Brigham Young University to Utilize enCommerce Extranet Management Software.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 1997-- Worldwide Campus System Deploying enCommerce's getAccess Extranet Management Software to Offer Global Student-Body Enhanced Communications enCommerce, Inc., a start-up venture specializing in extranet data management software for business electronic commerce, today announced that Brigham Young University Brigham Young University, at Provo, Utah; Latter-Day Saints; coeducational; opened as an academy in 1875 and became a university in 1903. It is noted for its law and business schools. (BYU BYU Brigham Young University BYU Bayou BYU Bob's Your Uncle BYU Bayreuth, Germany - Bindlacher Berg (Airport Code) BYU Beyond Your Understanding ) is deploying the company's getAccess(TM) extranet management software to allow students at its worldwide campuses to access select information for significantly improved communications. getAccess enables BYU to provide its worldwide student population flexible and secure access to privileged information, which includes the services of electronic mail and campus directories, through a single log-in to the University's global "Route Y" extranet which seamlessly directs users to authorized web-enabled information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. . "At Brigham Young, we wanted to take disparate web applications developed by distributed campus organizations, and combine them all into a cohesive extranet," said Stan Peters, Director of Product Development for BYU's University Computing Services. "We wanted the flexibility to allow for distributed application An application made up of distinct components running in separate runtime environments, usually on different platforms connected via a network. Typical distributed applications development, while still having the power of a centralized extranet. Our campus organizations use many different environments and enCommerce's getAccess makes them all operate together with a minimum of coordination." Using getAccess, which will be able to scale to support BYU's worldwide campus population of 450,000 students, faculty, employees and affiliates, the University's Route Y extranet now accommodates users with a standard 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. to log in once to obtain access through a personalized navigation menu to all available applications and content, subject only to their level of access privileges. "Brigham Young University is, in many respects, like a global business in terms of its need to provide its user community with easy and secure access to critical information resources, regardless of where they are located," said Hector Saldana, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at enCommerce. "Students require access to key information while the University's IT management must ensure access to information resources is made available only to those users with the appropriate authorization. getAccess meets this technically challenging requirement head-on. As a result of deploying getAccess, BYU is implementing a very sophisticated extranet on a truly global scale." About getAccess Developed in Java, getAccess is a server-based suite of software modules that combine single Web-based log-in, personalized navigation, user-specific information, authentication and authorization, profiling, and administration under a single enterprise-class product. Using a standard Web browser, internal and external users log in once to obtain access through a personalized navigation menu to all available applications and content, subject only to their level of access privileges. Using an advanced, object-oriented data repository See repository. design, getAccess enables IS managers to easily determine and control which categories of users can access which applications and information on the enterprise network through roles-based business rules. getAccess supports access to Web-enabled applications or information resources, as well as access privileges specific to each application. About Brigham Young University Brigham Young University, founded in 1875, is sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ Church of Jesus Christ may refer to:
See: Liquidated damages or Mormon Church The Mormon Church is a religious body founded in 1830 in Fayette, New York, by Joseph Smith. It is also known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or LDS Church. There are 7.7 million Mormons worldwide. ). BYU is part of the LDS Church Educational System, which serves more than one million people worldwide in higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. , seminaries and institutes, elementary and secondary schools, and continuing education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). and literacy programs. The system includes the BYU campus in Provo, Utah; the BYU-Hawaii campus in Laie, Hawaii; Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho; the LDS Business College LDS Business College (LDSBC) is a two-year college in Salt Lake City, Utah, focused on training students in business and industry. The college is owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and operates under the Church Educational System or CES. in Salt Lake City; and elementary or secondary schools in many countries, including Mexico, Fiji, New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. , Tonga, and Western Samoa. For more information, refer to the University's Web site at www.byu.edu . About enCommerce enCommerce provides software and services that enable organizations to dramatically reduce the time and cost of managing extranets. enCommerce's flagship product -- getAccess -- is all-in-one extranet access management software. getAccess is a simple, flexible, and scaleable solution to deploy and manage selective access to Web-enabled applications by thousands of users. For more information, refer to the company's Web site at www.encommerce.com . CONTACT: enCommerce, Inc. Hector Saldana, 408/733-7800 hector@encommerce.com or Dave & Bairey Communications Peter Dave or Peter Alfrey, 415/882-9905 or 415/661-5495 peter@dbcomm.com alfrey@dbcomm.com |
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