Covia Technologies announces availability of real-time airline flight information on the World Wide Web with WebWorks.ROSEMONT, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 1995--Covia Technologies announces a breakthrough product, WebWorks=81, that enables airlines and airports to provide up-to-the-minute flight information on the World Wide Web. With WebWorks, airlines and airports can bring real-time flight, schedule, and gate information to customers, passengers and service providers at their offices, homes, and any location where they can use a computer to access the Internet. This is a significant first in airports' and airlines' ability to provide convenience and satisfaction to travelers, and it is a ground-breaking venture in using the Internet as a means to communicate vital information to the general public. The World Wide Web has evolved as a graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ) to the Internet. Covia Technologies' WebWorks distributes an airport's or airline's current flight information to the World Wide Web. This information is automatically updated, 24 hours a day, from a central, integrated database at the airport, enabling travelers to see the same critical flight information they would see on-site at the airport. In addition, the easy-to-read display screens can be customized with graphics and can offer users hyper-text links to other Web pages, including local transportation and lodging, car rentals, city maps, and upcoming events. WebWorks is an add-on product to Covia Technologies' ResourceWorks=81 suite of airport management and planning tools, designed around the integrated AirCore database. The AirCore database distributes updates generated by both operational schedule changes and data links from airlines' computer systems. In addition to WebWorks, the ResourceWorks product line includes Gate Management, Displays, Signs, and Visual Paging. Any airport or airline that now uses ResourceWorks and has a Web site can easily install WebWorks from Covia Technologies. Covia Technologies' Airport Consulting can also design a Web page for an airline or airport, or work with an existing Web service vendor. WebWorks can be added to any current or future ResourceWorks system. Covia Technologies is demonstrating WebWorks the week of Sept. 11, 1995, at the Airports Council International, North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. (ACI ACI American Concrete Institute ACI Arch Coal Inc ACI Airports Council International (formerly Airport Associations Coordinating Council) ACI Automobile Club d'Italia ACI American Competitiveness Initiative ) show in Washington, D.C., and has a prototype of WebWorks running as a demo on their home page : http://www.covia.com. Covia Technologies, headquartered in Chicago, Ill., is a leading provider of software and consulting solutions for enterprise-wide distributed computing (1) The use of multiple computers networked throughout a wide geographical area, or the world via the Internet, in order to solve a single problem. See grid computing. (2) The use of multiple computers in an enterprise rather than one centralized system. , serving customers that need a fully integrated, interoperable computing infrastructure and applications software base. The company's product roster includes the Communications Integrator=AE, business-critical distributed applications An application made up of distinct components running in separate runtime environments, usually on different platforms connected via a network. Typical distributed applications middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a for the enterprise, and distributed applications software for vertical markets such as travel and transportation, along with consulting and training relationships in a host of industries. Covia Technologies has offices in Rosemont, Ill., 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 , Denver, 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 , and Swindon, England. Covia Technologies operates as a division of Galileo International. ResourceWorks and WebWorks are trademarks of Galileo International. All other products referenced are trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Covia Technologies, Rosemont, Ill. David Friedman David Friedman is the name of:
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