Cindy Curtin Knezevich
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Peter L. Seltzberg
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Press Release
Jacada Customer, U.S. Naval Facilities Engineering Command,
Honored with CIO Magazine Award
ATLANTA, August 17, 2004 – Jacada Ltd. (NASDAQ: JCDA) is pleased to announce its customer, United States Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), has been honored with CIO Magazine's "CIO 100 Award" for business agility innovation. NAVFAC employs 14,000 civilian and military personnel to manage the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of shore facilities for U.S. Navy and Marine Corps activities around the world.
Selected from over 300 companies, organizations, and government agencies, CIO Magazine cited NAVFAC for the positive effect that IT agility has had on their enterprise. With major demands on today's military, including the War on Terrorism, the Chief of Naval Operations initiated a program, "Sea Enterprise," to streamline support functions and leverage the savings to build more ships and aircraft.
In achieving its recognition, NAVFAC consolidated over 500 local applications to 14 global systems in a successful effort to lower system costs and improve enterprise agility. As a result of the systems consolidation, NAVFAC was able to radically improve the contracts administration process by using Jacada Fusion to automate the interface between two "untouchable" systems that manage over $6 billion in annual contract awards and process tens of thousands of contract actions annually.
NAVFAC used Jacada's technology to solve one of the biggest challenges faced by most senior IT managers: how to optimize business processes and streamline operations, while protecting existing investments in information and infrastructure. Before Jacada Fusion, the solicitation, award and modification of contracts required users to enter the same information manually multiple times into separate systems. Using Jacada Fusion, for the first time these contract management transactions are automated and the data is integrated across these systems. NAVFAC had been searching for a low-cost, low-risk solution and found Jacada had a compelling answer for all of their disparate systems – mainframe, Web, and Windows.
Jacada Fusion delivers 'The Perfect Interaction' between people, processes and information, and eliminates the problems that arise from maintaining multiple complex applications, such as corporate-wide CRM systems, in-house developed programs, and those inherited through acquisition. Jacada Fusion rapidly improves business processes without rewriting or replacing the underlying applications, thus achieving significant payback and performance results.
About CIO Magazine
CIO magazine (launched in 1987) is published by CXO Media Inc. CXO Media serves CIOs, CEOs, CFOs, COOs and other corporate officers who use technology to thrive and prosper in this new era of business. The company strives to enhance partnerships between C-level executives, as well as create opportunities for information technology (IT) and consumer marketers to reach them. In addition to publishing CIO and CSO magazines, CXO Media produces http://www.cio.com, The CIO Insider, http://www.darwinmagazine.com, and http://www.CSOonline.com as well as Executive Programs, a series of conferences that provide educational and networking opportunities for corporate and government leaders.
CXO Media Inc. is a subsidiary of IDG, the world's leading IT media, research and exposition company. IDG publishes more than 300 computer magazines and newspapers and 4,000 book titles and offers online users the largest network of technology-specific sites around the world through IDG.net (http://www.idg.net), which comprises more than 270 targeted websites in 70 countries. IDG is also a leading producer of 168 computer-related expositions worldwide and provides IT market analysis through 50 offices in 43 countries worldwide. Company information is available at http://www.idg.com.
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