Government Technology - April 2008 - (Page NW3)

Work the Way You Live Advancements in technology, like the introduction of the Internet, allow us to accomplish more in less time every day. You no longer need to make separate trips to the bank, the store, or the library. Now, in less than 10 minutes, you can transfer funds, purchase a gift and read about your next vacation destination, all without leaving your chair. So, if this is how you live, then shouldn’t this also be how you work? New World Systems’ Logos.NET is the solution built with a vision to Work the Way You Live: You Will Work From Any Application By opening up the ability to access information within the daily flow of how you work, Logos.NET becomes an integrated extension of the applications you use each day. • For example, if you are writing an email in Microsoft Outlook® and would like to reference one of today’s open purchase orders without having to log into your public administration solution. New World Systems Logos.NET is being built to automatically dispaly all open Purchase Orders for the day directly in Outlook with the ability to drill down into each one for more information. Because of this built-in workflow, you will then be able to continue your email, without ever switching applications or losing focus. You Will Have Information at Your Fingertips Because it is common for many organizations to have multiple applications that store related information, they are often forced to wait more than a day for the data from disparate applications. With Logos.NET, information is no longer trapped in silos, but is readily available, even when it resides in different applications. • For example, if you currently do all of your tax billing outside of your public administration application, you know that it can be more than 24 hours before a batch upload can sync your tax information with your general ledger. Logos.NET is built on a foundation that will allow the tax billing information to be available immediately, even if you just sent the bill 10 minutes ago. You Will Eliminate Paperwork For many organizations, entering information into your public administration system means filling out paperwork, routing for manual approvals and eventual entry into the system by a few people with access. Employees should not have to be logged into your public administration application to submit a purchase order, work order or time sheet. • In this example an employee must order office supplies. Because this employee has no need to access your public administration solution on a daily basis, he has no log-in and, therefore, cannot input his purchase order for supplies directly into the system. Instead of having to fill out a paper form, route it for approval and hand it to a clerk to key into the system, the employee can access an electronic purchase order form over the intranet, customized for his needs. Once the form is submitted, it then goes through a pre-defined approval process before the information automatically updates in your financial management system. You Will Work From Anywhere at Anytime Vendors, citizens and employees need access to specific information and the ability to do business twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Need proof of this trend? Visit Yahoo!® or iGoogle™. They offer plug-ins that customize your homepage to view weather, sports, news, gossip and more, instantly available every time you visit. • Logos.NET will allow you to work from home through a secure web portal with the tools you need from your public administration solution, including budget information, purchase orders and more. You Will Answer Questions in an Instant A growing trend in local government administration is the use of Business Analytics, a powerful tool for performance measurement. Currently, other public administration solutions struggle to offer Business Analytics capabilities because of the complex nature of data navigation, data mining, looking for patterns and predicting results. But New World sees Business Analytics as less about data collection for analysis and more about answering a question, which is really how people think. • If you had exactly three minutes to determine what a 2% budget amendment would look like across the board, would you be able to do it? Instead of running reports within your financial system and exporting them to Microsoft Excel® for analysis, Logos.NET’s Business Analytics allows you to utilize simpleto-use analytical tools that present information in Microsoft Excel®, maps, graphs and more. Advertising Supplement Whether you are struggling with current inefficiencies or wondering how you will keep up with future trends, the smartest investment you can make now is in a public administration solution that is being built with a vision that gives you the ability to Work the Way You Live well into the future.

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Government Technology - April 2008 Contents Point of View Big Picture The Last Mile On the Scene Four Questions for... Freeze Frame How Safe Is Your Data? Easy Street Gadget Overload Indiana Overhaul First Person: A Better Bill Data Defense Strength in Numbers Public Storage Products Two Cents Spectrum Personal Computing signal:noise

Government Technology - April 2008

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