Skire Delivers New Version of Flagship Unifier Platform.Next-Generation Document Management Capabilities Deliver Unmatched Project Visibility and Control MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif. -- Skire, Inc. (www.skire.com), the leading provider of capital program, integrated workplace, and project portfolio management software, today announced the latest release of the company's flagship Unifier unifier - The unifier of a set of expressions is a set of substitutions of terms for variables such that the expressions are all equal. See also most general unifier, unification. [TM] platform, providing customers with next-generation, fully configurable document management capabilities, along with enhanced project management features. With Unifier 8.7, Skire customers gain immediate visibility into relevant information for project tracking and auditing, and enhanced control over document flow and management. "Basic document management is no longer enough," said George Haddad, vice president of product management for Skire. "Customers must meet new auditing and tracking requirements and adhere to adhere to verb 1. follow, keep, maintain, respect, observe, be true, fulfil, obey, heed, keep to, abide by, be loyal, mind, be constant, be faithful 2. rigorous project schedules - so they must be able to instantly find relevant, actionable Giving sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit; giving rise to a Cause of Action. An act, event, or occurrence is said to be actionable when there are legal grounds for basing a lawsuit on it. information and immediately understand the context of the specific document. The next-generation capabilities of Skire Unifier allow customers to easily configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. their document management system and seamlessly integrate documents with critical business processes." Skire's new Unifier 8.7 platform includes an enhanced, powerful, and sophisticated Document Manager, which delivers configuration capabilities unmatched in the industry. Using Skire uDesigner[TM], Skire's award-winning application configuration tool, customers can easily configure folder In a graphical user interface (GUI), a simulated file folder that holds data, applications and other folders. Folders were introduced on the Xerox Star, then popularized on the Macintosh and later adapted to Windows and Unix. In Unix and Linux, as well as DOS and Windows 3. and document attributes for use in Unifier's Document Manager. This flexibility enables them to easily tailor Unifier to capture the exact set of data they wish to associate with their file-based information. In addition, Skire has added robust functionality that allows appropriate Unifier users to determine which files and documents are published into Document Manager from any Unifier business process, offering another method of publishing documents into the system. Customers gain complete flexibility in how they organize, categorize cat·e·go·rize tr.v. cat·e·go·rized, cat·e·go·riz·ing, cat·e·go·riz·es To put into a category or categories; classify. cat , and manage document flow for easy tracking between documents and business processes. The feature enhancements and additions in Unifier 8.7 were developed to respond to the changing needs and growing complexity associated with managing large-scale projects. Skire Unifier 8.7 eliminates time-consuming navigation between document management capabilities and other processes, improving user productivity. Seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. between documents and business processes enables the user to initiate a new business process - such as a transmittal or change order request - and attach the relevant documents with a click, directly from within Document Manager. At the same time, integration enables the user to easily view which business process records are linked to a specific document in the Document Manager. Skire also enhanced existing tools available to designers for managing CAD CAD: see computer-aided design. (Computer-Aided Design) Using computers to design products. CAD systems are high-speed workstations or desktop computers with CAD software. reference files. Enhanced reference file management functionality offers superior flexibility in linking base and reference files through dynamic or static relationships, greatly increasing the accuracy and efficiency of reference file management. Customers can use new text search capabilities for gaining instant visibility into information, documents, and context for answering questions or resolving disputes. Unifier 8.7 significantly reduces the amount of time required to find appropriate documents and perform the high volume of ad-hoc or routine tasks associated with managing and tracking capital and integrated workplace projects. Reporting capabilities also have been enhanced, enabling users to report on all Document Manager document and folder attributes, metadata (1) (meta-data) Data that describes other data. The term may refer to detailed compilations such as data dictionaries and repositories that provide a substantial amount of information about each data element. , and file comments. About Skire Unifier Skire Unifier is a powerful business process automation platform for managing programs, projects, resources, and assets. The platform centralizes comprehensive management capabilities and makes them available to everyone who needs them through a standard Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . With robust cost management and project controls capabilities, Skire's Unifier delivers the best combination of pre-defined workflows, best practices, ease-of-use, and adaptability a·dapt·a·ble adj. Capable of adapting or of being adapted. a·dapt  a·bil . Skire Unifier
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About Skire Skire, Inc. is the leading provider of capital program, integrated workplace, and project portfolio management software. The company's flagship Unifier platform leverages the company's deep industry experience, giving customers unprecedented visibility and control over major programs and projects. Skire's solutions are used by global Fortune 1000 companies, government agencies, and educational institutions for managing billions of dollars in capital programs, real estate, and IT portfolios. The company is privately held and headquartered in Menlo Park, California Menlo Park is a city in San Mateo County, California in the United States of America. It is located at latitude 37°29' North, longitude 122°9' East. Menlo Park had 30,785 inhabitants as of the 2000 U.S. Census. . For more information, visit http://www.skire.com Unifier and uDesigner are trademarks of Skire, Inc. All other products and services mentioned herein are trademarks of their respective companies. |
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