$1.2 Million Contract With Shenzhen Airport Authority Places Unisys Airport Passenger Processing System In Three of China's Top Four Airports.BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 1998--Unisys Corp. Tuesday announced that it has signed a contract worth more than $1.2 million with China's Shenzhen Airport Authority to provide the Unisys Airport Passenger Processing System (APPS). The solution will be installed at Shenzhen Airport, which will be China's fourth-largest airport when completed in early 1999. The installation of APPS at Shenzhen is expected to begin in fourth quarter 1998. Once implemented, the Unisys APPS solution will be operational in three of China's four largest airports - Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. Shenzhen has acquired four modules of the APPS suite, including Check-In Assistant (CKA CKA Commonly Known As CKA California Kindergarten Association CKA Colorado Karate Association CKA Atlantic Croaker (FAO fish species code) CKA Customer Knowledge Asset ), Local Check-In Assistant (LCA LCA Life Cycle Assessment LCA Saint Lucia (ISO Country code) LCA Life Cycle Analysis LCA Linux.conf.au (Australian Linux conference) LCA Labor Condition Application LCA Light Combat Aircraft ), Boarding Control Assistant (BCA BCA Business Case Analysis BCA Building Code of Australia BCA Boeing Commercial Airplanes BCA Board of Contract Appeals BCA Boston Center for the Arts BCA Billiard Congress of America BCA Bureau of Criminal Apprehension BCA Breast Cancer Action ) and Load Planning Assistant (LPA LPA Lysophosphatidic Acid LPA Apolipoprotein (A) LPA Local Planning Authority LPA Locally Preferred Alternative LPA Local Planning Agency LPA Link Pack Area LPA Left Pulmonary Artery LPA Law of Property Act ). APPS is an automated method of incorporating PC-based tools to assist agents with passenger processing. APPS enables agents to quickly complete reservations and departure control processes. With APPS, agents can retrieve customer information in seconds and check in passengers and baggage more efficiently. "The incorporation of APPS into the central database and the baggage system will provide us with the timely and accurate information we need to offer better service to our customers,"said Cui Shao Xian, vice president at Shenzhen Airport Engineering and Construction. "APPS will help us improve airport processes now and position us for growth in the future." APPS will increase check-in and passenger boarding efficiency, while reducing check-in errors and training costs. With the integration of APPS into the Automatic Baggage Sortation Identifying objects that are stamped with a bar code and routing them to the appropriate destination. Sortation is typically a high-speed process used in the transportation industry by companies such as Federal Express, UPS and others. See sort and bar code. System, Shenzhen Airport Authority also expects to further provide superior service to passengers. Said Bruce Wheat, vice president of Operations Management Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. Systems, Unisys Worldwide Transportation, "It is exciting for Unisys to have the opportunity to expand our role in China's aviation industry. For Shenzhen, we are working to customize the APPS menus in Chinese, and we are developing the APPS modules to be compatible with Shenzhen Airport's current systems." About Unisys Unisys is an information technology solutions provider that has a portfolio of information services See Information Systems. , technologies and third-party alliances needed to help clients capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. their information asset to enhance their competitiveness and responsiveness to customers. Unisys expertise is founded on the strengths of three global businesses: Information Services, providing consulting, application solutions, systems integration and outsourcing; Computer Systems, providing industry-leading technologies; and Global Customer Services, delivering comprehensive services and products supporting distributed computing environments See DCE. Distributed Computing Environment - (DCE) An architecture consisting of standard programming interfaces, conventions and server functionalities (e.g. naming, distributed file system, remote procedure call) for distributing applications transparently across networks . Access the Unisys home page on the World Wide Web -- http://www.unisys.com -- for further information. Unisys is a registered trademark of Unisys Corp. All other brands and products referenced herein are acknowledged to be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
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