Delrina Technology Inc, subsidiary of Ontario, Canada-based business software company Delrina Corp, has just opened its first European sales office in Bewdley, Worcestershire to market its PerForm graphics forms software range which has been selling in the UK for two years. The PerForm software – developed in conjunction with IBM Canada Ltd which owns 11% of the company automates the designing, modifying, storing and filling in of forms, and manages forms-related data and databases on IBM personal computers and compatibles. Delrina has so far shipped 100,000 copies of PerForm and reckons it has 65% of the market. Says president Mark Skapinker, the main application for the latest software product, the high-end PerForm Pro, which was released in August and runs under Microsoft Windows 3.0, is within a large company. Holiday request forms, for example, are designed and filled in on the computer – the filler can use the interactive package to calculate how many days she has left, and can ask for help with filling in the form using the function keys to access a list of alternatives such as reasons for holiday request – men never bother to fill in bureaucratic forms – they pretend they’re too busy. Once the form has been filled in, the employee can sign it electronically, locking in the information so it can’t be altered. Delrina offers a filler version of its product which is cheaper than the original PerForm, and comprises just the fill-in part of the software. If a company wants to have forms such as invoices sent externally, it just sends the filler software. Delrina’s customers include 3M Corp and General Electric, and the Canadian, US and Australian governments. The PerForm Pro Designer and Filler costs UKP400, and the Pro Filler is priced at UKP160 and has Windows, GEM and MS-DOS Text editions. The Pro’s predecessor, the PerForm 2.1 Designer and Filler – which runs under GEM – costs UKP240, with its filler priced at UKP100. And the 2.1 Filler LAN pack costs UKP480. Slough, Berkshire-based Microsoft Windows specialist Neow Ltd is to be the master distibutor for PerForm Pro.
