Such organizations need to operate in a fast, cost-effective manner, as they often employ staff with a wide range of responsibilities and have a lack of formalized workflow. To reduce the chances of action items falling through the cracks, Conductor provides simplified workflow and document management functions, easily integrating into a standard Windows environment. Conductor provides some of the basic features of higher-end systems, but falls short in many useability functions. System users have to be keenly aware of the limitations and manual procedures to successfully use both the document management and workflow portions of the product. Papyrus provided the CRN Test Center with the latest version of Conductor, pre-installed on a clone 500MHz Pentium III system, configured with Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 server with Service Pack 6.
Conductor provides the most common features found in workflow and document management systems.
Using thin client technology, Conductor is fully Web-enabled. The tool also offers resellers the option of using ODBC databases, thus reducing the costs associated with the SQL database servers commonly required by other document management systems. Resellers can migrate to a SQL server later on if the need arises. Conductor's user interface is designed to resemble the Windows Explorer model, which reduces some of the training requirements associated with this software. Made like a library card system, users check in and check out documents for editing.