Professional
Investigator - Private Investigator Tools
Professional Investigator (PI) is the complete case, contact
and time management solution for security professionals such as
PIs, lawyers, protection firms, bailiffs and others. PI software
is made to work with windows and other Microsoft programs.
Professional Investigator is a tool, specifically written for
the P.I. community, that provides you with the power to keep all
the information you need for your business, and to find that information
again at the touch of a button. Professional Investigator has
been designed to be as easy as possible to use, because you need
to spend your time running your business, not learning complicated
new software.
 Full
Contact Manager - keep details of all your contacts together
in one place, inc. pictures, notes, physical characteristics,
AKAs, associates, etc.
Integrated
Case Manager - record as much information as you like about
each case, inc. notes, pictures, work product and payments received.
Task
Manager and To Do List - complete with pop-up alarms, so you
and your staff never miss an appointment or deadline!
Powerful
searching and reporting built in - our Simple Search and Query
Wizard will find anything in your data, to view on-screen or print
out.
Create
your own reports with Report Wizard - if we haven't already
supplied what you need, simply choose what you want, and let the
software do the rest.
Mail-merge
effortlessly with Microsoft Word - keep in touch with your
contacts, and get new business!
Cut
& Paste scanned documents straight in - up to 12 sheets
of close type per entry!
A full
88-page manual - in plain English!
Instructions
/ Case Files - full details of your on-going and completed
work. You can set up a budget of expenditure for each case and
then compare actual spending versus budgeted spending at any time,
categorized into fees, mileage, expenses and even hours. You can
also, optionally, use PI's bailiff and repossession facilities.
You can record 'Work Done' on each case. You can also record all
fees, hours (including tenths of hours for court work), mileage,
expenditure and income (including retainers) in the Case Ledger.
And you can keep an unlimited amount of Data and Pictures for
each case file which can, subsequently be searched minutely.
Contacts
- subdivided into whatever categories you wish, such as Prospects,
Clients, Lawyers, Subcontractors, Personal and so on. For each
Contact, you can keep a vast amount of additional information.
Associates
- enables you to log any associates of a contact so that you
can find a subject, say, by knowing an associate of him or her.
This works for companies too - so that you can see a list of companies
that are associated in any way.
Staff
- keep tabs on all your staff, including both internal and
external investigators, used on a particular case.
Expertise
- link expertise to both Contacts and Staff, allowing you
to quickly search for, say, all the agencies offering hand writing
analysis in Birmingham or whatever.
Countries - names & abbreviations of countries.
Currencies
- linked to countries, with spot conversion rates.
The
Repository - everything else (files, maps, photographs, CDs
etc.) all cross-referenced to the other databases!
Simple
Search - This allows you to quickly find a word or phrase
from anywhere in a database, at the click of one button.
Power
Search (the Query Wizard) - If you want more complex criteria,
then this will allow you to specify more complicated searches
using plain English!
Reports
- a number of useful pre-written reports for your ease of use.
These can be printed to the screen, your choice of printers or
a text file. You can also archive reports for viewing later or
subsequent emailing.
Task
Manager - a full diary, to-do and pop-up alarm system.
Security
- you choose who can see & do what with your confidential
data.
Event
Log - tracks all changes to the database, who made them and
when.
Full
Mail-merging - write letters and other documents in Microsoft
Word™ and link them to your Contacts database for instant mail-shots
and one-off letters.
Direct
Internet Access - launch your favorite World Wide Web browser
direct from PI, to instantly search the Internet.
Configuration
- PI can be configured to work the way you do.
Backup
& Restore module that preserves your precious data for
total peace of mind.
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