askSam Announces New VAR Program

Affordable Electronic Publishing and Information Management Solutions

Perry, Fl - July 3, 1997 - askSam Systems, developers of award winning free-form database and publishing software, announces a new VAR Program.  This program offers VARs the opportunity to provide complete electronic publishing and information management solutions.  

Many corporations today are searching for ways to electronically publish their information.

According to a Deloitte and Touche study, publishing activities typically consume 12% to 15% of corporate revenues.  With askSam's Electronic Publishing Tools, VARs can demonstrate solutions that cut these costs by reducing the money spent on printing and the time employees spend paging through policy manuals, technical documentation, and catalogs.

In partnership with askSam Systems, participating VARs will have access to the entire family of askSam products.  These include single user and network versions of askSam plus both the askSam Electronic Publisher and the askSam Web Publisher. askSam, the award-winning text database, manages both structured and unstructured information, regardless of the source.   askSam databases can be distributed with the Electronic Publisher on CDRoms, LANs and diskettes; or published on an intranet or the Internet with the askSam Web Publisher.

Using the askSam Web Publisher, VARs can demonstrate how a company can save money by setting up a corporate intranet or Web site to publish their information electronically. Conversion and maintenance costs on both intranets and the Internet are minimal because the askSam Web Publisher does not require any HTML codes or programming.   Information is easily edited and updated once it is published.  The askSam Web Publisher has been described as "the fastest and easiest way to make databases accessible on the Web."  

Phil Schnyder, President of askSam Systems comments, "We see our VAR program as a partnership designed to sell solutions rather than boxes."

Participating VARs will have access to the askSam products, qualified sales leads, sales and technical support, training, and will be listed on the askSam Web site - http://www.asksam.com

Contact the askSam Sales Department for more information at 800-800-1997 (USA) or 850-584-6590 or via email at info@asksam.com.  

Press Contact:

     Bea McKinney - askSam Systems

     Post Office Box 1428, Perry FL 32348

     Email: bea@asksam.com

     Phone: 850-584-6590

     Fax: 850-584-7481

    http://www.asksam.com