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Buying mobile CRM: are you the cornered mammoth or the hunter?
24-01-2019

So, you think installing mobile CRM will give you a head start on your competition? Carefully choosing a package, installing it, training people and done. But then, it doesn’t appear to be all that easy. You start to feel like you’re doing it all wrong. You might even start to identify with the oblivious mammoth who is about to take a wrong step and get himself irrevocably stuck.

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“Not only pure-blooded IT specialists, but skilled change managers…”
20-12-2018

We received this nice compliment from Resco.net. You can also read it on their website: “To guide businesses through digital transformation, Avento’s staff are not only pure-blooded IT specialists, but skilled change managers…”. They then continue: “They enable effective collaboration between a client’s back office and field teams, so the latter can always fully concentrate on the customer.”

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Tom Saenen on Avento: “The best of both worlds”
06-12-2018

Business Consultant Tom Saenen is enjoying himself at Avento and is happy to give us a look behind the scenes. He’s been with Avento for 6 months now and has over 10 years of experience in similar functions. As such, he is the ideal person to give an evaluation of Avento.

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Everyone an expert at planning with Avento
05-12-2018

FMCG365 – Planning tools

Efficient CRM cannot exist without the possibility of swiftly and easily changing work schedules. Because when you manage client relations, you depend on other people’s schedule too. On top of that, an FMCG environment requires specific actions and setups – store checks, sales support, supply management – that allow you to act quickly.

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Top performer with a remarkable profile: our mobile partner Resco.net
04-12-2018

Picked up by research authority Gartner earlier this year, a new and large client every day, hundreds of thousands of users and more than 2.000 corporate clients in over 100 countries? That’s a name you should know. However, when we tell the story of the Remote Solutions Company (Resco), a company founded in 1999 in the Slovakian capital Bratislava, most people raise their eyebrows.

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Where were you during Horeca Expo???
05-11-2018

What Duvel, Java and Westmalle were doing at Avento’s stand during Horeca Expo? Well, they are leading brands in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods that have been relying on our FMCG365 for their mobile CRM for quite some time now.

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Why have one beer when you’re paying for four?
26-10-2018

Obviously, this almost never happens. However, in the case of software… As a privileged partner of Microsoft, we got to get something off our chest. We notice that the many fantastic possibilities of Microsoft Office 365 E3 aren’t actually used that often. Many people don’t even know them: more than half of the tools in the Office 365 package are hardly or never used. So, you see? You actually are ignoring three tasty beers!

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Three advantages of Avento’s account card
16-10-2018

FMCG365 – Master data

Avento’s FMCG365 is a mobile CRM solution with a set of powerful qualities that can further strengthen your leading position. FMCG365 is based on the common standards on the FMCG market and is easily configurable according to the specific needs of your company. In this blog, we will shed some light on all the different functions.

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Three steps to really empower your team with FMCG365
15-10-2018

Are all possibilities put to good use? Is there any room for improvement? And how can we bring about this improvement? These are all vital questions that are relevant to every level in a company, from CEO to employee. For your sales division, providing your teams with the right insights and appropriate coaching is key in order for them to raise their efficiency. That’s the way to team empowerment.

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3 tips for optimising the workload for your field workers
09-08-2018

What are people working on? You often hear ‘The category Managers are on the road’.  But anything can happen ‘on the road’ 😉

Who is doing what? How do you, as Category Manager or Marketing & Sales Manager, divide the work across the regions so that nobody is over or underused? Does X or Y perhaps have a little space to do more? How can we expand to new regions? The standard answer that ‘everyone is on the road’ is not really adequate.

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