Octant Features: Innovation and Leadership beyond 'me-too' collaboration tools
Octant features a powerful suite of capture management, proposal management and IDIQ task order management software capabilities that improve and support the business development lifecycle process.
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Software made easy to solve complex BD life-cycle problems.
Available in the cloud or on-premises (SaaS, IaaS and PaaS), Octant helps you navigate the full procurement process (capture management, proposal management, bid management, IDIQ task order management and contract management) by going beyond the show limits of simple SharePoint ‘plug-ins’ and changing basic meta-tag information.
- Octant PowerTools™: Advanced software tools that save you an incredible amount of time WHILE increasing your proposal content quality.
- Deep business analytics and patented algorithms to support informed bid/no-bid decisions
- Customizable workflows based on capture, task order and proposal management best practices
- Automation of critical capture, proposal and IDIQ task order management processes
- Professionally developed and tested software created over the past 10 years to meet the specific vertical needs of enterprise business development (capture, proposals, IDIQ task orders, teaming partners, contracts, security, API/integration, etc…).
- A single integrated enterprise platform to take you well beyond the basic document sharing tools, simple plug-ins and point solutions that exist today.
- Support: Highly acclaimed 24/7 support with direct access to our dedicated in-house software engineers, technicians and instructors.
Streamlined capture, proposal / RFP and task order execution.
- Fully-customizable proposal management workflows that keep your virtual proposal center, capture managers and teaming partners in synch. Backed by at-a-glance dashboards, capture, and proposal center managers and proposal management professionals have access to the capabilities they need to drive the streamlined development of winning proposals.
- Easy cross-organizational and teaming partner communication in many ways – and we support and have experience with the most rigid security and firewall/IDS systems.
- Dramatically increase your production with real-time joint editing with simultaneous reviewers for capture and proposal documents and color team reviews.
- As an enterprise platform, our APIs allow you to easily connect connect to Salesforce.com, Microsoft Dynamics and GovWin to update your other business development infrastructure.
- Utilize a master schedule to keep tabs on all milestones, dependencies and deliverables.
- Allocate tasks, assignment set deadlines and provide templates.
- Hold sales and marketing, capture, proposal, teaming partner and task order content under configuration control.
- Enforce capture and proposal process best practices.
- Receive automatically generated and tracked alerts for events.
- And much more…
Quality control, performance and process.
Octant’s PowerTools™ dramatically saves you time and increase content quality with:
- Deep insights with bid/no-bids processes
- Capture plan management
- Compliance matrix and opportunity insights
- Content, document and image automation tools
- Content quality analysis
In addition here are just a couple of other items Octant can help you with:
- Show writers and authors’ individual tasks, schedules, and deadlines at log-in.
- Synchronize capture, proposal and task order events quickly and easily.
- Access previous or approved content to maximize a team’s productivity and ensure consistent processes with both your internal resources and external teaming partners.
A centralized capture and proposal document repository.
- Octant allows you to access information from previous capture efforts, proposals, current proposal elements, templates and proposal processes.
- Make the ‘bid’ or ‘no bid’ decision early on with well informed information collected from your enterprise.
- Manage resumes, past performance, boiler-plate, templates and teaming partner information.
- Retain intellectual property in the company’s knowledge database.
In-depth reporting and analytics.
Get automatically generated reports in the format required by the management team.
Version control and audit trail.
View the complete proposal development history, with all capture and proposal content, including the graphics and resume library, under version control with a full audit trail.
High-speed search.
Use the high-speed search engine to locate and incorporate previous proposal information through full-text, meta-tag and Boolean search capabilities.
Extensive System Compatibility
Seamlessly integrate with customer relationship management, accounting and other back-office systems, including Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Salesforce.com and GovWin.
