SPANS Features and Benefits

The primary benefit provided through SPANS deployment is improved inter-company communication and coordination, which contributes to improved notification and response times.

SPANS also provides a reliable and easily accessible central location for management of all data and records associated with a joint use or attachment project.

While SPANS provides printing and reporting functionality, the system is essentially paperless, dramatically reducing time and effort associated with transmittal of significant volumes of paper.

SPANS' managed workflow environment provides for rule-based data validation, communication time stamping, status tracking, and alert and reminder message generation and delivery.

A few of SPANS' features are highlighted below:

• Provides shared access to project information, attached files, status, and history

• Tracks project status and pending actions – identifies current responsible party

• Industry-standard RDBMS facilitates integration with corporate systems through XML message generation or export/import mechanisms

• Managed workflow environment provides intuitive record handling based on project type

• Configurable data requirements, workflows, terminology and pick lists

• Powerful search tool to quickly locate data

• Data access and security based on user and company profiles

• Assigns project contact names and facilitates targeted access to project information based on geographic criteria

• Forward for Review and Forward for Action mechanisms to support intra-company and third-party communications

• Targets alert messages to users based on project type, event, and location – in SPANS plus external email, if desired

• Supports standard and ad hoc reporting

More Information about SPANS can be obtained by contacting us.