Search Capability in Dexter + Chaney's Forefront ® Document Imaging Helps Contractors Find Documents Instantly

SEATTLE, June 26, 2006 - Contractors can find documents instantly in Dexter + Chaney's Forefront ® Construction Suite construction management and accounting software, using a search capability in its Document Imaging module.

Users perform a "Google-like" search to locate individual documents in their entire Forefront file system by entering any word or group of words. Forefront instantly finds those words, lists each document that contains them, and provides a link to open each one. Every document in the Forefront database is automatically "read;" all text is indexed similar to the method deployed by Google and other search engines to read and index context on the Internet.

Forefront Document Imaging-integrated with accounting, job costing, and even project management software-incorporates documents electronically into the construction company's workflow. It addresses a typically painful problem for construction companies: giving management, operations and the financial department the fast access they need to important documents like AP invoices, change orders, payroll timecards, contracts, and others. More than 7,000 total users make use of Forefront's Document Imaging.

"Construction companies store thousands of documents in Forefront Document Imaging," said John Chaney, Dexter + Chaney president and co-founder. "The search capability is our response to customer requests for an efficient method to find the documents they need. Customers tell us that Forefront Document Imaging has really helped their businesses-the search capability just makes it better."

About Dexter+Chaney
More than 1,000 construction companies throughout the United States use Dexter + Chaney's Forefront ® Construction Suite. Forefront Construction Suite includes 30 integrated modules that handle project management, construction accounting, service management, human resources, document imaging, remote connectivity and data sharing for construction companies of all types. Companies that use Forefront report they have improved profitability and have grown their businesses more than 300 percent without adding accounting staff.

For more information about Dexter + Chaney or Forefront, contact Brad Mathews, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Dexter + Chaney, 9700 Lake City Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115-2347; phone: 800-875-1400 or 206-364-1400; fax: 206-367-9613; e-mail: info@dexterchaney.com; www.dexterchaney.com.

Contact
Brad Mathews, Dexter + Chaney
800-875-1400
brad@dexterchaney.com

Jim Fulton
The Fulton Company
360-943-4101
fultonco@olywa.net

 

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