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Politsoft™ —political software

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About PolitsoftPolitsoft is the first international IT-company at the Commonwealth of

Independent States (CIS) that offers professional software for election

campaigns, political parties and public organizations.

Politsoft was founded on the basis of Scorto Corporation (Las Vegas, Nevada,

USA) (www.scorto.com www.scorto.ru ). Scorto™ is an internationally

recognized credit scoring software provider. Scorto Corporations has partners

and distributors in more than 20 countries around the world and keeps

on developing. The main part of Politsoft solutions are based on Scorto’s

technologies. Scorto Corporation is the parent company of Politsoft.

The main part of Politsoft software was developed with the assistance of

Alyuda Research specialists (www.alyuda.com) (USA). Alyuda Research is the

one of the world’s leaders in the development of neural network software

and one of the internationally recognized leaders in financial software

development. Bank of America, Wegelin-bank, TransUnion, CreditSights,

Reuters Financial Software, Hewlett-Packard, Boston Consulting Group и

KPMG use Alyuda Research software for a long time.

Professional approach to political management is the base of Politsoft

activity. The company considers the experience of the same systems

development in the world and experience in election campaigns in the CIS

including Russia and Ukraine.

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Practical value of Politsoft softwarePolitsoft software is a decision-making tool that helps decrease political risks

through the simplifying and structuring of data flows.

Politsoft software products enable planning, forecasting and modeling

the political situation in various political campaigns.

Using Politsoft software results in increasing the effectiveness of campaigns

and political parties. Politsoft solutions help to find the rational costs-results

balance in the campaigns and political party management. One of the

important advantages of Politsoft software is that it has the capability of

on-line monitoring of political situations and political processes that can be

corrected at any spot on the globe at any time.

Flexible structure of Politsoft software enables automation of any political

activity as fully as single political processes according to customer

requirements.

Politsoft gives the consulting services in implementation, maintenance,

improvement and modernization of Politsoft software on preferential terms.

Politsoft software can be fine-tuned for any political situation. The database

structure can be changed according to customer requirements.

Politsoft software has a customizable interface. Any user can customize/

change the table sizes and input forms. User specific settings can be saved

for further daily use.

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Politsoft ElectionPolitsoft Election is the special software for automation of campaign activity

during the whole campaign season.

Politsoft Election is the universal and powerful instrument that allows

decrease of financial and human expenses during the campaign.

Politsoft election allows determining of campaign tactical design, structuring

of political activities and time periods of campaign. It helps to optimize costs

distribution by activities and tim. Politsoft Election can be used as:

centralized database; ■project management system; ■software of documents circulation and communication between ■the project teams;

software for taking stock of material and human resources; ■system for reporting and analysis of election campaign results; ■system of inquiries management. ■

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Functional capabilities of Politsoft Election

Politsoft Election allows automation of task solving, concerned with

campaign:

campaign project development; ;development of agitation materials; ;election campaign staff; ;preparation for deriving for signatures; ;deriving for signatures and candidates registration; ;final campaign staff selection; ;management of development and publishing of campaign materials; ;automation of staff work; ;planning and forecasting of campaign; ;on-line monitoring of political situation in the region; ;assessment and comparison of effectiveness of activities; ;campaign scenarios development; ;showing up of campaign problems and mistakes; ;making changes in the campaign; ;discovering of public opinion; ;reporting and analysis; ;material, technical and human recourses management; ;information analysis and systematization; ;mass media monitoring and analysis; ;preliminary reception of information about presumptive crisis situations. ;

Politsoft software is created by the ‘meccano’ principle. It means that

information modules can be adjusted according to stuff functions that should

be realized on the given workplace. Politsoft software allows connecting

any number of workplaces and developing its architecture in handy manner.

For example: Head of advertising group needs only the information about

advertising group work, Head of financial department has to see the

information about financial situation in all departments.

All activities of election campaign can be assigned to responsible persons.

All activities can be allotted to departments, groups and subgroups. This

function allows following faithfully the plan of activities and financial plan

and planning the election campaign and budget.

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On the figure you can see the workplaces set for election staff of city that can

be increased or decreased according to scale and structure of the campaign.

Information and reporting system can be adjusted for each work place

according to election campaign functions.

Electoral staff structure

Candidate or party leaderTime-table manager Support group

Attendant control group Consultants. Creative group

Manager of Organizational

department

Security department

Central Control group

Financial department

Manager of Analytic

department

Regional electoral staff

Technical department

Central Public reception

Department of local

projects, actions,

meetings organization

Local agitators

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Manager of Juridical department

Representatives in town and

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Politsoft CuratorPolitsoft Curator is the special software for political parties, deputy groups,

factions and any political organizations.

