Now available for the Mac, ManagePro 2.0 ($395) helps managers and workgroups meet their goals and deadlines by integrating tools for planning, tracking, and delegating tasks over a network. You enter information in spreadsheet-style planners, and the software automatically creates color-coded goal- and people-status boards, time lines, to-do lists, calendars, and more than 30 standard reports.
ManagePro prompts managers through a four-step performance management process and offers useful management tips and techniques. The software's calendar automatically shows, in all the calendar views, an item you entered elsewhere in the program, such as a project deadline entered in the goal planner. The multiuser capability provides simultaneous read/write access, synchronizing separat
ely updated copies of the same database.
Contact: Avantos Performance Systems, Emeryville, CA, (800) 282-6867 or (510) 654-4600.
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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