To bridge the gap, the American Institute for Financial Research, Inc. has come out with the Smart Business System, a suite of programs for entrepreneurs that stays current by downloading data updates from the World Wide Web. Smart Survey, for example, regularly downloads new stats from the U.S. Census Bureau. Steven Majstorovic, CEO of Cyber World, which designs Web sites for many companies in southern California, has used Smart Survey to research his target market.
Special features come with a built-in text editor and spreadsheet.
The screen presentation and navigation is fairly intuitive, with a series of pull-down menus for easy selection of relevant statistics.