British Telecom's Syncordia Services selects Computer Concepts' d.b.Express technology.BOHEMIA Bohemia, Czech Čechy, historic region (20,368 sq mi/52,753 sq km) and former kingdom, in W and central Czech Republic. Bohemia is bounded by Austria in the southeast, by Germany in the west and northwest, by Poland in the north and northeast, and by , N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 1997--Computer Concepts Corp. (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 : CCEE CCEE Conseil des Conférences Episcopales Européennes (Switzerland) CCEE Câmara de Comercialização de Energia Elétrica CCEE Consilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae (Council of European Bishops' Conferences) ) announced today that it is participating with British Telecom's customer solutions division, Syncordia Services, in the development of software products anticipated for release in the second quarter of 1997, which will allow British Telecom's Syncordia Services' customers to access and analyze the high volumes of technical and account information available within British Telecom's Internet-based databases. Dan DelGiorno Jr., president of Computer Concepts, stated that by using a JAVA version of its d.b.Express' data mining technology, British Telecom The telephone and communications carrier that provides services in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It used to be a division of the British Post Office, but was privatized in 1984 under Margaret Thatcher's administration. will be the first and only telecom provider to allow its customers to analyze their data without actually taking delivery of the traditional large quantities of paper or electronic raw data. DelGiorno went on to say that sion support tool, d.b.Express, will be integrated with British Telecom's Syncordia Service's C-View Application suite providing a leading edge Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the data mining technology. d.b.Express allows users to access their data with a clcom's Syncordia Services has selected the d.b.Express software technology to make it as easy as possible for customers to access their account information. d.b.Express was an immediate standout from the other data mining tools reviewed because of its patented graphic approach which required no programming skills in order to access data. d.b.Express' ability to allow customers to visualize the entire database at one time via the Filescape, even if it should comprise tens of millions of records, and to subsequently be able to access any data presented on the Filescape via a simple point-and-click interface, will be a key to the software's popularity with customers. Dan DelGiorno Jr., Computer Concepts' president, said "The joint Computer Concepts/British Telecom Syncordia Services development of the d.b.Express interface to British Telecom's new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. access software is consistent with Computer Concepts' strategy of targeting the telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. industry as a major marketing arena in which our d.b.Express technology will excel. We welcome this joint development opportunity to demonstrate d.b.Express' effectiveness within this vertical market, and look forward to the opportunity to use d.b.Express in the same manner in other vertical market applications being developed by British Telecom." Additional details will be released in conjunction with the anticipated roll out in Q297 of the British Telecom Syncordia Services C-View product. -0- Computer Concepts develops software tools including d.b.Express that assist end users in the retrieval and visualization Using the computer to convert data into picture form. The most basic visualization is that of turning transaction data and summary information into charts and graphs. Visualization is used in computer-aided design (CAD) to render screen images into 3D models that can be viewed from all of all types of data. Its wholly owned SOFTWORKS subsidiary is a leading global provider of IT solutions for the enterprise. Founded in 1977, SOFTWORKS responds to the data management needs of more than 1,800 organizations worldwide, supporting customers in more than 50 countries. SOFTWORKS' customers include nearly 80% of the FORTUNE 100. Located in Bohemia, Computer Concepts and its subsidiaries employ a staff of 165. For more information about Computer Concepts and its SOFTWORKS subsidiary, call (516) 244-1500, or visit Computer Concepts' web site at www.computerconcepts.com or the SOFTWORKS web site at www.softworkscc.com . British Telecom, headquarmunications services, employing more than 125,30 countries), telephone lines, equipment and private circuits for homes and businesses, providing and managing private networks, and supplying mobile communications services. In the global marketplace, British Telecom's operations cover three regions -- 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. , Europe and Asia Pacific. The company has more than 30 offices and more than 2,500 employees based outside the UK. In what has been billed as the "telecommunications deal of the century," British Telecom has a 20 percent stake in MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. , the second largest North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. long-distance carrier. British Telecom and MCI are partners in Concert, a $1 billion joint venture company that offers a one-stop Internet shopping facility to customers around the world. CONTACT: George Arzt Communications, Inc. Fielding Dupuy, 212/633-2283 or Computer Concepts Corp. Leigh Athans, 516/244-1500 |
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