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Company Overview
Founded in 1981, Individual Software is a leading publisher and developer of award-winning education, business, and personal productivity software for consumers, schools, corporations, and government agencies. Individual Software has empowered millions of home and office computer users to excel in their daily lives, and has provided essential computer training and career development solutions to thousands of Fortune 500 corporations, colleges and universities, and workforce development centers. Individual Software Inc. is a privately held company headquartered in Pleasanton, California.
Individual Software is dedicated to innovative, modern solutions for helping people and businesses achieve brighter futures. As one of the top twenty-five personal productivity and business software companies in the United States, the company's commitment to innovation, excellence, and value is demonstrated in over 100 software products and services. Our affordable, high-quality software titles provide education and training, develop computer skills, facilitate career development, and help people and businesses realize their dreams. Individual Software has won numerous awards over the past 20 years for its desktop software and Web-based solutions from industry associations, publications, resellers, and distributors.
Consumer Software Products
Education & Training
Professor® Teaches is the #1 brand of interactive computer training for the leading software applications. The Professor Teaches series offers a complete training solution, from beginner to advanced topics, with hundreds of practical exercises designed to build essential skills quickly and effectively. Unlike a videotape or classroom, users receive immediate and practical experience, which rapidly increases productivity.
Career Development
ResumeMaker® Professional and Professional Resumes Quick & Easy include powerful features that help job seekers write better resumes, land better jobs, and earn higher salaries. Whether candidates are actively searching for work, ready to advance their career, or updating their resume, job seekers trust ResumeMaker more than any other brand.
Personal Organizer
AnyTime™ Organizer and Organize Quick and Easy are the easiest-to-use personal organizers available that include all the powerful tools business professionals and home office users need to keep track of their schedule, to-do list, contacts, expenses, and notes. Whether in the office, at home, or on the road, these organizers include everything a professional needs to stay organized.
Home & Garden Design
Total 3D™ Home and Landscape and Home Design Quick & Easy provide all the tools that home owners need to quickly visualize home improvement and landscape projects. Whether they are remodeling a house, decorating a room, or designing a dream home and landscape, everything is included. Users can view photo-realistic images of improvements to a home's interior and exterior bringing their imagination to life.
Genealogy
Every family has unique stories and precious memories. With Heritage Family Tree™ and Family Trees Quick & Easy, family researchers can discover these rich and exciting family stories and preserve their heritage for future generations. These innovative programs include everything a genealogist needs to discover, organize, and share their family's history.
Typing Improvement
Typing Instructor™ Deluxe and Typing Quick & Easy help students, business professionals, and home users improve their keyboarding skills and become more productive at home and in the office. For beginners to experienced typists, Typing Instructor improves skills while making learning fast, easy, and fun.
Digital Media
With Screen Creator Deluxe, users produce original screen savers in a few simple steps using their graphic and sound files, even their Flash™ animations. Hanes® T-ShirtMaker® Plus Deluxe offers the latest in photo editing tools, clip art, and pre-made designs to help create birthday gifts, sports team jerseys, business promotional gifts, or personalized t-shirts.
Business Planning
For entrepreneurs and business owners who are starting a new business or expanding an existing organization, Business PlanMaker™ Professional helps create professional business plans that ensure financial success. Business PlanMaker is the most powerful, professional, and easiest-to-use business plan program available. Just answer simple questions, enter your financial projections, connect your financial data with Intuit® QuickBooks® and see instant, professional results.
Corporate, Educational, and Government Products and Services
Learning & Training Solutions
Volume purchases and network/site licenses for Professor® Teaches courses and Typing Instructor Deluxe provide corporations, educational institutions, and government agencies access to the most affordable, desktop application training and skill development programs available. Individual Training™ offers affordable training solutions for leading corporate, government and educational institutions. Comprehensive, interactive courses help organizations provide employees access to learn what they need, right when they need it. Individual Training connects with leading learning-management systems to help administrators track, monitor, and report on student performance and course activity. Skill Assessment helps managers assess a student's proficiency. e-LearningToday delivers a Web-based training solution so trainers can provide on-demand, remote access to the leading training programs from Individual Software via the Internet. These online courses are flexible, comprehensive, and highly-interactive. These Web-based solutions are accessible to clients anywhere, at any time.
Career Development Solutions
Volume purchases and network/site licenses for ResumeMaker® Professional provide outplacement organizations, college career centers, libraries, downsizing corporations, staffing agencies, and workforce development agencies with the world's leading career tools that help job seekers write better resumes, prepare for interviews, negotiate salaries, and land better jobs.
ResumeMaker® Workforce Solutions is the leading provider of Web-based resume-writing and career development solutions. Integrating ResumeMaker into an organization's existing Web services enables corporate HR departments, staffing and recruiting companies, outplacement corporations, government agencies, and colleges and universities provide the necessary tools to help job seekers advance their careers.
Small Business Solutions
Volume purchases and network/site licenses for AnyTime™ Organizer and Business PlanMaker Professional help small to mid-sized companies organize their schedules, contact information, and prepare the necessary financial documents to maximize their business success.
Company History
Since 1981, Individual Software has been a leading provider of award-winning educational, business, and personal productivity software. Jo-L Hendrickson, founder, Chairman, and CEO of Individual Software, recognized that people were eager to learn and take advantage of the power the personal computer had to offer. Realizing the need for basic information and computer training, Hendrickson led the development of Individual Software's first product; PC Instructor is widely recognized as the first, commercially successful PC-based training software. Subsequent products, such as the Professor Teaches series and Typing Instructor helped the company grow for the next decade.
In 1989, Individual Software expanded into personal and business productivity software with ResumeMaker, the flagship of its personal productivity product line. Individual Software's products have accounted for more than 50% of all retail sales of career development software during the past four years, and the New York Times has called ResumeMaker a "blockbuster." In 1992, Individual Software introduced AnyTime Organizer, the #1 best-selling personal organizer, and the popular genealogy product Heritage Family Tree.
Through the decade of the 1990's, Individual Software developed a suite of innovative tools to enhance each line of best-selling software and invented several technologies that are patented or patent pending. The Company continues its success with consumer products garnering market shares within their respective categories in the consumer retail channel. The dominance of the Professor Teaches series, continued success of ResumeMaker, and addition of Total 3D Home and Landscape suite of products were also major accomplishments.
More recently, the company developed a business training division to provide training solutions for corporate needs. With the proliferation of the Internet, Individual Software transitioned its career development and training solutions into Web-based services, allowing users to access these products and services directly through the Internet. Corporations can also provide training to employees via their intranet or network.
Individual Software's top customers include retail partners such as CompUSA, Best Buy, Office Depot, Staples, Fry's Electronics, Wal-Mart, and Target. Individual Software's top corporate clients include United Airlines, Right Management, Spherion, Bayer Corporation, Advantage Human Resources, Intel, and Blue Cross. Educational institutions including KAPLAN, Corinthian Colleges, University of Washington, Georgia Tech, University of Colorado, and Alabama State University have found successful solutions with Individual Software, as well as government agencies such as Iowa Workforce Development, New York Department of Labor, Department of Homeland Security, and Houston Works.
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