Computer Insights’ Control
Points to Ponder
· Applications can be used separately and/or as one global application.
· Applications can be implemented and shared via import/export.
· Some applications can be created in a matter of minutes.
· Employee, vendor and customer files are, in effect, combined.
· The user can control all their production data from one screen.
· There is no duplication of person, company and address information even those with the same name.
· There is no duplication of any other data, e.g. phone numbers, descriptions etc.
· All filer fields are automatically indexed.
· No empty fields (blanks, zeros etc.) are saved on the database.
· A permanent field default (e.g. State) is not saved multiple times on the database.
· Record defaults enforce discipline.
· A farmer tracking cattle could have records in the Name, Organization and Location files for cattle, heard and pasture, respectively.
· The user specifies business rules via expressions (formulas), conditions (ifs) and scopes (filers).
· Expressions, which follow the rules of arithmetic, can be supplemented with standard functions, e.g. integer of INT().
· Language can be changed on the fly (i.e. while on-line).
· Since a View has an Owner and is part of a Transaction, the concept of data ownership extends to views and transactions.
· Transactions can be assigned data fields.
· A transaction has context with all other files.
· The Purchase Order Capture and Sales Order Capture applications provided only have 7 differences.
· Lookups can be populated from other lookups. All data types are supported for the selection lookup.
· Control is powered by built in features (e.g. reports) and user customization (e.g. setup).
· Multiples of the following are possible:
o address formats
o records per file
o bill-to and ship-to per invoice
o employee, vendor and customer file formats
o journals per application
o transaction sets per journal
o expressions by field
o languages
· Can Control be your?
o Personal Data Repository
o Custom "application generator"
o Task Management System
o Whatever you want it to be
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