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Has implementing the best business practices and/or automation into your in-house
procedures been on your mind? Whether you are a computer novice just beginning your journey through Appraisal and Assessment Office automated solutions or an old pro looking to bring your office up to the
latest computer technology and automated assessment/appraisal strategies, there are key issues in selecting an Automated Solution which require your insight, fore-thought and just plain "asking the right
questions".
Through the years, we at EAI have found that if you, the potential user, solicit
responses to a few key issues NOW -- it could save you much anguish and embarrassment -- not to mention time and money, in the long run.
Our Computer Assisted Mass Appraisal, Assessment Reporting and Appraisal /Assessors
Office Administrative System (EZ-CAM),
incorporates all of the dynamic features listed in this document. This SPD has been compiled for your benefit to help you assess other Property Management / CAMA Automated Solutions with these key Automated Features in mind.
RFP NOTE:
If your office would like this listing in question/answer form for use in an upcoming Request For Proposal (RFP), please contact the Hamer Enterprises/EAI Marketing Department at 1-800-926-3466.
The EAI Appraisal Management System, EZ-CAM is a very efficient, user friendly,
circumstance/category table/code driven system -- utilizing the cost, market and income approaches to value. EZ-CAM incorporates many effective tools to better prepare the Appraisal/Assessment
Office to deliver an excellent, viable product to its entities and its taxpayers. EZ-CAM is table driven, therefore circumstance and category coding fields are prevalent throughout the system.
User defined coding fields
give the tax professional freedom to define in a consistent manner, ALL features of the land and improvements, as well as ANY circumstance or event surrounding the "account" in whole or part. The feature allows for efficient, consistent and complete report writing, form letter writing and document design.
EZ-CAM incorporates the latest in "pop-up" window technology. Through
the use of specific function keys, pertinent information regarding a field’s use and content, is instantly at the tax professional's fingertips. If the user is unsure as to how a specific field interacts with
EZ-CAM, they simply press the <HELP> key. By pressing the <HELP> key, a description of the current field may be obtained, defining the type of information to input and its interaction with the
other fields.
If the tax professional's cursor is located in a "coding field" which
interacts with a table, the user simply presses the <TABLE> key to display the contents of the applicable table. Once the table "pops-up" on the terminal, the user simply chooses from the
available options. These added EZ-CAM functions take the guess work -- which has been the cause of many valuation errors in the past on comparable systems -- away from the data entry session.
During a data entry or data audit session, the EZ-CAM user has the flexibility to move
among EZ-CAM's screens in order to adequately define, appraise, as well as analyze, the host account. Each screen logically flows to the next and all screens are accessible to each other with the simple touch
of a function key.
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