California Contractors State License Board Leverages Web-enabling Technology From SAGA to Help Put an End to Fradulent Contracting.RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 1999-- With the Support of SAGA's(TM) EntireX and iXpress Solutions-Oriented Middleware(TM) California's New Online Database of Licensed Building Contractors Can Offer Customers Service SAGA SOFTWARE Inc. (SAGA) is helping the California Contractors State License Board (CSLB CSLB Contractors State License Board ) put an end to illegal contracting through two Solutions-Oriented Middleware products that have been built into its Contractors License Status Inquiry System (CLSIS). CLSIS is a web-enabled system that provides real-time information to protect consumers from unlicensed building contractors building contractor n → contratista m/f de obras building contractor n → entrepreneur m (en bâtiment) building contractor and provide them with vital up-to-the-minute information about the contractor's license. Now consumers and building departments have a quick and easy way to verify the validity of a contractor's license at anytime via the Internet. The new system was made possible by SAGA's iXpress(R) Web-based development tools, along with EntireX(TM) Broker, SAGA's cross-platform message-oriented middleware Message-oriented middleware comprises a category of inter-application communication software that generally relies on asynchronous message-passing as opposed to a request/response metaphor. solution that links mainframe applications to 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). (R) and Microsoft(R) desktops among other platforms. With these Solutions-Oriented Middleware(TM) products, CSLB can still use its NATURAL programs to access data. As a result, CSLB programmers didn't need to learn a new programming language which eliminated training requirements and enabled CSLB the ability to protect its existing investment and get the pilot up and running in a matter of days. CSLB serves a population base of 13 million and oversees licensing for about 200,000 of California's active building contractors. Since reports on this information can become quickly outdated, CSLB felt the Internet would be a more efficient way for end-users to access the actual records stored on its mainframe. With the new Contractors License Status Inquiry System, consumers and building departments throughout California have access, in real-time, to CSLB's database of licensed contractors in the state (ranging from landscapers to masons to remodeling remodeling /re·mod·el·ing/ (re-mod´el-ing) reorganization or renovation of an old structure. bone remodeling contractors). The program has proven very successful, especially following the severe flooding that took place in California in December of 1996. In a recent 11-month period, the Web site received well over a million queries which otherwise would have inundated in·un·date tr.v. in·un·dat·ed, in·un·dat·ing, in·un·dates 1. To cover with water, especially floodwaters. 2. the agency's call center. "With its new Contractors License Status Inquiry System, CSLB has extended its service reach and augmented its customer accessibility to real-time information," said Timothy L. Hill, SAGA's Vice President, Marketing and International Operations Internal Operations (I.O., IO or I/O) is a fictional American Intelligence Agency in Wildstorm comics. It was originally called International Operations. I.O. first appeared in WildC.A.T.S. volume 1 #1 (August, 1992) and was created by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee. . "We at SAGA are delighted and proud that our Solutions-Oriented Middleware products are providing the people of the State of California with these tangible solutions." Future plans In addition to providing contractor licensing information via the Internet, CSLB is planning additional offerings. "We recently made it possible to check contractors by individual name in addition to license name and business name. In the future, we hope to provide order forms through the system," said Debbe Phelps, Staff Programmer Analyst A person who analyzes and designs information systems and designs and writes the application programs for the system. In theory, a programmer analyst is both systems analyst and applications programmer. In practice, the title is sometimes simply a reward to a programmer for tenure. for CSLB. "We also want to offer an online home improvement certification exam next year. Once the validity of the applicant is determined, the exam will be given over the Internet and the information will recorded into our database." CSLB forsees significiant savings by offering certification exams over the Internet. "With over 200,000 licensees, most of whom could take the test at one time or another, operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales will significantly be reduced. We won't have to mail out the booklet and the form, wait to receive it, hand-grade it and send back the results in the mail," Phelps said. About SAGA SOFTWARE Inc. SAGA SOFTWARE Inc. based in Reston, provides enterprise system software and Solutions-Oriented Middleware products that support billions of mainframe transactions daily for some of the world's largest organizations. SAGA's suite of mission critical products and associated professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. take customers from the heart of the enterprise to the desktop, freeing their information and leveraging their IT investment. SAGA's parent company is traded on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol AGS AGS American Geriatrics Society. . For further information, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.sagasoftware.com. All product or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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