AT&T AND COVIA TECHNOLOGIES FORM PARTNERSHIP TO OFFER COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS SOLUTIONS TO AIRPORTS, AIRLINES.DAYTON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--November 21, 1994--AT&T Global Information Solutions and Covia Technologies today announced a strategic partnership to provide comprehensive airport, airline and passenger terminal operations The reception, processing, and staging of passengers; thereceipt, transit, storage, and marshalling of cargo; the loadingand unloading of modes of transport conveyances; and themanifesting and forwarding of cargo and passengers todestination. See also operation; terminal. management solutions to customers around the world. Under terms of the agreement, Covia Technologies will offer their suite of software products exclusively on AT&T Global Information Solutions platforms. The two companies will team to provide airport consulting and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. and will conduct joint marketing and sales activities. "Covia Technologies' state-of-the-art software solutions and AT&T's client/server platforms, combined with professional services from both companies, will offer airport authorities An airport authority is an independent entity charged with the operation and oversight of an airport (or group of airports). These authorities are often governed by a group of airport commissioners, who are appointed to lead the authority by a government official. , airlines and other transportation industry companies a comprehensive solution designed to improve facility management, reduce costs and provide better customer service," said Lou Marianacci, vice president, Worldwide Transportation Industry Marketing, AT&T Global Information Solutions. "This unique partnership will help customers rapidly realize new computing approaches for new facilities, or integrate existing computers and processes with the newest, high performance processors and network software," said Mark Teflian, Covia Technologies president. "We're offering a new business platform for the travel and transportation industry, a total solution for places like airports that are the most change-driven factories in the world. At the core of airport, airline and all transportation industry operations is the need for more accurate, timely information. AT&T and Covia Technologies together will deliver that distributed information platform," Teflian added. Covia Technologies' ResourceWorks, a suite of travel and transportation operations and management tools, will be ported to AT&T's UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). environment and offered exclusively on AT&T's System 3000 platforms. All ResourceWorks modules feature an integrated database, called AirCore, that helps airport authorities, airlines and travellers use information and decision support systems to better manage airport operations. ResourceWorks includes: o Gate Management -- gives airport and airline management the ability to define facility and operational procedures The detailed methods by which headquarters and units carry out their operational tasks. and expert systems to apply these rules to both current, future and changes in flight schedules. This application helps optimize gate planning and operational schedules. o Displays -- a tool for displaying flight and gate information on video monitors throughout the airport to ensure efficient airport operation and passenger service. o Signs -- a display tool for distributing passenger and flight information on electronic signage throughout the airport. o Visual Paging -- a software component that provides complete messaging services to all segments of the traveling public through electronic signs. The product was developed to support the Americans with Disabilities Act requirements. The partnership also offers an opportunity to third-party systems and application providers to use the ResourceWorks' programming interfaces as a core platform to develop additional products and services for airports, airlines and their customers. The new partnership will draw on Covia Technologies' many years of experience in providing distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. systems and software to airlines and airport authorities around the world. The company has provided software and 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" to airlines worldwide, including KLM KLM Kaiserliche Marine (Enigma: Rising Tide game) KLM Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (Royal Dutch Airlines) KLM Klub Langer Menschen (German: Tall Person Club) at Amsterdam's Schiphol International Airport and United Airlines at all its domestic and international hub airports Africa Algeria
Covia Technologies' ResourceWorks suite of products will be offered on AT&T System 3000 platforms, including Globalyst personal computers, midrange midrange Epidemiology The halfway point or midpoint in a set of observations; for most data, MR is calculated as the sum of the smallest observation and the largest observation, divided by 2; for age data, one is added to the numerator; a midrange is usually departmental servers and multiprocessing servers. The AT&T System 3000 is a family of scalable, Intel-based computer systems. In addition to the ResourceWorks software suite, the technology and marketing alliance also involves Covia Technologies' Communications Integrator(R) message-oriented middleware Message-oriented middleware comprises a category of inter-application communication software that generally relies on asynchronous message-passing as opposed to a request/response metaphor. software package. The CI, available on a host of mainframe, midrange, UNIX and desktop environments, provides a message-based distributed computing infrastructure to let applications and processes interoperate and be managed as a unified whole. Through the CI, airports and airlines will be able to integrate applications running on AT&T systems with legacy and other systems applications based on business needs. "The transportation industry is one of six vertical industries targeted by AT&T Global Information Solutions and we are committed to partnering with world-class companies like Covia to provide complete solutions that help our customers get, move and use information," said Marianacci. "For example, by collecting flight schedule information and moving it to the ResourceWorks AirCore database, airport authorities can use the gate management application to optimize gate planning and allocate resources accordingly. This saves a tremendous amount of time and money while at the same time helps provide more efficient passenger service." Headquartered in Chicago, Covia Technologies develops and sells its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , the Communications Integrator message-oriented middleware software; distributed applications An application made up of distinct components running in separate runtime environments, usually on different platforms connected via a network. Typical distributed applications , including expert system applications; custom software solutions; network and facility systems integration services; and interoperability consulting services. On the CI alone, Covia Technologies has built a customer base of more than 30 companies, including Citicorp, Federal Express, Household International, Shared Medical Systems/Healthcare Data Exchange, United Airlines and major telecommunications companies See telecom company. . Covia Technologies operates as a division of Galileo International and has offices in Rosemont, Ill.; Chicago; New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ; Denver; San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden ; and Swindon, England. The Communications Integrator is a registered trademark of Galileo International and holds U.S. Patent No. 5,317,568. At AT&T Global Information Solutions, we help our customers better understand and serve their customers by more effectively getting, moving and using information. -0- A one hour teleconference will be held on Monday, November 21 beginning promptly at 11:00 a.m. EST EST electroshock therapy. EST abbr. electroshock therapy . Covia Technologies president Mark Teflian and Lou Marianacci, vice president of worldwide transportation industry marketing from AT&T GIS will answer questions about the partnership and emerging market opportunities. Media based in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. should call 1-800-403-2013, access code No. 911844 to participate; international media should call 615-673-6710, access code No. 911844. CONTACT: AT&T Global Information Solutions
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