An udpated version of JobOrder, a comprehensive, cross-platform solution to integrate the operations of project-oriented service businesses such as design firms, advertising agencies, consulting companies, and engineering firms, will ship this week at Macworld.

Over 1,000 enhancements in this release provide businesses and corporate departments with control over their scheduling, estimating, job costing, project management and accounting operations. Som of the more major enhancements to in v9.5 include:

• Automatic invoice generation
• Automatic overhead allocation
• Automatic time slip scheduling
• Bookmarks
• Built-in word-processing, spreadsheet, 3D charting, and drawing modules
• CreativeSchedule
• Estimates with parameters
• Express CheckWriter™
• Drill-down Financial Statements
• Dynamic Road Maps
• Flexible Calendar
• Instant indexed Queries
• Multi-processing Notification Manager
• SkillFinder
• SmartScheduler™
• TimeLines

JobOrder facilitates planning, estimating, scheduling, rescheduling, billing, accounting, analyzing and reporting. With the multi-processing Notifications Manager, JobOrder gives users full control over job planning and tracking, project management, workflow, and deadlines. JobOrder offers its users a full array of powerful concepts and tools to streamline and refine entire business processes on an ongoing basis.

"JobOrder gives our customers great flexibility in defining and implementing business processes to reflect their own needs and preferences," says Victor Siegle, President of Management Software. "Now that companies can access one database server at the same time using Macintosh computers for their creative staff and Windows computers for their financial staff, our customers can integrate their entire business operation and can gain the efficiencies they need to remain competitive. Management Software constantly refines JobOrder with new ideas generated from the requests of its customers."

JobOrder is aimed towards organizations with 10 to 200 employees. Pricing begins at $1,995 for the first workstation and $995 for each additional workstation, based on simultaneous server access by Macintosh or Windows computers.

Along with the update, Management Software will be showing off JobOrder's Internet module that combines dynamic HTML elements with an internal programming language to enable JobOrder Server to publish itself on the Internet. JobOrder Internet provides an interface that closely resembles the normal JobOrder Client experience.

By using the JobOrder Internet API, users can customize their JobOrder Internet web site. The JobOrder Internet API provides the language necessary to communicate requests to the JobOrder Server, allowing users to design their JobOrder Internet experience using any modern HTML editor, such as Macromedia DreamWeaver, Adobe GoLive, or Microsoft FrontPage.

JobOrder Internet API commands become part of the hypertext links and form actions of web pages. Like JobOrder's Custom Forms feature, this API provides the flexibility to customize JobOrder Internet without having to shut down the JobOrder Internet server.

JobOrder Internet always looks to see if a file in the 'web' folder exists, and if not, falls back to its internal programming to provide the default web page. This allows the greatest flexibility because it affords the user the ability to customize all of their web site, some of their web site, or none of their web site.

In addition, JobOrder Internet sets up a 'realm' folder for each of the Security Access levels in the JobOrder data file being served. This enables JobOrder Internet to further customize the web site for each Security Access level in the data file, allowing the Database Administrator to create a custom JobOrder Internet site for each Security Access level.

JobOrder Internet allows Clients and Vendors controlled access to JobOrder databases, so they can examine and update only specified areas and fields. This access is controlled simply by adding a Client or Vendor as a Resource and by assigning a strictly confined Security Access level for these Resources.

Pricing for the JobOrder Internet module begins at $295 per named user. For more information on JobOrder Internet or JobOrder v9.5, stop by booth 2155 at Macworld Expo NY or visit www.joborder.com.

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