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Chronos for AutoCAD is a time logging program for AutoCAD.

Chronos will log all users that access AutoCAD drawing files and provides comprehensive reporting tools for documenting AutoCAD usage.

The drawing data that is logged includes:
Creation Date
Last Accessed Date & Time
Drawing Original Time
Drawing Edit Time
Drawing Elapsed Time
Last Accessed by
Counts of various drawing entities

The following data is recorded for each user:
User Last Accessed Date & Time
User Original Time
User Edit Time
User Elapsed Time

Recorded data can be saved to a Comma Delimited Text File or an Excel Spreadsheet. Textual and Graphical display can be saved to Jpeg files for use in Power Point presentations.

Chronos also records AutoCAD session data:
Computer Name
User Name
Session Begin/End Time
Session Begin/End Date
Session Elapsed Time

Recently added features include:
A timer messenger to display the drawing and the current user's elapsed and edit time. This is free to use beyond the evaluation period.
An adjustable idle timer to prevent accumulation of non-editing time.
Date and Time display formatting to allow the display of values to the user's preference.
The ability to ignore a drawing file's drive letter.This allows you to copy drawing files to other drives with the same directory structure and retain the accumulated data.
Job logging - the user can assign job numbers and link them to directories for automatic logging time in jobs.
License manager - time out function when AutoCAD has been inactive will close the current session and free the license.


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For nearly a decade, our Corrective Action system has been known as the premier tool for resolving audit discrepancies, handling customer complaints, and eliminating the causes of nonconformities. The self-documenting nature of the process creates a knowledge base for solving future problems and measuring your overall performance improvement.

Document Nonconformities
C/A 6 lets you identify problems, their root causes, and the actions taken to resolve them. The built-in analysis tools help you to identify your weaknesses in order to implement Quality Improvement initiatives.

Perform Follow-up Create actions items that prompt you to perform 30, 60, and 90-day follow-up audits to ensure the effectiveness of your Corrective/Preventive actions.

Verify Effectiveness Trend and pareto reports provide a visual indication that your Corrective/Preventive Action efforts are effective. You can even determine whether you are getting to the true root causes of your issues.

Increase team participation
Place responsibility on the appropriate team members. C/A 6 documents and tracks all the activities that contribute to your corrective/preventive action projects.

Management Visibility Online and printed reports provide a live status of all your exceptions and the activities your team is performing to address them. This will become the best overall health indicator for your organization.

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Monitors Internet Services and alerts the user with a variety of methods if down. Always know whether or not your web site or other network services are up or down with 32bit Service Monitor. 32bit Service Monitor will check your site or other services as often as you have it configured to. If one of your services stops responding, you will be notified in the ways you have configured and the down time will be logged. If you pay a firm to host your site or service, you should be able to get at least a partial refund from your site hosting company if any serious down time occurs. Save money with 32bit Service Monitor! If one of your Internet Services goes down, you will be alerted by any or all of these many alarms. Select Alerts include: [Error Sound], [Plays your choice of WAV files (once or repeatedly)], [Show Alert Message box], [Send Email at Beginning of Alert], [Send Email at Ending of Alert], [Page you, Phone you], [Execute a Program]. You can use the 32bit Service Monitor [Execute Program] option to fix the problem in many cases. If your site or service does go down and then come back up without you knowing about it, 32bit Service Monitor will send you emails documenting the events date and time from down to up again.

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DBScribe is a SQL Server sql documentation tool that creates precise technical documentation of every detail of a database schema in just seconds.

It supports:
- a rich set of documentation style and output formats (HTML, CHM, MS Word Document)
- wizard and command line interfaces
- complete database structure documenting
- all SQL object types, their details and properties
- custom documentation profile
- DDL code for all objects documented

DBScribe helps you to:
- Dramatically reduce time and cost necessary to document your databases
- Avoid document updating and synchronization after database changes
- Manage your product/solution knowledgebase
- Optimize communication between your IT team members: database administrators, developers, testers and technical writers
- Increase your customer satisfaction by providing comprehensive, professional looking database documentation

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DBScribe is an Oracle SQL documentor that creates precise technical documentation of every detail of a database schema in just seconds.

