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Upgrade 2.X to 4.0 Features
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Enterprise 4.0
Since 1994
Newest release in August 2012 has nearly a dozen new features!!!
After years of development, we have made significant improvements and added features to IMS Enterprise. Many features have al ready been in use with our small office package IMS-PLUS 3.0 based on a .NET platform, which was launched December 2007.
We have changed how our product is sold. Some features are now standard or bundled with other features. Each product is now managed as a per Seat license, requiring a license key.
Key Points:
- Even more user friendly!!!!
- Improved Manual
- Cosmetic Improvements
- Can still be used with an existing DBMS (database management system database, ie: Access, SQL, ORACLE, etc.) Although, we highly recommend using SQL. Or, if no database is available, IMS now creates one for you (self contained).
- Management Interface (new feature)
- Creating users, profiles, and index fields quickly and easily
- Replaced the Security Manager which was an additional cost and complicated
- Detailed security setting per each user and per each Profile or Document
- Powerful and flexible indexing features
- Audit trial now tracks every users every move (coming soon)
- Bar Code Recognition simplified and more powerful
- Import runs continuously as a service (Bundled with Batch Scan Module)
- Document Routing is now a standard feature and very much improved
- Smart View Scan Seat allows scanning from any TWAIN scanner without using the Batch Scan Module
- There is no longer an actual Index Module, it is simply a feature within the View Module
Newest Features
- Send to IMS (uses nifty wizard with advanced features) (August 2012)
- Print to IMS (uses nifty wizard with advanced features) (August 2012)
- Advanced Audit
- Recognize user when selecting from profile list, to only view profiles within drop down list the user is currently authorized for. (August 2012)
- Advanced Archive
- Advanced Distribution
- Advanced Annotation features (August 2012)
- Admin Module (user friendly and intuitive)
- Design, change, delete, or add new: Profiles, index fields, drop downs, and users to the database(s) with ease.
- Set a multitude of default setting preferences
- No longer needing programming or a technical staff to control aspects of the database for most functionality.
- One interface for managing the database, including the following:
- Multitude of Advanced Audit Features
- Distribution
- Archive
- Database Purging (requires Archive feature)
- adding, changing, removing, or moving data source locations
- Route
- Offering a "poor mans" workflow process
- Digital Signatures (August 2012)
- Stamp (comes with the Smart View Batch Scan Seat) (August 2012)
- Can require password
- Can have automated workflow processes
- May offer customized reports
- Custom scripting or reports software needed
Batch Scan Module additions:
- Resize Image or Page
- Annotations
- Insert Page(s) or JPG
- Scan as PDF
- Prompt for immediate or delayed manual indexing
- Blank page removal (note: processor hog)
- Tiff or PDF
- Save to desktop as a PDF creator utility (August 2012)
Index Module additions:
- No longer its own Module. Indexing is simply a feature within the Viewer Module.
- Automatically tracks user
- Search for your own scanned documents or other specific users scanned documents
- Skip around to search for a specific scanned document within all the list of scanned documents (time saver)
- Faster process for approving or changing content throughout the list of batch scans
- Attach file, print, email, save document features available within the Index Tab
- Add Document
- Scan directly into Indexing Module, bypassing the Batch Scan Module. (must have a Smart View Scan Seat)
- Search entire database for records with missing data or errors and quickly make corrections
View Module additions:
- Delete records easier (only from search results)
- Advanced multi document viewing feature with Tabs & Scroll Bar for quick toggle between doc
- Quick Search box for searching all index fields simultaneously
- Swap Pages with other pages within a document
- Add Tiff file within existing document (one or multiple pages)
- Scan directly into a Tiff file (must have a Smart View Scan Seat)
- Greatly simplified advanced queries
- Thumb nail view
- NOTES box for the actual Profile (August 2012)
- Simple or Advanced screen view options (August 2012)
- Simple view offers a less busy looking page
- Also offers the less computer savvy users the most simplified viewing and feature options.
- Create multiple attachments to a record (August 2012)
- Delete attachments
- Give notes
- Apply versions
- Any file types
- Tracking for Audit & Search results
- Logs when a user views a document
- Set security levels of a document
- Can search for a document based on the user that either scanned or indexed a document.
See also
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