For any organisation where information is important, the INVU Professional Series brings instant benefits, namely:

• Increased customer care
  
• Saved time
  
• Saved costs
  
• Increased staff productivity
  
• Reduced paperwork and storage costs
  
• A fast return on investment
  

The Professional Series 100 is an easy-to-use, information and document management system for a multi-user environment. Designed to bring sophisticated document management facilities to the small and medium sized enterprise, the Professional Series is a management program that sits above the operating system and application programs.

The Professional Series provides a uniform environment for the creation, filing and retrieval of all forms of information and documents. It is compatible with client/server networks using Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows NT4 and any application program running under these operation systems.

Matching the System to the enterprise
INVU recognises that business enterprises vary widely in their organisational structure and that information systems must be capable of being shaped to suit the organisation and not vice versa. Configuring the Professional Series simply requires the setting up of a number of 'categories of interest' in which the major functions of document creation, filing and retrieval are performed. A company that is organised departmentally could have categories such as Sales, Marketing, Finance, Administration, and so on. Similarly, a consultancy organised by client could have categories such as Client A, Client b, Client C, etc., or alternatively Project X, Project Y, Project Z. Categories for both functional groups and cross-functional projects can also co-exist simultaneously on the same system.

The design of the Professional Series also takes into account the fact that any given set of users can have greatly differing job functions and levels of skill and experience. To cater for this, the organisation's System Administrator has access to a number of configuration tools. These are designed to accomplish the best match between individual user requirements and system functionality. This is increasingly important in Series 200 on a network, whereby strict access and security controls are essential.

Set up user and group profiles. This defines the set of functions that a particular user can access. A user profile can be set up to have access to any combination of functions from 'View Only' to 'System Administrator'.