Apertus Helps AT&T Credit Card Unit Deliver Innovative Web Service; Cardmembers Can Now Use Internet to Access Account Information.EDEN PRAIRIE Eden Prairie A city of eastern Minnesota, a residential suburb of Minneapolis. Population: 57,300. , Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 1996--Apertus Technologies Incorporated (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 : APTS APTS Alexandra Palace Television Society (UK) APTS Advanced Public Transportation System APTS Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (Texas) APTS Association of America's Public Television Stations ) and AT&T Universal Card Services The software support for PC Cards. PC Card applications talk to Card Services. See PC Card. (UCS (Universal Character Set) An ISO/IEC format for coding character sets. ISO/IEC 10646 was synchronized with Unicode; however, Unicode adds additional constraints, and compliance with 10646 does not guarantee compatibility with Unicode. See Unicode. ) announced today the use of Apertus' Enterprise/Access: Web Edition to provide UCS customers with timely, secure account information via the Internet-- just as they get over the phone. UCS' new on-line Account Center, located on the company's World Wide Web home page, allows customers to privately access their Universal Card account directly from their Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . It includes information cardmembers request most often, such as available credit, statement balance, last payment received, and minimum payment due. The Account Center also allows cardmembers to review their most recent transactions, including payments, adjustments, and new purchases since their last statement. To access the Account Center, cardmembers need Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. (TM) 1.2 or a higher version of the Internet client software. The Netscape client software encrypts all cardmember information. The Account Center also has a registration process that provides each customer with a unique password. Enterprise/Access: Web Edition is a Web server-based software solution that allows customers, like UCS, conducting business over the Internet to access and update existing business applications in a secure manner without any change to the applications, data, or infrastructure. Using the product's robust, graphical development environment, UCS integrated their current cardmember account data into a content-rich, modern forms interface. The use of Enterprise/Access: Web Edition allows the UCS home page to immediately access information from the Web browser as though a cardholder card·hold·er n. One who holds a card, especially a credit card. card  hold was talking directly to a customer service associate. "Cardmembers have a new way to get the latest information about their accounts, anytime, anywhere," said Hans Hawrysz, UCS executive vice president - electronic commerce. "We evaluated software for a year before selecting Enterprise/Access: Web Edition for its scalability and robustness," he added. "UCS has been pleased with the support provided by Apertus during this vital deployment period." "We are very excited about AT&T's use of Enterprise/Access: Web Edition for their credit card unit," said Robert D. Gordon, president and chief executive officer of Apertus Technologies. "Our server- based solution enables customers like UCS to use their existing business applications in a new, important way and take advantage of the exploding Internet commerce market." UCS' home page, located at http://www.att.com/ucs, first went on-line in May 1995 for consumers to apply for the AT&T Universal Card and get basic information about the company. Since then, it has received more than 13,000 card applications and regularly responds to electronic mail from Internet users throughout the world. The AT&T Universal Card is AT&T's combination bank credit and AT&T calling card. Its program has 18 million MasterCard and Visa accounts. Apertus Technologies Incorporated develops and markets enterprise- strength solutions that enable the access, integration, and management of data stored in systems distributed throughout a corporate enterprise. Headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. , Apertus has sales and service offices throughout North America and Europe. Enterprise/Access: Web Edition is available on AT&T System 3000, HP 9000, Sun SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill , 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) RS/6000 platforms. Pricing starts at $20,000. For more product information about Enterprise/Access: Web Edition, call 800-793-3509, send e-mail to info@apertus.com, or visit Apertus' Web site at http://www.apertus.com. Apertus is a registered trademark and Enterprise/Access is a trademark of Apertus Technologies Incorporated. Other names, products, and services mentioned are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective vendors or organizations. CONTACT: Apertus Technologies Incorporated: Beth Gallob, 612/828-0162 AT&T Universal Card Services: Mitch Montagna, 904/954-8896 |
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