ChoicePoint Launches Vendor Screen Plus.ALPHARETTA, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 1999-- Web-based service enables verification of vendors, potential merger and acquisition candidates, suppliers and contractors at www.vsplus.com/vsplus ChoicePoint Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CPS (1) (Characters Per Second) The measurement of the speed of a serial printer or the speed of a data transfer between hardware devices or over a communications channel. CPS is equivalent to bytes per second. ) announced today the debut of Vendor Screen Plus(TM) (www.vsplus.com/vsplus), the first Internet-based information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. service for validating vendor credentials CREDENTIALS, international law. The instruments which authorize and establish a public minister in his character with the state or prince to whom they are addressed. If the state or prince receive the minister, he can be received only in the quality attributed to him in his credentials. and integrity. This site provides a single point of contact to access, organize and verify the vital information on any business or its principals. Already in place at one of the nation's largest property and casualty insurance carriers, recent subscribers include a global telecommunications company See telecom company. and a nationwide clothing retailer. "In today's business Today's Business is a show on CNBC that aired in the early morning, 5 to 7AM ET timeslot, hosted by Liz Claman and Bob Sellers, and it was replaced by Wake Up Call on Feb 4, 2002. environment, it's absolutely critical that companies better understand the business partners they rely on," explained Jim Zimbardi, ChoicePoint vice president. "With Vendor Screen Plus, we're providing our customers with a scaleable solution to help assure vendor reliability and reduce the potential for existing and future fraud. And, all of our data comes from factual and objective sources as opposed to primarily self-reported data from other business reporting agencies." Vendor Screen Plus enables any small, mid-size or Fortune 1000 business to research critical information about existing and potential vendors, partners, customers, contractors or merger and acquisition candidates. The service can be pre-configured or allow for custom reports, and provides screening on third party entities that may include address verification, criminal court records, incorporation status, company and corporate officer profiles, fraud history, Secretary of State and licensure licensure (lī´s  nsh information and insurance coverage verification.
In addition to user-defined and custom reports, ChoicePoint's Vendor Screen Plus also enables customers to order on-site public record retrieval and background investigations. Moreover, customers using Vendor Screen Plus require only Internet access See how to access the Internet. and no additional software. ChoicePoint is the leading provider of decision-making intelligence to businesses, individuals and government agencies. Through the identification, retrieval, storage, analysis and delivery of data, the company serves the information needs of the property and casualty insurance market, the life and health market, and the business and government markets, including Fortune 1000 corporations, asset-based lenders and professional service providers, and local, state and federal governments. For more information about ChoicePoint, visit www.choicepointinc.com. ChoicePoint and Vendor Screen Plus are trademarks of ChoicePoint Inc. |
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