ADVISORY/Flatrock Announces `Connect-In-A-Day' Guarantee; Flatrock Backs Up Its Claim to Connect Business Partners in Less Than One Day.Business Editors, Hi-Tech Writers ADVISORY... PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2002 Flatrock today announced the "Connect-In-A-Day" guarantee to back up its claim of establishing secure, selective application access between business partners in less than one day. WHAT The Flatrock Guarantee: Flatrock's next generation VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. alternative securely connects external partners to internal applications in one day, without requiring a change to the application or either network. The offer: After consulting with a company representative to understand your system information, Flatrock will have your external partners up and running in less than one day or we'll pay $20,000 towards the alternative equipment of your choice. WHEN The "Connect-In-A-Day" guarantee is valid now through Sept. 30, 2002. Contact Flatrock's Alan Miles at amiles@flatrock.com or 503.963.3732 or visit http://www.flatrock.com/products_connect.asp today to see qualification requirements. Restrictions may apply. WHO Flatrock's Secure Application Routers are a next generation VPN alternative that dramatically reduces the cost, complexity and time associated with securely connecting business partners to critical internal applications. WHY Flatrock's Secure Application Routers are becoming a preferred means for enterprises to share applications and information with external partners, including outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. to call centers, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. and manufacturing partners. Multiple networking and security challenges exist for enterprises that share application access with partners who reside outside corporate boundaries. Unlike open network connections like VPNs and private circuits, Flatrock allows organizations to cross the corporate boundary while providing secure and controlled access to the application, not the entire network. Currently, several Fortune 500 companies are in the process of establishing Flatrock's Secure Application Router as a standard method of connecting external partners. ABOUT FLATROCK Flatrock is a leader in the emerging category of Instant Extranets. Founded in February 2000 by a team of network engineers, Flatrock is headquartered in Portland, Ore., and has secured capital funding from Guide Ventures, Digital Partners, Cascadia Partners-LLC and HighBAR Ventures. Flatrock's customers include Spectrian, Talisma and Radiology radiology, branch of medicine specializing in the use of X rays, gamma rays, radioactive isotopes, and other forms of radiation in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Consultants of Washington. Flatrock's senior executives bring 150 years experience from careers at Accrue To increase; to augment; to come to by way of increase; to be added as an increase, profit, or damage. Acquired; falling due; made or executed; matured; occurred; received; vested; was created; was incurred. Software, Applied Microsystems, Boeing, Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Dell, GE Medical Systems, Informix, Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics, Inc (NASDAQ: MENT) is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation (EDA) for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry it helped create. , Microsoft, NeXT Software, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Synopsys, VA Linux and ValiCert. Please visit www.flatrock.com for more information. Flatrock is a registered trademark of Flatrock, Inc. All brands or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products and services of, their respective owners. |
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