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• The I.M.P.S. program computes assignment schedules for groups of up to 250 people.  Although originally designed to compute on-call assignments for health care professionals, this program was designed to handle other types of work related schedules also.

• The I.M.P.S. program saves hours compared to a manual computation of on-call, operating room, clinic, and other on-the-job tasks.

• Installation is easily accomplished, even by inexperienced users.

• A special training mode for new users is included with the DOS-based programs.

• You define your own rules.   I.M.P.S. allows an almost unlimited number of absolute rules (which are always observed by the program) and soft rules (which are observed whenever possible) for each type of assignment.

• Rules can pertain to groups of people.  (Example:  At least one person from group "A" should be assigned to either location "X", "Y", or "Z" on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday)

• No year 2000 problems!

 
 

• I.M.P.S. has an extensive, logically organized menu system and over 135 on-line context-sensitive help screens.  No need to remember commands!

• Data entry is easy using a mouse or the keyboard.

• The program maintains an internal calendar to facilitate data entry.

• The user defines the tasks, the tallies to be computed, and the rules of the schedule.  The responsibilities of the people in the roster and any special requests are also entered.  The program computes the assignments and maintains all the statistics to assure equality with all schedules produced.

• Workers may be grouped together to facilitate assigning people with similar responsibilities.

• On days when manpower is scarce, I.M.P.S. effortlessly juggles assignments which conflict with the rules, letting you "bend the rules" to produce a schedule.

• Individuals with special monthly or weekly obligations, and individuals with less than or more than average work commitments are given assignments commensurate with their responsibilities.

• Definitions, rules, and assignment availabilities need only be entered once.  Modifications are easy to make should the need arise.

• Interrelationships between assignments are also user definable and easily changed.

• Vacations and requests can be entered in advance.

• Assignment equality is maintained by using the user-defined tallies.  The user controls how closely the tallies will be equalized.

• Tallies and equitable assignments can be maintained for years.  There are a number of options for resetting the tallies.

• The processing orders for the tallies, assignments, and groups can be altered without needing to reenter any data.

• The printing orders for  the tallies, assignments, and groups can be altered without needing to reenter any data.

 

• Eight types of days (in addition to the usual Monday through Sunday) can be defined to facilitate assignments on special days such as holidays.

• Manual revisions, additions, or deletions can be readily made to all schedules.

• Gaps in the schedule, which occur because of unexpected absences or changes in assignments, are impartially filled by I.M.P.S.'s powerful scheduling algorithms.

• The program has sophisticated logic which reviews your schedule and informs you of rule violations and requests which were not honored.

• All new schedules completely mesh with previously computed schedules.

• A subset of the assignments can be computed to produce partial schedules.

• The rules and past history (including tallies) are retained for use with each schedule.

• More than one year of data can be in active memory and examined or manipulated simultaneously.

• The schedule can be outputted in calendar or tabular format, and it can highlight specific people or recent changes.

• Personal schedules can also be obtained for distribution to each member of your department.

 

• Daily manpower and exit schedules are easily generated from the elaborate internal database.  Thousands of customized lists are possible.

• Schedules, daily manpower lists, tallies, request lists, group memberships, availabilities, tally definitions, group definitions, rules, and more can be outputted.

• Outputs can be viewed on your monitor, printed directly to your printer, sent to your local network, or exported to other programs for later editing and printing.

• Schedules can be outputted in a calendar or a tabular format.  Individual schedules can be produced for distribution to each worker.

• Running tallies and tallies for the most recently calculated schedule can be readily examined, printed, stored, or exported.

• The roster can be listed alphabetically or by the group(s) to which each person belongs.

• The printed output can be customized to account for printers with varying line lengths and fonts.

• A self-guided tutorial, showing the basic operation of the program, is integrated with the software package.

• A comprehensive, easy-to-read manual supplements the help screens and the tutorial program.

• One hour of free technical support (a $200 value) via telephone or internet is included.

• A liberal copyright license allows multiple copies for use on different machines.

• Free minor upgrades within one year of purchase (when requested).

• IBM compatible computer with one floppy drive and DOS® 3.0 or better  (All I.M.P.S. programs are Windows®, Windows 95®, and network compatible.)

•      Or... MacIntosh computer running Soft-PC® or equivalent DOS® environment

• 500K free RAM (see comparison between I.M.P.S. and I.M.P.S.plus)

• Math coprocessor  (All x86DX and Pentium machines have math coprocessors.)

• 1 Megabyte of hard drive space

• Recommended:  color monitor, hard drive

• Optional:  mouse, unused EMS memory

 

Specifications subject to change without notice.