BRIDGE Announces eBRIDGE Global Internet Business Unit; Singapore-Based eBRIDGE Advances Client E-Commerce Strategies.Business Editors & E-Commerce Writers SIA Sia (sī`ə) or Siaha (sī`əhə), in the Bible, family returned from the Exile. SIA - Serial Interface Adaptor Booth 2201 SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2000 Bridge Information Systems (BRIDGE(R)), one of the world's leading providers of financial information services See Information Systems. , announced today the launch of its new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. business unit, eBRIDGE(SM). The new division will be headquartered in Singapore with additional offices and operations located in the Americas and Europe. Dedicated to enabling optimal delivery and display of financial data and services over the Internet, eBRIDGE will leverage BRIDGE's advanced technologies and depth and breadth of content to become the world's leading provider of premier Internet solutions for the financial industry. "eBRIDGE is uniquely positioned to provide the best possible tools and applications for businesses to grow, maintain, and strengthen on-line customer relationships in the financial sector," said Peter Coker, President, eBRIDGE. "Based on our technology, market coverage, and innovative services, no one is better prepared to enable and empower e-commerce in financial information and on a global scale." Added Thomas M. Wendel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, BRIDGE: "eBRIDGE launches on a competitively superior, scaleable world-class technology platform with a database that is second to none, and a global, Internet standard An Internet standard is a specification for an innovative internetworking technology or methodology, which the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ratified as an open standard after the innovation underwent peer review. TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. protocol based on the Savvis network that delivers content with utmost reliability. That's the BRIDGE we've been building, and the eBRIDGE that will empower e-commerce. For BRIDGE, we've helped create a brand that will achieve explosive growth in new, emerging markets." The primary application driving eBRIDGE's solutions is the Bridge Internet Toolkit (Toolkit). The Toolkit equips companies with the most effective applications to bring the world of time-critical financial and market information to consumers on-line. The Toolkit solution includes the essential building blocks to deliver and display financial data on websites in the form of quotes, news, charts, tables and much more. Based on Active Server Pages (World-Wide Web, programming) Active Server Pages - (ASP) A scripting environment for Microsoft Internet Information Server in which you can combine HTML, scripts and reusable ActiveX server components to create dynamic web pages. IIS 4. (ASP) technology, the Toolkit facilitates the integration of BRIDGE information into a website with little or no additional development effort. For more information about eBRIDGE, visit us at booth #2201 at the Securities Industry Association's Technology Management Conference & Exhibit show, June 20-22 at the 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 Hilton eBRIDGE provides Internet solutions to over 100 major clients globally including the top five online brokerages in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . eBRIDGE solutions include the delivery and display of financial data and services over the Internet, the Internet, the, international computer network linking together thousands of individual networks at military and government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, industrial and financial corporations of all sizes, and commercial enterprises creation and maintenance of information, web design, web hosting and network services. Local language capabilities and innovative investment tools such as research-on-demand are also available. BRIDGE, together with its principal operating units, Bridge Information Systems, Telerate(R), Inc., Bridge Trading, eBRIDGESM, and BridgeNewsSM, is the largest provider of financial information and related services in North America - and one of the fastest growing in the world. BRIDGE information products include a wide range of workstations, market data feeds and web browser-based applications, combined with comprehensive market data, in-depth news, powerful analytic tools and trading room integration systems. BridgeNews leverages a network of 600 BRIDGE journalists in more than 100 locations that break news affecting financial markets globally. BRIDGE is the co-producer of the Nightly Business Report Nightly Business Report is a financial news television program that is broadcast live, weekday evenings on most of the public television stations in the United States. Frequently abbreviated to NBR, the show is produced by public television station WPBT-TV in Miami, Florida, and and is a leading provider of financial news and information to media companies worldwide. BRIDGE, with 5000 employees worldwide, and over a quarter of a million users in over 65 countries, is headquartered 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. with the BRIDGE Trading and Technology center in St. Louis, MO., and major regional centers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Pacific Rim. For more information visit the BRIDGE web site at http://www.bridge.com. |
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