CalendarCentral and GadgetSpace Bring Enterprise Scheduling and Calendaring to Mobile Workers.Business Editors/High Tech Writers RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE))--Oct. 24, 2000 CalendarCentral, the only Web-based enterprise calendar designed to deliver 3-D collaboration, announced today a strategic partnership with GadgetSpace, a provider of infrastructure and services for rapid delivery of existing enterprise software applications to any wireless device. The partnership enables both companies to offer wireless users enterprise scheduling capabilities from a wide range of Web-enabled wireless devices, including phones, PDA's, Palm-based devices, automobiles and other specialty wireless devices. "With the wireless revolution bringing a new level of mobility to computing computing - computer and to businesses in general, having access to time-sensitive information, such as your enterprise calendar, at the touch of a cell phone or other mobile device is a natural. Through the GadgetSpace MobileMediary, CalendarCentral is able to instantly re-purpose its existing Web-based applications See Web application. with broad appeal for wireless use," said Karl Schlatzer, chief marketing officer at GadgetSpace. Offering The Big Picture On a Small Screen CalendarCentral provides the only Web-based calendar capable of enabling 3-D collaboration across organizational boundaries. The software features multi-dimensional views for users to manage milestones, deliverables, and events from a 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. . "Our calendar's unique 3-dimensional filtering capability combined with GadgetSpace's wireless technology will allow mobile users to view information specific to their needs," said Dennis Phillips, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. at CalendarCentral. "Direct access to relevant information is an important advantage when dealing with the small screens on today's wireless devices." Mobile users can now gain 24x7 access to crucial, time critical information associated with a particular product, project, business location, or partner, allowing them to easily align individual milestones with business requirements. The First "MobileMediary(TM)" GadgetSpace's MobileMediary service has immediate value to enterprise organizations that have invested in a first wave of Internet solutions. These companies have already absorbed the time and expense of re-engineering their business processes for Internet-based access. GadgetSpace offers an "instant" path to wireless use of the enterprise content, data and services, including those organizations that are using an Application Service Provider (ASP) model to host and execute their applications. There has been a substantial investment in Internet-enabled infrastructure, estimated by Internet Research This article is about using the Internet for research; for the field of research about the Internet, see Internet studies. Internet research is the practice of using the Internet, especially the World Wide Web, for research. Group at $153 billion in 1999. The implementation of Internet-enabled systems has been driven by various strategic enterprise initiatives, including customer relationship management, partner relationship management, supply chain management, sales force automation Automating the sales activities within an organization. A comprehensive SFA package provides such functions as contact management, note and information sharing, quick proposal and presentation generation, product configurators, calendars and to-do lists. and Internet marketplace See vertical portal and Web hub. integration. GadgetSpace offers the ability to leverage these initiatives in new ways, reaching mobile constituents in an extremely cost-effective manner and deriving substantial 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). from existing investments. About CalendarCentral CalendarCentral provides 3-D collaboration focused on your point of view. As the only Web-based business calendar with filtering technology, CalendarCentral enables collaborative and informed decision-making between enterprises. Its software features secure, multi-dimensional views, which enable users to view, publish, sort and filter event information. CalendarCentral's technology is based on the principle that companies must provide relevant information based on individual requirements. Customers such as Visa, Novell, US West, iOmega and Informix are currently using CalendarCentral to share critical information in a customized, real-time format. For more information, visit CalendarCentral at http://www.calendarcentral.com . About GadgetSpace GadgetSpace provides wireless infrastructure and services to enterprises, wireless and telecommunications carriers, system integrators and Application Service Providers. GadgetSpace is the first company to build technology and employ a business model exclusively designed to enable multiple enterprise software applications to be easily accessible on virtually any wireless device. GadgetSpace functions as a wireless intermediary, or MobileMediary, providing instant access to existing Internet applications and services for wireless subscribers. Headquartered near Research Triangle Park, North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. , the company's investors include Southeast Interactive Technology Funds, The Aurora Aurora, cities, United States Aurora (ərôr`ə, ô–). 1 City (1990 pop. 222,103), Adams and Arapahoe counties, N central Colo., a growing suburb on the east side of Denver; inc. 1903. Funds and several angel investors An individual who invests his or her own money in a private company, which is typically a startup. An angel investor is not an employee or member of a bank, venture capital firm or other financial institution that normally makes such investments. . For more information, visit GadgetSpace at http://www.gadgetspace.com . |
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