Bellwether Software, LLC. Lays Out Product Development For The Next Eighteen Months.

During a recent webinar held on Thursday March 16, 2006 Bellwether laid out its product development Road Map with four scheduled releases and their proposed content.

Release of Version 4.8 – Scheduled for Release by 06/30/2006 will include the following enhancements:

• Web- Enabled Requisition Module – May 30, 2006 Addendum to (V.4.7.3W)
• SMTP E-mail Authentication (V4.8)
• Active Directory Support (V4.8)
  • Message to change password every XX days
  • Check at least six generations of passwords for each Userid
  • XX number of tries before security lock out occurs
  • Passwords to be encrypted vs scrambled
  • Passwords to be changed my end user
• History of the pricing for various vendors (V4.8)
• Receiving Module -- Option to receive all items associated with a
  particular job or project. (V4.8)
• Requisitioning Module -- Import a Build of Materials into the
  requisitioning module from existing custom quoting system. (V4.8)
• Display multiple vendor's price per item (V4.8)
• Ability to budget by General Ledger or Project Number (V4.8)
• RFQ Module -- Select all vendors by commodity type when creating
  RFQs, but add the option to "mass select" them (CTRL-Click) rather than just selecting them one at a time. (V4.8)
• RFQ Module -- Convert all vendor responses from a RFQ to a PO. (V4.8)
• RFQ Module -- Job and project sort options & selection ranges in the RFQ report. (V4.8)
  

Release of Version 4.9 – Scheduled for Release by 09/30/2006 will include the following enhancements:

• Change to provide a warning if accumulated release amount exceeds
  the Upper Dollar Amount using a percentage variance on the control (V4.9)
• The Requisition Status Inquiry screen currently does to have the
  logic built in it to track the status change from a RFQ to a PO.  All the
  keys are updated correctly, and these keys will be set to be accessed by the requisition Status Inquiry Program  (v4.9)
• Select multiple items from catalogues for REQs (V4.9)
• All-IN-One printer support (PDF) (V4.9)

Release of Version 5.0 – Scheduled for Release by 12/31/2006 will include the following enhancements:

• Email on Approval/Order/Receipt (V5.0)
• Convert RFQ quote into a REQ  (V5.0)
• Requisition Module Multi Line  (V5.0)
• Ability to create a REQ send out to create an RFQ get best Price
  and then fill REQ line items and then go through Approval process  (V5.0)
• URL/REQ number in notification email that alerts an approver  (V5.0)
• Requisition Proxy Approval  (V5.0)
• Attach Document to a REQ (V5.0)
  

Release of Version 5.6 – Scheduled for Release by 6/30/2008 will include the following enhancements:

• New Version of PMX that is Completely a Web-Based Product to be delivered at the end of 2Q2007
• MySQL and PHP product platform