Politsoft Curator helps to cope with next tasks:

simultaneous work at all departments; ;planning of activities; ;financial planning; ;automation of all activities; ;monitoring of plans execution; ;financial monitoring; ;monitoring of changes in public opinion; ;determination of activities effectiveness; ;competitive struggle planning; ;impact of events and activities definition on the situation in the region or ;in the party.

Politsoft Curator allows execution of all political activities and avoiding the

parallelism and doubling of works. Thanks to Politsoft Curator executive

committee of political party can be transformed easily into the campaign

committee. Information and reporting system can be adjusted for each

workplace according to political functions that should be realized on this

work place.

Executive committee structure

Organization group

chairman

External communications group chairman

Control body Chairman of executive committee Consultants

Responsible fororganization work

Responsible foragitation work

Responsible for organization and finance providing

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Media secretary

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Politsoft DeputyPolitsoft Deputy is the software for automation of the work of one political

figure team. Politsoft Deputy allows the “step by step” management of

political campaigns aimed to maintainof political image of one political

figure. Political figure can be as a member of political party as non-party

politician.

Functional capabilities of Politsoft Deputy:

working in all departments at the same time; ;planning of political activities; ;financial planning; ;automation of staff activities; ;monitoring of political activity; ;financial monitoring; ;monitoring of changes in public opinion; ;determination of activities effectiveness; ;competitive lanning; ;definition of events and activities that impact on the situation in the ;region or in the party.

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Politsoft ResourcePolitsoft Resource is the software for administrative resource management.

Politsoft Resource allows using completely the administrative resource of

political party or political figure.

Administrative resource management scheme

Administrative resource using

Business resources

Federal resources

Regional resources

Municipal resources

Local resources

Reporting

Planned schedule keeping

List of activities of responsibility centers

Effectiveness analysis of administrative resource using

Corrections of administrativeresource using

Election campaign planning Planning of administrative resource using Election campaign realization

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Politsoft ObserverPolitsoft Observer is the software for monitoring and analysing of political

information in the Internet. It allows controlling the political situation from

any spot on the globe. It can be connected with any Politsoft software to

automate the political monitoring during the campaign, to automate party

management or any political campaign management.

Monitoring and analysis suppose the content-analysedand qualitative

analysis of information at the fixed number of Internet resources during the

fixed time.

Internet-monitoring enables studing and forecasting of political events and

changing the political situation.

Image making of political party or political figure can be done through

Internet. It can be the direct influence (creation of information and

informational exchange resources) and indirect influrence (influence on the

created information resources, dissemination of information, prohibition of

disinformation).

The main part of image making through Internet is the assistance in Internet

resources creation and Internet sites creation. This activity can be realized

using Politsoft software.

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Politsoft UniversePolitsoft Universe is a service of development of customer's software for

automation of political processes of any format and on any level.

Politsoft develops specialized software for different types of political

activities.

Politsoft software can be installed as a part of Politsoft computer-based

system and as an independent software.

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Politsoft ConsultingPolitsoft collaborates with customers not only as software developer. It

maintains and upgrades Politsoft software. Politsoft provides consulting

service on each stage: from software development and implementation to

updating and upgrading of the software. Politsoft develops new components

of the software according to current and potential requirements of users.

Strategy consultingPolitsoft software can be used for development of campaign and for inner-

Party information system. Key activities should be identified with election

campaign or political party parameters. Political strategy determines the

requirements for information system architecture that should guarantee the

necessary output and quality of political activity support.

Technical consultingPolitsoft develops the political information system architecture that executes

functional requirements of political strategy and optimizes necessary

investments. Technical consulting supposes the technical development of

work:

selection of scheme and technologies of components and software ■integration,

selection of optimal solution for specific tasks, development of new ■software,

comparing of several solutions for automation of one task, ■consulting services concerned with Politsoft usage. ■

Software auditAuditing includes the assessment of current state of Politsoft software,

investigation of the reasons for the non- or low performance of software

modules, assessment of informational risks, level of defense and IT-

investments. Auditing of results is the base of strategic and technical plans of

software upgrading.

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Technical characteristics of Politsoft software

Politsoft software should be installed to the server with Windows Server

2003-2008 software. Requirements for hardware are generally used standards

of hardware. Remote work with Politsoft software doesn’t require installation

of any additional software. Loss of information is impossible in the case of

any glitch. Time of recovering of software, depending on the seriousness of

glitch, takes a few hours. In case of impossibility of software recovering (for

example, in the case of physical destruction), reserve server can fully provide

performance of Politsoft software.

Politsoft serverRemote access

Secure information channelReserve Politsoft server

Emergency recovery

Reserve copying

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LTD PolitsoftFesenkovskaya St. 4

Kharkov, Ukraine, 61068 Tel. +38 (057) 762-62-10contacts@politsoft.com

http://www.politsoft.com