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X-Info Connect 3.0 is a better way to connect, share and innovate. It takes the core functions of Stakeholder, Project, CRM and Document management systems, and integrates them into a unified knowledge solution for your business.

With the ability to utilise information from core business systems such as Geographical Information Systems, Connect provides a single point of truth for all information and communications. This fully customisable solution allows you to store, maintain, track and analyse information for your business.

Allow everyone in your business access to a single point of information from anywhere. By tracking communications within your business and allowing all key users access to such information, you can ensure your business always runs at optimum efficiency.

X-Info Connect provides you with a solution for today, and has the power to grow with your business.

Take a look at some of the features of X-Info Connect:

Streamlined User Interface for Speed and Stability

Connect version 3 has been re-written from the ground up to be faster, more robust, more secure and easier to use.

The new user interface has been redesigned to provide easy toolbar access to commonly used functions, enhanced context menus for power users and separation of user and administrative functions.

It's a much more visual experience for users. Objects are easily identified with icons which can be fully customised. Even the names of objects can be changed to suit a specific industry.

Multiple Simultaneous Data Connections

Connect 3 can connect to data stored locally, or on centralised Connect 3 servers. Multiple connections can be maintained simultaneously - even if they require different access credentials.

Remote connections handle multi-user synchronisation automatically and can be explicitly taken offline or used in field mode for when a network connection is unavailable.

Data can even be shared across connections using the new Master and Slave data connections.

Improved Security and Administration

Controlling access to Connect projects has been improved and simplified in version 3 with more administrative options for setting up users and user groups and specifying what they can do.

Administrators can now explicitly control access levels for each object type as well as controlling access to various user interface functions.

Multi-select Editing, Cut and Paste, Undo and Redo

The powerful new multi-select editing function in Connect 3 allows data to be edited in more than one object simultaneously. The objects to be edited can be explicitly selected from the Connection Explorer, or located using the Find tool.

Objects can now be cut, copied and pasted between projects and unlimited undo and redo is also supported.

User Change Tracking and Rollback

When multiple users on multiple sites are all working with the same data, there's always a risk that someone will overwrite something important. The user change logging system tracks all the changes to the data and allows an administrator to view the changes, and if necessary, undo specific changes.

The rollback function allows all changes made to the data to be restored to a selected point in time.

New Data, Media and Calculated Fields

A rich variety of data can be stored with objects and viewed in Connect 3.

As well as the standard text, date, time and numeric data, an unlimited number of custom fields can be added supporting linked or embedded images and documents.

Geometry fields display spatial data over background mapping layers.

Calculated text and numeric fields allow arithmetic expressions to be defined that reference data in other fields or even external sources of data.

And now lists of users and contacts and even other entities can be added to objects.

The custom field layout system allows the data associated with objects to be arranged into groups, columns, and tabbed pages. This allows for logical grouping of data, and the placement of less commonly used fields onto secondary pages.

Share Data Across Multiple Projects

Connect 3 adds a powerful new shared entity system where objects can be used across projects.

Some object data can be defined as being common across all the projects in which the entity is used. Other data can be specified as being exclusive to the individual projects - allowing projects to associate their own unique data with the shared entity.

Individual and Recurring Procedures

Any number of procedures can be defined and added to projects.

A procedure can be a simple series of steps with a start date and a due date for each step - or it can be applied as a recurring procedure that repeats at a given interval. Recurring procedures can even be activated ahead of time with the Advance Cycles option.

Integration With External Mapping and Data Sources

Mapping Integration has been expanded in version 3 to allow connections to a variety of mapping systems and external data sources such as X-Info Maps.

Maps are easily integrated with other object data and can show imported spatial information and even marked up with user-defined mark-up shapes and elements.

Enhanced Searching

Easily locate objects using specified search criteria and display the results in the Find window. The search expression lets you request particular object types, search specific fields and even locate objects containing data within a defined range.

The list of located objects is shown in the dockable Results window and can be easily retained and navigated as required. Multi-select editing is also supported within the find results, allowing edits to be made to any or all of the matching objects.

Custom Report Layout and Overviews

Reports can be shown in tabular or graph format and can now include additional summary data such as averages, counts and sums.

After reports have been set up, they can be added to the Overview panel to form a dashboard view of commonly used data. Maps can also be included in the Overview panels.

Data Import and Export

Data can be migrated from previous versions of Connect or imported from CSV and Excel files as well as from a number of spatial data formats.

Fields can be automatically or manually mapped from the source data to destination fields within Connect and imported data linked with existing data.

Wherever any tabular data is shown within Connect 3, it can be directly exported to either a CSV or Excel file.

Simplified Data Synchronisation and Master Data Repositories

The synchronisation engine used in Connect 3 has been completely rebuilt to be much more efficient and much less obtrusive.

Database synchronisation works similar to Outlook / Exchange enabling users to work in online or offline mode.

Data is updated automatically when connectivity is available without requiring user input.

Data can be shared across multiple connections using the new Master and Slave setup. A Connect database on the central Connect Server is defined as a Master which maintains a central repository of objects.

Slave databases link to the Master database, optionally using it as a source of Entities, Contacts or Users.