About Us

Corporate Profile
Advanced Concepts, Inc. is a privately-held software developer and solutions provider of customer relationship management, wholesale distribution, and point of sale software applications based in Milwaukee, WI.   Founded in 1980, Advanced Concepts started with providing business management solutions based upon Open System® Accounting Software to small – mid-size businesses.  Today we are recognized by Open Systems as a Premier Partner and a national software developer of 3rd party solutions integrated with their family of accounting and business applications.

In 1986, Advanced Concepts released its first commercial software application based upon Open Systems Accounting Software for wholesale distributors and retailers called Order PLUS!™.  This product is installed in over 300 sites today throughout the United States and is available for Linux, UNIX, and Windows network operating environments.

In 1992, Advanced Concepts purchased the software rights to a sales force automation application called SalesCTRL™.  This product was originally developed by Sales and Marketing Systems, Inc., an early pioneer in the sales force automation market in the mid 1980’s.   Advanced Concepts rewrote the product for Microsoft Windows using Visual Fox Pro® in 1997, and is now rewriting SalesCTRL as a .NET application along with a new Report Writer scheduled for release in late Q2 2009.

Advanced Concepts released an optional Automated Marketing application for SalesCTRL in 1999 and followed up with a Data Synchronization option for remote users in 2001. 

The HotLink integration to Open Systems Accounting Software and TRAVERSE® was released in 2002.  The SalesCTRL HotLink provides customer account, item, order and sales history drill-downs, auto-creation of new customers, order processing, quoting, and the ability to email/print acknowledgements and quotes directly from the SalesCTRL contact screen.

Our solutions and services are sold nationally through our partner channel and a direct sales organization.
Expertise

Today our business consists of three practice areas: 

  1. Customer relationship management and automated marketing solutions based upon SalesCTRL

                                 
     

  2. Accounting and information management solutions including Order PLUS!, support and custom programming based on OSAS and TRAVERSE Open Systems Holdings, Inc.

                                                    

  3. Systems integration, network security, open source solutions, IP Telephony, offsite backup, thin-client technologies, WAN/LAN connectivity, and remote access solutions based upon Microsoft Terminal Services, Citrix Essentials,  Windows Server 2008, Small Business Server and SUSE Linux platforms.  

    We specialize in these solutions from our business partners:

    

 

                          
             


                                       

 

 

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