CHHR, The Ohio State University Facilitates Proposal Process with NextPage(R) 2.DRAPER, Utah Draper is a city in Salt Lake County and Utah County, Utah, United States, located about 20 miles south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front. Between 1990 and 2000 Draper was Utah's fastest-growing city over 5,000 people (as of 2000). -- Center for Human Resource Research Uses NextPage Document Collaboration See data conferencing. to Save Time and Reduce Errors Through Multiple Iterations of Requests for Proposals in Microsoft Office Microsoft's primary desktop applications for Windows and Mac. Depending on the package, it includes some combination of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook along with various Internet and other utilities. NextPage today announced that The Ohio State University's Center for Human Resource Research is using NextPage 2, a document collaboration service, to save time and reduce errors in creating, editing and reviewing proposals. With NextPage 2, the department can immediately review the progress of a proposal and know when the final product has included all edits and is completely accurate. NextPage 2 also saves time during the editing and reviewing process by integrating directly within Microsoft Office and e-mail in the way people typically create, revise and exchange documents. "Because NextPage 2 works in Microsoft Office, we don't have to change the way we work to use its collaboration tool A collaboration tool is something that helps people collaborate. The term is often used to mean collaborative software, but collaboration tools were being used before computers existed, a piece of paper can for example can be used as collaboration tool. ," said Pawandeep Lamba, Senior Systems Engineer of The Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. . "NextPage 2 tracks what is happening in the background as multiple employees edit and review our proposals, so we always know who has the latest version, what changes people have made and what needs to be done next." NextPage 2 tracks Microsoft Office files by weaving a Digital Thread(TM) through various versions of the same document. Users interact with the service through the NextPage Activity Center(TM), a user interface that reports status of documents; the NextPage Version Map(TM), which shows relationships between document versions; and NextPage Notifications, alerts that warn users of working on the wrong version or give information about the current status of their documents. The Center for Human Resource Research, founded in 1965, is a multidisciplinary research organization affiliated with the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences behavioral sciences, n.pl those sciences devoted to the study of human and animal behavior. of The Ohio State University. Concerned with a wide range of contemporary problems related to developing and conserving human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , the Center is responsible for designing survey instruments, overseeing field work, and generating and disseminating fully documented data sets to researchers in government, private research organizations, and universities around the world. A free trial version of NextPage 2 is available at www.nextpage.com/trial. About NextPage NextPage is disrupting the document collaboration market by eliminating product abandonment experienced from traditional document management and collaboration products See collaborative software. . NextPage delivers products that focus on solving problems from a user's perspective. NextPage 2, a document collaboration service, is the first to connect all document-based collaboration by tracking document versions that are sent as e-mail attachments A file that rides along with an e-mail message. The attached file can be of any type. E-mail programs make it easy to attach a file. For example, in Eudora, all you do is select Attach from the Message menu, browse through the folder hierarchy to find the file you want and then double , stored on users' desktops and created outside the organization. The service provides a 360 degree view of all document activities and works whether users are online or offline. NextPage 2 reduces the risk of sending out the wrong version, prevents wasted time working on wrong versions and eliminates the cost of document coordination. For more information, visit www.nextpage.com or call 801-748-4400. NextPage is a registered trademark, and Activity Center, Digital Thread, Document Signature, Version Map and Version Check are service marks of NextPage Inc. All other names are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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