-embracing, all-inclusive system, it does not exist in isolation. It can be inter-connected with other software packages, including accounts ledgers. Pursuit is also infinitely scalable. It is a centralised system that can have as many individual points of access as necessary at as many locations as desired. Organisation wide connectivity including IT systems not only in different departments but operated by different divisions or subsidiaries is one of many features that distinguish Pursuit from CRM software it might be superficially compared with.

As up to date as the most recent email

Pursuit functions in real time, which means the information content is as up-to-date as the last action taken and the last email sent or received. Contact records can be equally complete, right down to the number of the last in-bound or outward telephone call.

Adaptability and cost savings come as standard

Pursuit is simple and straightforward to use and does not entail protracted and expensive training. It offers the benefits of a standardised system with built-in adaptability, producing direct savings in software costs and in the time between ordering a system and its installation. From go-ahead, a comprehensive system tailored to individual requirements can be fully up and running in as little as three months.

Built on experience

Pursuit is an experienced provider of dedicated business development, marketing, sales and customer interaction information and management solutions for the construction industry and allied sectors Flexible, versatile and extremely robust, it is compatible with virtually any business standard hardware and software you are likely to operate, either now or in the future. Customised reporting and database features to meet individual requirements are easily accommodated without the high costs and trials and tribulations associated with bespoke software solutions.

A comprehensive range of module options

Pursuit is available with an extensive range of module options that can be selected according to your requirements. Each module is easily customised and configured to meet precise individual procedures and circumstances.

As you peruse the scope indicated here, consider the management efficiency and convenience of having such a comprehensive variety of information in a single system, with each section interlinked so that every file is automatically updated when pertinent or related actions are recorded in a different part of the overall system.

New opportunities databases and marketing intelligence

Information capture from EMAP Glenigan, ABI and other sources, leads generated through direct marketing and sales prospecting activity Unsolicited tender or project invitations. Information on possible new opportunities received from external business contacts, team partners on other projects and similar sources. Formalised information gathering about potential new opportunities from sources within the organisation based at divisional or subsidiary company locations and worksites organisational focus in terms of target project types and sizes.

Operationally and technically, the perfect solution

Pursuit satisfies the requirements of IT managers as effectively as those of business development, marketing and sales executives.

Pursuit runs on any business PC, NC or laptop.

Without change, the same software can be installed across all levels of an organisation, local area and wide area networks or at a departmental or personal level.

Powered by Progress

Pursuit utilises the latest state-of-the-art, fourth generation language technology developed by the Progress Software Corporation. A summary of its key technical features shows that the system satisfies all possible specification criteria:

• Pursuit is deployable on Progress, Oracle, MS SQL and DB2/400 database systems
• It gives transparent, two-way connectivity with databases and file structures including Progress, Oracle, MS SQL, DB2/400, Informix, Sybase and ODBC compliant products
• It operates on a comprehensive variety of server technologies including Windows NT and 2000, Unix, Linux and OS/400
• It is compatible with a range of standard business software packages including Microsoft Office 2000, 2002, XP and 2007, Microsoft Word and WordPro, WordPerfect, Excel and Lotus spread sheets, Outlook and any MAPI compliant email product
• It runs on Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008, Citrix, Microsoft Terminal Server and Internet clients

Dependable system, dependable supplier

The Pursuit business development and marketing management system is robust and utterly dependable. Behind its design is the presumption that, given the application it is built for, no user would tolerate anything less. Choosing Pursuit is a decision you can make with complete confidence. It is the product of a business software developer with a history of system reliability and responsive support that reaches back more than 20 years.

How much easier would it be with Pursuit?

Compare Pursuit's various functions and features with the processes you have to go through now and the administrative time involved to obtain the same range of information using your present business development and marketing management information facilities.

Pursuit gives you the complete picture, instantly accessible to as many people and in as many locations as you require.

See it in action

Consider the way Pursuit could streamline and integrate your organisation's new business generation activities.

Consider the savings in time and the convenience of having a single, master system that integrates all the information necessary for lead generation, the identification of new contract opportunities and the management of all facets of the business development process.

Consider the benefits to be gained by a system that offers the cost savings inherent in an off the shelf solution that can readily be configured to suit reporting, database and procedural requirements unique to your organisation.

Effective information, effective response

Pursuit is specifically designed to meet the information and management needs of project submission and contract tenders and bids processes. By utilising records transferred from existing databases and connection to existing systems which it complements accounts ledgers for example Pursuit enhances the value of an organisation's past investments in IT infrastructure Contact Pursuit now for more information and to arrange a demonstration of the system in action.

From generating opportunities to winning the business - all taken care of in a single integrated management information system

Pursuit is a partner of Progress Software Corporation, which with its subsidiary companies creates and delivers industry leading technologies for building, deploying and securing powerful management process and e-business solutions Progress and WebSpeed are registered trademarks of Progress Software Corporation. For winning new contacts, Pursuit can help you to gain an even sharper competitive edge. Make it the cornerstone of your business development and marketing strategy. Contact Pursuit now. Arrange to see the system in action.

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