Dutch Toyota Dealers Choose BASIS International, Audev Software.Business Editors & Automotive Writers ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--(AutomotiveWire)--Sept. 24, 2001 BASIS International Ltd., a global leader in software development tools, and Audev B.V., its Dutch application development partner, Monday announced the decision of Toyota dealers in the Netherlands to pilot test BASIS technology as their new Dealership Management Systems (DMS (1) (Document Management System) See document management. (2) (Defense Messaging System) An X.500-compliant messaging system developed by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. ). Toyota dealers chose the new DMS application, CAR-IT(TM), developed by Audev, over two other major business application suppliers, including accounting application giant, ADP (1) (Automatic Data Processing) Synonymous with data processing (DP), electronic data processing (EDP) and information processing. (2) (Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Roseland, NJ, www.adp. . BASIS technology forms the foundation of CAR-IT. "It was a close race between ADP and Audev," said Jos Schrier, president of Audev. "It is clear a new competition has started. We are aggressively marketing CAR-IT, not only to Toyota but other manufacturers' dealerships. We have high hopes for CAR-IT." BASIS' new Java-based product, BBj(R), was the deciding factor for Toyota because BBj allows integration with relational databases. "We are pleased that our BBj direction has allowed Audev to create such a flexible application for auto dealers," said BASIS President George Hight hight adj. Archaic Named or called. [Middle English, past participle of highten, hihten, to call, be called, from hehte, hight, past tense of hoten . "We are confident that together Audev and BASIS can meet the needs of automobile dealers worldwide." Combining the networking strengths of Java with the ease and business processing of Business BASIC, BBj provides true client/server and distributed processing. BBj is available on Compaq Tru64 UNIX, Hewlett Packard HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , 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) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , Linux, Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris Intel and Sun Solaris SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill operating systems. For 15 years, BASIS has provided over 7,000 software application developers the tools to create leading business applications that are reliable, scalable and cost effective. BASIS technology forms the foundation of thousands of mission-critical systems across industries and serves 1.7 million end-users worldwide. Just a few of the companies running on BASIS include BMW, Carrefour Hypermarkets, Chase Bankruptcy Information Systems, Citicorp, Estee Lauder, Honda, Marriott, Tesco and now, Toyota. |
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