This could be a reason for renewed interest in AZTC...From a press release in July'99.
<<BOSTON, MA, July 8, 1999 - Aztec Technology Partners (NASDAQ: AZTC), a leading single-source provider of information technology and web-based business solutions, today announced that it has patented its SiteManTM software which offers a unique process to manage data and tasks in telecommunications sites. The application, which provides a single point of system entry, monitors and maintains all devices on a telecommunications network simultaneously, and cascades changes across the entire network in full synchronization.
SiteMan is an important component of a recent project completed for the FBI by Aztec's voice and data subsidiary Fortran Communication Systems, which designed and implemented a state-of-the-art, campus-wide communication system for the FBI Academy and Engineering Research Facility in Quantico, VA. The telecommunications infrastructure supports a multi-media EPABX switch equipped for over 2,000 voice lines, and features integrated voice processing, call accounting and toll fraud detection. It can also process both video and data transmissions. Using SiteMan, a single technician provides frontline service and support for the entire voice network.
Unlike conventional database management tools, SiteMan updates an entire network for each discrete change in a single data field. This assures that all data is integrated and inter-linked and that there is reliable communication with all machines. SiteMan also recognizes errors, updates failures, logically checks data when it is initially entered, and automatically increments multiple fields so they are shared with all modules.
"We have only begun to evaluate the full potential of the SiteMan application," explained Dr. Ben Tandowski, Aztec's chief technology officer and founder of the Company's web-based applications development business. "Teleco experts are estimating that the industry will spend half a billion dollars this year on telemanagement software in order to increase operating efficiency and reduce errors.
The use of SiteMan in a highly complex installation such as the FBI Academy project, attests to the market demand for the product and demonstrates Aztec's ability to respond with enterprise-wide communication systems that deliver functionality and these competitive advantages." |
