Individual ships personal profiling software for its First! enterprise news services; New feature will put personal news profiling on every Lotus Notes and World Wide Web desktop.BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 1995 -- Individual, Inc. announced today shipment of a new release of its flagship full-text, customized news service First! The release combines the power of Individual's SMART filtering at the back-end server level with new software that enables users of 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. and Web browsers The following is a list of web browsers. Historical Historically important browsers In order of release:
Two leading First! enterprise products now offer personal profiling: First! for Notes and First! for the Web. Both platforms allow users to set up and maintain personal profiles by selecting relevant topic and company categories on electronic forms. No keyword entry or BooleOnce a profile is set up, users can quickly scan relevant news briefs and retrieve full-text stories simply the news content we deliver each busines s day to First! clients," said Yosi Amram, Individual's chairman acan easily maintain personal profiles that give them the best combination of powerful filtering with the ease of use and control of a user application." The new versions of First! for Notes and First! for the Web have been extensively beta tested A test of new or revised hardware or software that is performed by users at their facilities under normal operating conditions. Beta testing follows alpha testing. Vendors of packaged software often offer their customers the opportunity of beta testing new releases or versions, and the at numerous customer sites. Many report that personal profiling makes it easy to get relevant news on a daily basis. "I use it (First! for Notes) to keep current with the competition," says Linda DeBella, a manager with Ameritech Communications, Inc. "First! does a good job at identifying information that we should read without forcing us to go through a database of information." All First! family products share the same rich source pool and knowledge base set up and maintained by Individual's staff of editorial managers. Using advanced agent-based filtering technology and an enterprise profile df 20,000 stories per night. Every business day, Individual's SMART system then selects and delivers pre-filtered news items that are uniquely relevant to each client company. Notes databases are delivered via standard Notes replication; Web databases are sent over the Internet in Hve personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. news as a daily Notes Mail message containing story briefs. Full-text story retrieval for users on a LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. is via document links that instantly connect briefs back to the primary news database. For remote users, full-text stories are sent as e-mail messages on demand. First! for the Web subscribers access personal profiles by retrieving their own homepage using any standard browser connected to their company's private Web server. An easy-to-use toolbar A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the is provided to navigate from story to story within a category, review news from previous days, and search the entire database using keyword combinations Prices for all First! family products, including First! for Notes, First! for the Web, First! for Folio (1) Text management software for the professional reference publishing market from Fast Search & Transfer, Oslo, Norway and Boston, MA (www.fastsearch.com). Known as FAST Folio since its acquisition in 2004 from NextPage, Inc. VIEWS and First! for Collabra Share are based on the number of news stories sent annually and the number of readers. The annual fee for First! includes customization by Individual's staff of content specialists, profile maintenance, transmission, server software, access to nearly 600 worldwide sources, and the copyright authorization to share First! with all authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: readers. Formed in 1989, Individual's mission is to spread the power of knowledge by intelligently connecting people with information and uniquely relevant ideas. As an Open SMART Information Exchange (SM), the company offers business professionals the smartest, easiest and most cost-effective way of gaining current awareness in a rapidly changing world. Its interactive, customized news services include First! for corporate workgroups and enterprises, HeadsUp and iNews for single subscribers, and NewsPage and Bookwire on the World-Wide-Web (http://www.newspage.com and http://www.bookwire.com). Individual has established alliances with many prominent industry leaders including Knight-Ridder, Lotus, Motorola, Apple, PRODIGY An online information service that provides access to the Internet, e-mail and a variety of databases. Launched in 1988, Prodigy was the first consumer-oriented online service in the U.S. , Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. and AT&T. The company is headquartered in Burlington, Mass., with five offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ; Burlingame, Calif.; and the United Kingdom. -0- For more information about Individual, Inc. and its full range of customized news services, send a message to: info@individual.com. 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