Phoenix Software, one of the foremost software republishers, and Ability Software, leading provider of software designed to meet the needs of home users, small businesses, students and corporate users, have formalised an agreement whereby Phoenix Software will launch Ability Office in RSA.
"We are very pleased to have formalised this agreement to distribute Ability Office in RSA," stated Simon Campbell-Young, CEO of Phoenix Software.
"Ability Office is an all-round, complete suite of tools for both the home user and business user. This multi-award-winning software is a true alternative to Microsoft Office and has already won outstanding reviews in the UK press for its ease of use and features.
"The software features seven applications - a word processor, a spreadsheet, a database, a photo-editor, a drawing module, a photo album and a presentation tool. We are confident this software will be a real success in RSA. We will be looking to launch a multi South African language version in the near future, featuring, among others, Afrikaans, Zulu and Xhosa," he continued.
Ability Office is designed from the ground up to facilitate cross-application linking through special fields. It is straightforward and easy to use for beginners, displays an industry-standard interface, and has a high degree of file compatibility with Microsoft Office. A PDF Creator enables users to create e-mail-friendly PDF files in any of its seven applications.
Ability Office 4 Professional main features
Ability Write: a word processor that is compatible with Microsoft Word, and contains advanced layout features such as tables, columns and frames and an interactive mail merge facility that links to database files, including Microsoft Access mdb files.
Ability Spreadsheet: numerical analysis software that is compatible with Microsoft Excel, and uses multi-sheet workbooks, templates and styles, 200+ functions, and database linking through special merge fields.
Ability Database: a data management system that is compatible with Microsoft Access data tables, and provides column views, sorting, and filter selection, single-click automatic form and report creation, advanced component-based querying of data, and full SQL editing.
Ability Photopaint: a photo and image-editing package that is similar to Adobe Photoshop, provides multiple layers and a wide range of editable brushes and gradients, supports 25 image formats, and offers over 90 filters and artistic effects.
Ability Presentation: a slide show creation and management tool, compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint PPT.
Ability Photo album: lets you easily create and manage albums of your digital pictures.
Ability Draw: page layout software that utilises vector objects and enables you to design logos and insert pictures.
Availability: Ability Office 4 Professional is available from Incredible Connections stores at R699.99.
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Phoenix Software is a software republishing business. Founded in September 1999, PS supplies a wide range of software products to distribution and retail partners. The company focuses on niche software that is aimed at vertical markets and has an ongoing mission to bring leading-edge products to the marketplace in a timely and professional manner, while offering excellent price/performance ratios. The company's product range includes titles from leading vendors such as Nero, Roxio, Punch Software, Paragon, Ulead, Corel, Parallels, CyberLink, Intervideo, Sony, Ability, Software Imaging, Ink Saver, Webroot, TonerSaver, Individual, BulkSMS, ThinkFree, X-00M, Zgroup, Onspeed, Onspeed Mobile and G Data Internet Security and Anti Virus. For additional information, please visit www.phoenixsoftware.co.za.
Ability Software
Ability Software is a global company with a long history of focusing on meeting the software needs of home users, small businesses, students and corporate users and has been developing integrated office suites since 1992. Our main product is Ability Office Professional, an integrated suite of applications, which is the ideal solution to all of your word processing, numerical analysis, data management and photo-editing requirements. The main individual applications are Write, Spreadsheet, Database, Presentation and Photopaint, each of which is also available as a fully independent product.
The company has used years of customer research and feedback to help it create powerful products that are not overloaded with the unnecessary - and mostly unused - features that make rival products so expensive and resource-consuming. The quality and value of the Ability software is echoed in consistently excellent reviews by the media's leading software experts. Moreover, since Ability Software believes that its software should provide solutions, not problems, it offers fast, friendly and efficient customer support - completely free of charge! http://www.ability.com/
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