Office Small Business Management Edition 2006 is a comprehensive management solution designed to address the needs of small businesses. It combines familiar Microsoft Office 2003 programs with complete contact management and accounting programs to help business owners manage their customers, finances and day-to-day tasks in one place. Office Small Business Management Edition 2006 provides the powerful capabilities of the Microsoft Office System, while putting new tools into the hands of small business owners. These tools give small business owners a complete view of their business, helping them manage business finances, save time and minimize errors, provide employees with the tools they need to be successful, and build stronger customer relationships by delivering better customer service and capturing sales opportunities.

This new edition includes these Office programs:

Microsoft Office Word 2003

Microsoft Office Excel 2003

Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003

Microsoft Office Access 2003

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager Update Microsoft Office Small Business Accounting 2006

Office Small Business Management Edition 2006 can help owners and managers:

Easily manage business finances with a full-featured accounting program that has the same familiar Office interface.

Build stronger customer relationships by being prepared with a complete view of customers and more in-depth knowledge on prospects and sales opportunities, all in one place.

Integrate business processes with Office programs to save time and decrease errors by eliminating duplicate data entry.

Increase employee efficiency by enabling access and sharing of relevant financial and customer information, streamlining employees’ day-to-day customer and business tasks. The result? An organized, unified and professional approach that enables small-business owners and managers to run their companies more efficiently and productively, while reducing the time they spend on administrative tasks.

Office Small Business Management Edition 2006 is different from Microsoft Business Solutions products such as Great Plains, Axapta and Solomon software because it is an out-of-the box software program specifically designed to meet the needs of businesses with fewer than 25 employees. With Office Small Business Management Edition 2006, small businesses can combine the features and functionality of the Office 2003 programs with Small Business Accounting 2006, an easy-to-use accounting solution that provides broad financial-management tools and Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager Update, a contact-management solution designed for small businesses. When the needs of a small business become more complex, it can upgrade seamlessly to Microsoft Business Solutions products. Microsoft Business Solutions is designed to meet the needs of small and mid-size organizations, building on and growing existing Microsoft solutions within the organization.

Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager Update is an Outlook 2003 update designed to help entrepreneurs, salespeople and employees in small businesses better manage their business contacts and sales opportunities in a single-user contact-management solution. As a part of the Office Small Business Management Edition 2006, it can be linked with Small Business Accounting 2006 to enable financial integration, including account balances and financial-transaction history. Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager Update helps manage opportunities and sales prospects effectively throughout the sales cycle by tracking important information — such as revenue potential, probability of closing and expected close date — so that no opportunity falls through the cracks. It can even extend business and customer information to the field through the use of the Pocket PC: field personnel have the customer information at hand, and any changes are synchronized when the Pocket PC is connected through its cradle to the computer. New multi-user access enables employees to have direct visibility into the company’s sales pipeline. Sales leads can get better information for forecasting revenues and allocating resources, and any employee with relevant, appropriate access can respond quickly to customers, armed with comprehensive customer financial history, transaction, contact and communications information.

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