Socrates Contractor's Library

Estimate paint and construction jobs, issue contracts, schedule projects and handle accounting and payroll for your business. Manage your office more efficiently today. Estimate paint and construction jobs,market and manage your small business and access the appropriate contractors' forms. This is the ultimate management and production tool for any contractor. Learn how easy it is to manage your office more efficiently

Gain the necessary skills and information that successful contractors need to succeed in subjects such as creating business plans, paint and construction estimation, accounting and payroll, contractors' forms, everyday business agreements, office management forms, marketing and more

Balanced Scorecard Designer

Balanced Scorecard Designer (BSC Designer) is a software that simplifies the process of creating and managing Balanced Scorecards or KPI groups. With BSC Designer you will be able to create any set of key performance indicators, define relationships between groups, goals, and specify the importance of indicators. BSC Designer will calculate the total performance value and will provide you with report in MS Excel.

Balanced Scorecard Designer has a plain, easy to use interface, which provides user with:

• The Possibility to create a scorecard, e.g. create categories, indicators;
• Balancing function, e.g. lets user specify relative weights;
• Time Points, allow to specify weight, score, mix/max and other values specific for certain dates.
• Ability to connect several scorecards into one using data obtained from the web or local network.
  It also can import information using SQL indicators.
• Performance measurement and calculation functions, e.g. calculates the performance within category and total performance;
• Results of work can be exported into easy, readable html reports with charts.

AutoRun Typhoon 4 Professional

AutoRun Typhoon is a Multimedia Presentation tool that integrates Menus, Web Sites, PDF files, PowerPoint presentations, videos, slideshows or just about anything else you'd like into professional, attractive presentations. A large selection of Menu templates help you get started quickly. You can create your own templates as well. Choose from a dozen objects to add to your Menu, including Buttons. Over 180 Buttons styles are included.

The Professional License allows for 2 developers and comes with 12 months of free product upgrades.

The bottom line is that you need the best possible tool, which produces the best possible results at the best possible price. AutoRun Typhoon delivers on all accounts. Not only do you have the most powerful presentation tool on the market, but AutoRun Typhoon's drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to produce amazing presentations in no time at all. Deliver your presentation with ease, AutoRun Typhoon will burn your project to CD / DVD, or compress into a single EXE for easy sharing.

Much-more-than-just-a-menu Menus (the ability to add flash animations, Web pages, slideshows, videos, etc on the menu as well as the buttons, listboxes, and textboxes)

Serious Security (the contents of the CD/DVD aren't visible to the user until they pass authorization so your sensitive files are safe and secure)

Easy to use - no programming or scripting knowledge is required, all point and click

Having problems? If you need help from an actual person, not an autoresponder, Typhoon Software has the support our customers require. We are a small, personal, software company where people matter and feedback fuels progress.

Resolver One Spreadsheet

Resolver One is a program that combines the ease-of-use of a spreadsheet with the power of a programming language. It's designed for people who've hit the limits of what they can do with traditional spreadsheets, and want to write some "real code" without giving up the ease-of-use and rapid prototyping capabilities of a spreadsheet.

Resolver One is a new spreadsheet, designed for reliability. It's easily programmable, integrates easily with your (or your IT department's) .NET code, and comes with a built-in Web server. Resolver One is a program that blends a familiar spreadsheet-like interface with the powerful Python programming language, giving you a tool with which to better analyse and present your data.

Everything you can do with a traditional spreadsheet, you can do in Resolver One: write formulae, use cell references, format your sheets so they appear just as you like them, put comments in cells, create validation dropdowns, add buttons, and much more. You can even import your existing Microsoft Excel™ documents, or export Resolver One documents as .xls files.

Resolver One aims to solve the problems that often plague spreadsheets and cost your company money, time and effort. It has a wide range of powerful features that improve reliability, reduce maintenance costs and provide extensibility, without taking away the rapid prototyping and flexibility that a spreadsheet environment offers.

The important difference between Resolver One and traditional spreadsheets is that Resolver One makes scripting a first-class citizen, not an afterthought. In Resolver One, the spreadsheet is the program. As you change your formulae, Python code is generated and executed, with the results displayed as values in the grid. You can then edit the code, define your own functions and use programming constructs that give you unlimited power and flexibility.

Resolver One breaks the barriers of the traditional spreadsheet programming model where the layout is inherent in the calculations. Using named ranges, headers and row and column formulae allows you to change the layout of your sheets without tweaking all your formula.

A lot of businesses are run with spreadsheets developed with Microsoft Excel. Unfortunately, there is a limit on what you can do with them before they turn into a maintenance nightmare. Fortunately, you can import your existing Excel files into Resolver One and make the first step towards spreadsheet sanity. The goal is to make your existing spreadsheets work immediately upon being imported into Resolver One. We support a lot of common spreadsheet functions, formatting options and more.

