May 2002

What our customers are saying...

"We use our Visual Intercept installation as a major selling tool when we have potential clients in for due diligence. In the financial services industry, there is a considerable amount of scrutiny placed on any service provider that will be handling end user data. Not only must the service provided be 100% solid, but the processes and procedures surrounding how the service is provided and maintained must also be bulletproof. Visual Intercept plays an integral role not just in tracking 'bugs' but also in managing our deployment cycles, work orders, change requests, and version control software."

Will Vaughn
Director, IT Operations
AnnuityNet

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Visual Intercept 3.0 Released

Elsinore Technologies is happy to announce the release of Visual Intercept Enterprise Suite 3.0 and Visual Intercept Web Relay 3.0.

We are particularly pleased that our goals for the feature set, the delivery date, and the quality of the new product were met and exceeded. This achievement was aided, in no small part, by our beta testers, who provided excellent feedback on the feature set and reported defects not detected in our QA environments. We would particularly like to thank the beta testers at Relativity Technologies, Patton Electronics, and Halliburton. These organizations used our Visual Intercept Web site to register many incidents that were of great value to the development team.

If you would like to learn more about Visual Intercept 3.0, please contact .


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Web-Based Training

In addition to on-site consulting and training, Elsinore Technologies now offers consulting and training via WebEx sessions. These on-line sessions are ideal for organizations that don't require the scope of an on-site visit.

Consulting sessions will be conducted one-on-one with each organization based on a customer-driven agenda. Training can take the form of either tailored one-on-one sessions or part of a general training session with groups of approximately five participants. The initial set of topics will include: Visual Intercept Notifications, Status Promotion and Workflow Rules, Working in the Visual Intercept Manager, and Visual Intercept Web.

If you are interested in scheduling on-line training or consulting for your organization, please contact .


Managed Services

Could You Use A Part-Time Administrator?

It has come to our attention recently that a number of our customers are running our system on auto-pilot. That is, that over the years of using our system, their regular system administrator has moved on and not been replaced. Although the system runs fine in that mode, chances are it could use a little care and feeding without justifying a full time resource. As a result of recent demand, Elsinore is now in a position to assist in these duties on an as-needed basis. Our rate for this service is $150/hour for work that can be done directly through our GUI, such as notification and status promotion rules, and $200/hour for work outside of our GUI, such as VBA and ASP customizations. Alternatively, work can be pre-purchased at discounted rates of $100/hour and $150/hour to be used at your discretion.

If you are interested in taking advantage of this service, please contact your sales representative or directly at


Perforce Integration

Elsinore is pleased to announce the integration of Perforce Software's Perforce Software Configuration Management System (SCM) with our Visual Intercept defect tracking software. By allowing developers to work on source code within the context of the incidents they are trying to fix, the Perforce SCM/Elsinore Visual Intercept integration helps streamline the software development process.

"This integration provides our customers with a valuable productivity and quality assurance tool," says Mark Uland, Elsinore's chief technology officer. "The ability to attach source code relationships from multiple projects to the same incident, and to maintain error and resolution information throughout the project, enables more rapid development times and yields a more reliable product."

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Partner Activity

Elsinore becomes Crystal Decisions Crystal AAP Partner

To provide robust, web-based reporting with Visual Intercept Web 3.0, Elsinore has become an authorized re-seller of Crystal Decisions' Crystal Reports. The world standard for web-based reporting, Crystal Reports allows you to quickly and easily publish Visual Intercept Enterprise 3.0 reports to the web, giving your internal and external team members instant access to the reports and enabling faster decision making.

As an authorized re-seller, Elsinore can sell separate Crystal Reports licenses to users who purchase Visual Intercept. If you already own Crystal Reports Professional 8.5, we can upgrade you to Crystal Reports Developer 8.5 in conjunction with your Visual Intercept Web 3.0 purchase.

For further information about obtaining a Crystal Reports license to help maximize your investment in Visual Intercept Web 3.0, contact: .

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Tech Tip: Using Visual Intercept Web Relay for Customer Feedback

If you need to allow your users and customers to register incidents but do not want to set up individual logins, you should establish a Visual Intercept Web Relay site using the Quiet Logon option. Quiet Logon automatically logs all users on to the site under one Visual Intercept User ID but captures each individual's contact information and relates it to each incident that person registers.

This months's TechTip outlines some settings you can configure to make the Quiet Logon option most effective.

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