AlphaCONNECT's BusinessVue Teams with Investor's Business Daily.SANTA ANA Santa Ana, city, El Salvador Santa Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 3, 1997-- Integration between BusinessVue and Investor's Business Daily Investor's Business Daily (IBD) is a national newspaper in the United States, published Monday through Friday, that covers international business, finance, and the global economy. Founded in 1984 by William O'Neil, its headquarters are in Los Angeles, California. Offers Customizable, Robust Business Intelligence AlphaCONNECT, a software and technologies division of Alpha Microsystems Alpha Microsystems is a computer company founded in 1977 by Dick Wilcox and Bob Hitchcock. The first Alpha Micro computer was based upon the WD16 microprocessor chip from Western Digital. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on NM:ALMI ALMI Application Level Multicast Infrastructure ALMI Automated Listing and Mapping Instrument (US Census Bureau) ), Wednesday announced that is has signed an agreement that provides for the integration of its BusinessVue software with Investor's Business Daily (IBD IBD abbr. inflammatory bowel disease Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) Disease in which the lining of the intestine becomes inflamed. Mentioned in: Amebiasis IBD 1. ), a nationally recognized news leader committed to delivering financial and economic news edited succinctly for today's successful business leaders and investors. Providing users with a revolutionary way of managing business information, BusinessVue provides up-to-the-minute feeds of custom-filtered, online data -- e.g., corporate profiles, SEC filings, analyst recommendations, stock quotes, news and press announcements -- delivered automatically from the Internet to the desktop. By integrating the power of the Internet with ACT! and other popular business applications, BusinessVue provides users with a fast, easy way to stay abreast of breaking online information, at or away from their desktops: the software's monitoring options incorporate customized triggers, so that critical information can be delivered to users via pager, fax and e-mail. Under this agreement, BusinessVue users will now have advanced functionality, with access to receive IBD's information on topics such as the economy, concise news updates, technology, GDP GDP (guanosine diphosphate): see guanine. reports and stock market information. Further terms were not disclosed. "Users will benefit from this additional content and it will enable them to make more informed business decisions based on the information provided by IBD and BusinessVue," said Denny Michael, vice president of marketing at Alpha Microsystems. "It's a complete business intelligence solution." "IBD is excited to be part of this integration," said Ed Levy For other uses, see Ed Levy (disambiguation). Edward Clarence Levy (born Edward Clarence Whitner on October 21, 1916) is a former left fielder/first baseman in Major League Baseball who played between 1940 and 1944 for the Philadelphia Phillies (1940) and New , vice president of operations for Investor's Business Daily. "BusinessVue's technology allows its users to customize and develop their own online financial information, putting them in an excellent position for facing the constantly changing business world." The IBD content will be available in BusinessVue 2.0, scheduled for release in early 1998. Along with other AlphaCONNECT software and technologies, a beta version of BusinessVue 2.0 will be showcased at Fall Internet World in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , December 10-12. Product demonstrations will be held in the AlphaCONNECT booth No. 782, and inside the Microsoft Partner Pavilion, booth No. 32. BusinessVue's current 1.2 version is available from retailers such as CompUSA and Micro Center, as well as through online resellers such as Netscape's Software Depot where BusinessVue is currently being featured on the front page at www.software-depot.netscape.com . AlphaCONNECT, a division of Santa Ana-based Alpha Microsystems (NASDAQ NM:ALMI) serves the Internet/intranet, information technology, and development markets through standard and customized software solutions. AlphaCONNECT's core technologies include intelligence gathering, data flow management and smart application technology. AlphaCONNECT also targets the corporate, SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. and end-user markets with commercially released products, BusinessVue and StockVue. Both products feature fully customizable business content including news, profiles, stock quotes, SEC filings and more. For further information call 714/957-8500 or visit the company's Web site at www.alphaconnect.com . CONTACT: Alpha Microsystems Denny Michael, 714/641-6373 www.alphamicro.com or Sterling Hager Inc. Marnie Butler, 617/926-6665 www.sterlinghager.com |
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