Manpower of France Selects Viasoft Technology; Software Products Will Be Used For Euro Currency, Year 2000, General Maintenance and Modernization IT Projects.PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 1998--Viasoft, Inc. (Nasdaq NM: VIAS VIAS Victorian Institute of Animal ScienceVIAS Visualization Information Archival/Retrieval Service (National Center for Supercomputing Applications) VIAS Vietnam Institute for America Studies ), a leading provider of business solutions to help companies manage and evolve their information technology assets, announced today it signed a licensing agreement with Manpower, France. The agreement is valued at 4,000,000 French francs ($640,000 US) and involves the purchase of several products from Viasoft's Existing Systems Workbench(R) (ESW ESW Eschwege (German license plates) ESW Engineers for a Sustainable World ESW Earth Science Week ESW Emergency Service Water ESW EuroSkyWay (network) ESW Electro Slag Welding (R)) suite of information technology tools. Viasoft's ESW is a powerful, integrated toolset that enables the management and enhancement of existing mainframe computer systems. Viasoft's ESW tools will be used on several Manpower information technology (IT) projects including: euro currency conversion program, year 2000 code conversion and maintenance projects based around improving software quality of the company's mainframe systems. The products will be used within Manpower's IT department based at its corporate headquarters in Paris, France. The tools purchased will address each stage of Manpower's project IT lifecycle from initial assessing and understanding of the size of the project (VIA/Alliance(R), VIA/Insight(R)) through actual code conversion (VIA/AutoChange(tm), VIA/SmartEdit(R) and Bridge for Euro(tm)) to testing the final results for functional equivalency equivalency the combining power of an electrolyte. See also equivalent. (ESW Testing Tools). "After much research and evaluation, we decided on Viasoft's ESW range because it offered complementary products throughout the project lifecycle for our euro, year 2000 and maintenance projects," stated M. Boulland, financial director from Manpower. "No other company seemed to offer such a solution which could be tailored easily across these projects." "We are excited to be providing Manpower with a powerful suite of software tools to assist with the company's euro, year 2000 and mainframe modernization modernization Transformation of a society from a rural and agrarian condition to a secular, urban, and industrial one. It is closely linked with industrialization. As societies modernize, the individual becomes increasingly important, gradually replacing the family, projects," said Ludovic Clement Ludovic Clement (born December 5, 1976 in Fort-de-France, Martinique) is a French football player who currently, as of November 2006, plays for Montpellier HSC. External link
About Manpower In France, Manpower's turnover reached FF 15.9 billion in 1997, increasing by 37% against the previous year. Set up as a network of 750 short-term employment offices, it has 3,000 permanent employees and manages over 65,000 corporate clients (small and medium-sized firms, large French and international companies) in the building and civil engineering, transport and service industries. With its ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9002 certification, Manpower handles over 100,000 temporary workers daily. Manpower is the leading employment company in the world with consolidated sales of US $8.9 billion. Operating 2,800 offices in 48 countries, it currently provides jobs to 1.5 million people (550 million hours worked) with 250,000 corporate clients. About Viasoft Viasoft is a leading provider of business solutions, consisting of integrated technology and specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. professional consulting services Noun 1. consulting service - service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) service - work done by one person or group that benefits another; "budget separately for goods and services" , designed to enable customers worldwide to cost-effectively manage and evolve their information technology assets. Viasoft's flagship products A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. are the Existing Systems Workbench, a comprehensive, integrated toolset that enables the management of existing systems; Rochade(TM), an enterprise repository (1) A database of information about applications software that includes author, data elements, inputs, processes, outputs and interrelationships. A repository is used in a CASE or application development system in order to identify objects and business rules for reuse. environment; and the OnMark 2000(TM) suite of tools for the desktop and client/server year 2000 challenge. Headquartered in Phoenix, Ariz., Viasoft provides sales and services through regional offices in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Canada, Australia, Europe, the Asia/Pacific region and a growing network of international subsidiaries and distributors. For more information on Viasoft's products and services, please visit the Company's World Wide Web site at www.viasoft.com. The statements made in this press release that are not historical facts contain forward-looking information that involves risks and uncertainties. Important factors that may cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to, market demand and acceptance, the impact of competitive products and services, risks associated with results and timing of technology development and commercialization, the Company's ability to manage growth and acquisitions of technology or businesses, the effect of economic and business conditions including risks inherent in international operations Internal Operations (I.O., IO or I/O) is a fictional American Intelligence Agency in Wildstorm comics. It was originally called International Operations. I.O. first appeared in WildC.A.T.S. volume 1 #1 (August, 1992) and was created by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee. and the ability to attract and retain technical personnel, risks associated with, as well as the Company's ability to manage, a consulting services business and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Note to Editors: (c) 1998 Viasoft, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Viasoft(R) is a registered trademark of Viasoft, Inc. CONTACT: Viasoft, Inc., Phoenix Judy L. Redman, 602/667-2849 Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most judy_redman@viasoft.com |
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