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PATHAGORAS is a total document production program. It spans every aspect of the document creation process, from locating the text sources, to building the document, to filling in variable information, to saving the final product to the location of your choosing. Pathagoras also provides the 'engine' by which you create your various clause libraries used for for the document assembly process. (When you are pricing competitors' products, do check if the library creation engine is part of the package, or an add-on. These are frequently called 'enterprise' or 'professional' editions.)
Here are some of the design features about which PATHAGORAS proudly boasts, with comparisons to how other products typically handle the specific feature:
- PATHAGORAS uses plain text and plain-vanilla interfaces.
- Other programs heavily depend upon hidden fields, 'smart fields,' links and other 'behind the scenes' coding. Pathagoras does not.
- Pathagoras' 'plain text' claim doesn't mean unformatted text. The text you create can be highly formatted. Plain text only means that no fields, logical or Boolean expressions, wizards or special formatting or other hidden coding is required.
- You don't need to create (or pay another to create) templates, SmartDocs or Intelligent Forms in order to use the program.
- If you currently use MS Word's more complex field features, that's great. PATHAGORAS easily works with them. PATHAGORAS just does not require them as other programs do.
- PATHAGORAS runs wholly within Microsoft® Word.
- PATHAGORAS is an 'add-in' for (i.e., augmentation of) Word. When you are in Word, PATHAGORAS is loaded and you have its powerful document assembly and management features at your fingertips.
- Most other products overlay Word. They require you to load then separately in order to begin a document assembly project.
- With PATHAGORAS, you are never 'captured' by the system.
- With some other systems, separate programs control your activity. You are not released to perform other word processing jobs until you close those other programs.
- With PATHAGORAS, you can switch in and out of a document assembly project in the same way you can switch in and out of Word. Need more information? Need more text ? Just go get it.
- PATHAGORAS does not limit you in any fashion. Continue to use the programs you now use. Use PATHAGORAS as your primary document management or assembly tool or as an auxiliary device.
- PATHAGORAS has no limits as where it can be used in your office.
- Others programs tend to be limited to the certain subjects for which they were purchases, or are simply too difficult to master for general office use. Not so with Pathagoras. It is simple to operate and infinitely configurable. It is sophisticated enough for the most complex and technical forms in your of the office, yet so easy to use that it is readily adaptable for turning out simple forms, cover letters, etc.
- Others programs tend to be limited to the certain subjects for which they were purchases, or are simply too difficult to master for general office use. Not so with Pathagoras. It is simple to operate and infinitely configurable. It is sophisticated enough for the most complex and technical forms in your of the office, yet so easy to use that it is readily adaptable for turning out simple forms, cover letters, etc.
- Pathagoras (the company, not the product) is still small. As such, it can be exceptionally responsive to your office needs. If you have an idea for making PATHAGORAS more useful in your office, let us know. We have been successful in implementing many suggestions within 72 hours. With the larger companies with whom we compete, multiple levels of staff and administrators separate you from the the ultimate decision makers. With Pathagoras, when you call or write, you are communicating with the decision maker. When you need something done, it gets done.
- See the list at the left for links to more details on how PATHAGORAS compares to the competition and to Word's native (built in) functions.