Air2Web is Awarded SAS70 Type II Certification; One of the First Wireless Platforms to Achieve Such Status.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 21, 2002 Air2Web, the leading wireless platform provider, today announced that it is one of the first wireless platform providers to successfully achieve the SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. 70 Type II certification. This certification further exemplifies that Air2Web is leading the wireless industry in operational excellence and underscores their commitment to providing industry-leading service level agreements (SLAs) to its customers. With this certification, Air2Web customers can be confident in Air2Web's control environment. Additionally, they do not have to spend any money or resources on having their external auditors annually review and confirm Air2Web's status. SAS 70 is the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70, developed by the AICPA AICPA See American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants With over 330,525 CPA members (in August 2006), the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) is the largest professional organization of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) in the United States of America. ). This examination provides a company's customers and its independent accountants with information about the company's internal control structure, thereby assuring that the company is committed to operational excellence. Air2Web has achieved Type II certification, which indicates that Air2Web has been officially audited, attests to the design and operational effectiveness of procedures for security, controls and operations. The audit certifies that Air2Web has implemented and follows these documented and controlled procedures. The SAS 70 certification, performed by KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , evaluated Air2Web's complete managed services An umbrella term for third-party monitoring and maintaining of computers, networks and software. The actual equipment may be inhouse or at the third-party's facilities, but the "managed" implies an ongoing effort; for example, making sure the equipment is running at a certain quality environment to include security, help desk, change management process, monitoring systems, operations, disaster recovery, quality assurance, development and other elements. Many companies, specifically in the financial industry, are required to conduct yearly audits of their vendors for their own internal purposes. Therefore, Air2Web's completion of SAS 70 will save customers time and money by reducing or eliminating the need for additional customer audits. Over 35 banks, credit unions and other financial institutions have been wirelessly enabled using the Air2Web Platform including Delta Employees Credit Union, Motorola Employees Credit Union-West, NetBank, ICICI Bank ICICI Bank (formerly Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India) is India's largest private sector bank in market capitalization and second largest overall in terms of assets. and ABN AMRO. "Air2Web's solutions wirelessly enable more financial institutions than any other platform provider in the industry, and the financial vertical is one of Air2Web's largest customer bases," said Sanjoy Malik, 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 Air2Web. "Thus, having this SAS 70 certification is extremely important. This certification shows Air2Web's commitment to quality systems and procedures and further exemplifies our reliability and scalability." About Air2Web Air2Web is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. based in Atlanta and focused exclusively on wirelessly extending corporate data, back-end information systems, and Web site content to mobile users. Air2Web's Mobile Internet Platform enables customers to create, deploy and deliver enterprise applications to their customers and employees using any digital wireless device. Air2Web has over 70 deployments in production with blue-chip clients providing wireless enabled financial applications, critical field force applications, customer relationship management, M-commerce and subscription-based content services. These deployments account for over 240,000 mobile subscribers generating over 8.4 million application accesses per month. In addition, our wireless applications span 30 countries and 27 languages, underscoring Air2Web's leadership in functionality, scalability and global capabilities. Customers include companies such as Delta Employees Credit Union, ADC Telecommunications, Lexmark International, eBay, Best Western International, UPS, Holiday Inn, Intercontinental and Crowne Plaza hotels, the Weather Channel, and CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. SportsLine. For more information about Air2Web, please visit http://www.air2web.com. |
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