The product supports:
- a rich set of documentation style and output formats (HTML, CHM, MS Word Document)
- wizard and command line interfaces
- complete database structure documenting
- all SQL object types, their details and properties
- custom documentation profiles
- Oracle OLAP Metadata documenting
- DDL code for all objects documented

DBScribe helps you to:
- Dramatically reduce time and cost necessary to document your databases
- Avoid document updating and synchronization after database changes
- Manage your product/solution knowledgebase
- Optimize communication between your IT team members: database administrators, developers, testers and technical writers
- Increase your customer satisfaction by providing comprehensive, professional looking database documentation

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Monitors Internet Services and alerts the user with a variety of methods if down. Always know whether or not your web site or other network services are up or down with First Alert Service Monitor.First Alert Service Monitor will check your site or other services as often as you have it configured to. If one of your services stops responding, you will be notified in the ways you have configured and the down time will be logged. If you pay a firm to host your site or service, you should be able to get at least a partial refund from your site hosting company if any serious down time occurs. Save money with First Alert Service Monitor! If one of your Internet Services goes down, you will be alerted by any or all of these many alarms. Select Alerts include: [Error Sound], [Plays your choice of WAV files (once or repeatedly)], [Show Alert Message box], [Send Email at Beginning of Alert], [Send Email at Ending of Alert], [Page you, Phone you], [Execute a Program]. You can use the First Alert Service Monitor [Execute Program] option to fix the problem in many cases. If your site or service does go down and then come back up without you knowing about it, First Alert Service Monitor will send you emails documenting the events date and time from down to up again.

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eGrabber CallPad understand your plain English commands and performs actions in ACT! based on the text input in the smart Box. Actions include:


Quick Look up: Users can look for any contact present in ACT! instantly using CallPad’s Quick lookup feature. Just type a partial contact name, phone # or email and the contact pops up in ACT!

Update contact: Changes can be made to the last contact that was looked up, by typing in the updated information in the smart box, these changes are saved in ACT! History.

Timer: Time spent on a particular contact is tracked automatically and can be recorded in the history and notes section of ACT! to help better track project time.
Duplicate check: The Duplicate check option can notify you if a contact already exists

Add Contact: Transfer contact information into ACT! simply by highlighting the contact information or by typing in the information in the smart box and clicking on the “Add contact” icon

Transfer to Notes: Click on the “Process” button to add all notes you took during a conversation with a particular contact to the history section for the contact under ACT!

Schedule Activity: Lookup a contact and schedule an appointment for that contact by simply typing an activity in plain English e.g. “Call Bob Carr next Friday at 9am”

Advantages:
Search for contacts in ACT! quickly
Single click to schedule activities
Schedule multiple activities in one shot
Eliminate painful navigation between tabs and windows in ACT!
Document your sales calls with a single click




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LessonsLearnedServer is a powerful multi-user knowledge-base software that streamlines the collection and sharing of valuable knowledge within an organization.

Benefits:
1. Encourages building a knowledge sharing community:
LessonsLearnedServer stimulates creating a community of knowledge sharing within an organization by exchanging valuable experiences between the different members.

2. Promotes better communication between remote offices and departments
LessonsLearnedServer provides a central repository of knowledge for the whole organization to interact as individuals, department, offices, teams or even clients.

3. Reusing ideas and information
Saves time by providing a means to use researched articles, tips, techniques, whitepapers that already have been researched.

3. Preserve and archive all organization information assets
Archive all information assets within your organization and track the history of your organization by preserving all important events, exhibitions, photos, documents and track all material assets from employee CVs, certificates, training material, furniture, CD/DVD packages, books, etc.

4. Grow your organization's learning curve
Rapidly increasing the learning curve of the different members of the organization by allowing different experiences, skills and levels to interact and share their experiences.

5. Reduce training and operational costs
By preserving all necessary training material and documenting past resolved problems, your organization saves cost and time in having a reference knowledgebase to dig for valuable knowledge instead of researching problems that have already been solved.

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Detail process maps for documenting, developing, improving and managing business processes. Graham process maps clearly show the interrelated flows and relationships of multiple forms, emails, reports, databases, systems and other items in a process. Used to support business process improvement methodologies, training, audits, certification requirements, preparing procedures and other tasks that demand transparency in business processes.

