There
are hundreds of special features and configurable system options within
APIS - here are just a few:
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| APIS
CommCenter |
- Announcements
by location (meetings, reminders)
- BOLO - Be
On The Lookout Alerts
- Scrolling
Message Center
- Serious
Incident Messages for your area of responsibility
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| APISdataweb |
- Displays
relationships between all related records
- Look up
a person’s name in the system and with one click you see
every case, every investigation, every incident, every restitution/recovery,
etc. associated with that person
- Facilitates
research and investigation
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| APISevidence |
- Allows for
the attachment of any digital / PC file(s) to any APIS record
- Maintain
all aspects of the case electronically
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| APISflash |
- Provides
workflow management
- See an instant
summary of all records pending for your approval, assigned to
you for follow up and open / in progress for your area of responsibility
and click through from the summary information on the dashboard,
directly to the related records
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| APIS
Help |
- Enhanced
online help feature is a virtual system within a system!
- Open the
APIS Help system then navigate the controls to get onscreen help
and access to instruction on operation.
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| APISmail |
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| APIS
Search |
- A comprehensive
“google-like” search process that allows for easy
look-up by nearly any criteria: name, number, social
- Detailed
search also allows for other fields / search criteria·
Custom or partial searches are also possible
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| APISsummary |
- Form the
dashboard, see a snapshot of critical statistics for your area
of responsibility
- See week-to-date,
month-to-date and year-to-date summaries of each module - Cases,
Investigations, Incidents and more!
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| APISsuperweb |
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Enhanced link analysis identifies non-obvious relationships
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Identifies potential fraud related patterns between seemingly
unrelated records
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Identifies related records by same name, same address, same social,
same phone, same vehicle and more.
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Relationship link parameters are configurable by the client
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| APIStips |
- On-screen
help tips to describe data entry for each input field
- Enhances
consistency and increase ease of data entry
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| Barcode
Printing and Scanning |
- Scan in
barcodes to capture merchandise information and retrieve merchandise
description and pricing.
- Print barcodes
on civil demand or restitution letters to facilitate payment management
using the recovery system
- Also used
to create fax cover pages to allow evidence to be faxed and attached
directly to a particular record (ex: fax a handwritten statement
and have the scanned image attached automatically to the case
or investigation record).
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| Hot
Label Changes |
- Each
field label may be changed to terminology determined by the user.
- Helps
to add consistency to all narratives.
- A
field prompt that may be customized to display along the bottom
of the browser to assist with instruction for data entry.
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| Narrative
Guidelines |
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Display your corporate guidelines for writing a narrative and
the framework for gathering details
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Users can see the guidelines direct from the narrative entry box.
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| Address
Verification and Mapping |
- Ensures
it is a legitimate address or not
- Provides
a map of the subject's address for fast and easy reference during
the interview.
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| APIStask |
- Ability
to schedule specific assignments or tasks to self or others
- Calendar
feature with all the tasks listed
- Reminder
notices sent via email
- Overdue
tasks are highlighted and displayed as priority
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| Geo-Spatial
Information System |
- Display
cases, investigations, incidents and other key information on
a map view
- Visually
identify trends and patterns with plotted map points relating
to incidents that have occurred
- National,
regional or local views
- Drill down
to street level detail
- View in
Map or Aerial (satellite) view or a hybrid of both views
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| Narrative
Wizard |
- Allows
case narratives and other narrative or summary data entry to populate
based on a series of questions presented in a wizard
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The narrative wizard is customizable by the client
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| Personal
Snapshot |
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Custom search provides a brief summary of the person and all the
associated records
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Often used to produce a summary “rap sheet” for an
individual.
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| Data
Entry Wizard |
- Simplified
data input
- Effective
and efficient method to search the database to prevent double
data entry
- Improved
speed and Integrity for data entry
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| Reverse
Phone Lookup |
- Allows to
instantly verify many United States phone numbers captured for
any personal record
- No cost
of having to maintain that database in-house.
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| Smart
Fields and Dates |
- Smart Fields
are used as a trigger to keep additional fields hidden unless
a particular option is chosen, requiring additional detail / fields
to be displayed and completed
- Fields that
are not used often by most users remain hidden until the user
calls them.
- An error
message will be displayed in the status bar when a wrong date
is entered both in invlaid format or invalid based on the date
- Date Pickers
and Time Pickers are provided to simplify data entry and ensure
consistency in data capture.
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| Spell
Checker, Thesaurus and Dictionary
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- Checks
narrative entries for misspelled words
- Saves
time and enhances accuracy in reports
- Custom
dictionary settings
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