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Urban Forest & Campus Inventory & Asset Management Software

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What is ArborSoftWorx?

A FAMILY OF SOFTWARE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES The ArborSoftWorx® family of software products is specialized for Arborist, Tree Care, Urban Forester, Landscape, Lawn Care, and Pest Control professionals. These powerful, easy-to-use, feature rich database software applications satisfy the Green Industry's unique office and field automation, data collecting, and reporting needs. The depth and breath of ArborSoftWorx is attributable to our award winning engineers who are knowledgeable in the latest computer technologies, our tenure in the green industry, our participation with TCIA and ISA Chapters as speakers, and of course our customers. ArborSoftWorx is priced right and maintains a low cost of ownership over time. As a fully integrated package, ArborSoftWorx does not require the use of any 3rd party software, such as Microsoft Office or ESRI, though it is compatible and communicates with these and others. ArborSoftWorx Green Asset Manager is a comprehensive database application designed for Municipal, City, Campus and Estate Arborists facilitating efficient Urban Forestry inventory and asset management.

• Comprehensive Street Tree and Asset Inventory • Street Tree Inventory based on ISA recommendations • Capture GPS coordinates and or reference points for accurate identification • Full Survey and Inspection History • Property Owner (resident/citizen) Information and Calls • Service Work Orders and Historical Maintenance records • Scheduling and Tracking of inspectors, arborists and staff, crews and contractors • Costing for Budgets and Planning • Flexible Reporting with Powerful Queries • Share data for analysis in i-Tree Eco (UFORE) and i-Tree Streets (STRATUM) • GIS for spatial maps • Capture data to calculate Tree Valuations • Record attributes to perform Tree Risk Assessments • Scalable software from single user, Field PCs, LANs, WANs and Branch Offices • Data conversion from existing systems such as ACRT, i-Tree and Others

ArborSoftWorx Commercial is designed for the “for profit” Arborist, Landscape, and Turf Care professional. This software provides efficient Customer Relationship Management to track your Customers, Calls and Sales Appointments, Estimates and Proposals, Work Orders, Invoices and Receivables. Additional standard features include: sales and profit analysis, job costing, customer tree and plant inventory (property inventories), work history analysis, equipment and labor crew scheduling and routing, material tracking, e-mail Proposals and other documents to customers, and much more…

Serving our clients throughout the U.S.A., Canada, and Europe since 1983.

ArborSoftWorx has found a home with organizations


Meeting The Needs of Urban Forestry Tree & Asset Inventory Management

Inspection & Maintenance Budgets, Costing & Planning

Scheduling, Tracking & Reporting

Complete Urban Forest Inventory Management Software for: County/Province, Municipality, City, Township, Village,

Park, Campus, Golf Course, Arboretum, Garden, Large Estate Property

Bottom Line. You Demand Results. ArborSoftWorx Delivers.


Inventory

Document Inventory items including:

• Define the inventory item using botanical and common names, shape, and type with the assistance of drop down selections from the included editable 1200+ Woody Plants database.

• Locate the inventory item using a variety of references including: GPS, street, zone, block, reference landmarks.

• Detail the Attributes including: diameter, height, grow space type and size, ground cover, utilities, appraisal values, and others.

• Specify Conditions including: trunk, crown and foliage, roots, risks, hazards, and others.

• Include multiple Photographs and Images with each inventory item for work orders, identification and history, or, include in correspondence to residents/property owners.

• Record unlimited text comments for each inventory item.

• Identify resident/property owner(s) for appropriate communications.

Current conditions and observations are automatically updated from the most recent Survey/Inspection and Maintenance records.

Survey/Inspection Management

Record observations by staff, consultants and volunteers, and track Survey/Inspections. Designate whether the inspection is in response to a Resident/Owner call, a Normal routine inspection, or other reason. Enter results of Survey/Inspections such as overall growth conditions, defects such as girdling roots, potential failure and risk ratings, pests and diseases. Enter recommended remedies (services/maintenance needs) for use in the generation of crew Work Orders. Maintain a history of multiple Survey/Inspection records per inventory item.

Standard Features

Service Maintenance Records, Work Orders

Create comprehensive work orders for crews, then track and schedule the work based on selection criteria such as: Date, Territory-Zone and Service, or by Crew and Service, or other selections. Pending and completed work are tagged to each individual inventory item enabling you to maintain accurate records on each item.

Perform job costing for departmental charge-backs and budgeting.

