Telcordia Technologies, Inc. Successfully Implements Jacada Solution to Web-Enable Telecommunications Application.Business Editors ATLANTA--Sept. 25, 2000-- BellSouth First Telcordia Customer to Leverage Innovative Legacy-to-Web Tool 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 that communications software and solutions provider Telcordia Technologies, Inc., has successfully implemented its first Web-enabled legacy application utilizing Jacada(R) for Java for the Telcordia(TM) SWITCH(R) application. The SWITCH application allows phone companies to automatically manage, administer, and configure their telecommunications networks. By design, the highly specialized SWITCH application generates a character-based interface. Implementing Jacada refits the SWITCH System with a robust graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ) without disturbing the core programming. With the new GUI front end, local exchange carrier personnel will benefit from screen simplification and consistency across Telcordia applications; thus driving increased productivity and a reduction in training time. The SWITCH(R) application is the first of Telcordia Technologies Service Provisioning family of applications to be Internet-enabled by Jacada. Additional Service Provisioning applications are currently being Internet-enabled with Jacada for Java. Telcordia has implemented the first Web-enabled version of their SWITCH system at BellSouth Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BLS See Bureau of Labor Statistics. ). Under a six-year agreement, Telcordia was selected by BellSouth to be the preferred strategic partner for its supply of a wide range of operation support systems (OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. ) infrastructure. Telcordia and BellSouth will direct their efforts to upgrading the platforms and infrastructure within the BellSouth Regional Operating Centers. "The Jacada solution is enabling Telcordia to extend the life of our legacy applications," said George D. Ogden, project manager at Telcordia. "Our customers demand state-of-the-art, high performance solutions, and the SWITCH application delivers the dependability and accuracy required by our customers. Being able to put a graphical front-end on the application gives Telcordia the ability to deliver a high-end Internet solution, without re-engineering our entire application." About Telcordia Technologies, Inc. - Telcordia Technologies, Inc., an SAIC SAIC - http://saic.com. company, is one of the world's largest providers of operations support systems Operations Support Systems (also called Operational Support Systems or OSS) are computer systems used by telecommunications service providers. The term OSS most frequently describes "network systems" dealing with the telecom network itself, supporting processes such , network software and consulting and engineering services to the telecommunications industry. The Telcordia software organization, comprised of Operations Support Systems and Service and Business Management Systems, has been 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. 9001-certified and has been assessed at Level 5, the highest level of the Capability Maturity Model(R), an industry standard for measuring software development processes that was developed by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). . A leader in the development of Next Generation Network technologies, Telcordia employs more than 6,500 professionals and has revenues of more than $1.5 billion. Telcordia (www.telcordia.com) is headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey Morristown is a town in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the town population was 18,544. Its estimated population in 2004 was 18,842. It is the county seat of Morris CountyGR6. , US with offices throughout the United States, Europe, Central and South America and Asia Pacific. Capability Maturity Model is a registered trademark of Carnegie Mellon University. SWITCH is a registered trademark of Telcordia Technologies, Inc. About BellSouth - BellSouth (NYSE) is a $26 billion communications services company. It provides telecommunications services, Internet, data services and e-commerce applications, wireless communications, cable and digital TV, and online and directory advertising to more than 40 million customers in 18 countries worldwide. For more information about BellSouth, visit our Web page at: http://www.bellsouth.com/. 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 Jacada regarding Jacada's business which are not historical fact, including those regarding growth in its business, are forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe harbor 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 Jacada's Offering Prospectus of October 14, 1999 and filings with the SEC, that could cause Jacada's actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. |
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