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<p>"Many of our customers who use Informed on Mac OS based systems have been<br />
waiting for our Windows product," said Don Murphy, President of Shana.<br />
"They'll find it was well worth the wait. Version 2.0 is unique since it<br />
allows you to design forms on either Windows or the Mac OS and fill them<br />
out on the platform of your choice as well."</p>
<p>Informed 2.0 brings a broad range of added functionality and new<br />
capabilities to the Informed solution:</p>
<p>- innovative licensing options that include standard volume purchase and<br />
site licenses, along with individual flat-fee and transaction based<br />
licenses for use on the Internet<br />
- built-in routing lists provide the form user with suggested routes for<br />
specific forms, with multiple platform routing, including support for<br />
Microsoft Exchange, cc:Mail, Eudora, QuickMail and other popular e-mail<br />
programs<br />
- FTP servers can be designated as distribution centres to manage form<br />
revisions, and make them available to forms users automatically when a old<br />
version of a form is opened<br />
- can be configured to look up or submit data from a range of popular<br />
database programs, including Oracle, Sybase and ODBC-compliant databases<br />
- support for attachments to a form: an Engineering Change Notice, for<br />
example, could includes details of the change plus up-to-the -minute,<br />
electronic copies of related engineering drawings<br />
- several hundred additional features, updates and other changes to the<br />
previous version of Informed.</p>
<p>"I have used Shana's Informed electronic forms products for a number of<br />
years, and I continue to be impressed with their work," said Chuck Rogers,<br />
Senior Evangelist with Apple Computer. "I am really looking forward to<br />
using the new features and improved performance of Informed 2.0."</p>
<p>Informed 2.0 also features enhanced security. Informed has supported<br />
digital signatures for over two years, and was the first electronic forms<br />
product to become Entrust-aware when it added support for Northern<br />
Telecom's Entrust(tm) product line in 1995. With Informed 2.0, a user can<br />
not only sign the data on a form, but also sign the the actual design of<br />
the form itself.</p>
<p>Informed also includes an HTTP plug-in that allows Informed Filler users to<br />
fill out forms and instantly submit them back to a pre-configured web site,<br />
anywhere in the world. "There is a real need for fully-functional forms<br />
that take full advantage of the Internet," said John Murphy, VP of Sales<br />
and Marketing at Shana. "With Informed 2.0, Shana has succeeded in meeting<br />
the needs of both intranet and internet forms users."</p>
<p>"Privacy and authentication are key technologies in the evolution of<br />
intranets," said Brian O'Higgins, director of Secure Networks, Nortel, "and<br />
Shana's Informed product line fully supports these technologies in a truly<br />
seamless, cross-platform environment. The combination of Entrust and Shana<br />
is a powerful tool for moving vital forms data over intranets in a secure,<br />
intelligent and effective way."</p>
<p>For the intranet user, Informed supports standard protocols right from<br />
within the software, eliminating the need to use web browsers just to fill<br />
out a form. "This creates a virtual forms browser, and provides the<br />
intranet forms user with fully-functional forms software, including support<br />
for error checking, calculations, formatting and digital signatures," said<br />
John Murphy. "Browsers are great for looking at web pages but not so useful<br />
for filling forms which is exactly what Informed is designed to do," he<br />
added.</p>
<p>For the internet user, Shana has addressed the issue of getting<br />
fully-functional forms software to the end user, at no cost. "We have<br />
developed the tools to enable our customers to distribute their forms -<br />
complete with a copy of Informed Filler - free of charge to the general<br />
public," said Murphy.</p>
<p>Informed 2.0 consists of Informed Designer(r) and Informed Filler(tm),<br />
which together include all the tools needed to develop a complete forms<br />
system. Informed Designer provides a powerful and intuitive design<br />
environment where a form's built-in intelligence - including database<br />
lookups, calculations, error-checking and digital signatures - can be<br />
designed in from the beginning. Informed Filler is used to fill out and<br />
process forms quickly by looking up data directly from company databases,<br />
mailing across networks, signing with a secure digital signature and<br />
ultimately submitting completed form data to a corporate database or<br />
accounting system. And the process is entirely electronic, without ever<br />
having to go to paper.</p>
<p>Informed Designer, which includes one copy of Informed Filler, has an SRP<br />
of $US 295. Informed Filler, with a SRP of $195, can be licensed for as<br />
little as pennies a copy, depending on the application.</p>
<p>Shana Corporation brings over 11 years of development and marketing<br />
experience to its Informed electronic forms software, which is designed to<br />
automate the 'fill, sign and send' forms process. Shana is a privately<br />
owned company located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.</p>
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