NOTE: Widening this window will improve readability. ...................................................... WELCOME! Congratulations on your curiosity and willingness to try something new. I-TRAC is, in fact, a new one-of-a-kind management tool for coordinating and controlling your management agenda. And for disclosing relationships you cannot see with the flat 2D tables of data we are used to. PRINT THIS! For your own use and to make copies for others, to introduce them to I-TRAC. You may also give them copies of your Evaluation Edition (ONLY that edition, of course, which may be freely distributed) or they can download their own from: www.radix.net/~execware NOTE: The Evaluation Edition of I-TRAC is identical functionally to the retail edition (single or LAN) but is operable for only 30 days. That time limit will be easily removed, either before or after the 30th day, if you register (see PRICES & REGISTRATION below). Following this WELCOME are 6 sections: INSTALLATION, LEARNING I-TRAC, TIPS, WARRANTY, PRICES & REGISTRATION, and LICENSE AGREEMENT. Read the LICENSE AGREEMENT before you mail your registration fee for the Evaluation Edition or before you run an accompanying retail copy of I-TRAC software. ...................................................... INSTALLATION To install I-TRAC, unzip ITW_EVAL.ZIP in the same directory (preferably C:\TEMP) where you placed it. If using Windows 3.1, within Program Manager click File, then Run. Type in C:\TEMP\SETUP.EXE and click OK. If using Windows95 or NT, click Start, then Run. Type in C:\TEMP\SETUP.EXE and click OK. ....................................................... LEARNING I-TRAC Place a chess board, loaded with pieces, before a person who has not played the game. We do not, of course, expect that person to know how to proceed. The rules must be learned. Software is no different. Yet most people have the tendency to load new software and expect to immediately run it. Only when a problem is encountered do we look at the documentation. Given that fact, I-TRAC has been designed to maximize the new user's ability to learn the program intuitively. But I-TRAC is a personal management tool, and the ability to learn it intuitively depends on the individual's management style and experience. Further, data modeling may be new to you, so some learning must take place. We therefore urge you to: - Study the section below titled HOW YOU WILL USE IT - Load I-TRAC, click ?, then read/print/use two files: GUIDED TOUR CREATING YOUR DATA ....................................................... HOW YOU WILL USE IT You will enter into I-TRAC certain details of future events you are monitoring. Those details are a brief name, a description, and four parameters: type, date due, to whom assigned, and the parent issue. You can also list other dependent events. What you enter are called ACTIONS, filed in groups called ISSUES - but you will replace those two "key words" with terms you choose. Then you will use contextual data modeling to greatly improve the way you "orchestrate" those pending events. You should periodically select and review tables of ACTIONS. And interactively examine different arrangements of the parameters. Looking at several of the 24 available formats will disclose relational problems you cannot detect with a single table. And that is contextual data modeling! Viewing the ACTIONS with questionable relationships can lead to a request for a progress report, a reminder or change of date due, additional guidance, reassignment of responsibility, renegotiation of the description, etc. A second way to model the data is to display fewer or more ACTIONS by revising the selection criteria. The third way is by changing the values of parameters in ACTIONS, which may change their vertical location in the table. When you are satisfied, be sure others who are affected know what changes you have made! ....................................................... TIPS 1. Start out using only a few, important, long range events. Later add as many as you wish. That's the beauty of I-TRAC-- you then "zoom" to look at only the small group you wish to examine. 2. When you then do examine, be sure to study several formats. Expect surprises. 3. Even if you don't heavily use contextual data modeling, I-TRAC is a superior tool for monitoring and coordinating. 4. Never clutter up I-TRAC with minutiae. It is not a good substitute for a Personal Information Manager. 5. If I-TRAC is on a LAN, edit this file to create a README document tailored to your organization. Give it to your I-TRAC Supervisor, and then let others on the LAN know I-TRAC is available on the LAN with a README designed for them. ....................................................... WARRANTY I-TRAC for Windows is the copyrighted property of ExecWare. ExecWare permits (in fact encourages) persons who obtain this single-user evaluation edition of I-TRAC by electronic file transfer to distribute it, without charge, to others. ExecWare does, however, expect all who use I-TRAC to compensate ExecWare for that use as explained in the REGISTRATION section. ExecWare does not warrant I-TRAC to be adequate to your needs nor warrant its use in terms of correctness, accuracy, or reliability. You rely on I-TRAC at your own risk and ExecWare is not liable for damages due to its use or your inability to operate I-TRAC. ......................................................... PRICES & REGISTRATION The price for the Evaluation Edition and a single user I-TRAC disk is $59. Site licenses are $250 for 5 users on a LAN; $450 for 10 users. Contact ExecWare regarding licenses for more users. -- Government and nonprofit private organizations are afforded a 10% discount. -- Full credit is given for previously paid license fees (less $5) when you increase the number of users. Register your I-TRAC this way: A. If the have the downloaded Evaluation Edition, send us your check for $59 and we will send you a code to insert in your I-TRAC. Sending it as e-mail is best. If you sent us your name and e-mail address from the Free Support section of our homepage, we will send your code there. If you didn't do that, either go to Free Support and do it now or send the info with your check. NOTE: Free Support means you can call on us, even before you have sent your check, during the evaluation period. B. To register I-TRAC received on a disk, mail to us the I-TRAC serial number. (Find it from the main toolbar by clicking Help, then About.) ...................................................... LICENSE AGREEMENT This is a legal agreement between you, the end user organi- ation, and ExecWare. The I-TRAC software program in the file accompanying the README text file you are now viewing is licensed by ExecWare for use only on the terms set forth herein. By operating the software on a hard disk in your computer you accept the terms of this agreement. If you do not agree with those terms, delete from your media all files associated with I-TRAC. GRANT OF LICENSE. ExecWare grants you the right to install the accompanying I-TRAC software on a single computer. COPYRIGHT. The I-TRAC software is owned by ExecWare and is protected by United States copyright laws and international treaty provisions. You may retain for backup purposes the compressed file you received electronically which included the I-TRAC program software and this README text file. OTHER RESTRICTIONS. You may not rent or lease the I-TRAC software. You may not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, are create derivative works from the I-TRAC software. GOVERNMENT LICENSEE. The I-TRAC software is Commercial Computer Software under Federal Government Aquisition Regulations and agency supplements to them. The I-TRAC software is provided to the Federal Government and its agencies only under the Restricted Rights Provision of the Federal Acquisition Regulations applicable to commercial computer software developed at private expense and not in the public domain. The use, duplication, or disclosure of the I-TRAC software by the Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subdivision (c)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at 252.227-7013. ................................................... That's it! Good luck, and let us know your thoughts about this new management tool. ExecWare 725 Third Street SW E-mail: execware@radix.net Washington, DC 20024 Phone/fax: 202-484-4883