H&R Block Adopts Inprise Corporation's
Technology for Key Tax Preparation
System
PR Newswire - May 11, 1998 07:30
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SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Inprise
Corporation (Nasdaq: BORL) today announced that H&R Block, Tax
Services, Inc. (NYSE: HRB), the largest tax preparation company in
the United States, has developed a new Windows-based tax
preparation system using Inprise's award-winning Delphi and Borland
C++ development tools. The new system supports tax returns for the
federal government and 45 states and supports electronic filing for
federal and all states in which tax returns can be electronically filed. The
system was rolled out to more than 400 offices for use during the 1997
tax season and will be deployed nationwide this month.
"Our tax preparers can do much more complex returns, more easily,
with our new tax preparation package because of the numerous
enhancements that Delphi and Borland C++ made possible," said Neal
Shaw, director of tax development at H&R Block, Tax Services, Inc.
"The new system is fully object oriented, allowing us to add
enhancements that simply were not possible under the old DOS-based
system. It displays all forms on screen exactly as they are printed and
allows for point-and-click navigation between forms."
"We've rolled out the system to 400 offices this year and it was
extremely successful -- the preparers loved it," said Judy Keisling, vice
president of operations systems at H&R Block, Tax Services, Inc. "The
new package provided a seamless transition from the DOS system to
Windows and its many features have enhanced tax preparation."
According to Shaw, Delphi and Borland C++ enabled H&R Block to
meet a rigorous delivery schedule and stay on budget. "The technology
helps us to be more competitive by providing our tax preparers with
state-of-the-art tools."
"H&R Block is one of the leading organizations in tax preparation and
we are pleased they are using our tools to get their projects done on
time and on budget," said Zack Urlocker, vice president of marketing at
Inprise Corporation. "H&R Block is a good example of a global
company that is able to deliver more highly productive products
faster-to-market with Inprise technology."
About Delphi and Borland C++
Delphi is a high-performance, high-productivity rapid application
development tool for building scalable client/server and distributed
database applications. Delphi 3 includes easy one-step ActiveX control
creation, new BusinessInsight for codeless data analysis and decision
support, and powerful new Internet capabilities for building and
deploying advanced Web-enabled applications. Borland C++ is
Inprise's award-winning C++ development system for Windows
programmers.
About H&R Block
H&R Block served more than 18 million taxpayers in nearly 10,000
offices in the United States, Canada and Australia in 1997. It handled
approximately one in every seven returns and 51 percent of all
electronic returns filed with the Internet Revenue Service last tax season.
Founded in 1955, H&R Block Inc. (NYSE: HRB) is a diversified
company offering tax preparation services and financial products and
services through its subsidiaries. Block Financial Corporation 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 site at www.hrblock.com.
H&R Block, with corporate headquarters in Kansas City, has 4,640
company owned offices and 4,500 franchise offices in the United States
with approximately 72,000 seasonal and 1,200 full-time employees.
About Inprise Corporation
Inprise Corporation is a leading provider of software and services that
simplify the complexity of enterprise application development,
deployment, and management. The company is distinguished for its
award-winning Borland family of rapid application development
products and for proven scalable middleware. Inprise integrates these
offerings with application management products to provide customers
with an end-to-end solution. Inprise customers include information
technology departments and independent software developers around
the world. Founded in 1983, Inprise is headquartered in Scotts Valley,
California and has operations around the world. Inprise has more than
900 employees worldwide. For more information on Inprise, customers
can visit Inprise Online at inprise.com.
SOURCE Inprise Corporation
/NOTE TO EDITORS: On April 29, 1998, Borland International, Inc.
announced it has become Inprise Corporation. For more information on
this and
other announcements, go to the Inprise media/analyst Web site at
inprise.com.
Copies of previous Inprise press releases and additional corporate and
product information are available on the Inprise media relations Web
Site at
inprise.com or by calling
Inprise's
Corporate Communications department at 408-431-4609./
/CONTACT: Brett Smith of Inprise Corporation, 408-431-1341, or
bsmith@inprise.com; or Neal Shaw of H&R Block, 816-932-7523, or
nshaw@hrblock.com/
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