Allied Irish Bank Selects CKS for Leading Single Sign-On Technology.PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 1997-- CKS' MyNet Solution Plays Key Role in Improving Customer Services CKS CKS Checks CKS Center for Korean Studies (UC Berkeley) CKS Center for Knowledge Societies CKS Carajas, Para, Brazil - International / Brasilia Brazil (Airport Code) CKS Crankshaft Sensor today announced a major sales agreement with Allied Irish Bank (AIB AIB n abbr (BRIT) (= Accident Investigation Bureau) → oficina de investigación de accidentes AIB n abbr (Brit) (= Accident Investigation Bureau) → ), Dublin, Ireland. Through this agreement, CKS is supplying AIB, Ireland's largest banking and financial services group, with the single sign-on technology of its MyNet product. AIB has put into production a major enhancement to its telephone banking services within the Capital Markets Division. "This was an extremely visible and critical enhancement to the bank's Customer Direct services," said Marcel McCann, Sr. IT Program Manager, AIB Capital Markets. "Constantly improving customer banking services is critical to our business and a fundamental part of our growth strategies. We've used CKS products consistently over the years, and knew we could depend on CKS for good technology and excellent support." "Single sign-on was an important requirement. MyNet has reduced the logon process for our customer service telephone representatives to one secure one. This is a huge productivity boost for our Customer Services department," said Helen Quigley, Project Manager. "Our respective technical teams blended well to bring what we call the Customer Workbench project to a successful close." The improved Customer Direct network involves Microsoft Windows NT workstations/servers, HP/UX HP/UX Hewlett-Packard UNIX operating system HP/UX Unexploded Human Particulate Operating System , and 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) OS/390 as the primary environments. Client/Server applications used by the customer service representatives resided in ten different environments. Logon access is being authenticated to the Company's existing CA-ACF2 security. MyNet is now being targeted for use with further expansion of the Customer Direct services as well as other projects. "AIB is a good example of today's complex distributed network requirements," said Jeff Carr, Managing Director of CKS. "MyNet's system of intelligent agents and open APIs allows it to communicate and integrate with many different customer environments. In the end, MyNet successfully addressed the customer's needs." Pricing and Availability MyNet supports Microsoft PC clients: Windows 95, NT, and 3.x, as well as IBM OS/2, and DOS clients. Servers supported include those from Microsoft NT Novell NetWare 3x/4x, and IBM OS/2 Warp Server. Oracle, Sybase, Lotus Notes, Netscape Commerce Server and SEOS SEOS School of Earth and Ocean Sciences (University of Victoria, BC, Canada) SEOS Synchronous Earth Observatory Satellite SEOS SIGINT/EW Operator Simulator are among the packaged SSO See single sign-on and CSO. SSO - single sign-on agent connections. MyNet 2.2 is available immediately from CKS. Minimum installation requirement for MyNet is 250 users. Founded in 1983, CKS is a worldwide supplier of single sign-on solutions. The Company's focus is on providing industry-leading enterprise productivity, security and administration software in large-scale, heterogeneous, corporate computing environments. CKS' primary product is MyNet, a universal, secure SSO product. By offering this technology, in combination with strategic partnerships to leading companies, CKS has developed a user base exceeding 2,000 installations in over a dozen countries. CKS can be contacted at 1-800-321-9004. The Company's North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. headquarters are located at 11 Parkway Center, suite 390, Pittsburgh, PA 15220. Website: www.cksweb.com . AIB is Ireland's largest banking and financial services group, with Assets of approximately US$50 billion. It operates through three divisions, AIB Bank, AIB Capital Markets and USA division. Allied Irish Banks Allied Irish Banks, p.l.c. (AIB) (Irish: Bainc-Aontas Éireann),ISEQ: ALBK, LSE: ALBK, NYSE: AIB, FWB: AIB is a commercial bank based in Ireland not to be mistaken for Anglo Irish Bank. AIB is one of the so called Big Four commercial banks in Ireland. p.l.c. is quoted on the Dublin, 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 and London stock exchanges London Stock Exchange London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses. and has more than 50,000 shareholders. The group employs 23,000 staff in 900 offices around the world. AIB Capital Markets brings together the groups Treasury & International, Investment and Corporate Banking activities. The USA division comprises a number of banks in the Mid-Atlantic region employing more than 7,000 staff in 300 locations. AIB Bank division is made up of the retail and commercial activities of the group in Ireland and Britain. AIB owns over 60% of the WBK WBK Word Backup (Microsoft Word file extension) WBK Welcome Back, Kotter (70s US TV Show) WBK Work Book WBK Word Backup File Bank in Poland. The Company headquarters are at: AIB Bankcentre, P.O. Box 452, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, Ireland. Telephone 1 660 0311. CONTACT: CKS NA/ Lloyd Tanaka, 800/321-9004 ldt@cksna.com or Sterling Hager Inc. Jeanne MacMillan, 617/926-6665 ext. 340 jeanne@sterlinghager.com |
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