@Road Announces Formation of Advanced Customer Solutions Group Offering Customized Enterprise Solutions for Mobile Resource Management.Business Editors & High Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 2001 New Consulting Group Formed at the Request of Companies Seeking Integration of @Road LocationSmart(TM) Technology, Legacy Platforms and Third-Party Software Applications @Road(SM) (Nasdaq:ARDI ARDI Association Rwandaise pour la Promotion du Développement Intégré (French) ARDI Accounts Receivable Dollar Inventory ARDI Action Rwandaise pour le Developpement Integre ARDI Annually Renewable Disability Income ), a leading provider of location-enhanced wireless Internet solutions for mobile resource management (MRM MRM Marketing Resource Management MRM Mobile Resource Management MRM Metabolic Response Modifiers MRM Multiple Reaction Monitoring (mass spectrometry) MRM Mormonism Research Ministry MRM Mechanically Recovered Meat ), today announced the formation of its Advanced Customer Solutions Group. This group has been formed to assist businesses that have hundreds of fleet vehicles and mobile employees develop customized enterprise solutions that integrate their legacy mobile resource management systems and third-party software applications with the @Road LocationSmart technology platform. The @Road patented technology platform combines wireless, positioning and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. technologies with the Internet to deliver a range of MRM services. The group expects to develop solutions which enhance customers' profitability, the return on their information technology investment and the support provided to their end customers. The Advanced Customer Solutions Group will be headed by @Road Vice President, Amin Mufti and staffed by existing senior software engineers. Mufti joined @Road in 1997 and most recently served as vice president of business development. Costs for these professional consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" are expected to be fee-based according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the scope of the project. "Through our new Advanced Customer Solutions Group, we are seeking to extend our technology expertise and the functionality of our highly reliable and scalable LocationSmart network to help our customers realize greater operating efficiencies and profitability for their businesses," said Krish Panu, @Road president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Additionally, when combining our Advanced Customer Solutions Group with our API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. program, we believe @Road can offer cost-effective, end-to-end MRM solutions to a variety of market segments with fleet vehicles and mobile work forces." On Feb. 7, @Road announced the establishment of its API program and the release of related software interfaces. The API program is designed to encourage third-party developers  It has been suggested that First-party developer, Second-party developer be merged into this article or section. and service providers to integrate
@Road MRM solutions into their current and future offerings.
About @Road Based in Fremont, @Road is a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. that provides location-enhanced wireless Internet solutions for mobile resource management. Its LocationSmart technology platform combines wireless, positioning and XML technologies with the Internet into a fully integrated network A network that supports both data and voice and/or different networking protocols. See converged network and new public network. that supports the delivery of location-enhanced wireless Internet services for businesses and mobile professionals. For more information, visit the company Web site at www.atroad.com. Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this news release are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. involving risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, @Road historical and future losses, limited operating history, the infancy of the wireless data industry where there is no established market for @Road products and services, ability of @Road to adapt to rapid technological change, reliance by @Road on a limited number of customers and dependence of @Road on wireless networks, network infrastructure and positioning systems owned and controlled by others. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the @Road prospectus dated Sept. 28, 2000 and in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Note to Editors: @Road, the @Road logo and LocationSmart are trademarks and/or service marks of At Road Inc. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners. |
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