Graham Process Maps tell a story -- They tell the reader WHAT is going on; what items (forms, documents, databases,etc) are used and WHAT happens to each item. For each item, they identify WHO is doing the work and WHERE the work is being done. The work is laid out in sequence to show WHEN any particular task occurs relative to others. The symbols call attention to value-added work, non-value-added work, work inspections (controls), movement of work from one location to another and Delays (when nothing is happening). No other mapping technique provides the level of transparency that is provided by a Graham Process Map. No other mapping technique provides the level of decision-making support that is provided by a Graham Process Map. No other mapping technique provides the level of support for analysis that is provided by a Graham Process Map.

The Ben Graham Corporation pioneered the study of business processes and has provided consulting services, coaching and education in business process improvement since 1953. They introduced Graham Process Mapping Software in 1990. Graham Process Mapping Software produces a unique brand of process map that clearly documents all the manual process work as well as the automated workflow. They have been helping organizations see the whole picture for over fifty years.

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Visual WinHelp is the quick and efficent way to create WinHelp .hlp documentation. The simple word processor interface makes accessing the powerful features easy. Visual WinHelp supports fully customizing the help window size and position, compression, and indexing. Adding a link to a website or email address can be done in two clicks. Included utility makes documenting a Visual Basic 5 or 6 project simple by automatically creating a help document from the VB project.

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Dr.Explain is a help authoring tool for rapid creation of help files and user guides. Using its unique auto capture and annotation technology, developers can document their software interfaces almost hands down. When set to work, Dr.Explain parses a live application and automatically produces screenshots of its windows along with a sequence of callouts for each window control. Users only have to add some description to each callout as needed. Dr.Explain can output the results as a set of HTML pages, CHM help file or RTF document complete with screenshots, cross-references, menus and an index page. The output is accurate and professional.

Dr.Explain is ideal for software developers, ISV, micro ISV and technical writers. It handles all the complexities of help formatting and generation, allowing them to concentrate on pure writing. This saves them days that would otherwise be wasted. Dr.Explain is also great to keep help documentation in sync with software updates. Since all data is stored in a single source file, developers can easily edit or update any portion of an existing file. In doing this, they are not required to rearrange the entire help or generate a new file. Developers will also benefit from the opportunity to customize the appearance of their help file to make it match their corporate style. They can customize its visual elements, menus and page layout. On top of all this is an affordable price, which is lower than with the majority of other software documentation tools.


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Sequence diagrams are a very effective way of modeling an object oriented system. Unfortunately, most UML based modeling tools only offer primitive support for sequence diagrams. EventStudio provides advanced constructs for sequence diagram based object modeling. EventStudio supports generation of message sequence charts (MSCs) and call flow diagrams used in telecom and embedded system development. Process workflow generation is supported for business process re-engineering applications.
When modeling with EventStudio, developers describe the interactions in the system in terms of a simple declarative modeling language. EventStudio then analyzes the model for design errors, inconsistent operations, resource leaks and invalid timer operations. Once the design issues have been addressed, EventStudio automatically generates sequence diagrams and collaboration diagrams.

EventStudio allows the developers to explore a large number of success and failure scenarios without the overhead of individually documenting each scenario. The developers define a base scenario and then define other scenarios by just specifying the differences with the base scenario. EventStudio manages the scenario definitions and generates the documents by merging the base scenario with the specified differences for each scenario.

EventStudio automatically handles diagram layout, formatting, scaling and page breaks for sequence diagrams and collaboration diagrams generated in the Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word Picture (EMF) formats. This allows the developers to focus on system architecture and design, without getting bogged down by document layout issues.

EventStudio has been designed to handle diagram generation for systems with a large number of interacting objects. For greater modularity, objects in the system can be classified into groups and sub-groups. This classification is used to generate diagrams that focus on a particular aspect of the system.

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LanFlow is a drawing tool for laying out, designing, and documenting a network, LAN, internet,vector or other communications system. Drop in components like computers, workstations, routers, and servers and connect them with lines and cables. Choose components from built in symbols and clip art or add commonly available clip art formats. Use lines to connect your components and add dashes, curves, arrows or complex combinations for a custom look. Enter descriptive text anywhere, using a grid that helps you keep your work symmetrical and aligned. Contains powerful features like full zoom, OLE connectivity to add your diagrams to other documents, poster printing, graphics import and web page export, automatic routing, flow symbols, and more. Includes simple outline components and a full set of 3D network equipment symbols resembling the standards set by Cisco books and documentation.

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