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Feb 27, 2008
Beganto introduces paid samples on Need-A-Sample -
Supplementing its breakthrough product Need-A-Sample®, Beganto, Inc. has launched the much awaited tool which allows engineers to buy samples from distributors. The earlier version of the Need-A-Sample facilitated getting free samples from suppliers. This additional capability is based on market research that found that engineers often prefer buying samples. In other cases, free part samples may not be available from suppliers but may be with the distributor for sale. Other than the leading catalog houses, most distributors did not have the tools needed to cost effectively facilitates sample purchases.
July 27, 2007
Beganto's
BeON network adds blog to stimulate engineer dialogue -
Adding a new dimension to its networking function, Silicon Valley-based tracking solutions provider Beganto is now giving engineers an opportunity for sharing technology insights at http://beganto.blogspot.com. Ranging in subject matter from LED technology advances to background on Bluetooth, the on-line dialogue supplements Beganto’s basic service to engineers, giving them easy access to product data and evaluation samples (through www.needasample.com) and facilitating management for component suppliers of the resulting new business opportunities.
April 25, 2007
Beganto
and Budde Marketing join for EDS workshop panel -
Managing NBOs in a Global Marketplace and a Long Tail World
will be the topic of panel discussion during the Electronic
Distribution Show and Conference in Las Vegas, with panelists
from Panasonic and Digi-Key discussing their experiences and
practices in sampling, demand creation, and tracking new business
opportunities with POS specialist Mike Budde of Budde Marketing
and online design win tracking solutions provider Sunil Grover
of Beganto. The session will be held on Tuesday May 15th at
1 PM in the Paris Hotel’s Versailles Ballroom.
April 17, 2007
US
A’SYCK adopts Beganto system
for closed loop design win tracking -
Need a sample LED? US A’SYCK Corporation, Irvine CA
now gives engineers easy access to product data and evaluation
samples of its LEDs, numeric displays, lamps and bar lighting,
through www.needasample.com.
In addition, US A’SYCK will
facilitate its management of the resulting new business opportunities
through the Beganto closed loop feedback and tracking system,
Design Winner™.
March 30, 2007
Design activity in India booms as sample requests double annually -
Need-A-Sample® Close to 1000 engineers in India do, and are
increasingly using www.needasample.com to
access them, says Sunil Grover, CEO of Beganto. So do major
distributors (Avnet, Future, WPI) to access samples for their
customers. Grover interprets both phenomena as partially relating
to the lack in India of good sampling support from component
suppliers.
February 27, 2007
EEPN
adds Beganto’s time-saving Need-A-Sample®
as a further tool for design engineers - Need-A-Sample®
EEPN®, the “time-saving tool for today’s design
engineer” offers a new time-saving tool for its readers,
and a new management tool for its advertisers. Through an alliance
with Beganto, EEPN and its sister eMedia properties, EEPN2™ and www.eepn.com,
now provide direct links to Beganto’s www.needasample.com “buy
side” sampling and tracking tool for products from sponsoring
component suppliers.
December 5, 2006
Beganto And Budde Marketing Announce Marketing
Alliance - “Point of sale reporting and tracking design wins to the
point of manufacture are two sides of the same coin, “ says Mike Budde
of Budde Marketing Systems, in announcing a new cross-selling agreement with
Beganto, whose online software application facilitates tracking component opportunities
from sampling, through design win, RFQ and purchase order, to the point of manufacture.
Sunil Grover, CEO of Beganto, agrees. “Both we and Budde Marketing have
built our businesses on the principle that sales people need to get the compensation
they have earned for demand creation.”
October 1, 2006
Beganto survey details: Search and Sampling habits of Engineers – How often, How many, and How -
How many projects does the typical engineer start in the
course of a year, and how does the number of projects correlate
with the number of samples needed to develop a design?
Those were among the questions asked in a recent survey
among members of the Beganto Open Network who have used
its Need-A-Sample® application within the past six months.
August 25, 2006
Beganto's Global Tracker™ follows component shipments to top four cems in first month - Beganto, the Silicon Valley on-line solutions provider that covers the design chain from search to sample to sourcing and design win has successfully gone live with its semi- final stage application- Global TrackerT Lite.
April 26, 2006
Global tracking processes detailed in comprehensive new white paper - Standard business processes for global tracking of designs from inception to fulfillment are detailed in a new white paper just published by Beganto, Inc., as the first documented set of step-by-step recommendations for a common platform which can be applied by component suppliers, their reps and distributors, and their OEM customers, to improve communication, productivity and profitability.
April 19, 2006
Beganto introduces Global Tracker™ at EDS, closing the loop on its search-sample-source-track system - With its launch here at EDS of Global Tracker™, Beganto now closes the loop, offering the only start-to-finish demand creation and tracking system for the electronics industry.
