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“I’ve test-driven over a hundred CMS applications over the years and used a half dozen in production for clients at various times. Even the best of those pale in comparison to Dialogs.”

— Jeniffer J., Web Developer

Custom apps and data integration the easy way.

A state-of-the-art business website should provide a functional extension of core business interactions. Business communications, customer support, customer feedback, eCommerce, and online customer portals are common examples. How your website manages these functions should be driven by your requirements and should elegantly support your brand. Simply put, "You need an app for that." Dialogs Delivers.

Conduct business 24/7 with web applications.

Dialogs is an excellent choice when your website IS your business. Many businesses have learned that the web is the single biggest point of leverage to increase reach, drive revenue, and secure customer loyalty. Consumers expect to interact on-line with the products and services they need. The Dialogs framework provides a powerful base for building custom web applications that present exactly the on-line user experience you require to support your business initiatives.  

  • Have a catalog of products with complex interrelationships?
    It's been done in Dialogs. 
  • Need to pull data from multiple 3rd party sources, homogenize, reformat and publish it? 
    It's been done in Dialogs. 
  • Have users that would benefit from a Single-Sign-On to multiple back-end services? 
    It's been done in Dialogs. 
  • Need to distribute content via CD-ROM but freshen it over the internet? 
    It's been done in Dialogs. 
  • Have complex Flash animations but want an easier way to update w/o a Flash Developer? 
    It's been done in Dialogs. 
  • Need to push on-line sales data to your accounting system? 
    It's been done in Dialogs. 

You CAN take it with you: Dialogs powers mobile apps.

iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Palm. Many businesses need to extend their reach to an increasingly mobile way. The decision to build an app should include an understanding of how that app will support key business functions and, critically, how that app will be maintained moving forward. Dialogs can easily be the data warehouse for pushing updates to mobile apps on ALL platforms. Since Dialogs powers your website, shouldn't it also power your mobile apps?

Dialogs easily interacts.

One benefit of a Dialogs-powered website is that all content is contained in an SQL database. This means interacting with external sources of data is straightforward. Populating content in new websites, for example, can be more efficient by importing lists of locations, job postings, products, etc. More importantly, on-going, automatic communications with outside data warehouses and web services can keep both your website and you business intelligence systems current. 

Websites in Dialogs can easily import and export content.

Often site owners have portions of website content in electronic form. For example, a brand manager has a spreadsheet that contains the specs for an entire product line. Dialogs can easily import that spreadsheet within seconds.

Most Dialogs users leave the spreadsheets behind as they recognize the advantages of maintaining content in Dialogs:

  • any number of content editors can simultaneously work with the data
  • content editors can access Dialogs from any browser anywhere in the world
  • Dialogs can streamline content entry and reinforce data integrity (e.g., providing drop-down lists to ensure data consistency, etc.).

Exporting data from Dialogs to use in other applications is just as simple. Dialogs can export a comma-delimited file (CSV) - a common data file format because of its compatibility with Word, Excel, Numbers, Pages, InDesign, and more. For example, CSV export is the perfect way to hand off a list of newsletter subscribers (collected by Dialogs) to email campaign software like Constant Contact, Mail Chimp, etc.

Dialogs can talk to external systems.

Large organizations frequently need to exchange data between their website and other systems. Using industry-standard practices such as XML and webservices, Dialogs can communicate with most contemporary systems:

  • accounting software
  • inventory control systems
  • HR software
  • CRM systems
  • and much more.

Dialogs Professional Services can extend Dialogs’ built-in communications capabilities to talk with virtually any back-end system. We’ve built data bridges to talk with AS400 systems, .NET solutions, and databases built in SQL Server, Filemaker Pro, Access, Visual FoxPro, and many more.