Product Notes is a forum for area companies to introduce their products and new technology to the region’s business professionals. Information for this section is compiled from press releases (both electronic and print) and from staff research. High Technology Monthly does not evaluate products listed in this section. Companies interested in listing products and technological developments should submit a brief description of the company, product, and target market. Submissions may be faxed to Product Notes at (401) 274-0670, or mailed to Product Notes Editor, Providence Business News, 300 Richmond St., Providence, R.I. 02093.
Company: PlugInGo.com Affiliate Network, Middletown
Phone: (401) 848-9662
Internet address: www.plugingo.com
New Internet venture: PlugInGo.com Affiliate Network – an affiliate program that rewards Web site owners for referring customers to a merchant’s business. The business was started by Portsmouth resident Thom Schlip. It’s a form of revenue sharing that occurs when a Web site owner agrees to sell, advertise or promote another’s products or services in exchange for a commission. Affiliate programs are reshaping the way business is done online.
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Acting as a third party administrator, PlugInGo.com offers merchants the opportunity to sell their goods and services through a network of thousands of affiliate Web sites. Merchants are able to extend their audience reach, increase Internet revenue and target their sales messages while only paying for results. Striving to provide merchants with the greatest number of financially productive affiliates, PlugInGo.com rewards merchants and affiliates with 7 percent of affiliate earnings for every qualified affiliate they refer to the PlugInGo.com Affiliate Network.
PlugInGo members also have the opportunity to participate in a monthly online auction, which is based on a points system. Among PlugInGo.com’s charter merchants are Best Wishes Co. and Yellow Cab Shoes of New Bedford, Mass.
Target market: Small to medium businesses that are online for e-commerce purposes, and do not have an affiliate program.
A SCENE from VirtualCup.
Company: Temple Games Inc., Providence
Phone: (401) 272-7325
Internet address: www.templegames.com
Product: Game-Integrated Advertising – a modern interactive sponsorship opportunity. The system combines Temple Games’ proprietary, real-time, 3D simulator and simulator game technology with innovative forms of logo and banner advertising on a company’s Web site.
“Our cutting edge 3D multi-player simulators and simulator games are challenging and fun to play,” said Temple Games President Jonathan Brown. “Marketed correctly by the Web sites that use them, they become in effect Internet taxis that drive users to a Web site and entice them with interactive sports coverage or product demonstrations.”
Game-Integrated Advertising allows sponsors to incorporate their company name, logo and products into the game’s environment. An example of this technology would be the company’s sailing simulator game VirtualCup, which has been licensed to the America’s Cup Syndicate Team Dennis Connor of San Diego. VirtualCup is Temple Games’ first interactive game product and its users are mostly expected to be sailors and America’s Cup enthusiasts. VirtualCup simulates a real-time America’s Cup match race with all of the yacht race’s rules, including environmental and weather changes. It also features multiple player capability that allows competitors to match race against anyone who logs on from the Internet. Dynamic 3D images exist alongside corporate images, such as campaign sponsor names on boat sails and banners pulled behind biplanes flying through the sky in the game.
For more information visit Temple Games’ Web site.
Target market: Sports promoters or marketing agents involved in sports promotion.
Company: Gartner Group Inc., Stamford, Conn.
Phone: (941) 561-4202
Internet address: www.gartner.com
Product: GartnerE – a new product line for business and information technology executives who are transforming their businesses through e-business initiatives. GartnerE delivers 33 research, advisory and market intelligence services across six areas that deliver key knowledge and strategies to IT and business executives. GartnerE is designed to help plan E-business transformation across the full spectrum of an enterprise’s business.
Some of the product offerings are:
GartnerE Management – this full-service research and advisory offering covers E-commerce, supply chain management, customer relationship management and outsourcing. This program enables enterprises to integrate their E-business functions and processes across organizational boundaries and collaborate with customers, suppliers and partners.
GartnerE Technology – provides research and advisory services for areas such as portals, Web operations, Java, interactive media, security, Internet service providers and ubiquitous computing. The service examines emerging Internet technologies, defines best practices for Internet operation, and reviews strategies for implementing Internet solutions.
WEB PAGE of online medical records and health information is a product of Opus Commuincation of Marblehead, Mass.
Company: OPUSCOMM Online and Medical Records Briefing, a publication of Opus Communications, of Marblehead, Mass.
Internet address: www.himinfo.com
Product: himinfo.com – a comprehensive online resource for medical records and health information management (HIM). The site went live on July 23 with the aim of providing the most complete, current and reliable information on HIM information in one Web site.
The site is regularly updated with breaking news from across the health care industry, as well as advice and tips from leading HIM experts. Visitors are able to quickly and easily navigate through hundreds of content-rich pages. Other features of the site include: a free, weekly e-mail newsletter, an online store where customers can receive a 10 percent discount, and a career center featuring job postings and career tips.
Company: Parametric Technology Corp. of Waltham, Mass., and Journey Publishing.
Phone: (781) 398-5000
Internet address: www.ptc.com
Product: Pro/ENGINEER 2000i Student Edition – this software brings Parametric Technology’s industry-leading mechanical design automation tool to students and the education marketplace. The student edition of Pro/ENGINEER provides best-in-class mechanical design automation tools to students at a highly affordable price. The package includes integrated capabilities for creating detailed solid and sheet metal components, building assemblies, designing weldments and producing fully documented production drawings and photo realistic renderings. It also includes Parametric Technology’s unique Behavioral Modeling technology, which will allow students to create designs that are driven by specific objectives and desired functional behavior.
“Our partnership with Journey Publishing will give students affordable access to the same Pro/ENGINEERING technology used by more than 26,000 manufacturers around the world,” said Wayne George, Parametric’s vice president of strategic marketing. “Students have the opportunity to master this industry-leading technology before graduation so that they will be better prepared to enter today’s competitive job market.”
Pro/ENGINEERING’s student edition also integrated with Parametric’s Education Program. This long-standing program allows engineering facilities in schools, colleges and universities to standardize on Pro/ENGINEERING and other Parametric software for their curricula. The new software package also includes Parametric’s On-line Help CD, tutorials from Pro/ENGINEER Tutorial by Roger Toogood, University of Alberta, and discount coupons for books written specifically for students on Pro/ENGINEER. The software is priced at $299, runs on a Pentium class PC and is expected to ship in mid-September. Orders may be placed in university bookstores or at the Journey Publishing Web site at www.journeyed.com.
Target market: The student edition is available to degree-seeking students, faculty and staff for educational use only. It may not be used for commercial, professional or for-profit purposes.