April 19, 2006
Beganto joins EDS panel on getting paid for demand creation - One of the "hot" topics on the electronic industry's agenda today is tracking product from the point of design to the point of manufacture anywhere in the world. At EDS 2006 in Las Vegas, a panel of industry experts will zero in on the crux of the issue - making sure that sales forces are properly compensated for their roles in "making it happen."
March 24, 2006
EDS Matchmaker 4.0, powered by Beganto, facilitates manufacturer-distributor show appointments - Matchmaker, a popular on-line service to bring distributors and manufacturers together at the Electronic Distribution Show and Conference, has just been upgraded with new features to bring distributors together with suppliers in specific product categories at EDS, and to help suppliers locate and set up EDS appointments with distributors serving specific geographies.
March 16, 2006
Beganto pro bono activities for industry shows and associations - When private enterprise makes common cause with the not-for-profit sector, the win-win dimension goes far beyond the parties directly involved, says Sunil Grover, CEO of Beganto, Inc. Beganto provides companies in the electronics industry a sophisticated web-based system for selecting, sampling, sourcing and tracking products through the supply chain; but it also supplies important services pro bono to industry associations and trade shows.
February 9, 2006
New Open Search Engine announced by Beganto optimized for electronic components - Sophisticated searching for components, by key word or by part number, just got better and easier. Beganto, Inc. has introduced a new vertical search engine (www.beganto.com/search.jsp) that seamlessly connects engineers with the parts they need, facilitates sample requests, and provides access to real time pricing and availability.
December 12, 2005
Intelleflex COO Naresh Batra joins Beganto advisory board - Naresh Batra, co-founder and COO of mixed-signal RFID semiconductor manufacturer Intelleflex Corp., has joined the advisory board of Beganto, Inc., software solution provider for demand creation and design win tracking for electronic components.
November 4, 2005
Demand creation and design win tracking -Industry problem finds Beganto solution - Search. Sample. Select. And now source. A new RFQ capability adds a further tracking step to Beganto's on-line process for managing new business opportunities as they evolve into design wins and volume production orders; and it also adds a new level of partnering between component suppliers and their distributors.
August 24, 2005
Beganto survey shows manufacturer web sites trump alternate methods in the search and sample process - Where do engineers go first for reference information and sample procurement in the design process? A Beganto survey reveals that manufacturer web sites are the route of choice in both the search and sample processes - the place of first resort for 81% of respondents in data searches and 79% when it's time to request samples.
August 16, 2005
Beganto partners with Mouser to add fulfillment service to Design Winner™
Beganto, Inc. has announced a new sample fulfillment feature for its Design Winner system, the on-line tracking process that facilitates managing component opportunities for component manufacturers, while it expedites the sampling process for electronic design engineers.
June 28, 2005
Beganto's Grover applauds NEDA White Paper on demand creation - Timely, comprehensive, and well balanced are the adjectives used by Sunil Grover, CEO of Beganto, Inc., in responding to NEDA's distribution of its draft position paper on demand creation payments.
May 31, 2005
Beganto EDS Presentation suggests new positioning paradigm for distributors and field sales - With new information on how engineers are using the Internet to search for parts, Sunil Grover, CEO of Beganto, Inc., operators of BeON, the Beganto Open Network, challenged an EDS seminar audience of manufacturers, distributors, reps and media executives to find new methods for tracking and managing new business opportunities.
April 26, 2005
Beganto announces ERA alliance, Provides benefits to member reps and to the association - Beganto, Inc. today announced that it has formed an alliance with the Electronics Representatives Association to stimulate rep and manufacturer participation in the Beganto Open Network (BeON™).
March 29, 2005
Beganto survey at Embedded Systems Conference reveals how sampling is embedded in the minds of Engineers - A "quickie" survey of engineers at the Embedded Systems Conference in March in San Francisco gives the industry quantified information not previously available about how designers access component samples to complete their design projects.
February 28, 2005
Beganto offers Component Manufacturers success-based pricing plan for Design Win Tracking System - Electronic component manufacturers send engineers thousands of free samples every day, but it’s been hard to know which found their way into new product designs. Beganto now provides a pricing plan for its Design Winner™ application that allows manufacturers to experience the powerful functionality of Design Winner for sample management and tracking and pay only when they succeed in converting a sample into a design win.
January 28, 2005
Beganto simplifies Component sampling with second generation Need-A-Sample® application - A new level of productivity and efficiency has been brought to the component sampling process, through a new online application from Beganto, Inc. The Need-A-Sample® application, which is accessible at www.needasample.com, not only helps engineers access the samples they need, but also helps them monitor and manage the progress of their requests.
December 21, 2004
Beganto Expands Design Win Management Capabilities with Acquisition of Alatron Software Corporation - Alatron software is a natural complement to Beganto’s market-sensitive solutions that speed product search and the delivery of product data, create and protect design wins, and track sales globally for the electronic components industry.
December 14, 2004
New Beganto Open Network Generates Leads Online, Tracks Design Wins - The Beganto Open Network (BeON™ for short), connects manufacturers, their local reps and their distributors with engineers looking for product samples for new electronic equipment designs.
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