Services

Beachwood Systems Consulting, Inc. has been working with Customer Relationship Management systems like GoldMine from FrontRange and MS CRM from Microsoft since 1992.  Let our expertise work for you in planning, implementing and supporting your customer-facing organization.  Beachwood Systems can help you with Needs Analysis, Implementation, Training, On-going Support and Assessment services.

Needs Analysis

Purchasing a new system is a minimum five year commitment.  Identifying your important business processes and implementing a system well-suited to handling those processes is critical.  The right decisions will make everyone’s jobs easier.  The wrong path will not.  To ensure good decision making, preparing solid needs analysis is a must.  Beachwood Systems can serve in an independent and objective role to interview key managers and users, review the system in use, and prepare a needs analysis.  The resulting requirements can be matched to GoldMine, Microsoft CRM or any other vendors’ software you are considering.  This approach makes the decision making process substantially easier when considering dozens of inter-related complex issues.  Solid needs analysis is the foundation to all successful systems projects.  The value of this process cannot be over-emphasized. 

Implementation

Implementing an enterprise wide solution requires a great deal of time and effort from many people with functional expertise within the client company as well as from outside experts of the software. Here are the key points of the Beachwood Systems' implementation approach refined with 20 plus years of experience.

When the above points are followed, the implementation will be a success.

Training

Thorough and timely training is a critical element to a successful system implementation.  Please see our CRM training page for more information. 

On-Going Support

One criteria we measure ourselves by is the responsiveness of our support.  If you have a problem, whether a basic reporting issue, software bug or your system is down, we are going to be there for you, not only during the day, but at night and weekends too if you select the emergency pager option on a support plan.  Urgent phone calls are returned promptly during the workday.  You are the customer, we are the service provider, and we never forget that.

Support is more than just solving problems; it's looking at your operation on a continuing basis and providing recommendations as to how you can get more and more out of the software. Your business is constantly changing to meet market demands and we will be there to help you adapt and prosper.  Please see the Support Options page for additional information.

Out-Sourcing

Focus on your core competencies.  If you believe your people can be more productive by focusing on your business rather than learning the nuts and bolts underlying your CRM system, you may want to consider outsourcing complete system administration to Beachwood Systems.  It takes time, effort, training, and mistakes for an internal employee to learn to administer a CRM system well, maintain system users and security, modify codes to accommodate changes in customer demands, create reports, and answer detailed questions on functionality.  There have been countless cases of companies getting someone up-to-speed in this specialized role, only to see them move on and have to start over.  For less than the cost of an employee, Beachwood Systems can completely administer your system with highly experienced professionals.

System Assessment

Beachwood Systems also offers an assessment service.  An assessment provides an unbiased look at how your organization uses your existing CRM system to support your business and recommends improvements to further leverage your software and training investment.  This formalized approach is recommended for any organization of any size.  Revisiting and rediscovering your business processes and the systems that support them is a healthy business practice.