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September 2, 2003, Santa Cruz, CA – Open Field Software, Inc., a developer of advanced adaptive learning applications for email management, today announced that ABBYY Software House, a world leader in document recognition (OCR/ICR) and linguistic technologies, has standardized on Ella™ for Spam to help combat the ever-growing spam problem throughout the company. Headquartered in Moscow, ABBYY maintains five offices in Europe and the United States employing 300 people throughout its global organization.
“We chose Ella for Spam because we needed a cost-effective spam solution that would require no IT administration, and give our users complete control in managing their email and removing spam,” said Sergey Andreev, chief executive officer of ABBYY Software House. “Ella for Spam is a very effective anti-spam tool that saves our employees a lot of time previously spent on cleaning their inboxes.”
Added Pat Royan, chief executive oficer of Open Field Software, “We’re in the business of helping companies manage the information overload, starting with email. We’re excited that ABBYY Software House selected Ella for Spam to solve the ever-increasing and costly spam issue.”
About Ella™
Designed for the millions of Microsoft Outlook users and shipping since April 2003, Ella for Spam quickly learns how you want to organize your Inbox, automatically sorting your email into three customizable categories, such as Inbox, Later and Spam. With the average email user receiving more than fifty messages a day, a number projected to grow 100% annually; knowledge workers are looking for better ways to organize their email.
Instead of relying on rules, lists and challenges, Ella for Spam learns from examples you provide to recognize which messages you want to read first, and which should be set aside for later review. By using the Ella for Spam Teaching Wizard and integrated toolbar, users simply provide a few examples of email messages to keep in their Inbox, and email messages to move to the Later and Spam review folders. Ella for Spam quickly learns these preferences and automatically places all new messages in the appropriate folders.
The Ella adaptive learning engine is a technology that observes user examples, then creates, updates, and maintains a message classification model unique to each individual. Over 100 attributes of the user’s example messages are analyzed and learned by Ella for Spam in order to create an individual profile for the user-defined message categories. Then Ella for Spam accurately sorts incoming messages, and improves its learning each time the user adds new examples.
Unlike basic email filtering products that can only identify spam, Ella builds a personal data model while observing how the user works with email. The user defines what is, and what is not spam, or any other kind of email, and Ella for Spam learns from examples how to recognize and organize incoming messages. Future applications will include other data sources beyond email, such as corporate databases and the web.
System Requirements
Ella supports Microsoft Outlook XP or 2000 running on Windows XP, 2000 or ME, connected to an Exchange or POP3 mail server.
Pricing and Availability
Ella is available now at http://www.openfieldsoftware.com. The suggested retail price is $29.95, and a free 15-day trial version is also available. Site licenses are available upon request from sales@openfieldsoftware.com.
About ABBYY
ABBYY Software House is a world leader in document recognition and linguistic technologies. ABBYY specializes in the development of software for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR), linguistics, semantics, and electronic lexicography. Leading products from ABBYY include the FineReader line of OCR, ICR and OMR software, and FineReader development tools. Companies that license ABBYY OCR/ICR technologies include SER Systems AG, Siemens Nixdorf, Samsung Electronics, C Technologies, Sumitomo Electric Systems, Arkenstone, Banctec, Visionshape, Acer, Compaq, Microtek, OTG Software, Grantsmart, Lexmark, Mustek, Umax, NewSoft, Primax and Cardiff. For more information about ABBYY, visit http://www.abbyy.com/
About Open Field Software, Inc.
Open Field Software, Inc., www.openfieldsoftware.com, designs and markets a class of personal software applications that leverage, enhance and expand productivity from within email. The Open Field Software advanced adaptive learning engine creates a digital profile of personal preferences to assist knowledge workers in organizing information throughout all networking environments. Open Field Software, founded in 2002, is privately held and headquartered in Santa Cruz, California.
For More Information:
Open Field Software
Bob Cagle
(831) 466-6975
bob@openfieldsoftware.com
Varney Business Communication
Leigh Anne Varney
(415) 387-7250
la@varneybusiness.com
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