The use of TDOC, provides the following demonstrable benefits:

• The latest management methodologies,
• A truly scaleable solution, suitable for use on almost any type and size of project,
• Automated generation of all the industry specific documents required to operate a contract in accordance with the terms of the contract AND ISO 9000,
• Regardless of the passage of time and personnel, reliable records are quickly and easily produced.
• The Commercial Advantage of using a proven system with an excellent track record.

Compared to other types of systems:

• TDOC carries out document CONTROL as opposed to document management (EDM).
• TDOC manages the inevitable mixture of paper and electronic documents whereas Internet Portals have difficulty with paper let alone non existent documents (Transmittals sent for Advice Only).
• The methodologies encapsulated within TDOC have been proven on thousands of contracts and projects from a few hundred thousand pounds to hundreds of millions.

Compared to developing an in-house system:

• TDOC is priced such that it will always be cheaper to purchase TDOC than to develop an alternative, whether for simple single user, or complex multi user projects.
• Whereas in house development is a "continuous drain on resources", TDOC isn't. In house systems require to be maintained and developed. Very rarely will a serious in house developer remain "product manager" for the necessary decade.
• With in-house development, report layouts are normally "hardwired" to meet a committee's requirements. If a specific client REQUIRES changes, these are expensive to carry out. TDOC includes ReportPro allowing report layouts to be changed quickly and easily.
• The languages that are used in-house tend to be script based (such as Microsoft Access or Visual Basic) rather than a Rapid Application Development tool which will generate machine executable programmes. CA-VO generates C++ code incorporating Pascal where appropriate.
• The scalability of in-house systems is always a problem due to the development route: adding a client server engine results in a different piece of software: TDOC uses "Advantage" which has a "local" database driver which works on its own for single user setup, but which recognises when aclient server engine is controlling the data. NO CHANGES are needed to the software or to the installation !

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