Aperture Technologies to provide state-of-the-art facilities management to Alamo Rent A Car.MIAMI BEACH Miami Beach, city (1990 pop. 92,639), Dade co., SE Fla., on an island between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; inc. 1915. It is connected to Miami by four causeways. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 1995--Aperture Technologies with its business partner Link Systems, have been chosen by Alamo Rent A Car Alamo Rent A Car is a car rental agency. It is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but has branches across the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, parts of Africa, Europe, and Australia as well as some locations on various Caribbean islands. to provide a Lease and Facilities Management The management of a user's computer installation by an outside organization. All operations including systems, programming and the datacenter can be performed by the facilities management organization on the user's premises. system to manage its 121 leased facilities in the United States, many of its oversease facilities, and its 30-story office tower in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The announcement was made in Miami Beach today at the annual meeting of the International Facility Managers Association. Catherine Seiersen, vice president, Properties and Facilities for Alamo Alamo Eighteenth-century mission in San Antonio, Texas, site of a historic siege of a small group of Texans by a Mexican army (1836) during the Texas war for independence from Mexico. , said, "Aperture, with the Link System's applications, will be the `one source' to track Alamo's leases, historical construction costs, environmental and zoning considerations, fuel tank records, floor plans, furniture and tenant information, amomg others. The Aperture platform with the Link System's applications is the best tool we've found to easily and visually keep track of the company's complex and varied collection of leased facilities so we can operate more efficiently and effectively." Robert Trenck, Aperture's director of Marketing said, "We are delighted to have been chosen by Alamo, who clearly needs the kind of versatility Aperture provides." Gary Unger, president of Link Systems in Stamford, Conn., who designed the Lease and Facility modules, says Aperture will be particularly useful in helping the company track its extensive real estate portfolio. The applications are unique in that Alamo senior management will have total access to all maps, photos, plans, records, and real estate reports with just a "click of a mouse." Alamo will track such items as rental amounts, security deposits, renewal options and appraised value. Unger is available to demonstrate this application at the IFMA IFMA International Facility Management Association (formerly National Facility Management Association) IFMA Institut Français de Mécanique Avancée (Clermont-Ferrand, France engineering school) show, along with representatives from Aperture Technologies. Link Systems has installed applications in companies such as Ernst & Young, Price Waterhouse, Chase Manhattan Bank The Chase Manhattan Bank, now part of JPMorgan Chase, was formed by the merger of the Chase National Bank and the Bank of the Manhattan Company in 1955. The bank is headquartered in New York City. , Sony, MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. , Viacom, GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) , Ameritech and Cray Research. Aperture Visual Information Manager ties graphics and data together to aid users in planning space and documenting facilities. Aperture is also gaining rapid acceptance as the mechanism of choice for Network Management. Aperture Technologies Inc. is a privately owned Valhalla, N.Y., software company, which recently announced a 44 percent increase in revenue for fiscal 1995. Alamo Rent A Car Inc. is the largest independently owned and operated car rental firm in the United States, serving more than 15 million travelers per year at 200 locations in North America and Europe. CONTACT: Aperture Technologies Robert P. Trenck, 914/769-7800 or Link Systems Gary Unger, 203/967-3456 or Alamo Rent A Car Sandy Richards, 305/468-2016 |
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