1. United Systems Advisory Council - January 16-17, 1997 VitalSigns “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”

2. Overview 1996 Milestones New Features for 1997 Into the Future...

3. VitalSigns 1996 Milestones VitalSigns for Windows Internet Updates New Snapshot Report Company Selector

4. VitalSigns for Windows Released in May, 1996 Now 70% Windows, 30% DOS Future of DOS?

5. Internet Updates Updates of all Ratings –AM Best, Standard & Poors, Moody’s, Duff & Phelps, Weiss, and Comdex –Available 1st of each month Notice of rating changes posted in newsgroup –unitedsystems.vitalsigns.ratings Late changes on demand

6. Snapshot Report Similar to Profile report –same information Combines graphs & text on a single report Non-comparative

7. Company Selector Enables user to create carrier list based on your own criteria How does it work –Demonstration Company Selector vs. Custom Sort –Power: Company Selector provides complete user defined report design –Simplicity: Custom Sort filters companies based on single criterion

8. New Features for 1997 VitalSigns Auto-Update VitalSigns Direct

9. Auto-Update (via Internet) Currently - User applied updates –Quarterly Update Disks apply manually –Monthly Internet Updates connect to Web download update file run update file

10. Auto-Update February ‘97 - Auto-Updates –automatically updates system

11. Auto-Update February ‘97 - Auto-Updates –automatically updates system –senses when update is necessary

12. VitalSigns Direct Add VitalSigns carrier information to all your applications –View VS info with your application –Print VS reports with your reports Free!!!! Demo

13. Into the Future… 32-bit VitalSigns –Win ‘95 / NT enhanced –Faster –Richer Internet capabilities Report layout & design Print multiple VS reports in one presentation

14. VitalSigns Let us know what you want… –Via the newsgroup news:\\www.usinfo.com\unitedsystems.vitalsigns –Via Email vitalsigns@usinfo.com Thank You!