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Alacra Launches PulsePro Financial Intelligence Application

Alacra, Inc. (www.alacra.com) announced the launch of PulsePro (http://pulse.alacra.com), a subscription web application that advances existing intelligence-gathering techniques. From the deluge of web-based news alerts, headlines, and press releases, Alacra PulsePro accurately extracts only pertinent business events, including analyst comments, CEO remarks, M&A rumors, and debt restructurings.

Designed as a current awareness and idea generation tool for wealth and asset managers, investment bankers, and professional services executives, Alacra PulsePro improves upon incumbent intelligence-gathering solutions with a proprietary, four-step insight distillation process: source curation, event detection, semantic analysis, and human editorial oversight. Alacra has launched PulsePro with a monthlong "open access" period, allowing professionals full premium access, free of charge through April 15, 2010.

Originally released as Street Pulse, a free web application spotlighting company-specific comments by sell-side, ratings agency, and industry analysts as well as influential bloggers, the enhanced, subscription-based PulsePro offers added functionality, including the following:

• Additional event-specific filters
• User-interface enhancements to facilitate searches and enable viewing of all events (Street, Chief, Deal, and Weak Pulse) in a single screen
• Enhanced personalization features to enable users to set up profiles and watch lists tracking critical events impacting specific companies, industries, or geographies
• Email alerts to allow users to choose what news is pushed to them on events such as new M&A rumors and ideas, analyst price target changes, etc.
• Feeds and XML-based APIs to support easy integration within portals, CRM systems, or other applications, including algorithmic trading models

Source: Alacra, Inc.