Centra Announces Major New Customers; Live eBusiness Collaboration Solutions Now Used by Over 175 Organizations.Business/Technology Editors LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 12, 2000 Blue-Chip Companies Use Centra 99 to Support Highly Interactive Collaboration, Communication and Learning on the Web; Partnerships Strengthen Customer Adoption Centra, a provider of software infrastructure solutions for live eBusiness collaboration, today announced a select list of new Centra 99(TM) customers, boosting the number of organizations using the comprehensive, Web-based enterprise application to over 175 worldwide. Unlike other ways that business professionals collaborate, Centra 99 enables large groups of people to assemble, interact, collaborate, share content, and work together in real-time over intranets, extranets and the Internet - dramatically reducing travel, facilities, and telecommunications costs. Instead of simply automating information flow, Centra augments human interaction and provides capabilities aimed at generating revenue, getting closer to customers, and improving productivity. Customers across all industries are using Centra 99 today to support critical business processes, such as virtual teamwork, online services, collaborative selling, and corporate learning with business collaboration over the Web. On the strength of its award-winning products, services, and worldwide partnerships, Centra has acquired the following new customers including: Dominos Pizza, Marsh USA, Warner Lambert, Level 3, Ascolta, the Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Daily newspaper published in Chicago. The Tribune is one of the leading U.S. newspapers and long has been the dominant voice of the Midwest. Founded in 1847, it was bought in 1855 by six partners, including Joseph Medill (1823–99), who made the paper , Guy Carpenter Guy Carpenter was fictional character in the Australian soap opera Neighbours played by Andrew Williams from 1991 to 1992. Family Tree
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Charlotte is the largest city in the state of North Carolina and the 20th largest city in the United States. AT&T and the University of Alberta join the growing list of academic institutions that are delivering live distance learning curricula using Centra 99. Centra 99 Integrates with Microsoft's BackOffice and Digital Dashboard (software) digital dashboard - A personalised desktop portal that focuses on business intelligence and knowledge management. Microsoft's version has a launch screen including stock quotes, voice mail and e-mail messages, a calendar, a weather forecast, traffic information, In addition, Centra has strengthened its relationship with Microsoft with the announcement of Centra 99 for Microsoft BackOffice See BackOffice. . Centra 99 for Microsoft BackOffice integrates Centra's live eBusiness collaboration applications with popular Microsoft desktop and server platforms, and provides users with a single view of their learning and collaboration activities as well as email, calendar, and other activities through a unifying interface of the digital dashboard. "The rapid adoption of Centra's solutions for live eBusiness collaboration is further validation that organizations are seeking new ways to leverage the Internet for strategic business advantage," said Leon Navickas, 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. and founder of Centra. "By gaining the support of blue-chip customers and by forming strategic partnerships with companies like Microsoft and PricewaterhouseCoopers, we will continue to offer our customers the tools they need to succeed." Centra 99 supports three, consistent and application-specific user interfaces. These include Centra Conference(TM), which is designed for one-to-one interaction and large-scale Web presentations; Centra Symposium(TM), which is appropriate for highly interactive events such as hands-on learning, workshops, coaching and teamwork; and CentraNow(TM), a convenient Web service designed for spontaneous meetings, that can be easily accessed at www.centra.com or through a user's personal Centra 99 homepage. Centra 99's integrated voice-over IP capabilities, shared workspace environment, and collaboration tools enable live conversation and human interaction over the Internet. Centra 99 provides significant advantages over other methods of real-time exchange, such as text chat, instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , and screen sharing screen sharing - Audiographic Teleconferencing . With Centra 99, knowledge is transferred in a structured, synchronized, and fully collaborative, real-time environment with the functionality, performance, and universal connectivity required to support globally dispersed business professionals. Through integration with popular Microsoft platforms, Centra 99 customers can schedule online events and meetings using Outlook, generate event notifications and threaded discussions using Exchange, and manage users, courses and content through SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. . About Centra Centra is a provider of software infrastructure solutions for live eBusiness collaboration. Products include Centra 99, an enterprise-class, Internet software application for sales, marketing, services and training, and the innovative CentraNow Web collaboration service - the Web destination for live, voice-enabled business meetings and events featuring the Centra Business Collaboration Network (CentraBCN). Centra's customers include Fortune 1000 companies such as Armstrong, Kraft, Nationwide, Compaq, and Viacom. Centra has business and software partnerships with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Microsoft, Oracle, Ariba, and Global Knowledge Network. Headquartered in Boston's technology corridor, Centra has sales offices in North America and Europe. For more information, visit Centra at www.centra.com. |
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