December 2001

Microsoft welcomes Elsinore as Partner at ProjectWorld

We are pleased to announce that Elsinore will be participating with Microsoft at ProjectWorld 2001, December 12-13, in San Jose, CA. In addition to being in the Microsoft Booth, Scott Baker, designer of Visual Intercept Project (VIP), will be speaking on Thursday, December 13 from 3:00-4:00 PM about the benefits of integrating incident management with Microsoft Project. ProjectWorld is the largest independent event series in the United States dedicated to helping you manage the most important projects in the world - yours. ProjectWorld is focused on real world benefits of project management.

As a Microsoft Partner, Elsinore extends Microsoft Project through Visual Intercept Project to provide a powerful real-time project management solution. Now project managers can evaluate options and validate decisions based on real-time data entered from anywhere by anyone.

"Given the substantial success Elsinore has had in the developer community, adding VIP is a logical next step towards establishing themselves as the standard for all areas of issue and incident management," states Steve Komlo of Gray Hawk Systems, Inc. "As a partner and integrator, we believe this will give us a strategic competitive advantage by allowing us to manage our clients' projects at a much more granular level. Our consultants as well as our customers will have greater confidence that nothing falls through the cracks."

If you are planning to attend the show, please stop by and visit us in the Microsoft Booth, #501. We are looking forward to showing our incident management solution for project leaders, Visual Intercept Project (VIP). If you will not be at the show, please call your sales representative at 866-866-0034 for more information about VIP and Elsinore's other outstanding incident management products.

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VIP - New Pricing and Early Adopter Program

As many of you know, Elsinore recently introduced Visual Intercept Project (VIP). Based on customer feedback and our vision to become the standard corporate wide issue/incident management system, we have repriced VIP to a one-time connector fee independent of the number of users.

In order to stimulate awareness, adoption, and customer feedback of VIP, we are offering to waive the connector fee as part of an Early Adopter Program. To become members of the Early Adopter Program customers need to meet the following criteria:

  1. Willingness to be a reference
  2. Commitment to be in production by March 31, 2002

If you are interested in participating in this program, please at 866-866-0034.


Customer Advisory Board

We recognize that our success moving forward is wholly dependent on your success with our products. As such, we will be establishing a product advisory group early in 2002. We are looking for customers who would like to have meaningful input on our future product direction as well as any recommendations as to how we can continue to improve our ability to meet your needs.

If you are interested, please respond via email to our Vice President of Business Development, , at . We will hold regularly scheduled conference calls either monthly or quarterly depending on customer preference as well as an annual gathering where you can meet the Elsinore staff face to face.


Request for Best Practices

Is your organization using Visual Intercept in innovative ways? Tell us about it, and your company could win a Visual Intercept Project connector license.

Elsinore Technologies wants to know the innovative ways our customers are using Visual Intercept to implement best practices, solve problems and produce better products. Whether it's a creative way to use Intercept's robust out of the box functionality or a custom tool or integration built using the Visual Intercept SDK or VBA, submit your ideas along with a description of your solution and your contact information to , Visual Intercept Product Manager. Once we receive your entry we will review it and contact you with follow-up questions. If we select your entry to be featured in a subsequent Elsinore Technologies Newsletter, your organization will receive a free connector license for Visual Intercept Project.

Service Release Policy Update

In the past Elsinore Technologies has distributed both product service releases and product patches in a single distribution set and made them available to all Visual Intercept customers. Beginning January 1, 2002 Visual Intercept service releases will be available only to Visual Intercept customers with active support and maintenance agreements.

To give customers a chance to review and update their support and maintenance agreement, Elsinore Technologies will make service releases available to all customers through December 31, 2001. If you have questions about the status of your Visual Intercept service and maintenance agreement, please send your inquiries to: .

Tech Tip: Getting the most out of the Query Builder

If you have used Visual Intercept for any period of time you know the Query Builder provides a simple way to build and save queries for practically any kind of Visual Intercept data. What is sometimes overlooked is the ability to build more sophisticated queries in the Query Builder. When combined with other features such as the $PROMPT macro, the flexibility and power of the Query builder can really save you time and effort when querying for incident data.

This month's Tech Tip includes a collection of queries that are particularly useful for everyday tasks as well as for those times when you want to find incidents based on their relationship to other incidents, source files, contacts or projects.

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For more information about Elsinore and Visual Intercept products please call 866-866-0034 or send email to . You may also visit our website at http://elsitech.com.© 2001 Elsinore Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.

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