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July 2003 
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Welcome once again to the latest edition of AMS News. The articles in this and subsequent issues, will keep you informed regarding latest news and developments.

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  • Breaking news... AMS UK chosen by Specsavers
        for Enterprise Solution
  • AMS New Release - 5.7 Version
  • AMS REALTIME Projects 6.0 (Beta Version)
  • AMS Confirms Compatibility with Microsoft Project 2002
  • I didn't know you could do that!
     
  • AMS New Release - Version 5.7 (1616.182)
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    We are pleased to announce the formal release of version 5.7 of the AMS REALTIME Solution.

    This latest version of our powerful, flexible and easy-to-use integrated resource management, project planning and scheduling, cost management and time recording suite sees improvements in the areas of:

    Reporting and printing - Critical Path Engine - Multi-Project (including Rollup) - Calculated Fields - Work Breakdown Structure - Resource Management - Time Recording entry - Time Recording approval - Time Recording correction - Citrix support - ODBC support - AMS Object Store (AOS) - Integration with other applications - Application Programming Interface

    For more information on AMS REALTIME 5.7 version please contact our sales team or use the link below where you will find all the current documentation regarding product configuration and usage.

    Please login to our forums/discussion group to obtain release notes »

    AMS REALTIME Projects 6.0 (Beta Version)
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    AMS REALTIME Projects 6.0 supports xml as a native file format. Project data can be written into and read from an xml format file. With this capability, AMS REALTIME Projects now reads and writes three formats natively, arp, mpx and xml.

    The xml schema for the data is available for those users who would like to translate into AMS REALTIME Projects' xml format.

    We have also developed xml translators for converting AMS XML format to Microsoft Projects 2002 XML format. The above features are part of the 6.0 Beta release made in February 2003.

    If you would like to participate in our beta program or learn more about this capability, please contact us via telephone on +1 909 793 0111 or support@amsusa.com

    If you would like to participate in our beta program or learn more about this capability »

    AMS Confirms Compatibility with Microsoft Project 2002
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    In line with our long established history of compatibility with Microsoft Project, AMS confirm the continuation of this capability with Microsoft Project 2002.

    The toughest challenge facing organisations using Microsoft Project is to get an accurate picture of where resources are being used and what the capacity is to take on new work.

    The AMS REALTIME Enterprise Solution addresses this with the unique AMS REALTIME Workforce Browser and our status and commit features.

    The Workforce Browser enables Microsoft Project users to query and select resources from a centrally maintained database. Integration with AMS REALTIME Resources and AMS REALTIME Solo, our Resource Management and Time-Recording tools, facilitates the tracking and progressing of Microsoft Project plans and cross-project resource management.

    For information about our integration with Microsoft Project »

    I didn't know you could do that!
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    We've gathered a list of some useful features that you may not know about. For example:

    Cost Reporting in AMS REALTIME Resources- In the latest maintenance build of AMS REALTIME Resources (build 180 onwards), time-phased cost reporting has been introduced for the AMS REALTIME Resources reporting system. The cost reporting functionality enables users to use the aggregation features of the reporting tool to produce time-phased costs (actual/etc), as well as the traditional planned and actual/etc usage figures. These new cost features work on existing reports without the need of any re-writing. Reports can also be saved with the Cost option as the default. To find out more, please speak to our support staff.

    Report display units - If you would prefer the AMS REALTIME Resources reporting system to display usage figures as days rather than the default hours, then set the AMS REALTIME Resources client configuration switch 'REPORTDISPLAYUNITS' to 1. Other values include 0 for hours (default), 2 = weeks, 3 = months and
    4 = hours/minutes.

    Sending SMS messages - With the continuing development of the AMS Python menu scripts, AMS staff have successfully developed a script which allows employees to be sent SMS text messages when they are assigned to project tasks. This is a development of the existing automatic email script. To find out more please speak to our support staff.

    Further questions? Why not contact our friendly support staff? »

     

    Breaking news....
    AMS UK chosen by Specsavers for Enterprise Solution
    AMS has been recently chosen by Specsavers Opticians to provide AMS REALTIME software for the Retail Systems department.

    The agreement incorporates the implementation of the full AMS REALTIME Solution. AMS REALTIME Projects, our project management, planning, scheduling and cost management solution, AMS REALTIME Resources, our resource management solution and AMS REALTIME Solo, for time recording.

    For further information on Specsavers visit: www.specsavers.co.uk

    For more news on this sale watch this space....

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