Advantage blue ad agency software launches on February 3, 2012 with our general release for ad agencies and businesses that need powerful project management software matched with incredible business software supported by thousands of custom reports.
You already know that Advantage Software’s reporting options include flexible formatting of forms such as job orders, creative briefs, spec sheets, work orders, change orders, client invoices and estimates, as well as vendor forms like purchase orders and media orders. The popular Auto-Email PDF feature delivers custom forms to your clients or vendors with a single click!
With the release of Advantage blue, many Advantage clients are looking forward to the new Report Writer. The Report Writer features include easy-to-use Dynamic Reports as well as an Advanced Report Writer that gives you the same features used by professional report writers.
Instead of writing code from scratch, blue includes pre-defined data sets for the most commonly requested report types! Contact Advantage for information or to setup training.
For more information about Advantage blue and the software general release on February 3, 2012, please contact Advantage Software at 1-800-841-2078 or visit our blue website at www.whatsblue.com.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Friday, January 20, 2012
Agency and Business Project Management & Business Management Software Releases February 3, 2012
The date of February 3, 2012 is set as the date when Advantage blue will be released for your agency and business.
Blue has been beta tested by over 50 agencies since its original release date of November 4th in 2011. We’ve received very positive feedback and great suggestions from our beta testers that have resulted in further improvements and refinements to this very new and improved version of Advantage and Webvantage!
The expected general release date for blue is February 3, 2012. This general release will include Advantage Blue and Webvantage Blue. Blue feature highlights include:
» All new and re-written applications using new technologies that improve usability and intuitiveness as well as facilitate increased productivity.
» Advantage - With the addition of .Net, applications in Advantage are being re-written using new standards. The use of .Net in our Client/Server applications will enable us to deliver more on the web later!
» Webvantage - Using HTML5 and other new tools, we’ve greatly improved the look, feel and usability of this popular browser-based application!
» All new menus and navigation
» New, consolidated Security combines both Advantage and Webvantage
» New Broadcast Media - allowing daily, calendar, and broadcast month schedules
» Report Writer for both Advantage and Webvantage
» Additional Billing Command Center features
» New Webvantage Calendar, Project Management and Risk Analysis features
» See our release notices and Users Portal for complete details
» Make sure to review the updated hardware and software minimum requirements for blue
Are you ready for blue? February 3, 2012 is approaching quickly. For more information and a custom tour on adding Advantage blue to your agency and business management success, please call The Advantage Software Company at 800-841-2078 or visit us online at www.whatsblue.com or www.gotoadvantage.com.
Blue has been beta tested by over 50 agencies since its original release date of November 4th in 2011. We’ve received very positive feedback and great suggestions from our beta testers that have resulted in further improvements and refinements to this very new and improved version of Advantage and Webvantage!
The expected general release date for blue is February 3, 2012. This general release will include Advantage Blue and Webvantage Blue. Blue feature highlights include:
» All new and re-written applications using new technologies that improve usability and intuitiveness as well as facilitate increased productivity.
» Advantage - With the addition of .Net, applications in Advantage are being re-written using new standards. The use of .Net in our Client/Server applications will enable us to deliver more on the web later!
» Webvantage - Using HTML5 and other new tools, we’ve greatly improved the look, feel and usability of this popular browser-based application!
» All new menus and navigation
» New, consolidated Security combines both Advantage and Webvantage
» New Broadcast Media - allowing daily, calendar, and broadcast month schedules
» Report Writer for both Advantage and Webvantage
» Additional Billing Command Center features
» New Webvantage Calendar, Project Management and Risk Analysis features
» See our release notices and Users Portal for complete details
» Make sure to review the updated hardware and software minimum requirements for blue
Are you ready for blue? February 3, 2012 is approaching quickly. For more information and a custom tour on adding Advantage blue to your agency and business management success, please call The Advantage Software Company at 800-841-2078 or visit us online at www.whatsblue.com or www.gotoadvantage.com.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Ad Agency Software, Advantage blue, Launches February 3rd!
Blue is coming February 3, are you ready? Attend the “Are you ready for blue” webinars this week (January 17 at 3 PM EST and January 19 at 1 PM EST). Visit the Users Portal from our website at www.gotoadvantage.com to sign up!
With the release of blue, many Advantage clients are looking forward to the new Report Writer. The Report Writer features include easy-to-use Dynamic Reports as well as an Advanced Report Writer that gives you the same features used by professional report writers. Instead of writing code from scratch, blue includes pre-defined data sets for the most commonly requested report types! Contact Advantage for information or to setup training.
For more information on Advantage blue and to schedule a private demo, please call Advantage blue at 800-841-2078 or visit our blue website at www.whatsblue.com.
