Wide range of interest shown for new software.SAN LUIS OBISPO San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 1997--A new
software package that was introduced at MacWorld This article is about a technology publication. For the tradeshow, see Macworld Conference & Expo.
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The software, called PowerTab, allows any business to easily create and interpret their own survey. PowerTab was selected by Apple Fellow Guy Kawasaki Guy Kawasaki (born 1954), one of the original Apple employees responsible for marketing of the Macintosh in 1984, is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He is noted for bringing the concept of evangelism to the high-tech business, focusing on creating passionate user-advocates for as one of 1997's best new applications for the Macintosh. "This is very exciting," said PowerTab's author, Vik Rubenfeld. "I designed PowerTab to allow anyone to conduct their own survey. And the range of people that expressed interest was beyond my expectations." PowerTab was personally demonstrated at MacWorld for a senior manager of an American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of automaker, another executive from a well-known electronics firm and several chief executives of various software firms. But small businesses were interested as well. Proprietors of single store retail operations were also very interested. PowerTab has a built-in Expert System that interviews and creates a customer satisfaction survey specifically for the user. Intended for any business, PowerTab interviews the user to create a custom survey. Once the survey has been distributed to and completed by customers, the user is guided through the data entry process. Initial data tabulation tab·u·late tr.v. tab·u·lat·ed, tab·u·lat·ing, tab·u·lates 1. To arrange in tabular form; condense and list. 2. To cut or form with a plane surface. adj. Having a plane surface. is automatic. PowerTab tabulation includes the ability to easily group answers by key customer groups and high-light the mathematically significant answers. This is intended to guide the non-research professional to quicker understanding of the results. PowerTab also provides a HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. converter (1) A device that changes one set of codes, modes, sequences or frequencies to a different set. See A/D converter. (2) A device that changes current from 60Hz to 50Hz and vice versa. and associated PERL script, which allows the user to use their Web site to post their survey and collect data from it. Additional PowerTab capabilities include the automatic tabulation of FileMaker databases. PowerTab is being offered for sale at $90 for a "pre-release" v0.9 version. The v1.0 version is expected to be priced at $199. Purchasers of the v0.9 product will be upgraded free to the v1.0 version when it is released. Power Knowledge Software is the publisher of PowerTab software. Power Knowledge Software has offices located in San Luis Obispo. For more information, contact: Dave Dawson at 805/545-5468 or Vik Rubenfeld at 310/546-6026. CONTACT: Power Knowledge Software Dave Dawson, 805/545-5468 Vik Rubenfeld, 310/546-6026 web: www.powerknowledge.com |
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