But wait … there’s more.
Office Tools Pro also provides
a fairly complete office management system for a small to midsized
practice. In addition to the time
and expense recording and invoicing features, the software also provides contact management to-dos,
scheduling, project tracking, and
more. While Office Tools Pro used
to be modular, letting you pick and
choose which modules you wanted
to purchase, the vendor now sells it
as a complete application, priced
depending on the number of users. There are, however, optional
products available, such as online
backup and training.
Unlike most of the T&B applications on the market, Office Tools
Professional does not use a proprietary database. Instead, it runs on
top of Microsoft SQL. MS SQL 2005
Express is provided with the software, and installs and is configured
automatically as part of the overall
installation.
The price of Office Tools Professional has risen a bit since the last
time we reviewed it. But if you can
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use the other features beyond T&B,
it’s still a very good deal.
Once installed and configured
with your practice’s data, using
Office Tools Pro is pretty intuitive.
There’s no real documentation,
but a set of PowerPoint presenta-
tions that walk you through the
different task areas is available for
download.
Net@Work
acquires
Fitzgerald
BY SETH FINEBERG
Net@Work, a major New York-
based Sage reseller and document
management service provider,
has acquired Boston-based MAS
90 and MAS 200 reseller Fitzgerald Group, giving the firm a much
larger Northeast presence and over
700 new customers.
The purchase, nearly four years in
the making, adds 12 staff members
and over 700 customers to Net@
Work. Net@Work will have some
staff from its Connecticut office
work at the new Boston location,
according to Net@Work co-founder
Alex Solomon. He noted that other
undisclosed parties had courted
Fitzgerald Group recently.
Net@Work is still looking for other strategic acquisitions in the area
and will continue to grow its business in this way “where it makes
sense,” Solomon added. AT
