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Carthage Introduces Carthage Personal Alert; A Customizable Personal Alert System For The Carthage Today News Service.


ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 1996--Carthage International announced today a new desktop filtering capability for CARTHAGETODAY news service called Carthage Personal Alert. Carthage Personal Alert offers users the ability to filter information by individual preferences and receive alerts when stories match their personal profile.

CARTHAGETODAY, the leading provider of filtered, real-time business intelligence for Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling.  has introduced Carthage Personal Alert, at no additional charge to subscribers. Carthage Personal Alert enables individual users to build personal profiles that filter information from corporate/users CARTHAGETODAY databases. Carthage Personal Alert provides users with the ability to build their own view of information from much larger and universal workgroup profiles.

Carthage Personal Alert delivers the profiled stories directly into your personal email or the CARTHAGETODAY Notes Database. Users are also alerted when relevant stories are delivered into their database. The stories are displayed within Notes in a Carthage Personal View or in email as a headline and abstract that includes a document link to the complete story.

"With Carthage Personal Alert, CARTHAGETODAY subscribers have the functionality of an instant alert mechanism for real-time news stories, without the additional expense and frustration of a dedicated server and satellite dish satellite dish
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 Executive Vice President of Carthage, "Carthage Personal Alert allows corporate knowledge workers to know exactly when big stories hit the press."

"Carthage Today adds value to the communication and collaboration of Notes by delivering a continuously replicated, real-time news service. Carthage Today is well positioned to help organizations maximize business' intelligence by utilizing the power of Notes replication, search facilities and internet communication capabilities," said Steve Sayre, Vice President, Communications Product Marketing, Lotus Development Corporation (company) Lotus Development Corporation - A software company who produced Lotus 1-2-3, the Symphony spreadsheet and Lotus Notes for the IBM PC.

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Carthage Personal Alert was developed in cooperation with Groupware Software that supports multiple users working on related tasks in local and remote networks. Also called "collaborative software," groupware is an evolving concept that is more than just multiuser software which allows access to the same data.  Concepts, Inc. a Lotus Premium Business Partner and creator of the Formula One Toolkit for Notes.

CARTHAGETODAY is the only filtered news service that delivers relevant business intelligence directly to the desktops of Lotus Notes, Email and WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web.


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 users. Offering over 2,000 real-time news sources from publishers such as Dow Jones Dow Jones

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, and Ziff-Davis, Carthage provides more sources than any other news service. Unique profiling capabilities are based on the Fast Data Finder (FDF FDF Forms Data Format (Adobe Acrobat)
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) technology from Paracel, Inc., the world's fastest and most powerful text filtering engine. Once profiled, all relevant information is delivered via dialup or the internet, requiring no dedicated servers, no satellite dishes and no additional maintenance.

Carthage International (http://www.carthage.com) is a Dallas-based developer of mass customization technology and services that allow electronic publishers, on-line services and corporate clients to offer highly customized information services See Information Systems.  to multiple computing platforms. The company offers a wide range of customized news products and services for the World Wide Web, Lotus Notes and other platforms. Carthage's customization solutions are based on it's Carthage Server Technology.

Groupware Concept, Inc. is a provider of powerful tools and utilities for Lotus Notes. Based in Dallas, Texas “Dallas” redirects here. For other uses, see Dallas (disambiguation).
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, Groupware Concepts, Inc. also offers consulting services for those customers who are using Notes as a platform for delivering industrial strength applications.

CONTACT: Carthage International -or- Lois Paul & Partners

Elise Soyza, 214/789-1990 Ted Weismann, 617/860-5654
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