CBSI and Jacada Partner to Deliver Wireless and e-business Solutions
ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 2000--Jacada Ltd. (NASDAQ: JCDA - news) a leading provider of e-business infrastructure software and Complete Business Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBSI - news), a worldwide provider of information technology services, today announced a strategic partnership to market and deliver wireless and e-business solutions. Under the agreement, CBSI will market and deliver Jacada Wireless and other Jacada e-business solutions to its customers worldwide.
``CBSI has consistently provided innovative solutions to its customer base. Their selection of Jacada as a tool of choice to enable their legacy customers to enter the e-business and the wireless Web space is an affirmation of their commitment to excel and be leaders in innovation,' said Chip LeBlanc, Jacada's vice president of business development. ``Their broad base of industry and technology experience will help expand Jacada's e-business market and accelerate the launch of our wireless solutions.'
Jacada recently announced Jacada© Wireless, a suite of solutions enabling wireless devices to quickly and easily integrate with existing legacy applications. Jacada Wireless supports any Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) enabled device such as mobile phones, as well as Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) such as the Palm VII(TM). Jacada's offerings also include Jacada© for Java, Jacada© for HTML and Jacada© Connects. Jacada solutions are in use today at major corporations such as Caterpillar, Porsche, Enterprise Rent-a-Car and AIG.
``We selected Jacada based on their leadership position in the mainframe and AS/400 web-enabling market,' said Radha Krishnan, vice president of partner relations for CBSI. ``Their new wireless solutions are a perfect complement to our delivery capabilities as they further extend the reach of our customers' strategic IT solutions. We expect to see significant growth in the wireless e-business space and believe Jacada will be a strong and responsive partner.'
About CBSI
Complete Business Solutions, Inc. is a worldwide provider of information-technology (IT) services with over 5,500 IT professionals serving large and mid-size organizations. The Company offers its customers a broad range of IT services, from advising customers on strategic technology plans to developing and implementing appropriate IT applications solutions. CBSI offers custom-tailored solutions based on an assessment of each client's needs. The Company's services include: e-business transformation services; consulting; large systems applications development and maintenance; packaged software implementation, such as ERP; and contract programming services. CBSI achieved Level 5 quality ratings at offshore development centers in India in December 1999, one of very few companies worldwide to achieve this designation as set by the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model. To learn more about CBSI, visit its website at www.cbsinc.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. The Company 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. |
