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Item 4466473 93/04/15 15:40
From: CONRAD_GEIGER@NEXT.COM@INET# Internet Gateway
Subject: Comnetix Provides York University with NeXTSTEP-Based System
For More Information, Contact:
Clement DiPlacido Manager of Business Systems, Comnetix (416) 274-4060
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Comnetix Provides York University with NeXTSTEP-Based System; System Will
Handle All Undergraduate Admissions
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, April 14, 1993 - Comnetix, a value-added reseller (VAR)
of NeXT Computer, Inc.'s NeXTSTEP-based products, today announced it has
completed installation of the York University undergraduate admissions system.
York University, a major Canadian University located in North York, Ontario,
has an undergraduate population of 43,000 and receives 25,300 applications per
academic year. It will use a document processing and imaging system from
Comnetix to process all its undergraduate admissions.
"We were looking for a vendor who could provide a system solution for our
document processing in a very short period of time. It was critical that the
vendor had imaging experience, a wide variety of products and customers, and
could be flexible in meeting our objectives. Comnetix met this criteria and
was able to provide a system within a timeframe of six months," said Tom
Myers, director of admissions at York University.
York University calls its system "ALIAS," for "Admissions Liaison Imaging
Application System." Designed to meet the functional document flow
requirements of the university, ALIAS was engineered by Comnetix for maximum
productivity and absolute security for document storage. In addition to
handling any document submitted as part of a student's application for
admission, the system also manages all York transcripts dated before 1980,
which had been stored in paper format.
Initially, the ALIAS system runs on a NeXTcube server, configured with two
internal hard drives and three external hard drives with a combined storage
capacity of 8.35 gigabytes. Each user has a NeXTstation workstation running
the NeXTSTEP object-oriented system software, which integrates both custom and
off-the-shelf applications into a single, unified system with a common
graphical user interface. The ALIAS system integrates a KODAK automated
optical disk library with a capacity of 50 gigabytes of optical storage in a
form factor the size of an under-desk filing cabinet, with high-performance
Ricoh scanners, printers, tape backup units and fax modems.
Comnetix also reports that ALIAS has been ported to NeXTSTEP for Intel
processors for future expansion of the system using Intel486- and Pentium-
based computers.
The ALIAS system has allowed the Office of Admissions at York to eliminate
paperfile systems, rennovate office space, improve the quality of the process
and most importantly respond to their clients, potential students. "We no
longer have to telephone students back when they have questions. We have
access to all of their information on-line and handle their queries
immediately," says Myers.
"The NeXTSTEP system is ideal for this process, because it has superb imaging
capabilities as well as powerful text handling facilities," said Clement
DiPlacido, manager of business systems for Comnetix. Also, the flexibility
inherent in the NeXTSTEP object-oriented development environment has permitted
Comnetix to design and implement a robust high-volume imaging system in a
relatively short period of time.
To ensure accuracy and security, the ALIAS system uses a four-step document
flow: document preparation/faxing, in which the admissions/transcript office
receives and prepares documents for processing; scanning, where the images of
paper documents are captured into the computer system; indexing/mounting,
which enters the data from a document into a database; and quality
assurance/disposal, the final checking of the process, after which the
document is recorded for permanent storage on an optical disk in the NeXTSTEP
system.
York University York University is Canada's third-largest university, with
internationally renowned academic and research programs, respected faculty
members and an ever-increasing complement of prominent alumni.
Comnetix Computer Systems, Inc. Comnetix Computer Systems Inc. headquartered
in Mississauga, Ontario develops and markets mission-critical, object-oriented
software applications based on the NeXTSTEP operating environment for industry-
standard computer architectures such as the Intel486 and Pentium. Comnetix
prepackaged and custom object-oriented software is used by higher education,
commercial enterprises and the policing community.
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