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Discovery Database Adds vWise SmartPlan Advisor to Its Sales and Marketing Service OfferingsALISO VIEJO, Calif., March 25, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- vWise Inc. today announced the formation of a partnership with Discovery - The Financial Information Group Inc., to offer vWise SmartPlan Advisor to Discovery's sales and marketing services for enterprise and advisor clients. "Discovery offers an excellent selection of sales and marketing products and services to enterprise and advisor clients. Our solutions are the perfect complement," remarked vWise President Tony Mingo. "Web-based, interactive solutions - especially those featuring video - are significantly more effective (and efficient) at driving participant behavior, and Discovery is excited to be able to offer our clients the cutting-edge vWise solutions," noted Nick Stuller, president and CEO of Discovery. About SmartPlan Advisor Designed to help average investors better understand their retirement plans, SmartPlan Advisor provides the benefits of a personal financial professional, in a website available 24/7/365. By combining a video-based presentation of detailed financial information with an interactive application that prompts users to make informed investment decisions, SmartPlan Advisor can help increase plan enrollment, raise participant contribution levels, and reduce support costs. The SmartPlan Advisor participant environment features a familiar interface that makes it easy to navigate, even for novice users, and allows a participant to go at his or her own pace. Our video hosts offer a brief video overview of 401(k) basics, followed by a discussion of selected features - such as auto-enrollment, matching contributions, loans, etc. - that you can customize. Then, using simple interactive forms, our video hosts then guide participants through a short process, including individual retirement needs and risk profile surveys, and selection of investment types and contribution amounts, that generates a personalized investor profile. The SmartPlan Advisor system also includes an administration portal that provides a comprehensive suite of tools in a simple menu-driven format that anyone can use, even web novices. Setting up your SmartPlan account takes just a few minutes. And with pre-designed email templates and custom-tailored analytics reports, managing your plans is as easy as pressing a few buttons. For larger providers or TPAs, vWise offers SmartPlan Enterprise which, in addition to delivering all the benefits of SmartPlan Advisor, is integrated with a participant database, to deliver a custom experience and allow upload of participant choices. About Discovery The Financial Information Group Inc. was founded in January of 2002 and is based in Shrewsbury, NJ. It provides sales and marketing staffs with the broadest and most comprehensive databases of registered investment advisers (Discovery-RIA), registered representatives (Discovery-RR), broker/dealer firms (Discovery-BD), trust companies (Discovery-Trust), insurance agents (Discovery-Insurance) and banks (Discovery-Bank). Discovery also provides marketing and sales solutions with Discovery-MAX, Discovery-Advisor Growth Services and AccessDiscovery. Discovery's newest developments are Discovery-Mobile, which allows users to access database information via a handheld device and FinancialAdvisorMatch(TM) (FAM) - a free online directory for investors with over 1.7 million advisors listed. To date, over 440 major fund companies, brokerage firms and service providers and advisers have licensed Discovery databases and/or services. About vWise vWise is a leading developer of rich-media Internet applications based upon its E3 (that's E-Cubed) architecture. Its SmartPlan Advisor and SmartPlan Enterprise solutions, which serve the defined contribution markets, and its SmartHealth solution, which serves the employee benefits market, use a proprietary mix of video and interactive technologies to help people better understand complex information and make personalized choices. For more information, contact: Gregory Newman Chief Operating Officer (949) 233-7588 [email protected] http://www.vwise.com This release was issued through eReleases(TM). For more information, visit http://www.ereleases.com. SOURCE vWise Inc. http://www.vwise.com |