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McLaren Work Manager
Process Support for Intellectual Workers

The new McLaren Work Manager ribbon bar offers faster user adoption, reduced training and greater productivity.

McLaren Work Manager has been designed to simplify user adherence to business processes associated with management of documentation.

McLaren Work Manager can be used to manage a wide variety of work processes and documentation including engineering (Enterprise Engineer), marketing, legal, contracts and financial. McLaren’s proprietary work package technology provides an ideal solution for any organization where teams of people need to create, review, approve and publish documents and drawings. Work Manager can be used to institutionalize good business practice through automation.

The latest version of McLaren Work Manager adopts the Microsoft Fluent User Interface also known as "the Ribbon" that is central to the Microsoft Office 2007 Suite. Ribbon bars change according to the options available to a user at any given step in a process. The graphical look and feel helps accelerate user adoption and reduces the need for re-training. Super-tooltips provide on-screen help describing the use or purpose of a button. The quick access bar allows users to configure their own shortcuts.

Note: McLaren Work Manager will work independently or alongside existing EE Office Manager Clients providing support for both Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007.

Feature	Benefit
Easy to use interface with descriptive tooltips.	Minimize end user training - reduce the effort, time, and cost spent training employees.
Familiar Microsoft Office 2007 look and feel.	USER: Familiar user interface that steps the user though business processes while masking complexity.
Provides predefined business rules and processes based on best practices.	BUSINESS: Business rules are enforced and consistency is maintained.
Context sensitive UI that only makes available the commands applicable to what they are doing.	Improved productivity through simplified user interface.
Easy to use interface with descriptive tooltips.	Increased levels of user adoption.
Quick access toolbar. Colour scheme options.	Users can set up the UI to speed access to their most used commands, improving productivity.
Easy access to predefined reporting. Automatic task notification. Task allocation to key team members.	Better insight and control over project deliverables and their status so that you can make informed decisions.
Provides predefined business rules and processes based on best practices.	Ensures complex business rules and processes are adhered without the need to introduce specialist user interfaces or applications.
Browsing - “I know exactly where I want to go and I want to get there quickly.” Searching – “I know some information about the document but I don’t know where it is”. Saved Search – “Provides me with quick access to frequently documents”.	Multiple navigation modes provide flexibility for locating documents.

McLaren Work Manager provides users with a familiar and intuitive client interface which simplifies tasks and processes. This ensures that business rules are adhered to and organizations can accelerate project execution while reducing risk. McLaren Work Manager makes it easy for a user to initiate tasks and create and manage documents through one or two mouse clicks.

For example, in the case of sending documents for review the following comparison can be made:-

Typical steps may involve		Using the new McLaren Work Manager client with Ribbon Bar
Selecting Documents Clicking File Menu Navigating to relevant function Selecting the relevant review method Confirming Selection		Select Documents Click the ‘New Review Package’ button on the ribbon bar

You will see there are fewer mouse clicks and because the buttons are clearly visible on the ribbon bar, users can easily see what they can do without having prior knowledge or training. User adoption and user productivity is greatly enhanced by this new approach adding to the ROI and time to benefit from a deployment of Enterprise Engineer.

Below are a just a few illustrations of the new functionality of McLaren Work Manager
(shown with optional Enterprise Engineer Asset Management and Transmittal Modules installed)

Super-Tooltips

The McLaren Button

Quick Access toolbar

Comments From Our Usability Labs

McLaren Work Manager Screen Shots

Interested?

If you would like to learn more about the new McLaren Work Manager or see a demonstration please contacts us via marketing@mclarensoftware.com

McLaren Work Manager Process Support for Intellectual Workers

McLaren Work Manager
Process Support for Intellectual Workers