Ballantine's New Smart Tools Software Extends the Value of QuickBooks 2003.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CARLISLE Carlisle, city, England Carlisle, city (1991 pop. 72,006) and district, Cumbria, NW England, near the junction of the Caldew, Eden, and Petteril rivers. The city of Carlisle is an important rail center. , Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2002 Contact and project management software for small businesses shares data with QuickBooks A small business accounting system for Windows and the Macintosh from Intuit, Inc., Mountain View, CA (www.intuit.com). It works like Intuit's popular Quicken program but is designed to track a whole business. (R) 2003, bridging the 'islands of automation' that separate communications, project management and accounting information Ballantine & Company, Inc., today announced the new versions of Smart Tools(R) Project Manager and Smart Tools(R) Contact Manager software, special editions for QuickBooks Pro and Premier 2003 users. The Smart Tools(R) software is designed to simplify the creation, management and sharing of project information between project managers, the project team and the accounting staff that use QuickBooks Pro Edition 2003 and Premier Edition 2003 products. The Smart Tools(R) software bridge common "islands of automation" that prevent project managers from efficiently handling the steady stream of changing project information and rapid communications they handle every day. "Smart Tools(R) Project Manager and Smart Tools(R) Contact Manager offer integration features that enable easy data exchange with Intuit's QuickBooks 2003 Pro and Premier software, making important project costing, progress and contact data available to project managers for faster, more accurate planning and communications," said Ann ANN, Scotch law. Half a year's stipend over and above what is owing for the incumbency due to a minister's relict, or child, or next of kin, after his decease. Wishaw. Also, an abbreviation of annus, year; also of annates. In the old law French writers, ann or rather an, signifies a year. F. C. Ballantine, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Ballantine & Company. Smart Tools(R) Project Manager Considered the best alternative to complex and expensive project software, Smart Tools(R) Project Manager is designed to provide architects, engineers, contractors, consultants, managers and other professionals with a tool to easily and quickly plan and budget projects or estimate and schedule client work and proposals. It uses a familiar worksheet See spreadsheet. worksheet - spreadsheet where all project information, dates and costs are entered. A presentation-quality Gantt chart schedule is automatically plotted from this data with the click of a button, and users can easily customize their Gantt charts and project reports. Users can link activities for automatic date adjustment and compare plan time and cost variances. Project data can be sorted and filtered by fields such as activity, date, and project code. Data can be imported from and exported to spreadsheets The following is a list of spreadsheets. Freeware/open source software Online spreadsheets
Smart Tools(R) Contact Manager Smart Tools(R) Contact Manager, an affordable tool for managing professional communications, integrates the communications tools used every day by the project team--fax, email, memos, letters, and mailing labels--into one easy-to-use program. Users can cross-link cross-link (kros´link?) a covalent bond formed between polymer chains, either within or across chains. any kind of file to related contacts and projects, keeping projects organized and eliminating duplicate DUPLICATE. The double of anything. 2. It is usually applied to agreements, letters, receipts, and the like, when two originals are made of either of them. Each copy has the same effect. files. Users can send and receive email and faxes, create documents, merge letters and labels, manage contact and project information, and create project to-do to-do n. pl. to-dos Informal A commotion or stir. to-do Noun pl -dos Brit, Austral & NZ a commotion, fuss, or quarrel Noun 1. lists with one fully integrated program. The software saves everything automatically by contact and project, so users can retrieve it again with a single mouse click. "Intuit in·tu·it tr.v. in·tu·it·ed, in·tu·it·ing, in·tu·its Usage Problem To know intuitively. [Back-formation from intuition. and Ballantine both recognize that small business owners juggle many daily tasks and that they are constantly looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ways to streamline their operations," said Esther Kruijver, director of the Intuit Developer Network. "Enabling the exchange of data between the Smart Tools(R) Project Manager and Contact Manager products and the QuickBooks 2003 products will help small businesses save time and manage their resources more efficiently, allowing them to spend more time actually running their business." Workgroup Multi-user Option Multi-user versions of Smart Tools(R) products are available, making accurate contact and project information such as worksheets, time, cost and plan comparison reports, and Gantt charts available to everyone in a workgroup. The multi-user products eliminate the problems of duplicate files and version control. Smart Tools(R) Software Pricing and Support Like all Ballantine software products, Smart Tools(R) products come with help files, sample files and unlimited pre and post sales technical support. Most users are up and running in less than 30 minutes. Unlimited, toll-free technical support is available online or by phone. Smart Tools(R) products also come with a 30-day money back satisfaction guarantee. Volume and educational discounts are available. Free trials available for download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. from the company's web site www.tools-for-business.com. Smart Tools(R) Project Manager Pricing: -- Single user- $249.00 -- Multi-user 5 Pack - $1,096.00 -- Multi-user 10 Pack - $2,092.00 Smart Tools(R) Contact Manager Pricing: -- Single user - $159.00 -- Multi-user 5 Pack - $736.00 -- Multi-user 10 Pack - $1,372.00 About Ballantine Ballantine and Company, Inc. recognized specialists in project management desktop software and member of the Intuit Developer Network, develops and markets project-oriented desktop software used by thousands of engineers, architects, contractors, accountants, consultants and business managers. Ballantine's Tools-for-Business.com(R) web site offers visitors professional products and business information designed to help project-oriented professionals work faster and better. To order, call 800-536-6677 or visit www.Tools-for-Business.com. Intuit, the Intuit logo, Quicken A popular financial management program for PCs and Macs from Intuit, Inc., Mountain View, CA (www.intuit.com). It is used to write checks, organize investments and produce a variety of reports for personal finance and small business. , QuickBooks, QuickBooks Pro, QuickBooks Premier, Turbo Tax, ProSeries, and Lacerte, among others, are registered trademarks and/or registered service marks of Intuit Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. Smart Tools and Tools-for-Business.com are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of Ballantine and Company, Inc. Other marks are the property of their respective owners. |
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