January, 2008 -Create and edit graphical documents with RollCall's Form Editor. Make a splash with customized invoices, statements, form letters and grade reports. Setup user-defined drop down lists for customized student data that exactly match your unique school. Email clients directly from Appointment window. Setup several email addresses, and choose which ones to use for additional copies of emails. Excel exports for Students and Classes now include associated registration information and results. Great for customized certification reporting. Write emails using HTML format, instead of plain text.  Select alternate paths for backup files.

August, 2007 -RollCall now supports tracking for entities that provide funds to the school such as lenders, donors and fundraising. Use the [Shift] and [Control] keys on the Registration lists to register several students at once for a class / several classes at once for a student. If there are fees associated with the registration, you can create an invoice for each student registering for a class, or a single invoice for a student with all class registrations. Student and Class Maintenance windows have a new button called "Change" that lets you change records as a group. Change classes with Registration Open to Closed, or Results Open to Closed or change students from one status to another. RollCall now supports centralized invoicing for umbrella organizations that sponsor several students or families with more than one student at your school.

March, 2007 - Now see Instructor and Administrator office hours on the calendar with colored background to indicate availability. Record Attendance and Exams with new spreadsheet windows. See more detail for attendance with calendars and lists supporting attendance percent and recorded hours. Schedule appointments with Prospects with follow up points and view on Administrator calendars. Track marketing source for Prospects, and view performance through to Student tracking. Invoice tuition contracts on entry and send payment notifications - see the payment schedule on Administrator calendars. RollCall Application Server now has a web portal for affiliated groups to track their student's performance -including preregistration.

December, 2006 - RollCall Application Server lets you connect students/parents and instructors to their information. Students can register for classes on-line, view their calendar of classes, tutoring sessions, exams and events, keep track of attendance and grades all from their home computer. Instructors can record grades and attendance, view their calendar and setup exams at their convenience. And, if you have remote or traveling administrators, RollCall Application Server provides identical access to the central database for administrative functions. You can even move your whole server to an off-site location!  

October, 2006 - Calendars keep improving - now you can set up  holiday calendars and see the the current exam schedule on student and instructor calendars. There's a new registrar activity center that supports pre-registration processing. 

August, 2006 - In RollCall, compare two calendars side-by-side. Use the new Week view, in addition to Month and Day view to manage your school. Assign students to affiliated businesses or organizations to track corporate contracts. Setup Facilities as clinic rooms or residences to track client appointments and accommodation assignments for your business.

July, 2006 - Setup and assign registration types to student registration. You can charge different fees for different registrations, and optionally skip recording attendance or awarding credit for the class.

June, 2006 - The neatest new feature in RollCall's history... Calendars! View an interactive calendar for the school, for a student, for a class, an instructor or a facility location. It makes scheduling so much easier!

May, 2006 - RollCall expands the interface with QuickBooks® by passing Instructor hours for teaching and tutoring/one-on-one sessions directly to QuickBooks® Payroll. Accumulate Instructor hours while recording attendance and one-on-one session results, automatically transfer those hours to QuickBooks® Payroll.

March, 2006 - "Know as you Go" released for RollCall. It's a multi-media presentation system that helps you, your staff and new administrators learn how to manage your school more efficiently - at your own pace. 

January, 2006 - RollCall update for automatic connection to QuickBooks 2006 editions. Invoices from RollCall are automatically forwarded to QuickBooks, payments are exchanged between the two systems, and Student information updated for both systems.  

October, 2005 - RollCall update released with additional options for tracking hours for exams, an Attendance Monitor for workstations to allow students to log themselves in and out for classes and functionality for recording hours for instructors.

August, 2005 - PowerVista Bridge development IDE is released with new options for creating windows from styles, an updated Resource Editor with additional options and faster parsing. 

July, 2005 - RollCall now tracks Instructor 'skills inventory' to create a comprehensive list of teaching qualifications - great for accreditation and certification processes. More options for recording attendance, including partial hours and hiding Late/Excused sessions. Use tutoring sessions as Makeup hours for missed classes. 

