Alacra Releases Alacra Links.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2003 Alacra, a leading global provider of business and financial information, today announces the release of its newest service, Alacra Links. Alacra Links is a web-based service that readily integrates additional content into any other web-based service. Alacra Links can point to internal content available to users, publicly available information on the web, or to the Alacra warehouse of premium databases. "Customers have frequently asked for a simple way to embed or integrate disparate sets of content into their proprietary applications," said Steven Goldstein, 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 Alacra. "Alacra Links is the solution they have been looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. ." Alacra Links draws on Alacra's premium data warehouse which covers more than 35,000 global public companies, and links together the meta data from more than 100 different databases. Alacra Links can work with a variety of company identifiers. These may be standard identifiers such as company name or ticker or Alacra can even match to a customer's proprietary set of identifiers. Alacra can also match and provide links to industry or country based information. When a user clicks on a ticker or other company identifier on their page, Alacra presents a custom set of links to the user. These links can, for example, open a recent SEC filing, bring back a list of current news headlines or investment research reports, or launch the creation of an Alacra Book on the company of interest. Alacra Links works on an ASP model and may be accessed over the public internet using HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. or SHTTP (Secure HTTP) A protocol that provides secure transactions over the Web. It is endorsed by a variety of organizations. See security protocol. . By default, links are provided in HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. format for direct presentation to the user. This format may be customized for your specific product or page. Alacra Links can also be delivered in 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. , allowing customers to format the links themselves. Alacra Links is the latest addition to the Alacra suite of robust tools and technology designed specifically for business information users. About Alacra Alacra is a leading global provider of business and financial information. 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. founded in 1996, Alacra is based in 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 . The company provides a diverse portfolio of fast, sophisticated online and offline services that allow users to quickly find, analyze, package and present mission-critical business and financial information. Alacra customers include more than 750 leading financial institutions, management consulting, law and accounting firms and other corporations throughout the world. For more information about Alacra, visit the company's Web site http://www.alacra.com or call customer service at (212) 363-9620. |
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