Manage work pending and work completed. Generate comprehensive “work outstanding” reports based on service, schedule dates, crew, equipment, materials, and other selections. This is essential for Maintenance type work such as Plant Health Care as it ensures that a particular seasonal application is complete. This provides critical work load information to management and field personnel.



Standard Features

Schedulers, Calls and Tasks

Effectively manage appointments and resource (labor and equipment) schedules. At-a-glance calendars allow for easy drag-and-drop scheduling with color-coded Territories-Zones.

Keep track of calls and tasks with the Call/Task feature.

Resident Calls are also easily entered and maintained. Identify Residents (with full address and contact information) associated with Inventory items, and maintain accurate records on Resident Calls and follow-up actions.


Standard Features

Record Search and Reporting

The Record Search and Selector capability is a unique and powerful data query engine that can easily perform extensive searches using a combination of fields from the entire database, allowing virtually unlimited reporting and record selection capabilities. For example, you can perform a search for all inventory items of a particular type, with a specified hazard rating to identify future work, or, perform searches to identify the various species in your Urban Forest.

Customize reports and listings with the integrated report designer, or export selections to Excel for further data manipulation and formatting.



Standard Features


Flexible System Setup and Configuration With ArborSoftWorx you configure/edit the system to meet your organization’s unique needs. For example: Define the Jurisdictions (areas) of your Urban Forest in a manner that is meaningful to your organization, such as Section-Zone, Block, Lot, County/Province, and others. A 1200+ Woody Plants library database is provided with every installation. This database contains Common and Botanical names, ISA rating rangess, various descriptive fields, unlimited text description fields. A Chemical and Disease/Pest library database is also provided. Enter formulations, chemical use and data sheet information, chemical EPA registration numbers and other pertinent information. Maintain a comprehensive library of Diseases and Pests with descriptions and combative procedures. Define Land Use and GrowSpace codes that are meaningful to your organization for use in Inventory entry, lookups, analysis reporting and listings. Assign meaningful codes for Plant Conditions, Risk Ratings, and Defects for use in Inventory entry, lookups, analysis reporting and listings. Define Equipment/Machinery, Materials, Crews, Employees, Technicians, Arborists, Volunteers, and Contractors for inclusion in Survey details, Work Orders, Costing and Budget Analysis. Maintain accurate records of resources.

Standard Features


Comprehensive Personnel Records including Training and Attendance. ArborSoftWorx comes standard with Employee record keeping features that enable you to: Classify and differentiate types of employees, maintain records of training, and applicable licenses for:

• Tree Care Apprentice • Ground Operations Specialist • Tree Climber Specialist • Aerial Lift Specialist • Tree Care Specialist • Crew Leader • Certified Arborist • Certified Pesticide Applicators

Record and report all ongoing formal training sessions attended by all employees including safety orientation and “tailgate meetings”.

Prevent Un-Authorized Program Access. Secure your data by setting user password and logon privileges to limit users to specific program areas. This standard feature is available in single user and network installations.


Standard Features


GIS Editor and Viewer GIS desktop mapping and data editing. Opens most vector, image, grid, and SQL geodatabase file types, including advanced 3rd party spatial database formats such as:

• Microsoft SQL Spatial, • Oracle Spatial & Oracle GeoRaster, • ESRI ArcSDE & ArcSDE Raster, • MapInfo SpatialWare, • IBM Informix Spatial Datablade, • PostGIS, • SQLite Spatial • Web Map Tiles • WMS layers from the web, • multi-layer map projects

Plot data over:

• Google Earth • Bing Maps

Comprehensive visual layer property and legend controls provide for deep customization of the appearance of each map layer, thematic mapping, layer hierarchies, legend presentation, scale… Other features include SQL Query Builder, advanced selection tools, and attribute data grid table. Create, edit, translate, export, save GIS map files or selected data to a number of vector, raster, grid, and SQL geo-database formats, including 3rd party spatial database formats.

Optional Features—Program Add-Ons


GIS Editor and Viewer, cont.




