A sales presentation generation system which integrates customer specific information with a selling entity element to generate a presentation item for the sale of a product customized for a particular customer of the selling entity. The customized presentation item may be constructed in a manner which reinforces the identity of the selling entity element by integrating customer solution information with a selling entity element having an impression characteristics which indirectly conveys the identity of the selling entity. A portion of the customer solution may be presented to the customer in a manner which maintains such impression characteristics of the selected selling entity element so as to convey a desired corporate "image". A presentation item generated using the system may be further, or in the alternative, customized in accordance with the type of customer to which the presentation is directed. Accordingly, the present system significantly enhances the impact of sales presentations and the likelihood of consummating a sale.
The invention provides a layout system suitable for producing an optimum layout when the attributes of the published information are not clearly determined in advance. The layout system can include a content distribution terminal that selects an article from the content registration DB and a page template from the template registration DB according to the number of characters of the selected article and produces a layout of the article according to the selected page template. Specifically, the total number of characters of an unpublished article is calculated, and the average number of characters in each of unprocessed pages is calculated on the basis of the total number of characters, the maximum number of pages and the current number of pages. Then, a page template with the number of publishable characters suitable for the calculated average number of characters is selected from the template registration DB.
A system is disclosed for supporting interactive presentations to a customer. A customer characteristic is received from a sales representative presentation device. A presentation data is extracted from a sales force automation tool wherein the presentation data is tailored to the customer based on the customer characteristic. The presentation data is transmitted to the sales representative presentation device.
A personalized electronic commerce marketing system wherein in-person sales representatives personally visit potential customers to improve the efficacy of the on-line marketing effort.
An information processing apparatus includes a channel selection task. The channel selection task controls an application program interface (API) to load a detecting microcode into a transport stream processor. The transport stream processor detects a transport stream based on the microcode, and outputs a signal representing detection of the transport stream to an interruption handler. The interruption handler outputs a semaphore signal to the channel selection task. The channel selection task controls the API to output an audiovisual microcode to the transport stream processor. The transport stream processor acquires program-specification information based on the microcode. The transport stream processor performs direct memory access transfer of the information to a memory 28, and outputs an interruption signal representing completion of the transfer to a software driver. The interruption handler outputs a semaphore signal representing completion of the transfer to the channel selection task. The channel selection task analyzes the information from the memory 28, and controls the transport stream processor to output a list of programs.
A computer system which permits inventory information to be used in connection with a technology enabled selling (TES) system to facilitate a sale is disclosed. The inventory information may be used during configuration of an item to be sold to a customer in a manner which allows the sales representative to more easily sell items from inventory if desired.
