Re: PMAPS software for proposal tracking?

["Susan Hogarth" <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On 10/25/07, Tariel, Lauren R <lt34 -at- saclink -dot- csus -dot- edu> wrote:
> Personally, I don't like software taking control of my documents.  I like to control the content and not plug values into forms.  I guess this software will have appeal to businesses that do not want to hire writers, but I imagine that the end result of the document created by software will be a document that still needs a writer, although the company boasts that an SME can use the software and produce a proposal.  It can be "assigned an internal author/owner (a.k.a. Subject Matter Expert (SME))."

I understand the concern, but just to be clear, I think the quote you
reference is not in reference to an entire proposal, but to an
informational 'chunk' created within the database. They are saying - I
think - that a SME can 'own' an informational chunk, but it will
always come back to a proposal manager (writer, presumably) for review
and incorporation.

> What's really funny is that they show screenshots of the interface for producing the proposal and state the software "includes a series of 'packaged reports' (shown to the right)" but there no samples of the proposals or reports.  The reports "shown to the right" are buttons in the interface and not report samples.  If the product is really good, then they would show samples of the output.

Seems like.

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