Raleigh, NC -- (ReleaseWire) -- 10/29/2007 -- Balanced Scorecard Designer (BSC Designer) is software that simplifies the process of creating and managing Balanced Scorecards or KPI groups. With BSC Designer you will be able to create a set of key performance indicators, define relationships between groups, goals, and specify the importance of indicators. BSC Designer gives provides a flexible way to calculate performance values depending on indicators' settings, such as min/max values, target values, measurement units. The resulted Scorecard can be exported into MS Excel file for further processing.

With BSC Designer you can create a set of Key Performance Indicators and group them into categories. Each category and each indicator (goal) have a relative weight, which tells about importance of this indicator. You can define your own relative weights or use balancing function, so BSC Designer will calculate the values itself.

The indicator (goal) also has a current, min and max values. Depending on optimization strategy these values are involved in calculation of the performance within metrics' category and the total performance of the Balanced Scorecard.

Once the scorecard was designed it could be exported into MS Excel for further usage and integration with businesses systems, such as CRM or ERP. A better option is saving the designed scorecard and sharing it with co-workers both as a .bsc file (native BSC Designer file type) and MS Excel file. Starting version 1.3 Balanced Scorecard Designer supports exporting to Excel using command line interface, this features helps to integrate with third-party tools.

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BSC Designer is a Windows program that supports a balanced score card conception to connect strategy to action.

Raleigh, NC -- (ReleaseWire) -- 07/17/2007 -- Balanced Scorecard Designer (BSC Designer) is software that simplifies the process of creating and managing Balanced Scorecards or KPI groups. With BSC Designer you will be able to create a set of key performance indicators, define relationships between groups, goals, and specify the importance of indicators. BSC Designer gives provides a flexible way to calculate performance values depending on indicators' settings, such as min/max values, target values, measurement units. The resulted Scorecard can be exported into MS Excel file for further processing.

With BSC Designer you can create a set of Key Performance Indicators and group them into categories. Each category and each indicator (goal) have a relative weight, which tells about importance of this indicator. You can define your own relative weights or use balancing function, so BSC Designer will calculate the values itself.

The indicator (goal) also has a current, min and max values. Depending on optimization strategy these values are involved in calculation of the performance within metrics' category and the total performance of the Balanced Scorecard.

Once the scorecard was designed it could be exported into MS Excel for further usage and integration with businesses systems, such as CRM or ERP. A better option is saving the designed scorecard and sharing it with co-workers both as a .bsc file (native BSC Designer file type) and MS Excel file.

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A Windows NT/2000/XP privacy tool designed to find, report and clear recent files records.

Raleigh, NC -- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/23/2007 -- RecentCleaner is a personal privacy tool designed to clear recent files lists of various software tools. Clearing of recent files list makes impossible for intruder to recover any traces of recently accessed files, making it's really hard to find important files quickly.

RecentCleaner is a plug-in based utility; authors will be able to improve it continuously by adding support of new programs. Now RecentCleaner supports cleaning of recent file records in popular MS Office applications, such as Word, Excel, Power Point, FrontPage, Windows Recent files are supported. Also, RecentCleaner supports WinZip and WinRAR utilities. At official web-sites authors of RecentCleaner suggest people to contact them with requests for a new plug-ins.

RecentCleaner interface is divided into three parts – Applications, Items and Commands. Application list is represented as a tree, where the root elements are groups, such as Office, Utilities, System. Opening each element gives access to a list of recent records for every specified program. Items section shows what information is accessible for possible intruder.

With RecentCleaner it's easy to protect privacy. One can run RecentCleaner and click "Clear All" button. After this program will scan all supported programs for recent files and clear all records. It's possible to delete only some records by checking certain items in Items list.

RecentCleaner has reporting feature, which provides users with a detailed report about what records are available for cleaning and what recent files were cleaned. This report could also help to locate some file that was access recently.

A 30-day fully-functional evaluation version of RecentCleaner can be downloaded from www.recentcleaner.com, full version can be purchased on-line for 14 US$.

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AKS Image Comparer a Windows NT/2000/XP utility designed to compare two images and find differences

Raleigh, NC -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/19/2007 -- AKS Image Comparer is a utility that allows comparing two .jpg files and show differences between two images. For instance, this tool allows to compare two versions of the same image, chart, diagram or scheme.

In version 1.0 was released the plain image comparison algorithm, that allows to compare images that have just a little changes. For instance, if some parts of the picture were deleted or added Image Comparer will find and highlight these differences with blocks or colors. It is so-called "by pixels" compare algorithm.

When Image Comparer will not be so efficient? If images were changed a lot, for instance, if image was rotated or if it was scanned with different options or there were a lot of modifications. In this case more complicated algorithms are needed.

Let's try to compare two images where the actual pictures are moved relatively to each other. This is not a problem for Image Comparer, it will and highlight differences anyway.

AKS Image Comparer costs $14 for a single-user license. For more information and to download the evaluation version visit product website at http://www.comparesuite.com/solutions/image_comparer/image-comparer.htm

About the author: AKS-Labs is an producer and published of another compare-related utility called Compare Suite. Compare Suite tools allows to compare texts in various popular formats.

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It deletes files on hardware level, excluding the possibility of recovering information.

Raleigh, NC -- (ReleaseWire) -- 12/19/2006 -- Shred Agent is the next logical step in the line of security products from AKS-Labs. QuickWiper, its predecessor, was able to wipe free disk space, sensitive files, system and IE cache. Shred Agent allows taking much more control over the wiping of files.

Shred Agent is designed to protect the privacy of its owner. Deleting files in Windows is not secure enough, because it is possible to undelete or recover them using different file recovery utilities. To make sure that the files have been deleted completely Shred Agent works on hardware level. It writes some information directly into the space where the old file was located.

What makes Shred Agent different from most file shredders currently available is the ability to control the removing of files, which are usually hidden from view. It catches files moved to Recycle Bin, or silently modified by software. It is possible to configure the corresponding filters to wipe temporary files created by office programs. These files are rarely noticed, but can be used to recover information.

If Shred Agent is installed on a server and a remote user is trying to delete a file from the "Include" list, Shred Agent will wipe the file. Most other file shredders also fail to do that.

Shred Agent can be fully customized. Two lists of files can be set up: files, which are always wiped and files, which are never wiped. It is possible to save current configuration and upload it at a later time. This means a user can have different filter sets at hand, which are easily switched on and off.

The filters can be configured to wipe only the files with certain extensions or belonging to a specific directory. For example the directories that contain sensitive information, files with .tmp extension or all image files can be included into the list of files subject to wiping. This will provide that none of the information stored in these files will ever be recovered.

Shred Agent can be included into start up, so it launches every time the computer is switched on. There are two working modes: active and passive. When the software is in active mode, the files are automatically wiped depending on the criteria you select. When the software is in passive mode, it does not affect the files being deleted.

The program can be minimized: iconified in the system tray and run silently in the background. Right-click on its icon and a context menu will appear displaying all the control options. A user can select to start and stop the software, display the configuration options or view the help file. All the information about the files being wiped is stored to a special log file, the location of which can be controlled by the user.

Shred Agent costs $60 for a single-user license. For more information and to download the evaluation version visit product website at http://www.shredagent.com/.

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