Jacada Partners With SRA to Provide Legacy Transformation Services To the Federal Government; Alliance to Target Federal Applications Residing on Mainframe Systems.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 12, 2001 Jacada Ltd. (Nasdaq: 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, and SRA International Corporate Profile SRA International, Inc. (NYSE: SRX) is a provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions to clients in national security, civil government, and health care and public health. , Inc., an information technology consulting Information technology consulting (IT consulting or business and technology services) is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives. and systems integration firm that provides services and solutions to the federal government, today announced that SRA SrA abbr. senior airman would leverage Jacada legacy extension tools in its newly created Systems Transformation Center of Excellence. Under the agreement, the two companies will jointly deliver cost-effective e-business solutions, consulting, and training to SRA's federal government clients that have made large investments in mainframe systems and applications. The new Systems Transformation Center of Excellence addresses a critical government need to integrate and modernize mod·ern·ize v. mo·dern·ized, mo·dern·iz·ing, mo·dern·iz·es v.tr. To make modern in appearance, style, or character; update. v.intr. To accept or adopt modern ways, ideas, or style. disparate systems that must maintain the flexibility and robustness to rapidly adapt to changing business and mission requirements. Jacada provides a complete software infrastructure to rapidly transform legacy applications and business critical systems into e-business and wireless solutions as well as to empower government developers to build Internet applications. Using a thin-client architecture, Jacada technology is rapidly deployed, extending mission-critical federal government applications to users via secure intranets. Additionally, a new intuitive, graphical interface See GUI. allows for re-engineered screen navigation that immediately improves application workflow efficiency and consequently, end-user productivity. "By leveraging Jacada's expertise in the legacy-to-Web integration space, we are addressing the significant transformation challenge facing federal IT managers," states Pat Burke
Patrick (Pat) John Burke (born December 14 1973 in Dublin, Ireland) is an Irish professional basketball player in the NBA currently with the Golden State Warriors. , SRA's vice president in charge of the Center of Excellence. "These agencies are realizing that reusing the business logic embodied in their legacy systems - systems that have been customized to meet their unique business requirements - is one of the easiest, safest, and most cost-effective methods for improving operational performance. Jacada provides the additional tools that allow us to move this functionality to a more user-friendly computing environment while expanding information sharing See data conferencing. and enhancing the integrity of the decision-making process." "SRA is a forward-thinking organization on the cutting-edge of Federal systems transformation," comments Aileen Bloom, Jacada's director of federal business development. "Their extensive experience within the government marketplace and their ability to consistently deliver integrated, comprehensive solutions make them an ideal partner for Jacada in the government marketplace. We look forward to many years of shared success with SRA." About SRA International, Inc. - SRA International, Inc. is an information technology firm that provides systems integration, consulting, and eBusiness and eGovernment services and solutions. The Company specializes in Internet systems development, systems and software engineering, network integration and management, information security, enterprise systems management, knowledge discovery, and e-mail management systems. SRA serves clients in civil government, national defense, health care, and financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. . SRA was chosen for the second consecutive year by both Fortune, as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America," and Business Week, as one of the leading private information technology companies. The Company's 1,800 employees serve clients from its headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia Fairfax is an independent city forming an enclave within the confines of Fairfax County, in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Although politically independent of the surrounding county, the City of Fairfax is nevertheless its county seatGR6. , and offices across the country. For additional information on SRA, please see www.sra.com. About Jacada Ltd. - 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's offerings include Jacada(R) Innovator, Jacada(R) for Java, 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. , Jacada(R) Connects, and Jacada(R) for Palm. Jacada solutions are in use today at major corporations and government organizations such as AIG AIG addressee indicator group (US DoD) AIG American International Group, Inc AiG Answers in Genesis (religious group in defense of Scripture) AIG Artificial Intelligence Group AIG Australian Industry Group , Caterpillar, Delta Air Lines, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, The Federal Reserve Bank, Porsche Cars 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. , Prudential Insurance Company of America, and US Department of Interior. 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. This press release may contain "forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. " within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"). When used in this report, the words "may," "could," "should," "would," "believe," "anticipate," "estimate," "expect," "intend," "plan" and similar expressions or statements regarding future periods are intended to identify forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain as they are based on various expectations and assumptions concerning future events, which by their nature involve substantial risks and uncertainties beyond the Company's control. The Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement for events or circumstances after the date on which such statement is made. The Company cannot assess the impact of or the extent to which any single factor or risk, or combination of them, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements. For a more complete discussion of risk factors, please see the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Registration Statement on Form F-1 filed on October 14, 1999 and its Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 1999. |
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