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H&R Block Chooses Sybase to Speed Information Exchange Among its 4,500 Tax Offices
PR Newswire - March 30, 1998 03:01
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Sybase Software Selected as Remote Computing Solution for
Nation's Largest Tax Preparer
EMERYVILLE, Calif., March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Sybase, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYBS)
announced today that H&R Block, the country's largest tax preparation service,
will deploy a Sybase software solution to 4,500 of its tax offices. The new
system, to be rolled out beginning with the 1999 tax season, is designed to
help the company collect, exchange and analyze financial data from tax offices
on a daily basis. In the highly competitive and dynamic financial services
marketplace, H&R Block understands the imperative of capturing and leveraging
financial information for business advantage and improved customer service.
"We wanted a technology solution that would grow along with our company," said
Jim Rose, chief information officer for H&R Block. "After a review of
numerous technologies available, we decided that Sybase offered the best
solution for our needs. Most appealing are the speed and virtually
administration-free nature of Sybase's mobile technology. The Sybase solution
also offers a replication strategy to populate a central data warehouse for
data analysis and storage."
"H&R Block's need to easily extend the reach of its enterprise by
accessing and delivering data to remote sites showcases an important, fast-
growing industry trend," said Terry Stepien, vice president and general
manager of the Workplace Database Division of Sybase. "Sybase sets the bar
for delivering an optimized, easy to administer technology solution for this
emerging market, letting remote customers focus on their business rather than
their underlying computing infrastructure."
The Sybase Information-Delivery Solution
The complete Sybase consolidated server and remote computing solution
includes Sybase's Adaptive Server(TM) Anywhere 6.0, the industry's leading
small-footprint database optimized for mobile computing; Adaptive Server(TM)
Enterprise 11.5, Sybase's flagship RDBMS; DirectConnect(TM), the market-
leading data access middleware; and Replication Server(R), data movement for
bi-directional replication. Sybase Professional Services will work with H&R
Block to implement this solution.
Adaptive Server Anywhere will be used at H&R Block's 4,500 branch offices.
Adaptive Server Enterprise will reside at H&R Block's World Headquarters,
providing H&R Block with on-line transaction processing (OLTP), replication
and Intranet reporting capabilities. Each night the district offices will
poll the tax offices and consolidate the data using the replication
capabilities of Adaptive Server Anywhere replicating the consolidated Adaptive
Server Enterprise server at H&R Block World Headquarters.
About H&R Block
Founded in 1955, H&R Block is a diversified company offering tax
preparation services and financial products and services. H&R Block served
more than 18 million taxpayers in nearly 10,000 offices in the United States,
Canada and Australia in 1997. The company handled approximately one in every
seven returns, including 51 percent of all electronic returns, filed with the
Internal Revenue Service last tax season. H&R Block also develops and
provides Kiplinger TaxCut(R) software for personal computers. In addition,
the company offers mortgage loans through its own retail operations and
through a network of 5,000 mortgage brokers nationwide. Quarterly results and
other information regarding H&R Block are available on the company's Web page
at www.hrblock.com.
About Sybase, Inc.
Headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Sybase, Inc. is a worldwide leader in
distributed, open computing solutions. The company provides customers and
partners with software and services to create business solutions for
strategic, competitive advantage. These high-performance, end-to-end
solutions encompass client/server, Internet and intranet transaction
processing, mobile computing, and data mart and data warehousing applications.
The company's Adaptive Component Architecture(TM) enables rapid design,
development and deployment of distributed multi-tier business applications.
Sybase, Inc. products include Adaptive Server(TM) high-performance databases,
distributed data access and connectivity products and Powersoft(R) enterprise
application development tools. The company's Internet address is
sybase.com.
Adaptive Component Architecture, Adaptive Server Anywhere, Adaptive Server
Enterprise, Adaptive Server, DirectConnect, Powersoft, Replication Server and
Sybase and are trademarks of Sybase, Inc. or its subsidiaries. All other
company and product names mentioned may be trademarks of the respective
companies with which they are associated.
SOURCE Sybase, Inc.
/CONTACT: Shirley Macbeth of Sybase, Inc., 510-922-4576,
shirley.macbeth@sybase.com, or Patty Williams, pwilliam@webergroup.com or
Alison Kenney, akenney@webergroup.com of The Weber Group for Sybase,
617-520-7020 or 617-520-7078/
/Web site: sybase.com
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