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Subject: Enhancements to Pragmatech 6.1 Products?
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John EllsworthUser is Offline

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10/22/2007 1:15 PM  

Hi,

This topic is to solicit enhancement requests for our Pragmatech 6.1 family of applications, for our 2008 update.  We've received lots of input over the years, and inciteKnowledge is in large part a response to that input.  But what's important to you today?  What would you like to see us do to increase the value of the Pragmatech 6.1 products for your needs?

Thanks for your input!

John Ellsworth

Director, Product Management

Kadient, Inc.
John EllsworthUser is Offline

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10/22/2007 1:43 PM  
Received from a customer by John Ellsworth:
1) Native support for Excel pricing tables in Smartdocs
2) Support for translation of content
3) Simplified content maintenance reports, but adding key words to those reports
John EllsworthUser is Offline

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10/22/2007 1:45 PM  
Received from a customer by John Ellsworth:

SQL Server 2005 support
Jenni GrossmanUser is Offline

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10/23/2007 4:36 AM  
An RFP workflow managment functionality including the ability to email into an inbox within the application and delegate tasks. It would also be great to produce management information reporting from this data.
John EllsworthUser is Offline

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10/26/2007 4:50 PM  
Received from a customer by John Ellsworth

Great User Forum John. Very beneficial on various levels. We had the chance to speak briefly about a functionality enhancement I'll call "Auto-Populate". You briefed me on the Blueprint capability that currently exists which was helpful but my Auto-Populate concept takes it to another level. Let me briefly explain.

Currently your application is using some sort of text recognition software to match RFP questions with potential (ranked) responses. This is a multi-step user process that you call Fetch. My concept is to submit the entire RFP (Word doc) to the application and have the application recognize (read) each question and populate each question with an answer (obviously the one that it assigns a 100% confidence factor in today's application). Ideally this process would take no more than 30 minutes. The end result is that the user gets an "auto-populated" RFP with which now obviously must go some editing/quality control process. The benefit at this point is tremendous time savings. My estimate, based on our average RFP length, is 4 - 6 hours of time savings. Of course, a portion of these savings would we consumed with the back end processes that would have to be built but I would be optimistic that the net would be a reduction of 25 - 40% of the time it currently takes to complete an RFP today.

The challenges...as I see them.

1. How do you "mark/index/identify" each question so that the application can distinguish one question from another.
2. How do you handle multiple questions within a question (Perhaps you chose to not auto-populate these because of the infrequent instances)
3. What to do if an question returns multiple answers assigned a 100% confidence ranking.

No doubt there would be others however I submit this functionality has the potential to be a blockbuster if we can achieve the time savings I envision without compromising the quality of RFP response.

I would be interested in your thoughts and am willing to participate with your team in vetting this concept.

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