Cipher Announces New Competitive Intelligence Outsourcing Program.ARNOLD, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1999-- Cipher cipher: see cryptography. (1) The core algorithm used to encrypt data. A cipher transforms regular data (plaintext) into a coded set of data (ciphertext) that is not reversible without a key. Systems LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , a recognized leader in competitive intelligence (CI) tools and methodologies, today announced that they are now available to design, staff and operate all or part of an organization's entire CI function. Cipher's new service offering takes the "work" out of the intelligence creation process and delivers the end results: the key information required to make business-critical decisions. Competitive intelligence is being aware of, sharing knowledge about and creating intelligence with regard to companies, regulators, special interest groups, and other external forces in your industry. Competitive intelligence is not spying! Competitive intelligence adheres to legal and ethical guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. that are often more strict than corporate legal and ethics statements. Competitive intelligence is not market research. The focus is strictly about those forces within an industry that can significantly impact the well being, and often the existence of your company, but over which you have little or no control, until now. "Most large and mid-sized enterprises are faced with increased demands for CI solutions as a result of constant pressure from the global marketplace for better products, increased service and lower prices," says Cipher vice president Jim Richardson Jim Richardson (b. Belleville, Kansas, US, 1947) is an American photojournalist working primarily for the National Geographic Society as well as a social documentary photographer recognized for his explorations of small-town life. . "However, not all organizations have the resources or expertise in-house to implement and staff CI solutions. That is where Cipher comes in with both the end-to-end solutions (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. and ongoing resource support." About Cipher www.cipher-sys.com Cipher, established in 1996 and based in Glastonbury, CT, provides knowledge management and competitive intelligence applications and consulting worldwide. Cipher's Knowledge.Works and IntelAssist products are database and workflow tools chosen by KM and CI professionals around the world. Cipher's solutions are available on both Lotus and Microsoft technology platforms and are currently installed at over 75 sites in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, the Philippines, Switzerland and Israel. Cipher's technology has been licensed to Lotus, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Microsoft, Renaissance and Cambridge Technology Partners. Lotus is a registered trademark of Lotus Development Corp. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, . All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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