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Interface eBriefs
May 8, 2000
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In this Edition:
COMPANY NEWS
1. Stifel Nicolaus Upgrades MyCopy to Deliver Trade
Confirmations to Clients
2. J.C. Bradford & Company taps Interface for broker
statement delivery software
3. Bob Nero explores the Legacy-to-Internet dilemma during
Killen & Associates Webcast
UPCOMING EVENTS
4. National Investment Company Service Association (NICSA)
Technology Forum 2000
INTERFACE IN THE NEWS
5. The Detroit News spotlights Interface's Legacy-to-Internet
Technology
INTERNET INSIGHT
6. Financial Services Firms Spending Less On Online
Advertising
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COMPANY NEWS
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1. STIFEL NICOLAUS UPGRADES MYCOPY TO DELIVER
TRADE CONFIRMATIONS
What's better than delivering electronic copies of client statements
to your brokers? How about delivering online trade confirmations
to your brokers.
Look for Stifel Nicolaus and Company to do exactly that thanks to
a new agreement between Interface and Stifel that
will help the St. Louis-based brokerage firm upgrade its existing
MyCopy system to deliver online trade confirmations.
"The Interface solution has exceeded our expectations of cutting
printing costs and providing our sales force with an extremely
efficient product," explains David Sliney, Director of Strategic
Planning and Technology for Stifel. "With the addition of MyCopy's
trade confirmation capability, we will be able to deliver trade
confirms to our brokers via the company Intranet, further
enhancing our potential for cost savings and broker efficiency.
Read the complete Press Release at:
intface.com
For more on Stifel Nicolaus & Company, visit: stifel.com
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2. J.C. BRADFORD & COMPANY TURN TO MYCOPY FOR
BROKER STATEMENT DELIVERY
What do you do when your clients receive their account statements
before their brokers? At J.C. Bradford & Co., they turned to Interface's
MyCopy electronic statement delivery software.
The Nashville, Tenn., securities and investment firm is now using
MyCopy to provide its brokers with duplicate electronic statements
within minutes of the paper copies being mailed to the clients. The
result? Now when a client has a question about her statement,
the broker has instant access to the account information exactly as the
client sees it.
"Interface's MyCopy has enabled us to substantially reduce our statement
delivery time to our investment representatives, while improving
service," says Steve Johnson, J.C. Bradford Vice President. "Interface's
extensive experience adapting legacy information to the Web
resulted in a product that not only met our expectations, but actually
exceeded them."
J.C. Bradford & Co. has more than 900 brokers in 86 offices in 16 states.
For the complete story go to:
intface.com
For more on J.C. Bradford, visit their Website at:
jcbradford.com
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3. BOB NERO EXPLORES THE LEGACY-TO-INTERNET
DILEMMA DURING KILLEN & ASSOCIATES WEBCAST
What does it take to successfully bridge the Legacy-to-Internet
gap? Interface CEO Robert Nero took on that very question
during a recently released WebCast with Michael Killen,
founder and chairman of Internet market research firm
Killen & Associates.
"Most large firms have a distinct infrastructural dependence on
legacy systems, which have been continuously improved and
refined," Nero told Killen. "At the same time, these firms are giving
birth to e-commerce initiatives involving completely different people
in the organization, and yet there is a distinct dependence on the
legacy systems in making the new initiatives work well. Interface's
L2i(TM) vision is designed to bridge the gap between legacy systems
and the Internet to ensure that enterprises achieve their e-commerce
or Internet objectives."
To view the entire WebCast, visit:
killen.com
For more on Interface's Legacy-to-Internet (L2i) technology, visit
intface.com
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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4. NATIONAL INVESTMENT COMPANY SERVICE ASSOCIATION
(NICSA) TECHNOLOGY FORUM
Join Interface at this year's NICSA Technology Forum, May 10-11 at
the Boston Park Plaza hotel in Boston, Mass. In addition to being an
official sponsor of the event, Interface will be demonstrating
its MyCopy software, built on the company's L2i technology platform.
For more information on the conference, visit:
nicsa.org
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INTERFACE IN THE NEWS
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5. MAINFRAMES GET NEW LEASE ON LIFE
From the Detroit News Technology Section, April 9, 2000
Believe it or not, there are still corporations in this new era economy
using ancient mainframe computers for the basics -- like customer billing.
Sure, they'll talk about e-commerce and pledge allegiance to the Internet
Revolution, but their backbone computer systems can't easily generate
customized account information directly, electronically, on-demand and
in real-time to employees and clients.
They live in a world where stockbrokers put customers on hold before
rifling through rolls of microfiche and bankers wait for statements to
arrive
as printouts from the home office. These are Fortune 1000 companies --
banks and utilities among them -- racing to become e-businesses, but
held back by reality: a deep dependence on dinosaurs built before the
Internet Age.
Interface Systems, Inc. has a solution, and it's getting lots of applause
on Wall Street. The Ann Arbor firm has enjoyed the biggest market run-up
of any major publicly traded company in Michigan over the past twelve
months -- more than 2,500 percent -- a period in which many Michigan
stocks faltered.
"Any company that wants to do e-commerce and has legacy systems
has to combine the two to be successful," said Robert Granger,
vice-president of Internet applications. "We sit at the juncture."
"Legacy" is a general term used to describe older computer systems,
including mainframes, that companies have built their operations around
over time. Many include components dating back to the early 1960s.
Interface develops software it says amounts to a quick-fix for
Mainframe America.
Read the entire article at the Detroit News:
detnews.com
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INTERNET INSIGHT
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6. NEW STUDY SHOWS FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPANIES
AD SPENDING INCREASING AT A SLOWER RATE
Financial services companies, which represent the third-largest
online ad spenders, are increasing their ad spending at a slower
rate than other Internet advertisers as a whole, says a new study
by AdRelevance.
The study says that advertising impressions for financial services
companies grew at an average weekly rate of 1 percent over the
past three months, compared to the industry average of 4 percent.
The study also found that roughly one-quarter of Web users are
visiting financial sites, and that their popularity continues to grow.
According to the latest Media Metrix data, traffic to financial Websites
increased 27 percent, versus a 9 percent increase in overall
Web traffic.
For more findings, visit:
adrelevance.com
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Interface Systems develops and markets Legacy-to-Internet
software and services solutions under the L2i(TM) brand.
The company's products, which include MyCopy(TM),
eBill Bridge(TM) and Document Server, enable large organizations
to re-deploy information stored on legacy systems as the foundation
for their strategic e-commerce or Internet applications. Interface's
products, geared primarily toward the fast-growing customer
statement delivery and online billing markets, offer rapid, cost-
effective implementation without having to alter the legacy applications.
Interface's growing customer base includes leaders in the brokerage,
banking, insurance and processing services industries.
Interface Systems
1-800-544-4072 Ext. 1680
(734) 769-5900 Ext. 1680
e-mail: marketing@intface.com
intface.com
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