Giardina & Associates
Adds New Features
to Office Tools Pro
Now Includes Electronic File Cabinet,
Enhanced Email Capabilities & Project
and Status Groups
August 20, 2003 - Palmdale, CA – Giardina & Associates,
which provides time billing and practice management software
and full-service technical solutions to small and medium-sized
businesses, announces that it has added more features to
its latest software release for accounting and business
professionals. Office Tools Pro now includes an electronic
file cabinet, enhanced email capabilities and Project and
Status Groups. For a brief demonstration of Office Tools
Pro by Giardina & Associates, visit booth #923 of the
2003 Business & Technology Solutions Show, Donald E.
Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, IL, August 26-27.
Rather
than searching for documents in paper files, accountants
and business professionals can now access them instantly
with the electronic file cabinet feature. The time and
resources required for identifying, locating and communicating
archived documents to clients (or other approved parties)
is significantly reduced by simply organizing scanned
documents into Office Tools Pro for complete document management.
“We believe in the need for CPA firms to move toward
a ‘paperless’ environment,” said Michael
Giardina, President of Giardina & Associates. “Users
can locate requested documents and email them to a client
in a matter of seconds, compared with much longer time
required to go to a file room, locate the file, remove
the document, make a copy and fax it to the client. The
new features added to Office Tools Pro work to increase
productivity, improve customer service and cut costs for
accountants and CPA firms.”
Bulk and individual
email capabilities have been added to Office Tools
Pro. Bulk email allows a message to be
created with the BCC field, populated with email addresses
from Office Tools Pro Contacts, and filtered by Client
Type, Entity Type and Client Service. The individual
email feature allows users to click on the email address
in the
Contacts Tab to open a new message, which is automatically
addressed to the appropriate contact. The Office Tools
Pro user no longer has to locate an email address from
a separate contact list to send messages.
In addition,
new Project and Status Groups have been included for
assigning projects by client and organizing
status
per project. These groups ease the project management
process by allowing multiple projects to be created
for multiple
clients, and by organizing projects and projects’ status
into logical groupings.
Office Tools Pro starts at $299 per user and is available
free of charge for the first 90 days. As an authorized
Palm, Inc. reseller, Giardina & Associates offers
a discount on a Palm Pilot with the purchase of Office
Tools
Pro. In addition, support and service packages for
accountants, CPAs and tax professionals are available.
For more information
on Office Tools Pro, call 888-667-8440 or visit their
Web site at www.OfficeToolsPro.com
About Office Tools
Pro By Giardina & Associates
Since 1989 Giardina & Associates,
a Southern California-based computer-consulting
firm, has helped small and medium-sized
businesses utilize technical resources. Services offered
include LAN Management, Outsourced MIS, IS Consulting,
Web Design, Custom Programming and Computer/Printer Sales,
Support and Service. Giardina & Associates are Novell
authorized resellers as well as partners/resellers of
Compaq, Cisco Systems, Sonic, Intel, Microsoft and Hewlett
Packard.
Their flagship product, Office Tools Pro, is a practice
management program that combines the best of client management
and scheduling, project management and time and billing
in one easy-to-use package. Office Tools Pro is available
free of charge for the first 90 days. For more information
on Office Tools Pro by Giardina & Associates, call
888-667-8440 or visit their Web site at www.OfficeToolsPro.com
