User:Cfurgis/Office Accelerator

Office Accelerator is a contact manager first released in October of 1991 for Windows 3.0. It was one of the first contact managers to directly integrate macros to Microsoft Word and WordPerfect and was one of the first address books to run under Microsoft Windows. The product was developed by Baseline Data Systems, Inc. of Torrance, California. Office Accelerator was sold primarily in the retail channel in the early to mid-nineties in stores such as Egghead software, CompuUSA, Best Buy and Microcenter. A scaled down version of Office Accelerator was licensed to The Learning Company in the Mid 1990's. It became the Windows Version of the best selling software product Address Book Plus. In the late 1990's, Office Accelerator was licensed to Day Runner, Inc. The product became numberous software products including the Day Runner Address Book, Day Runner Calendar and the Day Runner Notes product. It also became the Dsy Ruynner Looney Tunes Calendar and Address Book. Baseline Data Systems released a web based version of Office Accelerator in 2003 in response to one Baseline Data Systems' customer requests for web based functionality. The customer was the American Academy of HIV Medicine and they used the web based Offic Accelerator to track all the physicans treating HIV worldwide. The Web based verion gave them the capabilty to share the contact information accross multiple U.S. cities. Office Accelerator announced a wireless blackberry sync capability in the spring of 2009.