Pen-based PC field device Save time and reduce data entry in the office by recording inventory in the field using your LapTop (or other Field PC Device), portable printer and the optional DataSync pro-gram. GPS device Capture GPS co-ordinates for assets in addition to reference points for accurate location. Mapping Software Export Export appointments, and/or crew Work Orders for the day, week or month. Export to Microsoft MapPoint to generate turn by turn directions for each stop. Microsoft MapPoint software required. Forms Customization ArborSoftWorx is supplied with pre-template forms and reports. These can be used as is, or customized to meet your needs. Integrated Report Designer Although ArborSoftWorx offers a vast array of standard reports and listings, users can design their own custom queries and special reports with the optional Report Designer. Multi-Lingual Text Translator Have Spanish speaking crews or community? Easily translate work text descriptions to Spanish. This is the ultimate translation tool, necessary for today’s bi-lingual work force. Translate unlimited text from English to Spanish in three easy steps: Copy, Translate, Paste! Other language pairs are available.



Versions Single User is designed for small organizations with one to two computers. Multi-User Network incorporates advanced quick response multi-user networking technologies for data access and control. Multiple branch office locations may also be configured and connected. Hosting Services Your ArborSoftWorx can be hosted on our state-of-the-art servers located on the East and West coasts. We also provide hosted Exchange for e-mail and hosted backup solutions. Simply use a high speed internet connection through our secure web portal to access your system and database. Single and multi-user hosting is available. System Requirements: Operating Systems ArborSoftWorx is supported on all current Professional/Business Class Windows Operating Systems, Linux and current Windows Server Operating Systems. The Microsoft Office Suite is not required. The Windows Basic or Home editions of the operating system, AMD or Celeron processors are not recommended. The Microsoft Corporation does not support the Windows Home nor Basic, editions in a business network environment. System Requirements: Single User ArborSoftWorx boasts a small footprint. Current business class equipment capable of supporting the current Professional/Business class Windows Operating systems are sufficient. System Requirements: Networks Please contact a software specialist for a software quotation and an analysis of your current or future network infrastructure. Standard business practice in the computer industry are followed. Other Requirements:

• Procedure in place for system and data backups to removable media. • Properly installed and updated virus protection, malware protection software and firewall. • Properly installed and maintained UPS. • Access to High Speed internet for remote support.

Versions and System Requirements



Product Support Plans

We understand that you are an expert in your profession, not in software. When you have questions, you need an answer immediately. ArborSoftWorx Hotline services will be there to assist you. Each day we handle over 90% support calls live, so you don't have to endure call-backs or two hour waits on hold. When you call, you will be talking to the actual designers of the software. Our support staff consists of

degreed professionals with real-world experience. No one can support you like the actual designers of the software. In addition to our telephone technical support, we also offer e-mail, fax and internet services for your assistance. Product updates can be downloaded from our web site. By talking directly to our clients each day, we are in tune with what they want, and new industry trends. As a result, many of our product enhancements are ideas that come from our clients. We understand your industry and ArborSoftWorx was built for it. Remote Support Our support technicians use a secure on-demand Web based portal to provide remote support. This portal enables our technicians to work with you on your computer to assist in training and troubleshooting, or to provide software version upgrade services. All you need is a connection to the internet. We can not access your system without your permission, or without your accessing the web portal first.

Extended Annual Support Policies We strongly encourage all of our ArborSoftWorx customers to maintain a current Service Agreement, especially in the first year. The Service Agreement includes free product version updates/upgrades, documentation updates, telephone, and modem support. The cost is minimal and the benefits are great.


ArborSoftWorx is an easy-to-use software product that does not require formal training. However, many of our customers have found an immediate gain in productivity after receiving an on-site, custom designed class. Customized training classes for you and your staff at are provided at your facility by one of our training specialists. They will customize a training plan specific to your business, and level of computer software knowledge. They can assist with the product installation procedure, and, will coach you through the initial software set-up and configuration. Our training specialists are knowledgeable in the green industries, computer hardware, software installation, and general office/business practices. Our training specialists, who are comprised of certified instructors, and college teachers, can develop and deliver at your office customized educational programs for your staff.

On-Site Training



Consulting Services

On-site Business and Technology Consulting Services.

With over 25 years of business ownership and management experience and over fifteen years of “green industry” knowledge, our staff of professionals can bring practical advice and timely ideas to your growing business. Industry Consulting services include the following:

• Re-fresher education/training sessions on the software basics • Advanced software features training sessions • Trends in the industry • Costing for Budget Reporting

Through our partnership with Certified Arborists, Foresters and Horticulturalists throughout the United States and Canada, ArborSoftWorx can assist your organization with sub-contract referrals:

• Certified Arborists who can perform or coordinate an Inventory effort • Consulting Arborists to assist with proper Risk Assessment calculations and reporting

Technology Consulting services include the following:

• Current technology needs assessment • Long range technology planning • Remote office connectivity and related advanced technologies • Technology implementation • Comprehensive network audits

ArborSoftWorx Consulting Services can help to ensure your continued success. Our best-in-class implementation services set you on a results-oriented path—a path that ensures your software and technology implementation will stay on the course to success.


