Evanston, IL, July 1, 1992 - SalesLink Systems today announced version 1.2 of its SalesLink for Windows sales force automation software, incorporating an enhanced personal information management (PIM) module that includes "agent" capability to automate various tasks, and compliance with Microsoft Windows for Pen Computing to recognize stylus data-entry including printing and stylus gestures. SalesLink for Windows automatically enables users to create customized sales process reports through Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) links to sales call information stored in the PIM module. The system also facilitates the easy flow of information between field users and their managers, who can aggregate and analyze field users' call reports, sales forecasts and Competitive Action Analysis reports through a customized companion product, SalesLink for Windows/Manager's Edition. "Agent and pen-computing technologies are state-of-the-art capabilities that deliver important ease-of-use and productivity benefits to SalesLink for Windows users," said SalesLink Systems President William N. Holmes. Using the agent capability requires defining event triggers and actions. Once defined, the agent can sound an alarm, display a message, launch another application, hunch a DDE macro or print a report. For example, an agent can be defined to print a report of all appointments at a specified time every day. Or when the user opens a prospect detail screen, an agent can launch a word processor and display a list of letters to the prospect. Or, an agent can alert the user a week before any scheduled presentation to allow sufficient preparation time. The applications are almost limitless. SalesLink for Windows provides the agent and pen-computing capabilities by including a customized version of Commence, a full-featured, Windows-based PIM introduced recently by Jensen-Jones, Red Bank, NJ. SalesLink for Windows is priced at $895 per user, plus customizing fees that vary depending on user requirements. Volume discounts and site license pricing are available. SalesLink Systems is a unit of The Strategic Marketing Group (SMG), founded in 1988 to provide information systems and consulting services that increase sales force productivity. SMG formed SalesLink Systems in 1990 to develop and market customized sales force automation solutions for companies engaged in business-to-business selling of products or services characterized by a complex, information-intensive selling process. The SalesLink Solution, installed at several major companies, consists of the "front-end" SalesLink for Windows data-collection and sales reporting system running on portable notebook computers, and the "back-end" SalesLink for Windows/Manager's Edition data-aggregation and analysis system running on powerful standalone personal computers. The SalesLink Solution uniquely and conveniently captures the outcome of every competitive selling opportunity and the reasons for those outcomes, and facilitates the graphical analysis of the aggregated information, a process SalesLink Systems describes as "deriving knowledge from information." SalesLink Systems Business and Technology Center, 1840 Oak Ave, Evanston, IL 60201 708-866-0400 +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | 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. | +---------------------------------------------------------------+