Benefits of Approval Manager 2010 Standalone Edition
Speed, Organize, and Automate Proof Approvals
It's all about workflow. Master the inherent difficulty of managing, tracking, and scheduling any approval process within and across creative, production, legal, executive, and other environments.
Whether you work with multiple approval processes with simple workflows or vastly more complex approval processes consisting of numerous reviewers, stages, and rounds, the Approval Manager module for Workgroups 2010 R2 is designed to apply powerful automation and organizational tools to the problems associated with managing and facilitating the completion of approval processes. With simplified management and reviewer tools, integrated support for industry standard proofing technologies, and automated email notifications, you never have to miss another deadline again.
Meet Deadlines & Forecast Workloads
One of the biggest challenges facing teams and workgroups is the reliable scheduling of document review and approval workflows. Since missed approval deadlines often have a trickle-down effect and can impact entire projects, Workgroups 2010 R2 is designed to give control back to you. With easy to use scheduling tools, you can reliably schedule your document review and approval processes within your larger workflows, ensuring that you are always running at maximum efficiency and you aren't paying for idle time while processes and people wait for approval.
Organize Your Workflow
Stagnant reviews and document approvals lead to real problems in any business. From idle staff to stalled creative processes or worse, haphazardly implemented approval and review processes can be a significant source of lost revenue due to missed deadlines, constantly slipping schedules, and rework. With Workgroups 2010 R2, you can take control of your approval and review processes, schedule with confidence, and retain more revenue for your bottom line.
Use Multiple Proofing Technologies Simultaneously
With Workgroups 2010 R2 you aren't locked into a single proofing technology. You decide based upon present or future needs whether to use Spark!™, the all new optional plug-in proofer for PDF* and image files, or work with other supported applications such as Acrobat, Word, Dalim Dialogue, or native viewers for CAD, video, text documents, and other file types. Workgroups supports these technologies simultaneously, so you can choose the appropriate proofer for a particular workflow or customer.
*PDFs rendered using technology licensed from Foxit.
Tighten Your Relationship with Your Customers and Colleagues by Integrating Them Into Your Workflow
Including your customers and colleagues into an approval process goes beyond overnighting a hard-copy proof or emailing a file for them to review. With Workgroups 2010 R2, you can provide your customers with their own unique dashboard they use to see at a glance all their outstanding proofs and complete their reviews, all within a branded portal.
Speed Your Document Proofing and Concepting Approval Cycles
Automate creative and document proof reviews with Workgroups 2010 R2. This ensures that active approval cycles proceed with a minimum of managerial intervention, and that the system proactively solicits the participation of reviewers at the appropriate time. The result is that approval cycles are faster, more predictable, and proceed with a minimal amount of managerial overhead, unless necessary. With automated approval cycles, you turn your work around faster, with higher quality, and with a dramatically improved ability to capture more revenue from efficient workflows.
Reduce Mistakes and Improve Quality & Process Control
Introduce traceable accountability to any approval process with Workgroups 2010 R2. With a robust quality assurance and billing audit trail built right in, you'll be able to see at a glance the entire story of any given approval process. When the question arises asking why something has changed, you'll have the resources at hand to explain. When preparing an invoice, you can rely on an up-to-date archive of the proof's evolution instead of trying to remember what was done on the project weeks after the fact.
Capture More Billing
Documenting the changes and iterations that a project goes through, as well as the persons responsible for those changes, is an essential part of accurate billing. All too often nobody remembers why a project was changed, for what reason, or who requested it. This frequently results in lost revenue. With Workgroups 2010 R2, an accurate and permanent record is automatically kept of every version of a proof, allowing you to step back through all the iterations of a file and see what was changed, when, and why.