Inspired by customer demand and designed with the recommendations of an advisory panel comprised of recognized leaders in the graphic arts industry, Approval Manager masters the inherent difficulty of managing, tracking, and scheduling any approval process within and across creative and production environments.
Whether you work with multiple approval processes with simple workflows or vastly more complex approval processes consisting of numerous reviewers, stages, and rounds, Approval Manager is designed to apply its powerful automation and organizational tools to the problems associated with managing and facilitating the completion of approval processes. With simplified management and reviewer tools, integrated support for industry standard proofing technologies, and automated email notifications, you never have to miss another deadline again.
Stagnant reviews and proof approvals lead to real problems in any creative business. From idle print lines to stalled creative processes, haphazardly implemented approval and review processes can be a significant source of lost revenue due to missed deadlines and constantly slipping schedules. With Approval Manager, you can take control of your approval and review processes, schedule with confidence, and retain more revenue for your bottom line.
Approval Manager incorporates a high degree of automation into creative and proof review workflows. This ensures that active approval cycles proceed with a minimum of managerial intervention, and that the system proactively solicits the participation of reviewers, at the appropriate time. The result is that approval cycles are faster, more predictable, and proceed with a minimal amount of managerial overhead, unless necessary. With Approval Manager's automated approval cycles, you turn your work around faster, with higher quality, and with a dramatically improved ability to capture more revenue from efficient workflows.
One of the biggest challenges facing creative workflows is the reliable scheduling of proof and approval workflows. Since missed proofing deadlines often have a trickle-down effect and can impact the entire project, Approval Manager is designed to give control back to you. With easy to use scheduling tools, you can reliably schedule your proofing and approval processes within your larger workflows, ensuring that you are always running at maximum efficiency and you aren't paying for idle time while processes and people wait for approval.
Documenting the changes and iterations that a project goes through, as well as the persons responsible for those changes, is an essential part of accurate billing. All to often, nobody remembers why a project was changed, for what reason, or who requested it. This frequently results in lost revenue. With Approval Manager, an accurate and permanent record is automatically kept of every version of a proof, allowing you to step back through all the iterations of a file and see what was changed, when, and why.
Approval Manager introduces traceable accountability to any approval process. With a robust quality assurance and billing audit trail built right in, you'll be able to see at a glance the entire story of any given approval process. When customers ask why something has changed, you'll have the resources at hand to explain. When preparing an invoice, you can rely on Approval Manager's up-to-date archive of the proof's evolution instead of trying to remember what was done on the project weeks after the fact.
Including your customers into an approval process goes beyond overnighting a hard-copy proof or emailing a file for them to review. With Approval Manager, you can provide your customers with their own unique dashboard in which they can see at a glance all their outstanding proofs and complete their reviews, all within a branded portal.
With Approval Manager you aren't locked into a proofing technology. You decide based upon present or future needs whether to support Acrobat, Word, Kodak RealTimeProof Partner, or native proofs for CAD or video. Approval Manager supports these technologies simultaneously, so you can choose the appropriate proofer for a particular workflow or customer.