Jacada Launches Public-Sector Business Unit.Business Editors & Technology Writers MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2000 Delivering E-Business Solutions to Government for Legacy Extension Jacada Ltd. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : JCDA JCDA Journal of the Canadian Dental Association JCDA James Carpenter Design Associates JCDA Johnson City Development Authority (Johnson City, TN) JCDA Japan Craft Design Association JCDA Junior Catholic Daughters of America ), a leading provider of e-business infrastructure software, today announced the launch of its public-sector business unit. The business unit will target the public sector's large installed base of legacy systems. Jacada provides the Internet-enabling technology that government agencies require to transition to progressive computing models without completely rewriting existing applications or acquiring new programming skills. In addition, Jacada named Aileen Bloom, a 15-year veteran of the Federal IT industry, as federal business development director, and Andrew Feinsot, as federal sales manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → . Jacada's public-sector office is headquartered at 8201 Greensboro Dr., Suite 1000, McLean, Virginia McLean is an unincorporated community located in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia. A small geographic area along Chain Bridge Road in Arlington County has a 22101 zip code and is also part of McLean. , 22102. The telephone number is (703) 610-6261. "The government has long been a leader in IT, and as such, it owns one of the largest installed base of legacy systems in the world," said Bloom. "Innovative agency, intra-agency, and government-to-citizen e-business enhancement initiatives are driving Federal, as well as state and local agencies to bring their applications to the Web. Our public-sector business unit is focused on empowering agencies to rapidly leverage their existing investments in industrial-strength legacy applications to improve operational efficiency and service to the citizen." Jacada has an impressive list of Federal, state and local government customers. The company's solutions are installed at the Department of the Interior, National Institutes of Health, Department of Treasury, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service The Army and Air Force Exchange Service (or AAFES) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense. Its mission is to provide quality merchandise and services of necessity and convenience to authorized customers at uniformly low prices, and to generate reasonable , as well as the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Further, Jacada has strong relations with the channel community that serves the public sector market, including Severn Companies Inc., 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. , and HTE HTE Hírközlési És Informatikai Tudományos Egyesület (Hungary) HTE High Temperature Electronics HTE HazMat Trucking Enforcer (software) HTE HighTech Engineering HTE High Tension Electrode HTE High Turnover of Employees , Inc., a Florida-based solutions provider and integrator. "Jacada solutions are tailor made for government agencies that recognize the requirement to move rapidly into e-commerce, but cannot afford to abandon huge existing investments in applications, platforms, and skilled IT personnel," said Jack Steere, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Severn Companies Inc. "Jacada's decision to establish a dedicated public-sector business unit could not be more timely." Jacada solutions, available on GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. Schedule through Severn Companies, cover all aspects of legacy modernization for applications running in mainframe and AS/400 environments. e-Business Enablement -- Jacada(R) for Java and Jacada(R) for HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. provide an Internet infrastructure that leverages today's legacy enterprise applications, delivering highly effective e-business solutions. e-Commerce Integration -- Jacada(R) Connects allows organizations to deliver real-time e-commerce and Web-to-host solutions by providing easy access to mainframe or AS/400 business logic from any existing application. Wireless -- Jacada(R) for Palm quickly and easily integrates enterprise applications with the Palm VII The Palm VII product family consisted of two products, the Palm VII and the Palm VIIx Palm Pilots. These were produced by Palm, Inc., before it was split into PalmOne and PalmSource. They had antennas for wireless data communication on the Mobitex network under the now defunct Palm. . The solution allows organizations to rapidly provide users with wireless access to mission-critical applications with minimal programming requirements. Legacy Transformation -- Jacada(R) Innovator is the fastest way to bridge the gap between "green screen" application development and a world where businesses can build and maintain distributed, thin client systems. Application Modernization -- Jacada(R) for Visual Basic and Jacada(R) for Windows provide strategic, cost-effective application modernization solutions to integrate host applications into the Microsoft Windows environment. About Jacada Ltd. Founded in 1990, Jacada Ltd. provides a complete software infrastructure to rapidly transform legacy systems into e-business and wireless solutions and to empower enterprise developers to build Internet applications. Jacada operates globally with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia; Herzliya, Israel; and London, England. Jacada can be reached at www.jacada.com or at 1-800-773-9574. Statements in this press release or otherwise attributable to the Company regarding the Company's business which are not historical fact, including those regarding growth in its business, are forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including risks detailed in the Company's Offering Prospectus of October 14, 1999 and filings with the SEC, that could cause the Company's actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. |
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