ASKFOR UNVEILS THE DATAPAN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SUITE

Askfor Business Solutions Enables Management of Critical Information with Datapan Product Suite

Woburn, MA - Askfor business solutions, an innovator in information empowerment applications announced today that it has launched datapan, a powerful data management tool set for corporations and knowledge workers. Datapan promises to make all available digital information open for strategic corporate usage.

Spring-boarding from its core competencies and proven track record of internet data management, askfor has developed an open information handling suite, allowing the collection of data from various sources and distribution to all popular formats. Data sources that are able to mined include: public internet resources, existing or legacy databases, intranets, PDF files, and ASCII files. The Datapan "apples to apples" data normalization is placed into a XML feed that can be transformed to ASCII, XML, HTML, PDA-HTML, WML, PDF or Excel formats. Complete with an easy to use graphical interface and automated updates, datapan raises the bar for data collection and usage.

Answering the need for effective information manipulation, askfor is a proven internet data player offering flexible applications to the knowledge management arena.

"The collection and distribution of fresh and accurate data is now attainable for all corporations," says Jay Powers, Director of Technical Development "The datapan tool set was developed in a open and flexible manner to empower a variety of users and industries. The product has several degrees of internal functionality. For example, it features very advanced proprietary abilities, showcasing advanced querying and regular expressions to mine information gathered."

The ability to port to popular mobile devices adds to the products extensive functionally. End users such as sales reps and business development managers have concise data easily accessible on their WAP phones and PDAs.

Datapan applications include: adding sticky content to attract users for business to consumer sites; adding mission-critical data to existing EIP's for business to business enterprises; easing data collection for ; portal vendors and researchers; empowering forces with current internal and competitive information for sales managers.

More information about the datapan suite may be found at askfor.com/business

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Askfor, the service mark of Listorama, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, was founded in 1999 and is a pioneer in information empowerment applications. Located within Boston's high tech 128 belt, the company is infused with Internet professionals that have all successfully driven previous online projects. Featuring knowledge management products and data services, askfor provides business solutions targeting enterprises, infomediaries, digital researchers, syndicators, and knowledge workers.

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Company: askfor
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