Randburg, South Africa, 7 March 2007 ? Jumping Bean has introduced a suite of applications that are meant to boost the operations of Small to Medium businesses. The company, which is dedicated to providing cost-effective and reliable Open Source applications that best suit the requirements of its clients, offers user-friendly applications that can even be operated by technical novices .
Open-source applications have an edge over the commercial varieties in that they are affordable, stable and reliable. Another added advantage is that, since the code is available, they can be customised to deliver the desired result.
The first one in the list of the full-service applications being offered by Jumping Bean is the SME Server. As its name denotes, this server was designed specially for the SMEs who can host their website and/or intranet on it. It is also a high performance email server that can be used to send email to and from clients. What's more, company employees are given remote access to their emails whilst on field trips and this gives them freedom to work from wherever they would be. They can equally have access to their office PC and complete tasks away from the office.
One its features, i-bays, is a unique communication feature that enables employees to collaborate on projects without necessarily being in the same place. Dr Hans-Cees Speel had this to say about the SME Server, ?It can be installed for multiple domains. It is rock solid. It is my dream server?.
For those businesses that would like to maintain personalised and intelligent contact with their customers, Jumping Bean offers a Customer Relationships Management application called vTiger. Data is collected from all sources within the company and is stored intelligently using vTiger.
The application to manage information on leads, opportunities, accounts, contacts, activities. It enables the analysis of sales per specified period and facilitates product customisation according to the unique requirements of each customer.
KnowledgeTree is another application offered by Jumping Bean. This application is a document management system that promotes the effortless storage and retrieval of essential company stationery. It can be used to store, track and monitor documents thus taking way the pain associated with trying to locate a particular document that is required at a precise moment.
About Jumping Bean
Jumping Bean is a Randburg-based provider of Linux and Java solutions. Its philosophy is predicated on the need to deliver on the promises of Open Source.Over the last 5 years Jumping Bean has built up extensive experience evaluating, integrating and modifying numerous open source components into powerful cost effective solutions. This experience enables us to offer standard open source solutions for common business applications and to offer our integration and application development skills to build custom solutions to unique business problems.
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