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~ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ~
December 8, 2004
Atrium version 5.10 – PR 0051/0TR
More Information – Contact Lynn Cranford at
800-773-7785
No Kill Date!
ATRIUM 5.10
FEATURES TEAM COLLABORATION
AND CONTACT MANAGEMENT
Web-based Project Management
for Architectural and Engineering Businesses
Pragmatic Software Company Inc. announced sweeping enhancements in the latest release of Atrium, a web-based project collaboration tool for the Architectural and Engineering
Industries. Atrium (http://www.pragmaticsw.com/Atrium)
is a web-based project collaboration tool that allows teams to share
documents and manage projects.
"Atrium already has many collaborative features, such as file sharing,
project management, customer relationship management, discussion forums and
calendar/appointment management", said Steve Miller, President of Pragmatic
Software. "Our new release builds on these features by improving our team
collaboration features, enhancing contact management and providing more robust reporting", adds Miller.
Team Collaboration
The latest version of Atrium is designed to enhance collaboration by
allowing project managers to request status of tasks from team members online.
For example, a project manager can see all tasks assigned to a specific team
member. Items that are overdue turn red,
quickly identifying slipping tasks. The project manager can also sign up
for a nightly email report that shows all Overdue items owned by the
project manager and assigned to their team members. Last, the new features
of Atrium allow a project manager to request status from a team member
by clicking a "Request Status" link for any task. Once clicked, it
sends an email to the team member asking for status. In turn, the team
member receives the email and responds to the status request without logging
into Atrium. Once done, an email is automatically sent back to the
project manager and notes are attached to the task showing the request and
receipt of status. This process enables complete collaboration on
all tasks and empowers the project manager to quickly collect status from their
team members.
Enhanced Contact Management
Atrium 5.10 allows architectural and engineering teams to track their Contacts
(like customers, vendors and sales leads). It allows them to set call back dates, manage workflow, and quickly identify
contacts to call back, as their information turns red
when overdue for a call back. Detailed notes can be added and viewed upon
talking with contacts, providing teams with a chronological history of
all conversations held between the contact and the team member. Mail
campaigns are also supported, as Atrium allows printing of mailing
labels for contacts.
More Robust Reporting
Atrium was enhanced with more robust reporting, including a
myriad of new contact and project management reports. The new reports allow trending of
project tasks over time, allowing teams to spot trends and determine
how well their team tasks are progressing. Ad-hoc reports can also be created by team members, where they
can select the items they wish to appear on the report, the report layout, and
the filter criteria. For Enterprise clients, Atrium has full
integration with Business Objects Crystal Reports®,
allowing teams to create their own custom reports and post them into Atrium for others to use. This integration empowers teams to post reports
from other SQL based databases (like Oracle, SQL Server, etc), allowing
Atrium to double as a full reporting solution for all areas of their business.
Atrium is offered as a monthly subscription starting at $ 60 per
month (2 concurrent users), as well as a
scalable enterprise solution
that can handle thousands of simultaneous users and can be branded and tailored
to exact client needs.
Founded in 1992, Pragmatic Software Company, Inc. based in Denver, Colorado
is an Internet software company that provides software products, web-based
professional solutions and software consulting services. For more
information on Pragmatic Software, go to
www.PragmaticSW.com or contact
Lynn Cranford at
(800) 773-7785. For more information on Atrium, visit
http://www.PragmaticSW.com/Atrium.
To see an on-line copy of this press release, navigate to
http://www.pragmaticsw.com/Press Releases/PressRelease-0051.htm.
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