Computer Associates to Provide Technology and Resources to European Center for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children.BRUSSELS, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 30, 1998-- State-Of-The-Art Help Desk Software To Revolutionize The Search For Missing Children Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) today announced it will provide technology and resources to the European Centre for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children, a private non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. dedicated to finding missing children and preventing the abduction Abduction Balfour, David expecting inheritance, kidnapped by uncle. [Br. Lit.: Kidnapped] Bertram, Henry kidnapped at age five; taken from Scotland. [Br. Lit. and sexual exploitation of children. CA made the announcement at today's official inauguration of the Brussels-based headquarters of the Centre. "This is just the beginning of what we expect to be a strong relationship between CA and the Centre," said Christian Wiener, general director of the European Centre for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children. "We are delighted that a company of CA's stature has agreed to donate both its technology and expertise for the benefit of children." The creation of the European Centre for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children was triggered by the parents of missing children who organized the White March -- a peaceful, silent protest that brought more than 300,000 Belgian citizens, wearing primarily white clothes, into the streets of Brussels in October 1996. After the march, Belgian Prime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene Jean-Luc Joseph Marie Dehaene listen (born August 7 1940) is a Belgian politician. He was born in Montpellier, France, when his parents were fleeing German troops. committed to sponsoring the creation of the European Centre for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children. Since then, CA's Belgium staff has been part of a technology committee working under the initiative of Pierre Martin Neirinckx of the King Baudouin Foundation The King Baudouin Foundation (KBF) is a public benefit foundation in Brussels, Belgium, established in 1976. Named after Baudouin of Belgium, Belgium's late head of state, its mission is to contribute to improving the living conditions of the population. to create the infrastructure for a European Centre for Missing Children in Brussels. As part of the first phase of the organization's technology implementation, CA is installing Unicenter TNG's Advanced Help Desk option. This high-end CA help desk solution includes a comprehensive call tracking module which will support the organization's hotline. The adaptability of AHD AHD Ahead AHD American Heritage Dictionary AHD Australian Height Datum AHD Arrowhead AHD Airhead AHD Academic Honors Diploma AHD Alveolar Hydatid Disease AHD Advanced Help Desk AHD Atherosclerotic Heart Disease was key for this application. AHD makes it easy to capture all issues pertaining per·tain intr.v. per·tained, per·tain·ing, per·tains 1. To have reference; relate: evidence that pertains to the accident. 2. to a missing child -- information which will greatly assist in the recovery of missing children. "CA's Unicenter TNG TNG Training TNG The Next Generation TNG Tongue TNG The Newspaper Guild (Union) TNG Transitional National Government TNG Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (national facility of the Italian astronomical community) Advanced Help Desk will vastly improve our ability to track the issues associated with these missing children," said Wiener. "This technology will significantly speed the process by simplifying the management and analysis tasks associated with the process. This will allow us to be more effective in our efforts to locate missing children." Built on the Unicenter TNG Framework, AHD provides a comprehensive enterprise solution for the total automation and management of service delivery. It will be customized specifically to meet the needs of workers and volunteers in the new Centre, providing advanced features for problem resolution and ensuring highly responsive service delivery. The next phase of CA's involvement will entail the creation of a local web site to be linked with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a private, non-profit organization established in the United States in 1984 under United States government mandate. in Washington D.C. (NCMEC NCMEC National Center for Missing & Exploited Children NCMEC National Concrete and Masonry Engineering Conference ). Developed and supported by CA, NCMEC's web site (www.misskingkids.com) now receives more than 1.7 million hits a day. "Our partnership with the European Centre for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children in Brussels will help improve the safety of children and provide a worthwhile resource for parents," said Jean-Louis Caudron, managing director of CA Belgium. "We are pleased that CA's technology will be directly linked to the fight against child adbuction and sexual exploitation and will support the efforts of the Centre to keep our children safe." Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has over 11,000 people in 160 offices in 43 countries and had revenue of $4.5 billion in calendar year 1997. CA can be reached by visiting http://www.cai.com on the World Wide Web, emailing info@cai.com, or calling 1-516-342-5224. The European Centre For Missing And Sexually Exploited Children is a private non-profit organization operating under Belgian law whose mission is to find missing and abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point children, and to prevent the abduction and sexual exploitation of children. -0- All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Raymond Peeters CA +(32) 2 773 2811 peera01@cai.com OR Terry Davidson Eurocommunications Group +(32) 2 640 9207 terry@eurocom.be |
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