By Dale Farris, Reviews Coordinator
Golden Triangle PC Club
May 2006

Program Overview

Home Data Bank helps organize personal records and documents using a scanner and electronic images, and keeps everything in a local database. A primary feature is a Home Inventory database where you keep all kinds of information on your personal property.

You can prepare yourself and your loved ones for the aftermath of thefts, fires, floods, or any natural disaster with the new Home Data Bank software from Russell Software Solutions. In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, financial management and cataloguing of personal property are proving to be the biggest hurdles for individual rebuilding. Banks and insurance companies can't help victims of personal property loss without proof of assets and ownership, and documents of proof can be destroyed in a disaster. The Home Data Bank software can keep all those critical documents in one safe place so you can have your peace of mind, and after a crisis you can focus on rebuilding instead of reorganizing.

Home Data Bank is designed to help you keep track of your valuable possessions as easily and painless as possible. It is database organization for your family's finances and personal property.

If you ever had the misfortune to lose a valuable possession you know what it's like trying to recover it, either proving your ownership with the authorities or working with an insurance company.

Home Data Bank Makes The Task Easy and Simple!

Home Data Bank is a unique solutions application designed for home use to help you manage your home inventory and safe storage of important documents. As a desktop application it offers the ability to convert paper documents into electronically captured and stored documents using any Windows XP compliant scanner. This software also features storage options for other electronic media, such as images, word processor files, spreadsheets, correspondence and so on.

Documents are automatically cataloged, indexed, and stored on a local database, and transparent to your work. All documents are easily retrieved to be searched, viewed, printed, faxed, or emailed. You can also attach notes to stored images and search the notes to aid in fast retrieval.

In addition, you can backup your data to a CD for long term storage, an essential step if you face a possible threat to you dwelling and contents. When you have an electronic copy of your vital documents stored on CD, then the disc can be easily carried with you if you have to evacuate away from a pending disaster. When you return and can again get access to a functional PC, then you can retrieve these files from the CD for use in the insurance claims processes.

Extra utilities built into the application include a quick scan feature that allows you to capture a scanned image and easily print, fax, or email it. Also included is a multi-purpose viewer to aid your searching of documents within your computer. The multiple image mode quickly gathers and displays images within a folder to aid your search needs, and the single image mode allows you to convert images to other formats as well as print or email them.

Home Data Bank is designed to help you keep track of your valuable possessions as easily and painless as possible. There's an online User Guide included for whenever it may be needed.

Key Features

Quick Scan - Allows you to quickly scan a document and immediately view it, at which point you may save it to your hard disk, print or email it.

Archive Scan - Allows you to scan a document into a local database, where it is cataloged for easy search and retrieval, including a searchable note field.

Home Inventory - Allows you to keep an inventory of the items in your home along with any important information including searchable notes & pictures.

Image Viewer - The Viewer is a very versatile image viewer that has two basic modes: Multiple Image Mode and Single Image Mode.

Data Archive - Assembles all your data and image files and writes them to a CD for convenient "long term" storage. Keep your CD in a safe place!

System Requirements

Intel / AMD CPU
Windows XP Home or Pro
10MB Free Hard Disk Space for Installation
1GB Hard Disk Space for Data Storage
Windows XP-Compliant Scanner
Windows XP-Compliant Printer
CD-R / RW Drive
Internet Connection for Registration and Activation

Targeted Customers

Home Data Bank is a super program designed for everyone located in areas with any potential threat to their dwelling and contents from any possible natural or man-made disaster. In addition, the program offers superb document security features that are essential to anyone who needs to make electronic copies of their important paper documents. Once destroyed, original paper documents usually are very hard to have reproduced, causing additional delay to an already stressful situation. With Home Data Bank, you can now organize your documents in an easily manageable electronic process that in conjunction with a scanner will enable you to output these paper documents into electronic form and thus provide for you an extremely valuable supplemental copy.

With the program's focus on organizing electronic backup of key documents, of course this means you will obviously need access to a PC in order to retrieve the files after you have copied the data to a CD disc. In the case of natural disasters, this may mean that you will want to consider running this program on a laptop that can be carried with you in case you have to leave your home ahead of a possible natural disaster. If you choose to just take your CD disc with you, obviously you will need access to a functioning PC in order to retrieve the files from the disc for use with insurance claims. So, I would recommend users who are seriously considering this important backup program to also seriously consider having a copy of the program on a primary desktop, as well as a supplemental laptop machine.

This program provides basic file backup functionality, something not unheard of in today's world of savvy computer users. However, what Home Data Bank does provide that most other backup applications do not is its very user-friendly interface and its attention to making the document scanning, retrieving, and storage process more streamlined and directly tailored to why customers need the program. Instead of thinking of this program like an application that is built for full system backups, instead Home Data Bank is focused on helping customers use their computer and scanner to convert their important paper documents into electronic copies that can be stored on CD for use in the damage or loss claims process. The program will be extremely useful to anyone concerned enough about their paper documents to make backup copies.

Some readers may be thinking that their safe deposit box offers them the protection of their vital documents. This may be true, but sometimes in certain disasters some financial institutions with safe deposit box services are also significantly damaged, or even destroyed, which means all the documents in those boxes are also destroyed. In addition, in some disasters, getting back into the area impacted by the disaster takes a long time, and the safe deposit box may not be accessible for an even longer time.

So, it is very important that readers consider these possible realities and work in advance to be sure that they have with them at least an electronic copy of their important documents. Home Data Bank will make this process simple and stress-free.

Price

$39.95

License Includes:

Unlimited email access to technical support for the first year
Free upgrades for the first year

About Russell Software Solutions

Russell Software Solutions makes software organization tools for people who need to organize and protect their personal possessions and assets as easily as possible. The company's flagship product, Home Data Bank, digitizes, files, sorts, documents, and archives all content onto disc providing a critical disaster recovery solution for people in hurricane, typhoon, cyclone, flood, and other natural disaster-prone areas (in other words almost everyone).

With a product strategy built on decades of experience in enterprise application development, the Russell Software Solutions team takes an innovative approach to solving application development challenges. Russell Software Solutions products simplify staying organized.

Contact Information

Russell Software Solutions
7180 Bergamo Way, Suite 201
Fort Myers, Florida 33912
800-290-5601
FAX 866-746-9431

sales@russellsoftwaresolutions.com
support@russellsoftwaresolutions.com
www.russellsoftwaresolutions.com

You can also order from other retailers or online vendors.