June, 2005 - RollCall adds Contacts management, with automatic update from email, Activity Reporting and Word merge from the Reports function. Manually add telephone and personal meeting contacts. Associate Classes with Facility locations and equipment for printing custodian reports. Partial payment processing for Student contracts and on Payment entry (Invoicing Tasks). Student Status values now track an 'old' value and a change date. Select students by changes to Student status values (a student changing from a Distance learner to a Campus learner, for example). Printing of pre-printed Certificates using Word merge functions is now supported. Certificate printing can be tracked automatically using Student Qualifications.

April, 2005 - RollCall adds tracking of customized data by student. Define any number of criteria - from vaccination history to vehicle licenses - and track all the information about the student. Lists that display a picture in the upper right-hand corner (it's a starburst with a red center) will display a 'dashboard' with advanced list options when you press the 'starburst' button. You can turn off / on column display, perform multi-level sorts and export the list's data to a text file for merging into a word processor or direct export into Excel (you must have Excel installed).. handy for filling out specific forms and making specialized spreadsheets. The Degree Program area now has generic reporting functionality. This is good for printing status reports and progress reports.  

March, 2005 - RollCall adds enhanced attendance tracking, and displays the total number of scheduled sessions, the number of sessions held to date and the number of sessions that have been recorded. The current attendance percent for each
student is shown on various windows. Added a graphical display for attendance. Added Activity Reporting to print reports by student for new students, registration, setting up Tutoring sessions and assigning final grades. There are two new user-defined student status fields. Added multiple grading scales -each scale can assign a different GPA point scale. Expanded class types to add  Seminar and
Perpetual. Seminar classes only require a single attendance to be marked as
complete - perfect for introductory or Orientation sessions.  

January, 2005 - RollCall added the capability to schedule client appointments and use evaluations as a Class Exam. It also has options for tracking payment contracts for tuition from students. Allows recording attendance by a morning and an afternoon session. Set a variable number of hours by class for attendance. New options to 'check all' for attendance and registration. A different way of looking at the menu structure on the navigation window.  

November, 2004 - RollCall supports one-to-one relationships for tutoring, coaching, personalized training or mentoring. Setup goals and track results by overall tutoring relationship and/or by session. Assign individual tutors or coaches, with times and locations. Use the updated scheduling functionality to view a complete schedule for each student. If you charge for each session, RollCall supports automatic invoicing by individual instructor.  The tutoring hours automatically add to tracking data for state and federal reporting.

October, 2004 - PowerVista RollCall is updated for Prospective students and an enhanced ability to track complex student information such as experience resumes and multipart test scores (such as SAT scores).

August, 2004 - PowerVista RollCall adds NRS reporting capability for adult education and literacy programs and is updated for Facility rental, merchandise Point of Sale, internal email capability and PDF file generation.

July, 2004 - PowerVista releases GlobalFamily, a small application for volunteer organizations that manage post-adoption communities of international families.

March, 2004 - PowerVista releases RollCall for larger organizations that use networks, offering Student and Instructor Views for workstation access.

February, 2004 - PowerVista releases RollCall, the first of a planned line of comprehensive applications for selected vertical markets. This is a membership/student management application. It is the first example of Software Built for Change.

January, 2004 - PowerVista releases a major update to PowerVista Bridge development environment for more powerful connection to MySQL, Access and SQLServer is released.

April, 2003 - PowerVista Bridge is posted on a variety of resource web sites, such as CNet and KnowledgeStorm.

October, 2002 - After two years of extensive work, PowerVista releases its newest version. The developer interface has been completely re-written to the most exacting standards. Over the past two years, we've participated in project teams to build and release 4 major commercial implementations of software. As a result of that experience, we are proud to release Regeneratable Styles, a powerful new tool for streamlining and jumpstarting the application development process.

October, 2000 - PowerVista gets a professional make-over! A new logo, a new web site, and a continuing focus on the database application developer.

September, 2000 - HireMe! receives a 4 star rating from ZDNet. It's shareware you can modify, and the source code is posted on the Sample Applications page.

August, 2000 - The most recent version of PowerVista Bridge, 2000-1c, earned 5 Stars from ZDNet Reviewers. This is the highest rating possible, and illustrates the quality of PowerVista products.