Softium - Products - Features and Benefits Overview

Adopt powerful tools to build and sustain customized competitive solutions

     Softium research has indicated that in order to stay in control of all the details of the competitive forces impacting them, Intelligent Office customers need the capability to track these forces with great precision.
     Business managers are interested in features that can help them excel in real world situations- a world in which moves and countermoves are interrupted; resources are not always available and competitive changes are constantly lurking.
     Softium Intelligent Office includes powerful features to help you compete with strength and accuracy. These features have been designed to include ease of use, flexibility and depth of content. All these and many other powerful characteristics combine to let you respond to any competitive challenge that is hindering your performance in the marketplace.

Features	Expected performance
Security	In designing Intelligent Office, Softium took great care in implementing highly sophisticated and answerable security features. First, only authorized users can access the application via a unique user name and a password. Second, when an authorized user makes any modification at all, the application records his/her name and the time and date of the modification in a last-modified-by feature.
Competitive advantage	This is an extremely powerful feature. It highlights the competitive advantages that are helping your competitor erect successful entry barriers against or cause other disruptive behavior with tremendous negative impact on your own success.
Event scheduling	This feature lets you schedule any competitive event, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly or according to any other desired frequency.
Weaknesses	Every competitive situation that is tracked within Softium Intelligent Office comes equipped with a competitive weakness feature that you can use to formulate successful competitive strikes.
Strength	Softium Intelligent Office enables you to focus on the competitive strengths needed for your organization's strategic maneuvers.
Network Readiness	Softium Intelligent Office comes network-ready and can be deployed throughout your organization for a wholesome, disciplined and more organized competitive effort.
Reactions	To improve and sustain your market position, you must react to your competitor's moves. Softium Intelligent Office presents a formidable set of reaction features to counter every competitive behavior.
Competitive formulas	Behind every successful business there is a formula. Softium Intelligent Office lets you bring successful (or unsuccessful) competitive formulas under the microscope for future executions.
Sources	A vast and rich spectrum of every imaginable source of competitive information is featured in this part of Softium Intelligent Office to let you adopt and nurture your own suitable sources.
Competitive threat assessment	Softium Intelligent Office offers five different origins of competitive threats. Namely from current players, horizontal integrators, forward integrators, backward integrators and substituter. The features deployed here allow you to detect threats long before they materialize so that you might formulate your own appropriate reactions.
Events	Every company experiences events that leave lasting impacts on how it will compete in the future. Softium Intelligent Office has flexible features to let you identify and integrate these events into your daily decisions and long-term strategies.
Marketing vehicles	Softium Intelligent Office is equipped with an extremely extensive marketing feature that highlights your competitor's methods of bringing products into the marketplace.
Competitive incidents	This is a feature designed to help you see where your competitors have failed and succeeded so that you can include the results into your strategic plans.
Commitments	All of your competitors are committed to certain market forces one way or another. With Softium Intelligent Office, you can determine how far your competitors can challenge your every move just by deploying this feature.
Assumptions	Assumptions are widely used by many managers when they formulate their short and long-term strategies. With this feature you can transform competitive assumptions into a more accurate science.
Compatibility	The compatibility feature is capable of displaying what your competitor can and can not do, thus allowing you to deploy formulas and strategies with higher rates of success.
Application deployment	This is a remarkably extensive and easy to use feature. It allows you to incorporate every little competitive datum from all of your competitive task force members.
Competitive task Assignment	This feature lets you selectively pick your competitive team members based on their expertise and other qualifying criteria. Competitive tasks are thus distributed appropriately throughout your organization. Members can interact amongst each other to generate valuable intelligence that can be used to improve their departments operations.
Cross-Department linking	This feature enables you to create links and dependencies between personnel from various company departments.
Trend tracking	This is another Intelligent Office feature that is available throughout the application. It enables you to focus on competitive trends in order to plan against competitive moves and/or design and launch your own attacks.
Competitor usage	This dynamic feature allows you to view the competitor and the product (or service) that are actually under consideration.
Competitor unlimited entry	Here you can view as many competitors as you wish each with its own competing product(s). Once the competitor and the product are launched, the entire Softium Intelligent Office application becomes dedicated to those two parameters. With few clicks, you can suddenly look at a totally different competitor with its own product(s) or service(s).