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UPGRADE NEWS
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MOVING UP TO
MY
CLIENTS & PROFITS! X
If you’re happy
with My Clients & Profits! 5, then there’s no
rush to upgrade—the C&P Helpdesk will be supporting
it for a long time. But if you’re anxious to upgrade,
keep these in mind:
• Youíll need Clients & Profits
X 10.1 Both upgrades share some of the same new
features, so they need to work together. Youíll need to
upgrade both Clients & Profits X and My Clients & Profits!
at the same time.
• You probably wonít need
a new server While My Clients & Profits! X is
almost twice as fast as My C&P! 5, it does not require
more powerful hardware. The software will run faster on
newer servers, of course, but you should evaluate My C&P!
X on your existing system before deciding on upgraded
hardware.
• Itís a universary binary
The My C&P! X upgrade runs natively on the new Intel Mac
hardware, as well as on previous generations of PowerPC
hardware running Mac OS X 10.3 or later. (My C&P! X also
runs on Windows, of course).
• Your old customized web
pages wonít be useable My Clients & Profits!
X has an entirely new site structure and web page design,
so any previously customized web pages wonít work. You
can still customize the new web pages like before, including
serving the page graphics from your own web server. Keep
in mind, however, that new My C&P! X updates will replace
the entire folderóbe sure to make backups before installing
future updates.
• Be sure to double-check
user passwords and web access privileges There
are several web access privileges in My C&P! X, so make
sure your users have the access they need before rolling
out the new upgrade.
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Does this sound
familiar? The copywriter’s in New Jersey. The creative
director’s working from home. The production manager’s
in New York. The account executive’s in San Francisco. The
art director’s in Bermuda. How do you keep everybody working
together? Now everybody can be on the same page no matter where
they are.
A home page, that is, with My Clients & Profits! X.
We redesigned the entire My Clients & Profits! X web server from scratch—the
first redesign since its introduction in 2000. We replaced the web
server engine so pages load up to 100% faster. And we took the lessons
we learned in web page usability from Clients & Profits ASAP,
our hot new web-based studio manager, and completely revamped the
user interface (if you’re using the old version, you won’t
believe your eyes!)
Now, everything you can do in My Clients & Profits! X is accessed
from logical drop-down menus. The new server works much more like
Clients & Profits X, so it’s much easier to learn and
use. The web pages show more detail and have more editing options,
so there are fewer limitations compared to My C&P! 5.0. Taken
together, it’s unlike any other job tracking web server you’ve
ever seen.
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The upgrade features a new
“creative dashboard” home page that displays the user’s
daily time card, the day’s deadlines, their job hot sheet,
and the company in/out board.
New features include: the ability to add, edit, approve, print,
and kill proposals; adding and editing change orders; printing selected
Snapshot production and work in progress reports, as well as job
reports like the Job Summary; pre-billing job estimates; review
billings and approving A/P for printing; approving time sheets and
expense reports; approving vendor A/P invoices for payment (all
upcoming new features in Clients & Profits X 10.1), and much
more.
My Clients & Profits! is designed especially for Mac OS X
and Windows XP and fully supports MySQL and SQL Server 2005. The
server supports the latest versions of Safari, Internet Explorer,
and Firefox—no special plug-ins are required. The price is
unchanged at $2,495. Best of all, we’re offering My C&P!
X as a free upgrade for current users. You can try My Clients &
Profits! X now using the live demo at my.clientsandprofits.com.
The web server upgrade will be available in January. For more information,
please visit
www.cnp-x.com/my.
Mary
Peczeli is the Clients & Profits sales manager and has been
a staff member since 1996.
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