Atrium 5.10 Features Team Collaboration and Contact Management

Pragmatic Software Company Inc. announced sweeping enhancements in the latest release of Atrium, a web-based project collaboration tool for the Architectural and Engineering Industries. Atrium (http://www.pragmaticsw.com/Atrium) is a web-based project collaboration tool that allows teams to share documents and manage projects. - The latest version of Atrium is designed to enhance collaboration by allowing project managers to request status of tasks from team members online. For example, a project manager can see all tasks assigned to a specific team member.

(PRWEB) December 12, 2004 -- Pragmatic Software Company Inc. announced sweeping enhancements in the latest release of Atrium, a web-based project collaboration tool for the Architectural and Engineering Industries. Atrium (http://www.pragmaticsw.com/Atrium) is a web-based project collaboration tool that allows teams to share documents and manage projects.

"Atrium already has many collaborative features, such as file sharing, project management, customer relationship management, discussion forums and calendar/appointment management", said Steve Miller, President of Pragmatic Software. "Our new release builds on these features by improving our team collaboration features, enhancing contact management and providing more robust reporting", adds Miller.

Team Collaboration

The latest version of Atrium is designed to enhance collaboration by allowing project managers to request status of tasks from team members online. For example, a project manager can see all tasks assigned to a specific team member. Items that are overdue turn red, quickly identifying slipping tasks. The project manager can also sign up for a nightly email report that shows all Overdue items owned by the project manager and assigned to their team members. Last, the new features of Atrium allow a project manager to request status from a team member by clicking a "Request Status" link for any task. Once clicked, it sends an email to the team member asking for status. In turn, the team member receives the email and responds to the status request without logging into Atrium. Once done, an email is automatically sent back to the project manager and notes are attached to the task showing the request and receipt of status. This process enables complete collaboration on all tasks and empowers the project manager to quickly collect status from their team members.

Enhanced Contact Management

Atrium 5.10 allows architectural and engineering teams to track their Contacts (like customers, vendors and sales leads). It allows them to set call back dates, manage workflow, and quickly identify contacts to call back, as their information turns red when overdue for a call back. Detailed notes can be added and viewed upon talking with contacts, providing teams with a chronological history of all conversations held between the contact and the team member. Mail campaigns are also supported, as Atrium allows printing of mailing labels for contacts.

More Robust Reporting

Atrium was enhanced with more robust reporting, including a myriad of new contact and project management reports. The new reports allow trending of project tasks over time, allowing teams to spot trends and determine how well their team tasks are progressing. Ad-hoc reports can also be created by team members, where they can select the items they wish to appear on the report, the report layout, and the filter criteria. For Enterprise clients, Atrium has full integration with Business Objects Crystal Reports®, allowing teams to create their own custom reports and post them into Atrium for others to use. This integration empowers teams to post reports from other SQL based databases (like Oracle, SQL Server, etc), allowing Atrium to double as a full reporting solution for all areas of their business.

Atrium is offered as a monthly subscription starting at $ 60 per month (2 concurrent users), as well as a scalable enterprise solution that can handle thousands of simultaneous users and can be branded and tailored to exact client needs.

Founded in 1992, Pragmatic Software Company, Inc. based in Denver, Colorado is an Internet software company that provides software products, web-based professional solutions and software consulting services. For more information on Pragmatic Software, go to www.PragmaticSW.com or contact Lynn Cranford at PR@PragmaticSW.com or (800) 773-7785. For more information on Atrium, visit http://www.PragmaticSW.com/Atrium.

To see an on-line copy of this press release, navigate to http://www.pragmaticsw.com/Press Releases/PressRelease-0051.htm.

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