Blur Group PLC SERVICES PURCHASING AUTOMATED WITH BLUR 5.0
February 04 2015 - 3:00AM
RNS Non-Regulatory
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Blur Group PLC
04 February 2015
blur Group plc
("blur," the "Group" or the "Company")
SERVICES PURCHASING AUTOMATED WITH BLUR 5.0
4 February, 2015: blur Group, the international e-commerce
company providing a better way for businesses to buy or sell
services, is releasing the latest upgrade of its e-commerce
platform. blur 5.0 enables automation of the pitch selection
process shaving weeks off of the time taken by businesses to find a
solution that fits their exact requirements.
The release of blur 5.0 removes the need to wade through dozens
of tender documents to shortlist the best supplier pitches.
Instead, the shortlist will be generated by the machine
intelligence capabilities of blur Sense(TM) which uses a set of
proprietary algorithms to automatically match suppliers and their
pitches with the requirements of the brief. Further enhancements
will see full scanning of pitch documents to provide an accurate
shortlist of the top three tenders.
As well as shortening the pitch process for clients, the new
technology will allow blur's business to scale more rapidly with
fewer man hours consumed shortlisting pitches that right now, can
run into hundreds per project brief.
The new release also brings improved notification and messaging
services, allowing customers and service providers to communicate
better within the platform. Both buyers and sellers will be kept up
to date and prompted to take action on their project through the
introduction of key notifications throughout the entire project
life cycle.
Collaboration also takes a stride forward with the
implementation of on-platform messaging enabling both buyers and
sellers to freely communicate about their project without the need
to use separate e-mail or instant messaging tools.
This combination of both notification and messaging systems
further enhances the security and viability of project
progress.
The initial update sees the integration of service provider
community features within the seller dashboard. All blogs, groups
and other features will now sit within the main home screen.
blur CEO Philip Letts said: "blur 5.0 represents a big move
towards the emergence of the first generation of ERP (Enterprise
Resource Planning) platforms specifically designed for services.
Later this year we will release an API (Application Programming
Interface) so that blur 5.0 will integrate easily with other
enterprise software platforms.
Letts concludes: "blur 5.0 is a big leap forward and a key
pillar of our strategy to become a Size Zero enterprise, achieving
more with less."
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For further information, please contact:
blur Group plc www.blurgroup.com/investors
Stephen Harvey, Group Tel: + 44 1392
CFO 927409
Barbara Spurrier, Tel: +44 203 475
Director Financial 8182
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About blur Group plc at blurgroup.com
blur Group is an international e-commerce company providing a
better way for business to buy or sell services. To date 50,000
businesses have used blur to buy or sell services online, including
companies like Amazon, Regus, Caterpillar, Argos, Danone and GE
submitting over $350m of services requirements to blur's
platform.
blur Group is a public company listed on the London Stock
Exchange's AIM market (BLUR) and is headquartered in the UK with
regional sales offices in the US and Europe.
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