Phoenix Software announces distribution agreement with Summitsoft to see new range of SME products in SA

Phoenix Software has partnered with Summitsoft Corporation to bring a new range of SME products to South Africa. Summitsoft is a leading publisher of innovative products, ranging from Logo Design Studio and Name and Brand Generator products to Email Campaign and Press Release, all positioned to help small businesses and entrepreneurs grow and market their business, product or service.

Email Campaign provides powerful tools to manage your contact list; design simple or complex marketing messages; verify active and dead e-mail addresses; adjust flexible send options according to what your service provider will allow; and handle bounces and unsubscribe replies... all for a fraction of the cost online subscription services would charge.

Whether you are a small business operating out of your home, or a larger company with roots in "brick and mortar" retail locations, staying in touch with your clients and customers will keep your business foundation strong and boost future sales. Email Campaign gives you the power to stay connected, manage your e-mail mail list, and continue to market yourself to others without costly monthly or annual subscription fees to online services.

Simply change any of the 300+ e-mail templates, import your mail list (or quickly extract from your Outlook contacts and e-mails), enter your e-mail settings and begin sending your campaign. You can even adjust how quickly your campaign gets sent to the people on your list, and schedule delivery at a later time in order to comply with guidelines your Internet Service Provider may have for sending a large number of e-mails at once.

The unique features of Email Campaign include:

* Complete e-mail marketing software with no subscription fees for sending e-mails
* Quick wizard walks you through your e-mail campaign set-up
* 325+ pre-designed e-mail templates to quickly make your own
* 375+ pre-designed, royalty free e-mail graphics
* WYSIWYG editor allows you to create a message without having to learn HTML
* E-mail tags to personalise your message to individuals
* Extract, clean and verify e-mail addresses
* Easily manage bounced e-mails
* SafeScan finds potential spam or security flags in your message
* Schedule the date and time your campaign will be sent
* Send messages in HTML or plain text format
* Adjust the delivery speed of your campaign to quickly send to large mail lists

Logo Design Studio offers the greatest range of designer tools to help entrepreneurs quickly and easily create an identity from their own library of uniquely branded logos and graphic images.

By modifying or importing images, shapes, graphic objects and text, each professionally designed logo included in the software is able to produce thousands of unique results all in a matter of minutes! As an identity evolves or completely changes at any time, the package allows you to simply recreate a new company logo design at no additional cost.

The features of Logo Design Studio include:

* Over 2 500 logo design objects
* Professionally designed high quality artwork
* Over 500 industry-based logo templates
* Slogan and tagline resource library
* Special effects such as shadows, blurs, embossing and frames

Quickly generate new names for any product, service, Web site or other creative project.

Name and Brand Generator can do unlimited brainstorming for users in a fraction of the time and cost that an advertising or design firm would charge. Simply search through the included database of over 100 000 categorised names and words, or enter anything that you want to be a part of a new name, and click the Generate button.

Name and Brand Generator reduces the naming process to two fundamental steps:

1) Generate new names. With over seven different naming tools, users have a list of new ideas at their fingertips and can cut out any names that don't make sense before saving results in the name vault.

2) Find out if your names are available. Use the name checker to quickly find out if your name is already taken or register your name for use as a Web site.

The unique features of Name and Brand Generator include:

* Generate new names for anything
* 100 000+ names and words included
* Seven creative naming tools generate an unlimited number of new names
* Check to see if your new name is available as a Web site domain
* Blacklist scan alerts you to bad words in different languages
* Thesaurus included

BusinessCard Generator will help you easily create your preferred look without any subscription fees. Simply provide the essentials, such as your name, contact information, and logo.

You can "influence" the generator to include your preferred colours, fonts, and desired layout - either vertical or horizontal. Click the Generate button and watch the generator create stunning cards right before your eyes. Once you've decided on a design, you can modify any part to your preference to make the perfect card.

You can move your logo, change fonts or colour, or add special effects, such as shadows, blurs and more. Easily print your own cards using Avery card products or send them to a professional printer in a format they can use to get your look right.

BusinessCard Generator is designed to work seamlessly with LogoDesign Studio.

The unique features of BusinessCard Generator include:

* Complete business card software with no subscription fees for clipart and fonts
* Easy-to-use wizard walks you through your business card design
* 2 000+ royalty free logo objects and backgrounds
* 100+ TrueType fonts
* Shape editor to help you highlight text or objects
* Advanced colour control to match your logo or style
* Special effects to give a unique look
* Vertical or horizontal layouts
* Easily import your own artwork, logo, or pictures
* Works with Avery card products
* Limitless designs

PowerSlides Pro gives you over 4 000 backgrounds, templates and Flash banners to add to your PowerPoint presentations. It will make a huge difference in presentations and is very easy to use.

* Over 500 designer backgrounds
* Over 150 PowerSlides templates help lay out message on each slide
* 1 900+ Flash Banners
* Preview browser lets you quickly view and pick templates and backgrounds
* Includes backgrounds in wide-screen format

SystemTech Vista includes 14 powerful tools to improve PC performance, speed up your programmes and Internet connection, diagnose computer problems and tweak your Windows Vista machine for optimal results.

* Accelerates Internet connection with a few clicks
* Easy one-click maintenance quickly fins minor and major system hazards, and offers solutions to fix them so you can get back to work
* Registry cleaner
* Enhanced defragmentation