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AlphaServ.com Enters Into Strategic Alliance With Matthews Studio Group to Provide Solutions Via the Internet to the Entertainment
Industry
BusinessWire, Thursday, January 14, 1999 at 07:52
SANTA ANA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 1999--Alpha
Microsystems (NASDAQ:ALMI), now doing business as alphaServ.com, a
premier provider of true multi-vendor services to the information
technology marketplace and which also markets knowledge management
software to businesses through its AlphaCONNECT Internet division, has
entered into a strategic alliance with Matthews Studio Group (NASDAQ:MATT). AlphaCONNECT will be the software solution provider for
Matthews Studio Group in developing applications and solutions for the
entertainment industry via the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Matthews Studio Group is currently in the ground-breaking phase of
creating "Showbizmart.com", a new network of Websites built for
industry insiders as well as consumers and collectors of
showbusiness-related items and memorabilia.
According to Douglas J. Tullio, the chairman, chief executive
officer, and president of alphaServ.com, nearly every company today is
looking for an effective way to use the Internet to expand its
business opportunities. "AlphaCONNECT technology enables companies
like the Matthews Studio Group to very quickly enter the Internet
space. Our strategy for AlphaCONNECT is to focus its unique ability to
harness multiple data types, whether it comes from the Internet or
legacy-based systems or both, and transform that data into powerful
value-added information that can create a competitive advantage for
the companies that choose to use it. Our ability to pull and publish
information real-time and filter its contents can give any company
immediate access to vital information which it may never before had
available. Companies that recognize this and have a need to either
impart information to users or harness it for their advantage can turn
to AlphaCONNECT technology to jump-start their entry to the World Wide
Web," Tullio said.
Carlos D. DeMattos, the chairman, chief executive officer, and
president of Matthews Studio Group, said that Showbizmart.com
continues the company's strategy of creating a true "one-stop-shop"
solution for producers all over the United States.
"We believe that Showbizmart.com will become the online tool of
choice for finding production suppliers, crew members, equipment and
expendables, selected production items and industry memorabilia,
travel and weather data, locations, news, online auctions and more to
help facilitate production coordination and planning in the domestic
United States and North America," DeMattos said.
"AlphaCONNECT's ability to create corporate information portals
coupled with the power to pull and publish from a variety of
information types will add significant value to the Showbizmart.com
user experience," said Denny Michael, vice president of marketing at
alphaServ.com. "For example, if a production company is looking for
certain locations within a specific geographic area to film scenes for
a movie, they can simply go to Showbizmart.com, the one-stop-shop
solution from Matthews Studio Group, and retrieve a list of available
locations that AlphaCONNECT has quickly extracted from the Internet.
We are excited to be the foundation technology that will enable
Showbizmart.com to truly differentiate itself from the competition.
Our scalable consulting services and our technology will be used to
jump-start Matthews Studio Group to a wider customer base with
enhanced services using the Internet," he said.
In June 1998, International Data Corporation (IDC) a leading IT
market research firm based in Framington, Mass., released a research
bulletin on AlphaCONNECT technology entitled "AlphaCONNECT: Turning
Infoglut into Real-Time Knowledge." According to the bulletin, written
by IDC analyst Michael Sullivan-Trainor, AlphaCONNECT is a kind of
information management middleware solution that "not only acts on
information but is capable of anticipating the acquisition of
information, selecting it, sifting it, and organizing it, and then
delivering it for immediate use to the appropriate application or
applications."
AlphaServ.com is dedicated to being a premier provider of true
multi-vendor services to the IT marketplace, including on-site network
support and nationwide on-call support through over 60 locations
throughout North America. For more information, visit the company's
Web site at www.alphamicro.com or www.alphaServ.com.
AlphaCONNECT, a division of alphaServ.com, offers powerful
foundation technologies for business intelligence software serving the
Internet, intranet, corporate information technology, and software
development markets. Both alphaServ.com and its independent vendor
partners use AlphaCONNECT to create awarded-winning
business-to-business and consumer-based products. For more
information, visit the company's Web site at www.alphaconnect.com.
Matthews Studio Group supplies lighting and grip equipment,
professional video and audio equipment, and complete theatrical
equipment and supplies to entertainment producers nationwide. With
corporate offices in Burbank, Matthews Studio Group operates from a
diverse network of facilities throughout the United States, including
locations in Los Angeles; New York; Phoenix; Albuquerque, N.M.; Las
Vegas; Nashville, Tenn.; Dallas; Charlotte, N.C.; Cincinnati;
Cleveland; Knoxville, Tenn.; Orlando, Fla.; Miami; and Seattle.
CONTACT: IR Strategies
Connie McCluskey, 714/573-1115
email: irstrat@aol.com
KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS COMED ENTERTAINMENT
INTERACTIVE/MULTIMEDIA/INTERNET PRODUCT
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