Design Solutions for System Integrators

Whether you are creating physical data networks or deploying converged VoIP solutions, Netformx® Design Solutions reduce quoting, design and provisioning errors and help identify opportunities for providing profitable value-added professional services. Systems Integrators using Netformx Solutions have reported dramatic increases in productivity and profitability by ensuring that solutions and services sold can actually be deployed and implemented - successfully.

Imagine increased profitability by reducing costly design errors, shortening sales cycles, improving productivity, and facilitating true collaboration among sales and implementation teams.

Imagine a fast, accurate and efficient opportunity-to-order cycle – from automating customer network requirements gathering to generating detailed, comprehensive proposals.

Imagine winning deals faster and confidently handing them off to provisioning and implementation teams to deliver enterprise network solutions successfully. 

Netformx integrated quoting, proposal generation and rules-based design engines are purpose-built for the networking industry. Our fine-tuned software engines rely on the world’s most extensive multi-vendor KnowledgeBase™ of networking equipment which includes catalog, extensive data sheet and manufacturer information coupled with configuration and pricing rules.

 

The Challenges

Systems Integrators large and small are dealing with increasingly complex network designs that incorporate network products and services from a broad and diverse range of vendors.  Some of the key challenges include:

• Increasing profitability
• Keeping pace with the latest information on network vendors’ products, services and design guidelines
• Securing accurate baseline information about the customer’s existing network
• Providing standard, centralized information to ensure design consistency
• Identifying opportunities to provide value added services
• Developing best practices to increase design efficiencies
• Increasing collaboration across organizations

 

The Solutions

Netformx offers Systems Integrators a suite of software solutions that can be used to build a comprehensive tool kit based on the types of solutions you are designing.

The cornerstone of this tool kit is Netformx DesignXpert®, a desktop application that replaces an entire set of conventional network design tools, online configurators, graphics tools such as Visio, word processing templates, spreadsheet templates, and proposal generators.

Leverage the Netformx KnowledgeBase - the single largest repository of expert information ever created for networking products and technologies.  The “public” content consists of up-to-date multi-vendor information on over 200,000 devices and over two million design rules from top manufacturers.  This may be supplemented with secure “private” (customer-specific) content that contains information on your proprietary services, policies, best practices, prices and configuration rules.

Other benefits of DesignXpert include:

• Shorten the entire sales cycle and accelerate revenue flow
• Accelerates time-to-market for latest technologies
• Reduces ordering and implementation errors and automatically generates accurate bill-of-materials, statement-of-work and other comprehensive reports
• Enable corporate-level and personal best practices, and reusability of previous designs

Netformx was the first company to recognize that network design goes beyond the physical components and often must include services.  If MPLS or Managed Services are part of your portfolio, Netformx offers MPLS Designer™ and Managed Services Designer™ - tailored to include your unique offerings including price lists, design parameters and rules.

SalesXpert™ is a web-based solution designed for Sales Representatives and Account Managers.  It is an intelligent Advisor that empowers network sales professionals to be more self-sufficient during the earliest stages of the sales cycle - guiding you to quickly and accurately convert customer requirements into technical solutions.  Reserve valuable engineering resources for later stages in a sales cycle or for opportunities that are more complex.  Because SalesXpert leverages the same KnowledgeBase as DesignXpert, it can be used in customer meetings to create real-time high-level “what if” scenarios to help customers zero in on the design that will best meet their technical and financial needs.

DesignCentral™ - A centralized, structured and automated opportunity-to-management platform that enables you to connect people, information and processes - and helps to reduce the inherent risk associated with complex network designs.

When you combine the intelligence of the Netformx design tools, with its one-of-a-kind centralized KnowledgeBase and powerful collaboration engine, you will experience significant business benefits including increased profitability, productivity, accuracy and expediency.

Click Here to see how leading design professionals around the world are using Netformx Solutions to increase sales, improve productivity, promote collaboration and minimize errors throughout the entire opportunity-to-proposal cycle.

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