SIGNIFICANT JCDA NEWS
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Monday November 29, 8:25 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
National Business Center -- Department of the Interior -- Licenses
Jacada for Java for Federal Payroll System
Jacada(R) for Java to Deliver Web Access for 25,000 Federal Employees
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 1999-- Jacada Ltd. (NASDAQ:JCDA - news), today announced that it has won a significant contract with the
National Business Center, part of the Department of the Interior, to provide software to web-enable the Federal Payroll and Personal System with the
company's ebusiness solution, Jacada® for Java.
The National Business Center provides data processing services and applications for various departments of the Federal Government. The Federal Payroll
and Personal System, known as FPPS, is a mainframe-based (S/390) application that is used by many federal departments, the largest being the Social
Security Administration. In total, over 25,000 federal employees use FPPS. The National Business Center has licensed Jacada for Java to deliver graphical,
web-access to this application for all 25,000 employees. ''The National Business Center selected Jacada based on our ability to rapidly deploy a web solution
for a very sophisticated application, as well as our ability to meet some very demanding scalability and reliability requirements,'' said David Holmes, senior vice
president marketing, Jacada. ''There are more than 2,000 mainframe screens today in this application, and over 25,000 users. Our proven ability to rapidly
deliver an open, non-proprietary Java thin client for the application, and provide a high-performance, highly scalable infrastructure were key factors in their
decision process.''
About Jacada Ltd.
Founded in 1990, Jacada Ltd. develops, markets, and supports a family of e-business infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to utilize their existing
host-centric software applications to conduct business over the Internet. The company operates globally with headquarter offices in Atlanta, Georgia; Herzliya,
Israel; and London, UK. Jacada can be reached at www.jacada.com or at 1-800-773-9574. The company's ordinary shares are traded on Nasdaq under
the symbol JCDA.
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