With the release of blue, many Advantage clients are looking forward to the new Report Writer. The Report Writer features include easy-to-use Dynamic Reports as well as an Advanced Report Writer that gives you the same features used by professional report writers. Instead of writing code from scratch, blue includes pre-defined data sets for the most commonly requested report types! Contact Advantage for information or to setup training.
For more information on Advantage blue and to schedule a private demo, please call Advantage blue at 800-841-2078 or visit our blue website at www.whatsblue.com.
Monday, January 9, 2012
Project Management Software for Ad Agencies Sets a New Benchmark
The Advantage Software Company announced today that project management for agencies will dramatically change with the release of Advantage blue and its robust project and resource management capabilities.
“One of the more dramatic changes in how agencies will collaborate and manage projects and resources is with the release of Advantage blue,” said Ellen Coulter, president of The Advantage Software Company. “Advantage blue uses new technologies and methods that add unique features that solve real problems and provide important management information while greatly enhancing the user experience.”
Advantage blue is the result of continued feedback and input by Advantage customers. Along with a new interface allowing for user customization, unlimited workspaces, and multiple window access, blue project management includes new options for quickly and easily creating timelines and assigning and “finding” available staff by role. The results are rendered in the user’s choice of various graphical formats and interactive views such as Calendars, Timelines and Gantt Charts. Interactivity means that schedules and assignments may be changed from any graphical view providing many different ways for users to interact with the information. The new Report Writer gives users the ultimate power in information management through pre-defined data sets that make it easy to write meaningful simple or complex reports.
“One of the more dramatic changes in how agencies will collaborate and manage projects and resources is with the release of Advantage blue,” said Ellen Coulter, president of The Advantage Software Company. “Advantage blue uses new technologies and methods that add unique features that solve real problems and provide important management information while greatly enhancing the user experience.”
Advantage blue is the result of continued feedback and input by Advantage customers. Along with a new interface allowing for user customization, unlimited workspaces, and multiple window access, blue project management includes new options for quickly and easily creating timelines and assigning and “finding” available staff by role. The results are rendered in the user’s choice of various graphical formats and interactive views such as Calendars, Timelines and Gantt Charts. Interactivity means that schedules and assignments may be changed from any graphical view providing many different ways for users to interact with the information. The new Report Writer gives users the ultimate power in information management through pre-defined data sets that make it easy to write meaningful simple or complex reports.
“The all new Calendar is a great example of the expanded interactivity found inside Advantage blue,” said Coulter. “Our clients are reporting that the speed and ease of editing schedules and assignments from different perspectives is accented by the powerful project Timeline and Gantt views.”
The Calendar gives team members an instant snapshot for managing projects by viewing status completions, percent complete, and seeing who is working on what. Team leaders can easily edit assignments on the calendar and then drill down to a full workload view by day, week or month. The ability to see who is over or under-booked is a powerful project management tool.
“We are very excited about these new capabilities that are helping our clients truly automate the project management process and reap the benefits of that automation,” says Coulter. “In addition to the enhanced scheduling tools, the ability to balance the workload and to analyze risks through our new Risk Analysis Dashboard really gives our agencies powerful tools to make real-time management decisions armed with real-time statistics.”
The Calendar gives team members an instant snapshot for managing projects by viewing status completions, percent complete, and seeing who is working on what. Team leaders can easily edit assignments on the calendar and then drill down to a full workload view by day, week or month. The ability to see who is over or under-booked is a powerful project management tool.
“We are very excited about these new capabilities that are helping our clients truly automate the project management process and reap the benefits of that automation,” says Coulter. “In addition to the enhanced scheduling tools, the ability to balance the workload and to analyze risks through our new Risk Analysis Dashboard really gives our agencies powerful tools to make real-time management decisions armed with real-time statistics.”
Risk Analysis and other dashboards such as Project Statistics and Client Time Analysis are examples of how Advantage blue transforms daily project information into key metrics that can change and improve how projects are executed. The end result is the on-time delivery of higher quality and more profitable work.
Risk Analysis Burn Rate charts and graphs show team leaders where potential problem areas exist as the project is being executed, before budget milestones are hit. This tool greatly enhances the ability for agencies to forecast, monitor and achieve greater project management efficiencies while increasing agency profitability.
To arrange a custom tour of Advantage blue and learn more about how this amazing suite of agency software products can literally change your agency business, contact The Advantage Software Company at 800-841-2078 or visit us online at www.whatsblue.com or www.gotoadvantage.com.
Risk Analysis Burn Rate charts and graphs show team leaders where potential problem areas exist as the project is being executed, before budget milestones are hit. This tool greatly enhances the ability for agencies to forecast, monitor and achieve greater project management efficiencies while increasing agency profitability.
To arrange a custom tour of Advantage blue and learn more about how this amazing suite of agency software products can literally change your agency business, contact The Advantage Software Company at 800-841-2078 or visit us online at www.whatsblue.com or www.gotoadvantage.com.
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