Welcome to Practical Programs

Practical Programs is an Australian headquartered company and for close to a decade now, document and drawing management has been our business.

We've certainly come to intimately understand each and every problem that has to be addressed. And, even more importantly, we have developed an enviable reputation for delivering powerful, innovative and elegantly simple solutions to effectively meet all of those critical challenges.

Such solutions are now being used in some 31 countries, by private and public sector clients such as:

ABN Amro Australian Central Credit Union Hutchinson Telecom GE The United States, Australian & New Zealand Dept of Defence

ASC Commonwealth Public Service Credit Union Oxford University Philips, TaTa Amtrak

Helping these, and many other users, is our potent Dv-family of document and drawing management solutions which includes:

Dv Office

Elegantly simple document management that ensures:

• Documents are no longer lost, misplaced or misfiled.

• Valuable staff time is no longer wasted in the search for documents.

• There is no longer any confusion about which is the correct version of a document and which version has been sent to whom.

• A single access point can be automatically created to contain all electronic documents, files, emails, notes, spreadsheets and presentations that relate to, say, a particular activity, customer or project.

• Legislative requirements for document storage are scrupulously met.

• Security is substantially enhanced by controlling access and by minimizing the risk from things such as fire damage.

Dv Office Email Management

• The ultimate email management tool that lets you:

• Know precisely who emailed what to whom and when.

• Quickly find any email.

• Readily meet your legal requirements for document retention.

• Ensure that you are not loosing important correspondence.

• Set up and run a totally effective email filing system.

Dv TDM

Powerful, comprehensive and easy to use drawing and CAD document management that means:

• Drawings can be quickly located and are never lost, misplaced or misfiled.

• There is always strict version control so that there is never any doubt ‘who has got what' and if all modifications and amendments have been incorporated.

• The process of determining and controlling who has received drawings (and what version) is fully automated.

• All drawings will have successfully passed through QA before distribution.

• Any drawing's links to other references, templates and files are fully protected should the latter be subject to modification or deletion.

Dv Scan

Comprehensive document scanning software that does away with:

• The delays and productivity losses associated with documents searching.

• The cost of office space that's needed to simply store paper.

• The difficulty of meeting legal document-retention requirements should files be lost misplaced or misfiled.

• Slow and unprofessional communications with customers and suppliers, which result from a lack of immediate document access.

• A range of major security concerns.