"Sit on Your Shoulder" Technology Helps Enfish Tracker Pro "Read Along" With Computer Users.

PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 19, 1998--Enfish Technology, Inc. has a new "sit on your shoulder" technology that lets its new software product "read along" as you work, and on demand, remember where it saw "whatchamacallit" and keep track of it. In technical terms, this is an agent that resides in the (Windows) System Tray and monitors the work being performed by applications, as well as such products of outside work as incoming mail messages or selected Web pages. In functional terms, this ongoing monitoring works in conjunction with after-hours indexing and cross-referencing to create complete, content-addressable access to the computer's information stores. In broader terms, this is an information tracker, a simply elegant new kind of software product. Enfish(R) Tracker Pro is available (November 1, 1998) for $79.95 (all prices suggested US resale at participating resellers).

"What you see, Enfish Tracker sees, and that's a pretty basic requirement when what you see now is what you want to get a day or a month or a year from now," explains Enfish CEO Louise Wannier. "But we also consider it a pretty basic requirement that we make it all happen automatically, with zero demand on a user." In the broadest terms, Enfish Tracker Pro makes it easy to find essentially all the items a computer has displayed that refer to words a user selects. This is, succinctly, a new way to find where you saw "whatchamacallit".

The Enfish Tracker Pro master index to the contents of pages a user sees or works with includes word processing documents, Web pages, sent or received e-mail, spreadsheets and much more. It responds to any inquiry in seconds with an organized list of relevant results, all in one place. And it adds user-friendly features that make this simple (but previously missing) functionality the basis for many powerful special ways to simplify many of the more tedious chores of the workday.

The challenge of indexing and cross-referencing the contents of essentially everything a computer can see compelled the designers of Enfish Tracker Pro to include not only the full-time "read-along" agent, but also an after-hours "valet" utility. This automatically updates the catalog to reflect new, changed or deleted file contents, whether on the user's PC hard drive, across the LAN, on an Intranet or across the Internet.

While many popular software packages provide facilities for searching the files they create, it is very difficult to get any one to search others. Enfish Tracker Pro "removes the walls between Windows" in several innovative ways. When creating its cross-referenced indexes ("Dexing", in Enfish jargon), it directly reads the native work files of most word-processing, spreadsheet, e-mail, contact management, Web browsing and other applications. (Earlier-era search-by-content applications required copying text into its own records; Enfish Tracker Pro adds no such burden). When Enfish Tracker Pro finds what a user has asked for, it displays them all in one place, readable in-place without needing to launch the specific application that created the work (which a user can still elect to do). And those displayed results are easy to selectively copy into new documents (or spreadsheets or messages, etc.) In essence, it's an information tracker that brings the power of data mining to the realm of the desktop.

Enfish Tracker Pro requires a computer powered by an Intel Pentium(R) or compatible CPU, preferably at 1666MHz or faster, and the Microsoft Windows(R) 95, 98 or NT(R) 4.0 environment. The system should have at least 16 MB RAM (32 MB recommended, 64MB optimal), a hard drive with at least 50-MB free disk space (on typical 1GB drive), and a VGA or better display in at least a 256-color mode. Certain features are enhanced by an Internet connection, which is recommended.

Privately held Enfish Technology Inc. was founded in 1993 to create world-class software to make information easier to use. The word "Enfish" is itself derived from the first two letters, each, of "Enter", "Find" and "Share", three ways people interact with information. Enfish Tracker Pro software is based on the company's patented technology.

For additional information, contact Enfish Technology, Inc., 135 North Los Robles Avenue, Suite 650, Pasadena, CA 91101-4500; phone [phone]; fax [phone]; mailto:[e-mail]; http://www.enfish.com

Enfish(R) and the Enfish Logo are registered trademarks of, and "The World's First Information Tracker!"(TM) and Dex(TM) are trademarks under license by Enfish Technology, Inc.