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On Exhibit: ICSC's Trade Mall shows the best of what's to come in retail in 2001
Shopping Center World
May 2001
Management Reports International is prominently featured in the May 2001 Shopping Center World article, “On Exhibit: ICSC’s Trade Mall shows the best of what to come in retail in 2001”
A photo of MRI for Windows ForSight software was included and below is an excerpt from the article.
…Cleveland-based Management Reports International plans to unveil three new products at the ICSC convention. One notable release is MRI for Windows 2.0. The new version features significantly enhanced functionality to the existing product. Two other significant releases include the company’s new LeaseFlowTM and FrontierTM products.
LeaseFlow builds on MRI’s ForeSightTM product, which was introduced at the 2000 ICSC convention. “LeaseFlow allows an organization to integrate and streamline the entire leasing process so that the cost of leasing and the time and work that it takes to manage the process is significantly improved,” says Thomas Ricci, vice president of systems implementation services for MRI.
LeaseFlow integrates several functions such as customer relationship management and lease tracking. The system also can be set up to automate a company’s own unique workflow organization. In addition, any documents relative to a lease deal are all managed and housed in the LeaseFlow application. The product is undergoing beta testing, and it will be officially released at the show.
Frontier is the industry’s first Web-based role centric management solution. “It will allow us to set up that Web page with views and information that are specific to an individual’s needs,” Ricci says. Frontier can tailor information to employees throughout a company, from the CFO to the accounts payable clerk.
One of the unique features of the product is that users can access data through a common browser. “The key is that it combines the latest web browser technologies with the latest work flow technologies, and it provides a gateway for managing information, accessing decision support tools, facilitating business processing—all online,” Ricci says…
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