Canton, MA, May 1, 1992 -- International Solutions, Inc. announced the latest release of Impulse! Professional V2.6, a powerful contact management software package. The product is used by the sales & marketing professional to track information that is vital to their business. This information includes client profiles, comments, activity logbooks, schedules and expenses. Impulse! is used in all phases of lead generation, marketing, customer support and information management. A number of new features have been added to the latest release and previous features have been significantly enhanced. As a result Impulse! Professional V2.6 is easier to use and more powerful than ever before. One of the biggest enhancements that has been made to the program is the pull down menu system. This new user interface makes it easier for first time users to learn about the program, its many features and the keystrokes necessary to access them. Experienced users will like the fact that most of the day-to-day feature have 'hot-key' options which allow information to be accessed through a single key-stroke. As a result, this design will enable these users to rapidly use these features without being limited or slowed down by traditional pull-down menu overhead. Another feature that has been enhanced is the logbook-scheduler option which tracks communications with a client by showing the date, purpose and results of a call, letter or meeting. This feature is used for maintaining reliable and consistent communications with the client through historical information and follow-up reminders. The memory resident/swap out option is one of the most exciting features available in the package. It provides the user with the ability to swap between other software applications and Impulse! with the touch of a key. This feature enables the user to access client information without having to first exit a word processor, spreadsheet or accounting package and then load Impulse!. While in memory resident mode, the program now takes up only 15-20 K of RAM (it used to require 20-30K). Another feature that has been enhanced is the statistics option which helps management better understand the demographics of their contact database. This demographic/statistical feature totals the number of records which meet a set criteria. For instance, the user may want a breakdown of the number of contacts per city and state. Impulse! will tally up all the records and then print a summary showing how many people are in each city and state. To help the user maintain information vital to his organization, Impulse! is highly customizeable through its 1000 user-definable fields. For instance, a real estate agent would want to keep track of the selling price of a property, the number of bedrooms, baths, etc. While an insurance agent would want to track policy number, coverage and expiration date. Another powerful feature of the program allows the user to target a specific subgroup of contacts for telemarketing, direct mail programs or reminders. Impulse! also allows the user to create, customize and design their own labels, reports and letters. The program comes with over 30 predesigned formats which can be used as-is or edited to the user's needs. The user can use the letter generator to create a 'custom' looking letter and envelope to send to the client. Impulse! is also equipped with a built-in word processor and spell checker, pop-up calculator, multiple client databases, expense organizer, country calling codes, statistics, time zones, currency chart and a telephone dialer. There is even a conversion utility for those users who want to convert their current information to Impulse! from ASCII or dBASE formats. These options and many others make Impulse! the "information manager." The Impulse! Professional is available through local computer resellers or directly from International Solutions, Inc. and is competitively priced at $295 for the network ready package which allows up to one user. Each additional user is $99. Inventory, sales entry, survey research and help desk add-ons are available. The system operates under MS-DOS version 3.3 or higher, requires a minimum of 640k and a hard disk drive. For more information call (617) 575-0290. Or write to International Solutions, Inc. at 52 Tolman St., Canton, MA 02021. +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | From the America Online New Product Information Services | +===============================================================+ | This information was processed with OmniPage Professional OCR | | software (from Caere Corp) & a Canon IX-30 scanner from data | | provided by the above mentioned company. For additional info, | | contact the company at the address or phone# indicated above. | | All submissions for this service should be addressed to | | BAKER ENTERPRISES, 20 Ferro Drive, Sewell, NJ 08080 U.S.A. | +---------------------------------------------------------------+