Take a lesson from ManagePro
Article Abstract:
Avantos Performance Systems' $395 ManagePro 3.0 human resources management software provides a useful method for tracking employee performance. ManagePro's underlying strategy is to divide tasks among individuals in order to achieve a corporate goal. The application resembles project management software, and users enter a deadline for a specific goal. They then create a series of steps required to reach the goal and assign each step to an employee, and the thoughtfully designed outlining format can help in determining all the necessary steps. ManagePro converts this information into a graphical timeline, which can be distributed to every employee involved. Employees receive their own responsibilities and are able to see others' tasks. When an individual fails to keep to the appointed schedule, the timeline turns red. A MultiLink function allows multiple users to create and update a single project.
Publication Name: Law Office Computing
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1055-128X
Year: 1995
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Better than a notebook
Article Abstract:
Litigator Software's $195 Litigator 3.5 document management software does not live up to its billing as a trial notebook, but it does offer a logically structured way to store and retrieve documents. Litigator offers strong reporting features, and users may group sets of records into notebooks to facilitate searches. Litigator allows users to view, annotate and search any ASCII document. It cannot connect to a scanner, but it will accept documents that an OCR program has translated. Litigator allows users to work with WordPerfect files without taking the extra step of translating them into ASCII text first. The Logical Integrated Tracking (LIT) system assigns one number to a case and its associated client, lawyer, file and database record, simplifying searches. Litigator's core is a Document Retrieval database that stores all documents and allows each record to be as long as 12 pages.
Publication Name: Law Office Computing
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1055-128X
Year: 1995
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Better than Timeslips?
Article Abstract:
Responsive Software's $79 Time Logger for Windows 2.0 time and billing application offers a substantial improvement over its predecessor, but it does not yet surpass market favorite Timeslips. Time Logger can stand on its own or may be used with word processing and database programs. Significant improvements include the product's standardizing on dBase files. This means that data entry and reporting may be standardized, and that Time Logger can now connect to other applications more easily. The dBase capabilities allow users to employ major word processors to customize report design and printing. Time Logger now offers better export and import features, allowing delimited text files to be accessed in any order. Other improvements include stopwatch and expense tracking as well as automatic invoicing and accounts receivable. Time Logger offers a very easy-to-use interface.
Publication Name: Law Office Computing
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1055-128X
Year: 1995
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Mac presents. Stranger in a strange land
- Abstracts: ECJ rules French restrictions on exemption from annual real estate tax violate EC Treaty. ECJ rules Hungarian HIPA may continue to be applied
- Abstracts: Shopping the tip boutique: from fees to practice management, there are new ideas for everyone. Top bananas turn rainmakers: former corporate lawyers ripe for challenges in their own ventures
- Abstracts: The fate of full-time, paid union organizers as employees: another nail in the union coffin? The fate of full-time, paid union organizers as employees: what next from the Supreme Court?
- Abstracts: Report from the front: MacWorld 1997. Apple's silver lining. Missed the mark(et)?