Bank One CIO Joins Sequoia Software Board.Business/Technology Editors COLUMBIA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2000 Sequoia Software Corporation, a leading provider and innovator of XML-powered software for creating interactive e-business portals, today announced the addition of Marvin W. Adams W. Adams (d. 1748) was a captain in the British Navy, slain in Edward Boscawen's unsuccessful siege of Pondicherry. Sources
See: New York Stock Exchange : ONE), Adams brings to Sequoia tremendous insight into meeting the e-business and enterprise computing requirements of financial services organizations. "As CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. for the country's fourth largest bank holding company, Marv Adams has the expertise and credibility to help Sequoia effectively understand and serve the e-business requirements of financial institutions," said Rick Faint, chief executive officer, Sequoia Software. "Sequoia has identified the financial services sector as one of the five target markets for our interactive portal application, the XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. Portal Server(TM) (XPS (1) See XML Paper Specification. (2) A brand name for certain models of Inspiron laptops from Dell. ). We are very pleased to have Marv join our board and believe his insight will prove valuable as we move forward to serve this industry." Adams has served as chief information officer of Bank One since February 1997 and was named executive vice president in December 1998. He has held technology-related executive positions at Banc One Financial Card Services Corporation (a subsidiary of Bank One Corporation), Frontier Communications Corporation, Xerox 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) . Adams holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Michigan State University Michigan State University, at East Lansing; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855. It opened in 1857 as Michigan Agricultural College, the first state agricultural college. . About Sequoia Software Sequoia Software Corporation is a leading provider and innovator of XML-powered software for creating interactive e-business portals. Sequoia's flagship product, the XML Portal Server(TM) (XPS), gives users a Web-based, single point of personalized access to distributed information along with the capability to publish, edit, change or update content. As the cornerstone of an effective e-business strategy, XPS improves the accuracy of information search and retrieval, and fosters the interchange of information between organizations and their customers and trading partners. Sequoia's customers include leading manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, insurance and telecommunications firms. For interactive portal solutions that let you do more in less time visit www.sequoiasoftware.com or call Sequoia toll free (888) 820-7917. |
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