Newsletter December 1999
Success Story
Recently, we had the pleasure of training a group of users from Seeboard. The Regional Power Company is one of our biggest customers. The training session took place at our usual venue, the Milton Keynes Chamber of Commerce Training Centre. This recently re-equipped training facility is well suited to our needs with 10 up-to-date PCs and a special smart board that makes demonstrations and training really impressive.
Our trainers led the session and took the attendees through the CDM ToolKit™ 2000 Basic Course. The smart board was used to to show the flexibility of the product and the ease with which new projects could be set up from their own templates.
At the end of the session, the attendees were asked for their comments. They were so positive that we wrote a few of them down.
John; The CDM ToolKit has surpassed our greatest expectations, it is undoubtedly the best system in the marketplace, I am sure we made the right decision to purchase it.
Peter; Ai Solutions have done everything we have asked for.
Malcolm; The training facilities are excellent. We loved the smart board for demonstrations.
Paul; I have to say, I was not looking forward to this session as I have been to so many software courses and have not been impressed. However, I thoroughly enjoyed today. This is an amazing piece of software. It is unique with its word-processing within a database. I am very excited about using it and can see its application far and beyond CDM for Project Management generally.
Kevin; The CDM ToolKit is very, very easy to use.
Ray; I am very impressed; I usually break any software product within minutes. This morning, we have not seen a single software problem.
(Reproduced with permission from Seeboard)
Year 2000 Price Book
Our year 2000 Price Book has now been finalised and includes a number of new Options for both new customers and for those who need to upgrade. Please call for individual pricing.
Options
Maintenance Manual – for users wanting to add this document to existing systems.
Away From Base – for network users wishing to replicate their CDM ToolKit™ 2000 database onto their laptop for site work.
Forms Editor – for users wishing to carry out their own form design (release date end Jan 2000).
Permissions – for network users who need to group their activities on the database so that different groups have different access rights.
New Services
Forms Design Service – for users needing additional or amended document sections to suit their individual requirements.
Document Scanning Service – for users wishing to convert their paper based documents into data on CDROM or to microfiche.
Additional Training Courses
Basic, Advanced and Risk Assessment courses.
Web Pages
Our web pages have recently been updated and contain information about all the issues above.
Service Release 3a
Service Release 3a has now been mailed to our users all over the UK. The release includes many major changes. One of them, the ability to save individual documents in the Project Printed Document folder is particularly interesting. Saved as a non editable facsimile, previously generated documents can be regenerated from the facsimile – not the live database – and then reprinted or e-mailed. This now allows the CDM ToolKit™ 2000 to become a 'proper' document management system with not only full audit control but also full version control as well. For some of our network customers, this has far reaching implications.
Customer Seminars
In our last Newsletter we told you about our plans to introduce Customer Seminars. We have had several replies but would really apprieciate a few more. This is an opportunity to promote your organisation to your own suppliers and to take advantage of free training from us. This offer is only available until the end of Feb 2000 so please contact us without delay if you are interested.
Merry Christmas & Happy Y2K!
The team at Ai Solutions are looking forward to the millennium break and would like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers and business contacts for making 1999 such a success. We would like to extend our best wishes to all our Newsletter readers and wish you all the best for a happy and successful New Year.