Cargill Selects Aspelle's Secure Enterprise Access Solution to Address Needs of Global Workforce.Business Editors and Technology Writers NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 22, 2002 Aspelle, a provider of secure enterprise access solutions, today announced that Cargill Cargill, Incorporated is a privately held, multinational corporation, and is based in the state of Minnesota in the United States. It was founded in 1865, and has grown into the world's second largest privately held corporation (in terms of revenue). , a leader in agricultural, financial and industrial products and services, has implemented its award-winning Microsoft.NET-based software platform, Aspelle Everywhere. An Internet-based solution that allows businesses to provide customers, partners and employees secure "anytime, anywhere" access to internal corporate resources, Aspelle Everywhere will help Cargill users improve communication and productivity. "To compete successfully in a global market, businesses must be able to guarantee that employees have access to corporate applications from any location; at anytime," commented Simon Johnson Simon Johnson could be:
Leveraging Cargill's existing IT infrastructure, Aspelle Everywhere allows Cargill employees to securely access selected internal applications, regardless of their physical location. Offering a familiar and easy-to-use interface, Aspelle Everywhere eliminates additional systems training, and enables Cargill employees to stay "comfortably connected" as long as they have an 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 connection and 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. . "For companies like Cargill, which compete on a global scale, the ability to provide employees with convenient and flexible access to applications is important," noted Mark Middendorf, EC Infrastructure Manager at Cargill. "While exploring various types of solutions, we were impressed im·press 1 tr.v. im·pressed, im·press·ing, im·press·es 1. To affect strongly, often favorably: by Aspelle Everywhere's device-independent nature, and its flexible architecture. Aspelle Everywhere could integrate into our existing infrastructure, and meet our needs for application accessibility, cost and security." Functioning as a "secure access layer," Aspelle Everywhere sits between Cargill's existing network infrastructure and the Internet, and delivers selected corporate applications via a standard Web browser. Using advanced privacy and security measures Noun 1. security measures - measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc.; "military security has been stepped up since the recent uprising" security , as well as industry-accepted standards and protocols, Aspelle Everywhere offers Cargill several benefits including increased user productivity and the opportunity to decrease the number of Cargill-managed devices, such as laptops, outside of the company's internal environment. Aspelle Everywhere is the first product on the market to provide access to all corporate resources, without compromising security or ease-of-use. Requiring only a Web browser and an Internet connection, Aspelle's software platform securely delivers access to a full range of corporate applications and data including Web, Unix, Windows Terminal An input/output terminal for a Windows NT or Windows 2000 server running multiuser software such as Windows Terminal Server, WinFrame or Citrix Presentation Server (formerly MetaFrame). Server/Citrix MetaFrame, AS/400 and legacy systems. Specifically designed to maximize a company's previous technology investments, Aspelle Everywhere doesn't require client-side software, a dedicated device, system re-architecture, application re-engineering or significant hardware expenditure. (For more information on Aspelle Everywhere, see separate product announcement at www.aspelle.com.) About Cargill Cargill is an international marketer, processor and distributor of agricultural, food, financial and industrial products and services with 90,000 employees in 57 countries. The company provides distinctive customer solutions in supply chain management, food applications and health and nutrition. About Aspelle The industry's premier provider of secure enterprise access solutions, Aspelle is dedicated to helping businesses deliver vital information to customers, partners and employees faster and more efficiently than ever before. The company's award-winning Microsoft.NET-based software platform, Aspelle Everywhere, provides secure individualized in·di·vid·u·al·ize tr.v. in·di·vid·u·al·ized, in·di·vid·u·al·iz·ing, in·di·vid·u·al·iz·es 1. To give individuality to. 2. To consider or treat individually; particularize. 3. access to corporate applications and data -- anytime and anywhere. Embracing open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced as well as advanced security measures, Aspelle Everywhere offers a wide range of benefits to companies including unparalleled return on existing technology investments, a significant reduction in technology-related overhead costs overhead costs see fixed costs. , and improved response time to customer needs. Founded in 2001, Aspelle has offices in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Seattle and London. For more information, please visit www.aspelle.com. |
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