Corex Technologies Announces AccuCard for Outlook -- The Latest Addition to Its Contact Maintenance Product Platform.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMBRIDGE, MASS.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 2003 Developer of CardScan Introduces New Self-Updating Address Book Empowering Outlook Users to Eliminate Outdated out·dat·ed adj. Out-of-date; old-fashioned. outdated Adjective old-fashioned or obsolete Adj. 1. Information From Their Contact Databases Corex Technologies Corporation, the leading developer of contact maintenance and business card scanning solutions, today announced AccuCard for Outlook, the latest product in its contact maintenance platform, designed to end the problem of out-of-date business contact data. Based on a successful feature of its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. CardScan--the world's number one business card scanning solution--AccuCard for Outlook is an automatic updating service that fully integrates with Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see . Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook . The AccuCard for Outlook software, available for a yearly subscription fee of $49.95, provides users with an easy and cost-effective way to ensure that their contact information is always up-to-date and accurate. The Data Warehousing See data warehouse. data warehousing - data warehouse Institute estimates that bad data costs U.S. companies more than $600 billion a year. A large part of that problem comes from businesses having out-of-date contact data for customers and prospects. AccuCard for Outlook solves the problem of dirty data by automatically updating contact information and flagging any data that cannot be verified or corrected. This enables users to maintain accurate contact lists and eliminates the frustration and wasted time resulting from out-of-date contact information. "Corex already dominates the industry of capturing contact information - our CardScan business card readers are by far the leading product of their kind," said Jonathan Stern, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Corex. "AccuCard for Outlook is a logical extension, giving Outlook users the ability to automatically keep all their contact information fresh and current. In the future, we look forward to rolling out AccuCard for additional platforms, making Corex the de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. leader in the capture and maintenance of contact information, for the individual and the enterprise." AccuCard for Outlook is a sophisticated piece of software that functions independently of, but fully integrates with Microsoft Outlook, the most popular contact manager with more than 93 million users. AccuCard for Outlook users are able to easily install the service on their PCs by going directly to Corex's Web site--www.corex.com. After a simple three-step download process, the Outlook users' address book comes to life. E-mail notifications are sent to contacts only once per quarter, requesting that they either update or confirm their information. Once a contact updates his or her information, update notifications automatically appear in the AccuCard for Outlook user's address book. Users also receive a "review updates" prompt that appears as changes occur so that they can see what contact data is being amended. "The key to ensuring that routine work gets done is to find an easy way to automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. it," said industry analyst Amy Wohl, editor of Amy D. Wohl's Opinions. "AccuCard for Outlook provides a way to eliminate outdated information with minimal effort. Integrating with Outlook makes the task easy and familiar for many users." Corex has built the AccuCard for Outlook service with users' and contacts' privacy and security in mind. Among the privacy and security features in the service are: -- TRUSTe EU certification so that users and contacts can be confident that their data is secure and not being shared with any third-parties; -- Storage in a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. database so that current contact information can be shared with multiple users who already have a contact's information in Outlook. This assures contacts that they will not be inundated in·un·date tr.v. in·un·dat·ed, in·un·dat·ing, in·un·dates 1. To cover with water, especially floodwaters. 2. with multiple requests to update information; -- The ability to always opt-out of contact update requests; and -- The ability for contacts to see all AccuCard users who are requesting updates to their information. "I have 3,000 contacts in Outlook that I depend on for business," said Steve Nelson
An act, event, or occurrence is said to be actionable when there are legal grounds for basing a lawsuit on it. , so I don't need to worry about tracking people down." Pricing and Availability AccuCard for Outlook is available immediately for a yearly subscription price of $49.95. For more information, or to order the service please call 800-942-6739 or visit www.corex.com. About Corex Technologies Founded in 1993, Corex Technologies Corporation is the leading provider of solutions designed to accelerate the capture, access, and accuracy of business contact information. Corex's award-winning flagship product, CardScan Executive, is a state of the art business card scanner bundled with sophisticated contact management tools, including CardScan.Net and the AccuCard Service. Corex is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts This article is about the city of Cambridge in Massachusetts. For the English university town, see Cambridge, England. For other places, see Cambridge (disambiguation). Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. . |
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