Information technology for accounting, management and production CRIDON de Paris also has an impressive in-house computer network on which it produces the requested consultations, manages all oral and written queries, and allocates them to the individual consultants. It enables real-time monitoring of the different steps of a consultation and assesses their cost. When a final answer has been issued, it can be consulted on-line. Case progress can be monitored instantly, with details of the actions that have been completed (letter received, request for additional information, partial answer, final answer, case follow-up, etc.). It provides a mechanism for checking the consultants' production and keeping track of the work done by CRIDON for a particular notarial office, a company, a regional council and more generally, to be able to instantly answer any query related to its activity, including deadlines. The in-house IT system also stores all the documents, enabling them to be located where necessary. Consequently, when all the written queries to CRIDON are sent by e-mail, CRIDON will have become 100% digital. The accounting, management and production applications are interconnected. The system also enables cases that have been processed for a given notarial office or notary to be located. Search for case files for a notary's office The consultants fill in a time management form detailing their day's activities by periods of 15 minutes. Declaration of the evaluation of time spent   The computer calculates the value of each 15-minute period, given the hourly rate charged for the given activity (consultation or documentation) and the identity of the consultant. On request, the system is capable of calculating the unit cost of an activity (the theoretical cost of a case for example). This provides a basis for producing a cost quotation in response to a written query. It can also establish for a given, user-definable period of time the funds used globally for a specific consultant activity (cost of updates or press analysis, committees, cost invested in the preparation of or attendance at inter-branch CRIDON meetings, cost of database updates, etc.). This enables the authorities at CRIDON to organise their production work better without losing sight of the necessary investments. Evaluation of the cost of a query Business breakdown by member company The IT system also enables a calculation of the quantity and value of all the production work at CRIDON for the member companies. It can also determine the type of activity deployed in the same conditions, the disciplines involved and the nature, oral or written, of the service rendered to the member companies.  It is also possible to determine in the same conditions the type of activity deployed, the disciplines involved and the nature, oral or written, of the service rendered to the member companies Time allocated for all services rendered The processing times can also be displayed in the same conditions: these can be averages for the pre-defined period, or the time dedicated to a given service.