Additional Services

Existing Database Conversion Conversion services to convert your existing computerized data system to ArborSoftWorx. CAS has the technology to convert data from hundreds of systems both new and old. We have converted from database engines such as Microsoft Access, FoxPro, Btreive, Paradox, legacy systems, and from "other" Green Industry products including ACRT and i-Tree. Creative Automation Solutions is the only industry software provider that has the engineering expertise to convert data from an existing electronic computer system to ArborSoftWorx. No one has converted more data from more software systems than our staff of knowledgeable engineers. A free analysis of existing data and quotation for conversion is available upon request Custom Software Development Our staff of Engineers would be happy to provide a Quote upon receipt/review of your written specifications. Complete Computer Hardware and Network Solutions As a Value Added Reseller for Motion, DELL, Toshiba, Fujitsu and Hewlett-Packard/Compaq desktop computers and Field PC based devices, and, Hewlett-Packard and LexMark printers, we offer on-site installation and/or reconfiguration of all your office computer equipment. We also install and train your in the use of other software products.


Developer Business partner

Network Solutions Partner

Integrated Solutions Provider Value-Added

Reseller

Partner Printer Partner Value-Added

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Developer Partner Partner Partner


A History of Our Software

In the late 1980’s, a local full service tree and landscape company asked us to investigate the available arbor industry software to replace their third failed "Arbor" software package. After examining several software products and not finding a suitable solution, ArborSoftWorx Commercial (formerly known as ArborWare) was born and continues to grow through the partnership of active Arborists, our customers, industry standards, and, our own computer experts. From our first version to today's, we are proud to report not one of our customers has suffered from lost data, while enjoying increased office productivity. In the late 1990’s we were asked by our practicing consulting arborist clients to expand our current software to include an inventory module. This product has grown to what is known today as ArborSoftWorx Green Asset Manager, a comprehensive Urban Forest & Campus Inventory & Asset Management software.

Since 1983, Creative Automation Solutions has provided engineering and technical services to a variety of Domestic and International industries. Our clients include: Alcoa, DuPont, Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, US Department of Commerce, US Department of Defense ... Our Staff CAS is a diverse engineering firm with extensive experience in factory automation, office automation, systems integration, and software development. We have been awarded United States Patents for several mechanical and control system designs. CAS has received numerous awards from both the United States Government and Fortune 50 corporations for software design and engineering services, including a "Vendor of the Year" award from Lockheed-Martin for our work on the US Census project. Services Our network engineers are certified by Microsoft, Cisco and Novell. As a Value Added Reseller for DELL, Hewlett-Packard and Fujitsu computers, and, Hewlett-Packard and LexMark printers, we offer on-site installation and/or reconfiguration of all your office computer equipment. We also provide installation and custom training services in the use of various software products.

Our Philosophy Since 1983, Creative Automation Solutions stands committed to providing our customers with superior products and services to meet today's computerized automation needs.

Who Is Creative Automation Solutions, Inc.?


Single User Systems Complete the enclosed order form and call, fax, or mail to our office with payment. Network and Branch Office Systems Contact our sales department to receive a comprehensive quotation based on your requirements. Flexible Payment Plans We accept the following payment options in addition to your organization’s check or Purchase Order. Implementation Roadmap With ArborSoftWorx, you get more than just software and phone support — you get unmatched software and computer expertise, world-class services, and a single vendor relationship—which means you can count on success. We are active in the industry, listen to our customers and innovate on their behalf when we deliver solutions. The ArborSoftWorx Implementation Roadmap offers a complete set of services to assist you with your software implementation. The roadmap is based on our proprietary methodology, derived from the insights and experience of our consulting and from customer feedback. Our consultants, seasoned with years of experience in your industry and in business, will make sure the implementation is aligned with your goals.

Serving our clients throughout the U.S.A., Canada, and Europe since 1983.

ArborSoftWorx has found a home with organizations both large and small throughout the U.S.A., Canada, and Europe.

1-800-49-ARBOR

www.ArborSoftWorx.com

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