Logging the comings and going of even a small
team can be frustrating. Many software packages exist to help
with tracking personnel movements, and for some reason most of
them have long-winded and irritating entry screens and complex
charts. "Well John is red until 2pm so he is in a
meeting" "er no, I think dark red is at lunch"
"hang on - doesn't light red mean he has been fired?"
"blast that is next week we are looking at anyway..."
Scotland Yard is a breath of fresh air. It logs the movements of
all staff, and displays where they are, when they will be back
and what message they have to say. Using the Detective screen you
can see at a glance that John is out of the office until 2pm, and
his message says he has gone to Head Office and can be reached
there.
There are no complicated time-consuming screens either- changing
your status is a two second job -which means in the real world,
the software will actually get used!
Scotland Yard has a neat, quick notes facility to leave telephone
messages for the other staff members, installs and runs cleanly
and quickly and works well on a network. It is a cinch to install
and simple to use, making it the ideal choice for small, busy
offices and organizations. It even allows for users who are on
DOS or Win 3.1 systems to log in and out too! Receptionist will
love it for its clarity, managers for its speed of use and the
accounts department for the very reasonable price.