Contractors Rapidly Embrace Windows Based Accounting Technology.BEAVERTON Beaverton, city (1990 pop. 53,310), Washington co., NW Oreg., a suburb of Portland, in a farm area; inc. 1893. Beaverton is the heart of the Silicon Forest high-technology manufacturing complex. Headquarters for electronics companies and NIKE, Inc., are there. , Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 1995--Today, Timberline timberline, elevation above which trees cannot grow. Its location is influenced by the various factors that determine temperature, including latitude, prevailing wind directions, and exposure to sunlight. Software shipped its 1,000th Construction Gold software package. First released in October 1992, Construction Gold is a project accounting system developed for Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. . "Developing for Microsoft Windows allowed us to include features not possible in other operating environments In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. ," says Dennis Earnshaw, Construction Gold product manager. "For example, data is entered and reviewed using programs that look and work like a spreadsheet spreadsheet Computer software that allows the user to enter columns and rows of numbers in a ledgerlike format. Any cell of the ledger may contain either data or a formula that describes the value that should be inserted therein based on the values in other cells. . This new data entry method offers a dramatic productivity increase over traditional data entry methods." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Earnshaw, the biggest reason contractors choose Construction Gold is its inquiry option which allows contractors to get information using a mouse to point at pictures and numbers on the screen. "Historically, contractors had to wait hours or days for a report each time they needed information. Now they don't," states Earnshaw. Gold's inquiry system presents information on the screen within seconds of requesting it. "Given the number of issues a contractor faces each day, we feel that it is unrealistic to expect them to print a report every time they need answers." Since the release of Construction Gold, Timberline's accounting software sales have increased 54 percent in 1993 and 41 percent in 1994. Timberline Software Corp. is a leading developer of accounting and estimating software for the construction, property management, architecture and engineering industries. Founded in 1971, the company has installed more than 24,000 systems worldwide. CONTACT: Timberline Software Corp., Beaverton Robyn Adkisson, 503/526-8079 |
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