@Road Launches DirectData Transfer Capability, Further Advancing Mobile Resource Management; New DirectData Service Transports Business-Critical Data to Customer Enterprise Engines.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2002 @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 addition of @Road DirectData, a store-and-forward transaction and messaging queuing service composed of software and data. This service is an architectural enhancement to the @Road suite of solutions. With DirectData, @Road customers can now easily and directly receive large-scale LocationSmart(TM) subscriber data to further enhance the management of their mobile investments. For enterprises with large volumes of mobile information, DirectData enables easy access to time-critical data in a format that can be integrated with existing systems. This allows @Road customers to create and customize their own information flow to develop more meaningful applications and reports. "DirectData enables our Fortune 1000 customers to merge @Road LocationSmart data with their own data using their advanced reporting tools -- allowing for much improved insight into business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets ," said Krish Panu, 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. of @Road. "By feeding business-critical data directly to our enterprise customers, we give them the freedom to fine-tune and tailor the data to suit their specific needs. DirectData, based on Java Message Services (programming, messaging) Java Message Service - (JMS) An API for accessing enterprise messaging systems from Java programs. Java Message Service, part of the J2EE suite, provides standard APIs that Java developers can use to access the common features of enterprise message systems. (JMS (Java Messaging Service) A programming interface (API) from Sun for connecting Java programs to messaging middleware such as IBM's MQSeries and TIBCO's Rendezvous. JMS is part of Sun's J2EE platform. See J2EE. JMS - Java Message Service release 1.2), is an industry-leading facility for transaction queue processing and we are excited to bring this new capability to our current customer base." DirectData key benefits include: -- Ability to more easily integrate LocationSmart data with other subscriber data in existing customer systems and applications -- Reliable communications streams and status reporting directly to/from the customer and its mobile resources -- Complete control of mobile data without investment in expensive software or communications infrastructure "@Road is about giving its customers choices," said Tom Allen For other persons of the same name, see Thomas Allen. Thomas H. (Tom) Allen (April 16 1945– ) is a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Maine's At-large congressional district (map). He is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2008. , senior vice president of solutions development. "Our customers now have the option to manage their own data, and to receive it anytime they want, in any format they want, 24 hours a day." The @Road DirectData software components include a customer-side queue processing receiver and a queue host with communications and data-logging interfaces. A brand-specific database interface is also available. Customers access data through a secure tunnel with communications to the queue host controlled by a password and ID. DirectData pricing starts at $2.50 per month per subscriber and $0.006 per kilobyte (thousand bytes). For technical specifications, it refers to 1,024 bytes. In general usage, it typically refers to an even one thousand bytes (see kilo). Also KB, Kbyte and K-byte. See space/time. (unit) kilobyte - (KB) 2^10 = 1024 bytes. See prefix. transmitted, in addition to the standard iLM(R) platform and MRM service fees. To insure quick start-up and maximum utility, @Road can also provide expert assistance in configuring customer-side software through its Advanced Customer Solutions Group. For more information on DirectData and other @Road solutions, please call @Road at 1-877-4AtRoad or visit the Web site at www.atroad.com. About @Road Based in Fremont, CA, @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 patented LocationSmart 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 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. Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release are forward-looking statements 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, the ability of @Road to successfully market and sell data transfer services, the market acceptance of the data transfer services offered by @Road, 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 Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. dated March 28, 2002 and in its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. @Road undertakes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Note to Editors: iLM is a registered trademark of At Road, Inc. @Road, the @Road logo, and LocationSmart are trademarks and/or service marks of At Road, Inc. 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