Giardina & Associates Adds New Features to Office Tools Pro

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Now Includes Electronic File Cabinet, Enhanced Email Capabilities & Project and Status Groups
August 20, 2003 - Palmdale, CA – Giardina & Associates, which provides time billing and practice management software and full-service technical solutions to small and medium-sized businesses, announces that it has added more features to its latest software release for accounting and business professionals. Office Tools Pro now includes an electronic file cabinet, enhanced email capabilities and Project and Status Groups. For a brief demonstration of Office Tools Pro by Giardina & Associates, visit booth #923 of the 2003 Business & Technology Solutions Show, Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, IL, August 26-27.
Rather than searching for documents in paper files, accountants and business professionals can now access them instantly with the electronic file cabinet feature. The time and resources required for identifying, locating and communicating archived documents to clients (or other approved parties) is significantly reduced by simply organizing scanned documents into Office Tools Pro for complete document management.
“We believe in the need for CPA firms to move toward a ‘paperless’ environment,” said Michael Giardina, President of Giardina & Associates. “Users can locate requested documents and email them to a client in a matter of seconds, compared with much longer time required to go to a file room, locate the file, remove the document, make a copy and fax it to the client. The new features added to Office Tools Pro work to increase productivity, improve customer service and cut costs for accountants and CPA firms.”
Bulk and individual email capabilities have been added to Office Tools Pro. Bulk email allows a message to be created with the BCC field, populated with email addresses from Office Tools Pro Contacts, and filtered by Client Type, Entity Type and Client Service. The individual email feature allows users to click on the email address in the Contacts Tab to open a new message, which is automatically addressed to the appropriate contact. The Office Tools Pro user no longer has to locate an email address from a separate contact list to send messages.
In addition, new Project and Status Groups have been included for assigning projects by client and organizing status per project. These groups ease the project management process by allowing multiple projects to be created for multiple clients, and by organizing projects and projects’ status into logical groupings.
Office Tools Pro starts at $299 per user and is available free of charge for the first 90 days. As an authorized Palm, Inc. reseller, Giardina & Associates offers a discount on a Palm Pilot with the purchase of Office Tools Pro. In addition, support and service packages for accountants, CPAs and tax professionals are available. For more information on Office Tools Pro, call 888-667-8440 or visit their Web site at http://www.OfficeToolsPro.com
About Office Tools Pro By Giardina & Associates
Since 1989 Giardina & Associates, a Southern California-based computer-consulting firm, has helped small and medium-sized businesses utilize technical resources. Services offered include LAN Management, Outsourced MIS, IS Consulting, Web Design, Custom Programming and Computer/Printer Sales, Support and Service. Giardina & Associates are Novell authorized resellers as well as partners/resellers of Compaq, Cisco Systems, Sonic, Intel, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard. Their flagship product, Office Tools Pro, is a practice management program that combines the best of client management and scheduling, project management and time and billing in one easy-to-use package. Office Tools Pro is available free of charge for the first 90 days. For more information on Office Tools Pro by Giardina & Associates, call 888-667-8440 or visit their Web site at http://www.OfficeToolsPro.com

CONTACT:
Michael Giardina, President
Giardina & Associates
661-266-3900
Mike@Giardina-Assoc.com
Kim Ilao, Director of Media Relations
AccountingVoice
732-562-0800, ext. 119
KimIlao@AccountingVoice.com

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