Jacada Launches Public-Sector Business Unit
Delivering E-Business Solutions to Government for Legacy Extension
MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2000-- Jacada Ltd. (NASDAQ: JCDA - news), a leading provider of e-business infrastructure software, today announced the launch of its public-sector business unit. The business unit will target the public sector's large installed base of legacy systems. Jacada provides the Internet-enabling technology that government agencies require to transition to progressive computing models without completely rewriting existing applications or acquiring new programming skills.
In addition, Jacada named Aileen Bloom, a 15-year veteran of the Federal IT industry, as federal business development director, and Andrew Feinsot, as federal sales manager. Jacada's public-sector office is headquartered at 8201 Greensboro Dr., Suite 1000, McLean, Virginia, 22102. The telephone number is (703) 610-6261.
``The government has long been a leader in IT, and as such, it owns one of the largest installed base of legacy systems in the world,'' said Bloom. ``Innovative agency, intra-agency, and government-to-citizen e-business enhancement initiatives are driving Federal, as well as state and local agencies to bring their applications to the Web. Our public-sector business unit is focused on empowering agencies to rapidly leverage their existing investments in industrial-strength legacy applications to improve operational efficiency and service to the citizen.''
Jacada has an impressive list of Federal, state and local government customers. The company's solutions are installed at the Department of the Interior, National Institutes of Health, Department of Treasury, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, as well as the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Further, Jacada has strong relations with the channel community that serves the public sector market, including Severn Companies Inc., Lockheed Martin, and HTE, Inc., a Florida-based solutions provider and integrator.
``Jacada solutions are tailor made for government agencies that recognize the requirement to move rapidly into e-commerce, but cannot afford to abandon huge existing investments in applications, platforms, and skilled IT personnel,'' said Jack Steere, president and CEO, Severn Companies Inc. ``Jacada's decision to establish a dedicated public-sector business unit could not be more timely.''
Jacada solutions, available on GSA Schedule through Severn Companies, cover all aspects of legacy modernization for applications running in mainframe and AS/400 environments.
e-Business Enablement -- Jacada© for Java and Jacada© for HTML provide an Internet infrastructure that leverages today's legacy enterprise applications, delivering highly effective e-business solutions.
e-Commerce Integration -- Jacada© Connects allows organizations to deliver real-time e-commerce and Web-to-host solutions by providing easy access to mainframe or AS/400 business logic from any existing application.
Wireless -- Jacada© for Palm quickly and easily integrates enterprise applications with the Palm VII. The solution allows organizations to rapidly provide users with wireless access to mission-critical applications with minimal programming requirements.
Legacy Transformation -- Jacada© Innovator is the fastest way to bridge the gap between ``green screen'' application development and a world where businesses can build and maintain distributed, thin client systems.
Application Modernization -- Jacada© for Visual Basic and Jacada© for Windows provide strategic, cost-effective application modernization solutions to integrate host applications into the Microsoft Windows environment.
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. |
