| System Administration
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- Establishes and maintains Costpoint system-wide information.
- Controls security, maintenance of system-wide codes and defaults, and usage management.
- Provides preprocessors to link and transfer data between Costpoint and outside databases.
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| Security
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- Manages users and user groups for security purposes.
- Activates organizational security by module.
- Manages organization security groups and profiles.
- Stores license information.
- Customizes user interface (UI) labels, specifies UI settings for individual users, and manages extensibility units.
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| Job Management
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- Conveniently combines separate Costpoint functions, such as reports, computations, and postings, into a single process.
- Sets up several combinations for execution at scheduled dates and times, either on workstations or dedicated process servers.
- Places multiple processes in a queue, thereby reducing database contention and freeing up workstations for other activities.
- Schedules queue entries for immediate commencement or designated future occurrences.
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| Workflow
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- Defines business process activities, the staff involved, and how and when information flows from person to person.
- Automatically routes information and transactions to each stakeholder.
- Replaces physical inboxes with electronic ones, and replaces manual copying and distribution with automatic routing rules.
- Documents activities and processes and automates and measures workload.
- Applies workflow to virtually any business process that impacts the accounting, contracts, purchasing, or HR departments, including setting up contracts, hiring employees, approving purchase orders, and month-end close procedures.
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