Best of all, you don't have to be a programmer to use Resolver One! You can begin by using familiar spreadsheet functions. Then you can study the generated code to get a feel for how to accomplish certain things in Python. You can write as little or as much scripting code as you feel - it's just a spreadsheet, after all!

ProWorkflow Easy Project Management Professional 1 User for 1 Year

ProWorkflow is a fast, easy to use project management, workflow and time tracking solution for small to medium businesses. The application has been designed from the ground up with your most important asset in mind: Your staff! ProWorkflow enables you to keep accurate time-keeping records, organize, plan, and delegate jobs and tasks whilst using the timeline to have an overview of company activity. The information ProWorkflow collects allows you to measure and analyze your company performance so that you can streamline to improve profit margins.

The Professional release is the fully featured version of ProWorkflow designed for busy professionals, teams or companies. Ideal for 1-50 users sized companies.

ProWorkflow's reporting section gives you the freedom to produce reports on a particular project, client history, current work in progress, or staff performance. These reports also include invoice ready information for projects.

If you're a small company without an accounting package, ProWorkflow is a great tool to use as you grow. Whether you are large or small, ProWorkflow's reporting allows you to measure and analyze key areas within your company, empowering your move to improve productivity and profits.

KEY FEATURES:

• Web-Based Technology allows you to manage your company remotely
• Get organized with the Project Manager, & assign tasks to employees
• Use the Dependant Tasks to keep your workflow in order
• Upload files to projects with the Resources Manager
• The Task Manager allows you to create task lists for each employee, and see activity in real-time
• Use the Calendar to keep track of upcoming dates & deadlines
• Track time simply and efficiently with the Stopwatch Time Tracker
• View resource allocation and deadlines with the Timeline View
• Use the Contact Manager to access contact information remotely
• Goodbye to post-it notes! Notes Manager stores vital company info
• Gain knowledge on company performance using the Reports Manager
• Brand it as your own using the Administration Settings
• Never lose info with the Project, Task & Notes Search Tool
• Be prepared! ProWorkflow even remembers clients' Drink Preferences

ProWorkflow is a stable web-based Cold Fusion application with an MS SQL database. The subscription accounts are held on high spec dedicated servers at FastServers.Net in the USA. All backups and server maintenance is handled by ProActive.

ProWorkflow is a powerful and proven solution, with potential to substantially increase your productivity, equalling to better quality, and faster delivery of your projects. The 'off-the-shelf' solution has been designed for small to medium companies. It is however, a solid platform to integrate into larger firms. For less than a thousand dollars, you can have a tool that will save you tens of thousands.

Anagram Contact Data Manager for Salesforce for 1 Year

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Process the text instantly, intelligently placing each item in the proper field.

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Create leads, contacts and events in Salesforce.com quickly and easily from any text on your PC, such as an e-mail, web site, résumé or client list without errors or re-typing!

Anagram is a tiny and unobtrusive program for your PC that stays out of your way while you work, but is available at a single keypress when needed.

Anagram instantly and intelligently translates the meaningful text from any application into Salesforce.com Lead, Contact and Calendar items. Why enter a new lead or event into Salesforce by hand when Anagram can do it for you?

Nuance PDF + SCAN Suite UK

PDF+SCAN Suite combines all of our top-selling imaging solutions, used by millions of users all over the world. It houses the best in OCR, scanning, complete PDF functionality as well as document management and retrieval technology. Turn paper into virtually any digital format with a few easy clicks; convert from one digital format to the other without losing text, layout, images or tables. Create industry-standard PDF files that can be edited, reviewed or converted into any other digital format and still look exactly like the original. Index and organise your documents and photos and find them within seconds, using only one word present inside the text of the document. Imagine the space and time you will save with that kind of functionality!

PDF+SCAN Suite combines our top selling imaging solutions, as used by millions of people all over the world, including students, teachers and office workers. It houses the best in OCR, scanning and complete PDF functionality, as well as document management and retrieval technology. Take advantage of these tools to work more effectively and prepare your administration, presentations and assignments more efficiently.

PDF+SCAN Suite includes full versions of:

OmniPage 16
Convert any paper or file (including text in pictures, images and PDF) into editable digital text with unprecedented recognition accuracy and layout retention; convert to PDF or your favourite digital format for results that look just like the original. You can even turn text into human-sounding audio books for your iPod® or MP3-player.

PDF Converter Professional 5
Everything you need to view, create, convert and edit PDFs to and from the most frequently-used Windows applications, such as Microsoft Office, Corel® WordPerfect®, Internet Explorer® ... including the new Microsoft Office 2007 and .xps formats. PaperPort 11

PaperPort 11
Scan in your paper documents with a single click. Manage your scans and other electronic documents together. Organise and make your documents and pictures easily searchable, then find them using PaperPort's handy document-content-revealing thumbnail images and powerful search tools. These powerful applications integrate with each other seamlessly, creating workflows that are incomparable in their potential to boost the way you process documents and knowledge!