Commonwealth of Massachusetts Receives Technology Industry Recognition for Epicentric-Powered Portal; Government Portal Honored with Trailblazer and Silver Axiem Awards.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2002 Epicentric, the leading provider of Business Portal solutions, today announced that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has been honored by the technology industry with two prestigious awards for its Epicentric-powered government portal. Launched earlier this year, the Mass.Gov portal is the state's one-stop gateway to comprehensive, integrated online government services and information. The portal, which serves more than 6 million users, provides citizens, businesses and local government access to a wide range of valuable information on public services Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services. and community concerns. Since deployment, Mass.Gov has matured to become a sophisticated portal delivering a wide range of e-services and transactional capabilities. Built on Epicentric portal technology, Mass.Gov enables the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to aggregate and centralize relevant services and functions online, resulting in increased efficiency internally, as well as dramatically reduced processing times and service administration costs. At the same time, customer satisfaction is at an all time high, because the public is benefiting from improved 24x7 access to services, and more intuitive transactions and processes. "Epicentric is proving to be a powerful foundation for our portal project, enabling us to effectively integrate a multitude of e-services within the portal and demonstrating a high degree of scalability," said Bob Nevins, Director of Mass.Gov. "We continue to work with the portal to extend functionality to our customers and employees, transforming Massachusetts' government into an efficient, citizen-convenient organization." About Epicentric Epicentric, Inc. is a leading provider of Business Portal solutions for Global 2000 companies to deliver integrated Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. to their customers, partners and employees. Founded in 1998, Epicentric customers include Autodesk, Bank One, General Electric, Hartford Life, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Lockheed Martin For the former company, see . Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is a leading multinational aerospace manufacturer and advanced technology company formed in 1995 by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta. , Motorola, Inc., Scotiabank Group, and the U.S. Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) processes and delivers mail to individuals and businesses within the United States. The service seeks to improve its performance through the development of efficient mail-handling systems and operates its own planning and engineering programs. . Epicentric has key alliances with more than 75 companies, including BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. BEA makes middleware, products that help software run on top of databases. , Documentum, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Epicentric, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden with offices in Atlanta, Chicago, 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 , and Washington D.C. International operations include offices in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. For more information visit the company's website at www.epicentric.com. Note to Editors: Trademark and Servicemark Notices: Epicentric, Epicentric Foundation Server, Epicentric Connect, and the Epicentric logo are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Epicentric, Inc. All other company names and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies or owners. |
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