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| Construction Imaging Systems’ Chameleon serves the needs of contractors, developers and homebuilders¶ Construction Imaging Systems announced their latest version of Chameleon, a document imaging and content management system for small to medium size contractors, homebuilders, developers, property managers, aggregate, concrete, and asphalt dealers. This version of Chameleon offers many new features including support for customers using Timberline, Master Builder, ComputerEase, Shaker COINS, Geac StarBuilder, Solomon, MAS 90/200/500, and QuickBooks accounting systems. Chameleon can prevent duplicate data entry in the accounting and imaging system by capturing data entered in one and “moving” it to the other. In addition, OCR and Barcoding, allows aggregate, concrete, and asphalt tickets to be scanned, captured, and related to data from various plant computer systems. The expanded index capability portion of this release of Chameleon is scheduled for January 30, 2006. Among other features it will allow routing by job number, backfill from the accounting system to the imaging system a check number, check date, cost distributions, and capability to key in reference fields such as vendor name and lookup vendor number. This easy-to-use document imaging software provides the user a comprehensive index structure based on the type of document being scanned. Whether the scanned item is an invoice or a document related to a job, a property or a person, Chameleon allows the user to perform simple or complex queries and searches quickly and easily. Security is implemented at the document level, thereby keeping important information safe. Chameleon integrates with users’ accounting system, thereby saving keystrokes while maintaining synchronization between the accounting and imaging. Chameleon also gives users the ability to store and view .pdf files, email, photos, drawings, spreadsheets, word processing documents, and others. One of the most important Chameleon features is an easy-to-use system to route any document. An audit trail automatically logs all the document activity, i.e. sent, waiting, approved and entered within the system. A notification function informs an approver that there are documents waiting for approval. This prevents invoices from being “lost” or mishandled and speeds up the approval process and turnaround time, allowing you to take advantage of prompt payment discounts. Chameleon also allows users to annotate documents by attaching “sticky notes”. Notes remain with the document forever. Every note includes both the author, date, and time that the note was created. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Construction News :: home page |