Happy Thanksgiving!

Query Facility Now Supports Department Users

The Query Facility can now be deployed to users that are authenticated at the Department Security Level. Contract Managers can now add Department Level Users to the Query Role. All Queries they create including both adhoc and saved queries will be limited to the departments they are authorized to use.

If you have questions on this new feature, please e-mail me at jreuter@Rippe.com. For more information on Contract Guardian, please visit www.contractguardian.com.

Transfer Merge Departments, Contract Types and Attachment Types

Several new transfer facilities have been added to Contract Guardian. An Administrator can now transfer or merge contracts and attachments between Departments and Types.

As an example, a region may have 100 contracts associated with a type say "Affiliate Agreements" and 50 more under "Affiliation Agreements". If you want all 150 to be in the 'Affiliation Agreements" type, you can transfer the contracts then delete the "Affiliate Agreements" type. This can now be completed in seconds by the Administrator!

The same can be done for Departments and Attachment types. These features are available from within the specific table maintenance function.

Introduction to Rippe & Kingston Video

A short video was created for Rippe and Kingston Systems that discusses R&K's Systems company. We have placed the video on YouTube. Click here to check it out. It provides brief information on our services including our support for Google Apps with our clients.

Google Apps has a premier edition that is geared toward businesses. The application can help organizations reduce costs associated with e-mail and spam filtering, as well as, provide a wealth of new capability. Google Apps is all web based which allows access from any PC with internet connection for e-mail, spam filtering, management of office documents, sharing of office documents, web sites, video chat, voice chat, instant messaging and more....

For more information on Rippe and Kingston visit www.rippe.com. For specific information on our support for Google Apps, please visit www.productivity.rippe.com. By the way, the "productivity" web site was built with Google Tools.

Contract Guardian Training Videos

We are pleased to announce the availability of several new training videos. They are available from the Training tab within Contract Guardian. We have videos that range from providing an overview of the application to very specific features like changing your password and how to perform an inquiry. Report Generation how to videos are also available. If you have any questions, please e-mail jreuter@rippe.com.

Work-In-Progress Added

Contract Guardian now supports work-in-progress contracts as well as current contracts. Work-in-progress contracts allow users to enter contracts that are not executed yet but need to be available to the user community and the responsible parties. New features will be added based on this status.

John Reuter Shares Contract Guardian

As usual, John is always happy to share the Contract Guardian story.  If any of the readers did not have the opportunity to attend the conference...just give us a call.