Cable & Wireless Omnes Inc. and Internet Image Inc. Announce Software Deployment and Management Strategic Alliance.FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 1998-- MIS Managers Get Unprecedented Software Delivery Reliability and User Support Cable & Wireless Omnes, a Schlumberger/Cable & Wireless company, and Internet Image Inc. today announced a strategic alliance between the two companies. Cable & Wireless Omnes will be providing solutions based on Internet Image's TargetLink(tm), an Application Deployment & Management (ADM See add/drop multiplexer. (language) ADM - A picture query language, extension of Sequel2. ["An Image-Oriented Database System", Y. Takao et al, in Database Techniques for Pictorial Applications, A. Blaser ed, pp. 527-538]. ) solution. Simon Niven, Cable & Wireless Omnes' product manager for Intranet Solutions, said, "We provide Intranet Solutions which have a real return on investment (ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ). Automated software distribution optimizes an organization's productivity, while saving time and money on the acquisition, distribution, and management of software, and hence demonstrates real ROI." The Personal Computer Assets Management Institute (PCAMI PCAMI Personal Computing Asset Management Institute ) estimates that U.S. organizations spent $2 billion in 1997 for software they already owned. Software Distribution from Cable & Wireless Omnes provides automatic delivery of software packages by automating software installation and upgrades. This technology ensures software compatibility, while helping develop and launch company-wide IT standards for future implementation. Niven continued, "With the rapidly increasing number of changes needed to solve Y2K problems Y2K problem or Y2K bug: see Year 2000 problem. (Year 2000 problem) The inability of older hardware and software to recognize the century change in a date. , such as software upgrades, IT professionals are becoming too swamped to spend time on vital strategic issues. With TargetLink's automated deployments to PCs, Macs and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). workstations and Cable & Wireless Omnes' services, together we provide the needed solutions." Application Deployment & Management (ADM) allows users to choose whether or not to request software, or to have upgrades pushed automatically to the client's desktop. TargetLink provides Standardization standardization In industry, the development and application of standards that make it possible to manufacture a large volume of interchangeable parts. Standardization may focus on engineering standards, such as properties of materials, fits and tolerances, and drafting of software, packages, and versions utilized across the organization. Ray Thackeray Raymond John Thackeray known as Ray Thackeray, was one of the founders of OnVantage Inc., (after merger of PlanSoft and seeUthere) which announced a merger with StarCite Inc. [1] in October 2006. , vice president for marketing at Internet Image Inc., reported, "We can confidently demonstrate high ROI figures, using TargetLink to automate software and data deployments, within just a few months." The TargetLink technology provides benefits such as reduced costs for acquisition, implementation, distribution and administration, software license tracking for centrally negotiated discounts, flexibility with an expandable architecture and configurable templates, guaranteed delivery with automatic notification of completion or retransmission Retransmission might refer to:
"I'm particularly delighted to conclude this close relationship with Cable & Wireless Omnes," Thackeray said. "They draw upon Schlumberger's strengths in IT and systems integration and Cable & Wireless' expertise in network management, telecommunications, and customer service, for exactly the kind of implementation service TargetLink needs for large enterprise installations." Cable & Wireless Omnes is a 50/50 joint venture between Schlumberger and Cable & Wireless. The company, based in Houston, Texas “Houston” redirects here. For other uses, see Houston (disambiguation). Houston (pronounced /'hjuːstən/) is the largest city in the state of Texas and the , provides IT and communications solutions in over 40 countries, notably in remote frontier oil- and gas-producing regions. Cable & Wireless Omnes offers products and services in Network & Intranet, E-Commerce, Security and Internet. The company's web site address is www.cwomnes.net. Internet Image Inc. is located in the heart of northern California's Silicon Valley. Using its Beyond Push(R) technology, Internet Image is focusing on providing Application Deployment & Management (ADM) solutions for mission critical information such as software and customer support bulletins in both Intranet and Internet environments. Internet Image develops and markets an enterprise application, TargetLink that provides end-to-end automated software deployment Software deployment is all of the activities that make a software system available for use. The general deployment process consists of several interrelated activities with possible transitions between them. solutions. The company's headquarters are located at 39560 Stevenson Place, Suite 119, Fremont, California For the unincorporated community in Yolo County, California, see . Fremont (IPA: /ˈfriːmɒnt/) is a city in California that was incorporated on January 23, 1956, from the merger of five smaller communities: 94539. The Web site address is http://www.internetimage.com. Note to Editors: Photos and graphics are available upon request. Beyond Push and TargetLink are trademarks of Internet Image Inc. Keywords: Push, Beyondpush, system administration, administrator, management, enterprise, enterprise-wide, Internet, Image, clients, corporate, ESD (1) (Electronic Software Distribution) Distributing new software and upgrades via the network rather than individual installations on each machine. See ESL. , inventorying, grouping, dynamic, intranet, extranet, distribution, server, strategic, alliance, object-oriented, MIS, IS, IT, roll-out, role-based, cross-platform, heterogeneous, version control, remote, license, network |
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