Persoft's SmarTerm Chosen as Connectivity Standard for Partners HealthCare System, Inc.MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 1997-- Persoft, Inc. announced today that its SmarTerm Office for Windows 95/NT, Version 7.0, has been selected as the desktop connectivity standard by Partners HealthCare Partners HealthCare is a non-profit organization that owns several hospitals in Massachusetts, primarily in the Boston area. Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital founded the organization in 1994. System, Inc. (Boston, Mass). Partners cited Persoft's ability to meet all of its connectivity needs as one of the major factors in selecting Persoft solution as its desktop connectivity standard. Persoft, Inc., a leading worldwide provider of PC-to-host connectivity solutions, announced today that its SmarTerm Office for Windows 95/NT, Version 7.0, has been selected as the desktop connectivity standard by leading healthcare organization, Partners HealthCare System, Inc. Partners will use the SmarTerm product as its standard for connecting desktop to legacy host environments. Partners required 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) TN3270, IBM TN5250, Digital, and Data General terminal emulation Using software in a desktop machine to make it perform like a hardware terminal. The emulated terminal is typically in the VT100-500 family, designed originally by Digital Equipment. under Windows 95. Mike Stevens Mike Stevens (born December 30, 1965 in Kitchener, Ontario) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 23 games in the National Hockey League. He is the younger brother of NHL superstar Scott Stevens, who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2007. , Persoft Director of Product Planning Product Planning is the ongoing process of identifying and articulating market requirements that define a product’s feature set. See also
"Within this environment, there is a parallel consolidation of applications and systems and a resulting need to have access to host information through a variety of platforms. SmarTerm provides Partners HealthCare with this solution. In addition, we will scale our solutions as Partners' requirements change. They will be evaluating in the future our Persona solution, which provides connectivity to host systems through a standard, platform-independent web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. ." Partners HealthCare System, Inc. is the organization formed by Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital Health care The major teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School, widely regarded as one of the best health care centers in the world , Brigham and Women's Hospital Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is a hospital in the Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill. With Massachusetts General Hospital, it is one of the two founding members of Partners HealthCare. , and North Shore Medical Center. All of the hospitals are located in the greater Boston area and Partners is in the process of combining functions among the various hospitals to save IS resources and costs. Recently selected by US News and World Report Honor Roll, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital are on the list of America's top 16 elite hospitals. As part of Partners' strategic IS integration across the enterprise, it needed a standard packaging for PC-to-host connectivity to ease MIS costs and training time. For its PC-to-host connectivity standard, Partners required IBM TN3270, IBM TN5250, Digital, and Data General terminal emulation under Windows 95. Jim Marra, Director of Technology Planning, IS, for Partners HealthCare System explained, "One of the key elements in selecting Persoft was their ability to meet our current connectivity needs. We are in the process of moving our MIS environment to a 32-bit architecture and the desktop workstations that we are installing will be running Windows 95. We determined that SmarTerm Office is the best solution to meet these current host connectivity needs." Marra continued, "Another deciding factor in choosing Persoft is their commitment to provide us with a migration strategy that will accommodate our future needs. Because of its ability to accommodate a wide-range of user expertise, Persona is one of the solutions we will be evaluating when we have completed the migration to the 32-bit environment. The bottom line is that we are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. one desktop solution on which we can standardize across our entire organization and we believe Persoft can best fulfill this requirement." SmarTerm Office Version 7.0 SmarTerm Office Version 7.0 provides complete, integrated PC-to-host connectivity access to corporate information residing on IBM mainframes, IBM AS/400s, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Digital, and Data General hosts. As with the other SmarTerm for Windows 95/NT product offerings, the significant connectivity enhancement included in the SmarTerm Office version 7.0 32-bit product is the support for Microsoft SNA (Systems Network Architecture) IBM's mainframe network standards introduced in 1974. Originally a centralized architecture with a host computer controlling many terminals, enhancements, such as APPN and APPC (LU 6. Server and Novell Netware for SAA (Systems Application Architecture) A set of interfaces designed to cross all IBM platforms from PC to mainframe. Introduced by IBM in 1987, SAA includes the Common User Access (CUA), the Common Programming Interface for Communications (CPI-C) and Common Communications . This capability enables users to connect to host environments with faster, more secure IBM 3270 and IBM 5250 terminal emulation. SmarTerm products also include IBM IND$FILE file transfers and TN3270E emulation. In addition, all of the SmarTerm version 7.0 products offer the SmarTerm Toolbox including a VB-compatible macro language; customizable, session-specific SmarTerm Buttons as well as application toolbars; and SmartMouse programmable mouse; and are Intranet aware via site hyperlinks and e-mail addresses. SmarTerm Office Version 7.0 has received the Designed for Windows 95 and Windows NT logo and is also compatible with Microsoft Office 97. SmarTerm Office is priced at $195 (this special introductory price of a $200 discount per node is available through September 30, 1997; offer is not available in Europe). SmarTerm Version 7.0 32-bit Product Family SmarTerm provides Fortune 1000 companies and government PC users with advanced connectivity for access to corporate information residing on IBM, UNIX, Digital, and Data General host systems. SmarTerm also includes PC X server and NFS (Network File System) The file sharing protocol in a Unix network. This de facto Unix standard, which is widely known as a "distributed file system," was developed by Sun. See file sharing protocol and WebNFS. NFS - Network File System support. SmarTerm is compatible with all network operating systems and provides TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. , SNA, SAA, and LAT protocol support to multiple hosts; quick and easy file transfer using a drag-and-drop interface; and serial connectivity. SmarTerm is easy to use with its integrated user interface, Multiple Document Interface See MDI. (programming) Multiple Document Interface - (MDI) The ability of an application program to show windows giving views of more than one document at a time. The opposite is Single Document Interface (SDI). (MDI (1) (Multiple Document Interface) A Windows function that allows an application to display and lets the user work with more than one document at the same time. ) support, point-and-click keyboard mapping utility, and pop-up terminal keyboards. All SmarTerm products provide simultaneous multilingual support in English, French, German, and Spanish. Company Background Persoft, Inc. develops products that provide desktop computer users access to information and applications on local or remote systems. Persoft offers PC-to-host connectivity software for Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and DOS through its SmarTerm product line. Access to those applications via an Intranet is provided through its Persona(TM) Java-based thin-client solutions. The company is headquartered in Wisconsin; its European headquarters are in the United Kingdom. Persoft's web page address is www.persoft.com . Persoft sales can be reached at 800/368-5283 or through sales@persoft.com . -0- Note to Editors: Persoft, SmarTerm, and SmartMouse are registered trademarks and Persona is a trademark of Persoft, Inc. All other products and services are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: KJ Communications Kella Knack, 415/508-0371 knack@persoft.com |
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