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System Utilities

Spitfire's construction management system isn't just founded on Microsoft technology - it is Microsoft technology - optimized by Spitfire to meet your construction needs.

Not only is our software flexible, but our company is too. Spitfire is a new company, with a new vision, committed to providing you with the most satisfying information management experience possible. Talk to us, you'll find us eager to meet your needs.

Flexibility

• Flex-Keys: Spitfire allows you to segment sub-accounts, project IDs, contract IDs, subcontract IDs, submittal IDs, task Ids, vendor IDs, employee IDs, customer IDs, etc. into meaningful codes. When you create your account and sub-account structure, you can use Flex-key Assignment to define each segment comprising the account numbers. This gives you a powerful method of distinguishing account properties for inquiries and reporting.
• Customization Manager with a broad range of customization capability within the context of the system: From flexible screen design to embedded Visual Basic for Applications and ActiveX automation support, Spitfire's Customization Manager can meet the simplest to the most complex customization needs.
• Sophisticated multi-company capabilities allow automated inter-company transactions
• Full period posting and closing flexibility across modules
• Flexible batch status control and automatic batch status reports for all transaction entries
• Ability to view summary information and drill down to detail levels
• Flexible history retention at the summary and/or detail transaction level

Extend-Ability

Simply relying on "open database and ODBC connectivity" in order to share information with other sources still leaves the user with lots of work to do. Spitfire on the other hand has powerful, yet flexible features built into it that help make it easy for you to move information from other sources into the system, and move Spitfire information out to other decision support tools. For example, the Transaction Import function allows you to import transactions from other applications directly into Spitfire data entry screens; you can import current depreciation transactions from another program into the Journal Transactions screen. The imported transactions are then subject to the same control and validation that they would be if they had been entered directly into the screen, insuring the integrity of the data.

Spitfire provides tight integration into Microsoft Excel. Various input screens such as Budget Revision Maintenance have direct Excel import/Export functions built right in.

Process Workflow and Routing

There are numerous automated workflow and routing controls within the system.

Included among these are:

• Automatically routes completed invoices, whether created from Invoice and Adjustment entry, Automatic Invoice Creation, or Scheduled Billing Release to the appropriate approver upon completion, if approval is required. Rejected invoices are automatically routed back to the preparer.
• Automatically routes completed budget revisions for approval, and routes rejections of budgets back to the preparer.
• Automatically routes Subcontract(AP) Payment Requests for approval, and routes rejections of these requests back to the preparer.

Not just Crystal Reports

Spitfire features highly flexible report control options. Beyond simply using industry standard Crystal Reports as the system reporting engine, Spitfire maintains a powerful report control function that prevents users from having to modify underlying Crystal Report source code in order to achieve many common report customizations. This function flexibly passes information to Crystal Reports, giving user-defined control over, data selection criteria, sorting, grouping, page breaking and totaling without having to modify the underlying Crystal Report source code. You can then create a library of report "data templates" for each report, allowing you to easily create and store for retrieval multiple "flavors" of a report, each with the same look and feel.

Efficient Data Entry and Inquiry

• Screen Templates is an extremely powerful feature that allows you to create one or more data templates for any screen in the system. This allows you to pre-load any screen with commonly used information, drastically reducing repetitive data entry.
• The Copy Special function allows you to copy an entire data entry screen, or selected data "levels", to paste into another screen or to any other Windows-based application. This allows you, for example, to paste a Journal entry distribution or an invoice to and from Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word. Like Screen Templates, this feature can also drastically reduce repetitive data entry.
• Accelerator keys enable you to type continuously without having to use the mouse.
• Wildcard characters can be used in many areas for convenient data lookup.
• With just a keystroke or a double-click of your mouse button, you can quickly swap between "form view" and "grid view" in any input screen.
• Quick Notes provide you with special data fields to keep notes about the many details of your business within the system. Notes can even be kept at the line item level for transaction entry screens.

Data Integrity and Security

Use of the Microsoft SQL data engine, with full application of transaction commit/rollback, protects the integrity of your data against software, hardware, or power failures, Additionally, importing transactions from an external source invokes the same business rules and controls that are applied to regular data entry. This provides the highest degree of both logical and physical database integrity.

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