Alameda County Water District Chooses Gauss for Integrated Document and Web Content Management.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 2002 Gauss Document Management Customer Extends Existing Solution by Serving Up Images and Reports Through a Secure VIP Enterprise-Based Intranet Gauss, a recognized market leader of Enterprise Content Management (ECM (1) (Enterprise Change Management) See version control and configuration management. (2) (Error Correcting Mode) A Group 3 fax capability that can test for errors within a row of pixels and request retransmission. ) software, today announced that the Alameda County (CA) Water District (ACWD ACWD Alameda County Water District (Tri-Cities, California) ACWD Average Coset Weight Distribution ) has selected Gauss for the organization's Enterprise Content Management needs. The ACWD plans to extend their existing Gauss Document Management solution by adding the Web content management module of the Gauss ECM suite, VIP Enterprise, to deploy a district-wide intranet. This will result in a single, integrated platform to capture, manage and deploy document images and reports within the framework of a VIP Enterprise-managed intranet. "We chose Gauss for a number of key reasons, including their ability to simplify and reduce our costs of managing documents and Web content by using a single platform, as well as their ability to support a multi-platform computing environment," stated Johnny Musser, IT Manager for ACWD. "Their depth of experience and ability to work natively on the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) iSeries (AS/400) platform sets them apart." Currently, the Gauss Document Management system manages HR policies, notices, current events newsletters (The Pipeline) and forms that would have to be delivered manually. This solution will be extended to allow this information to be accessed in a secure manner through a VIP Enterprise-based intranet. The addition of Gauss' VIP ContentManager module will enable HR personnel to publish documents to all necessary personnel, irrespective of irrespective of prep. Without consideration of; regardless of. irrespective of preposition despite location, without IT intervention. Technical engineers at the organization's three offices will be able to access reports and technical manuals (housing development, and hazardous materials documents) as well as their Lotus Notes calendaring and scheduling software through this intranet. Additionally, VIP PortalManager module will allow the finance department to securely extend payroll information managed by the ACWD JD Edwards accounting software to the intranet. Users will be allowed to see only their own information. NextBrick, a certified Gauss integration partner, was selected to implement the complete VIP Enterprise-based intranet solution with these applications. "Key to providing a real return on investment for Alameda County Water District The Alameda County Water District (ACWD) is a public agency in Alameda County, California, USA, which has responsibilities for managing and protecting certain groundwater resources within Alameda County. was VIP Enterprise's capability to communicate seamlessly across the entire Document Management and Web Content Management solution," said Dave Emery, vice president global marketing for Gauss. "We are excited to see existing customers upgrade to our full Enterprise Content Management solution when they see the real benefits it brings them." About Alameda County Water District For more than 85 years, the Alameda County Water District has supplied water to the residents and businesses of southern Alameda County, Calif. As the county has grown and changed from being an important agricultural center to supporting a growing suburban population, the county's water system has grown and changed with it. With a staff of 200 dedicated employees, the Alameda County Water District supplies drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. to more than 318,000 people living in the cities of Fremont, Newark, and Union City, Calif. About NextBrick NextBrick is a global technology services company focused on providing solutions on the Internet. NextBrick architects and designs complex, integrated digital solutions for building online businesses. The company is a Full Service Provider providing solutions spanning technology consulting, solution design, application development, application hosting and product engineering. NextBrick has deep domain expertise in Business to Business (B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) integration, Internet application integration, Knowledge Management, and Portal technologies addressing customer needs across the Commerce Value Chain. About Gauss Gauss is a recognized market leader of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software. Gauss' software suite integrates ECM's primary point solutions -- Web content and document management, portal development, and business process management. Gauss has more than 2,000 customers worldwide including IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. , BMW BMW in full Bayerische Motoren Werke AG German automaker. Founded as an aircraft engine manufacturer in 1916, the company assumed the name Bayerische Motoren Werke and became known for its high-speed motorcycles in the 1920s. , Ford, Citigroup, Costco, DaimlerChrysler Aerospace, Korean Air, Baxter Healthcare, JP Morgan, Maritz, and USA Today. With strategic relationships with leading companies such as Artesia, BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, J.D. Edwards, Kodak and Sun Microsystems, Gauss supports enterprise-class e-business infrastructures. The company has international headquarters in Irvine and Hamburg, Germany. To learn more about Gauss' proven J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. (TM) 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. technology-based software, visit www.gaussvip.com |
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