OMD^® Product Accessories

Internet

OMDNet^™ (known to many as "NetVision") is an Internet-based product that allows your company to host dedicated web sites for your customers to provide seamless e-commerce transactions.

Customers receive a secure log-in and password that allow them to view data related to their account, to log service calls, to order products, and to enter meter reads. OMDNet is linked directly to your OMD^® data, and displays the information and functionality you select for your customers. It also updates data on a real-time basis.

OMDNet is customizable. You control the features each customer sees, and you can easily modify the site's appearance.

OMDNet facilitates Direct Meter Read Interfaces  with various hardware and software platforms, connecting metered equipment in the field directly to your OMD Software. Kyocera Mita and OMD Corporation announced the industry’s first integrated, seamless meter read collection solution in 2002. Since then, FM Audit, Imaging Portals, Konica Minolta, Lanier, Muratec, MWAi, Okidata, Panasonic, PrintFleet, Print Tracker, Ricoh, Savin, and Sharp have introduced similar direct-interface products. Meter readings are automatically transmitted to OMD^® using OMDNet as the collection point.

Automatic meter read collection allows you to automatically receive meter reads on a designated date each month with no manual intervention. This process is 100% accurate with no chance of transpositions, missing digits, or partial meters. When meter reads are collected and entered manually, the potential for error increases when equipment contains multiple meters; with automatic meter read collection, the process occurs flawlessly and on schedule. Automatic meter read collection eliminates time-consuming phone calls to customers, and improves invoice accuracy and cash flow.

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For more information, contact OMD Sales & Marketing at 573-893-8930 or see this OMDNet (NetVision) brochure.

 

 

Wireless Connectivity

OMD Sales On-The-Go^® uses cutting-edge technology to put powerful Sales Force Automation capability in the palm of your hand.  Via a Java-enabled PDA device, this software provides your sales professionals with easy access to real-time information regarding customers and prospects—anytime, anywhere.

For more information, contact OMD Sales & Marketing at 573-893-8930 or see this brochure.

 

 

OMD's Bar Code Scanning solution utilizes standalone, handheld devices to collect physical inventory data, transfers, and receiving transactions, and to transmit the data to OMD. Click here to see how one OMD Customer saves time and money with this product.

For more information, see this brochure.

 

 

Report & Query Interface

OMD Relational Database Repository is included with OMD licenses. This feature can be used to create custom reports and inquiries using any ODBC-compliant reporting tool. This functionality requires a database product. Currently, Microsoft SQL Server is supported, and a Unix option will be available in the future.

For more information, contact OMD Sales & Marketing at 573-893-8930.

 

 

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and upward may be used for Windows server platforms, and may be purchased locally through retail distributors of software products.

For more information, visit Microsoft's SQL Server web site at www.microsoft.com/sql/.

 

 

Transoft U/SQL Report & Query Interface accesses the OMD data files using Windows applications with this ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) enabling tool. Produce reports, inquiries, charts, and graphs through export operations. A customized Universal Data Dictionary is available which provides a “relational view” of OMD data formats. Popular desktop information management and development tools such as Microsoft Excel and Access, Crystal Reports, Impromptu, Lotus 1.2.3, and Visual Basic may be used.

For more information, contact OMD Administration at 573-893-8930, Option 7.

 

 

Electronic Business Forms

PlanetPress Design 6 integrates with OMD software, eliminating pre-printed forms and impact printers, realizing significant cost savings, and improving document workflow for your transactional documents.

PlanetPress 6 is OMD's e-forms solution for printing your transactional documents such as invoices and proposals.

Pre-formatted OMD Forms with your logo are also available.

For more information, see this brochure.

 

 

Integrated E-mailing and Faxing

PlanetPress Suite 6 enhances PlanetPress Design 6 by adding the ability to print to remote printers, output to e-mail, archive, and fax.  The Suite is made up of PlanetPress Design, PlanetPress Watch, PlanetPress Imaging, and PlanetPress Server.

For more information, see this brochure.

 

 

Mapping

Microsoft® MapPoint® can be used in conjunction with OMD’s Dispatch Central to display the geographic locations of service calls and technicians on a map. Dispatch Central's Call Ageing lists the driving distance in miles between a technician and the open service calls, allowing driving distance to be used as a factor when determining which call to dispatch to the technician next.

Microsoft MapPoint 2004 can be purchased locally through retail distributors of software products.

 

 

Auto-Run and Report Scheduling

WinBatch software, a product of Wilson WindowWare, can be used to automatically generate OMD reports and updates on a cyclical schedule (daily, weekly, monthly).  It can also be used to automate Monarch, Access, and Excel sessions.

WinBatch is a script file interpreter. Each line in a WinBatch script contains a statement written in WIL (Wilson WindowWare's Windows Interface Language). This user-friendly language consists of functions, commands, physical constants, and operators that can be used to do all these functions and more:

• Run Windows and DOS programs (cyclical schedule, on demand)
• Send keystrokes directly to applications
• Run programs either concurrently or sequentially
• Display information to the user in various formats
• Prompt the user for any needed input
• Copy text to and from the clipboard
• Read and write files directly
• Copy, move, delete and rename files
• Perform string and arithmetic operations

For more information, visit the WinBatch web site at www.winbatch.com.

 

 

Custom Pre-printed and Continuous Forms

Forms Plus Inc. produces pre-printed laser forms and continuous forms (invoices, purchase orders, packing lists, a/p and payroll checks, etc.) for use with OMD software.  They also generate labels—including equipment ID labels—on clear or white material, foil or colored material, and metal.

For more information, visit the Forms Plus Inc. web site at www.formsplus.info.