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Item 0995140 94/05/26 14:05
From: DARREN_SMITH@NEXT.COM@INET00# Internet Gateway
Subject: NeXT WINS TWO OUT OF FIVE DB/EXPO '94 REALWARE AWARDS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Karen Logsdon
NeXT Computer, Inc.
415-780-3786
or
Charlotte Penner
Copithorne & Bellows
415-541-0873
NeXT WINS TWO OUT OF FIVE DB/EXPO '94 REALWARE AWARDS
Mount Clemens General Hospital and Chrysler Financial Take Top
Honors
SAN FRANCISCO-May 26, 1994-NeXT Computer, Inc. today announced
that two of its customer sites were awarded DB/EXPO '94 RealWare
Awards at a ceremony last night. A third NEXTSTEP customer site
was named a finalist in the competition that recognized leading
applications of technology in five categories, including
Enterprise/Client Server; Database in the Office; Improving
Application Development Productivity Using Object-Oriented
Technology; Interoperability; and Enabling New Business
Opportunities.
In the most hotly contested category, Enterprise/Client Server,
NEXTSTEP customer, Mount Clemens General Hospital received top
honors for its patient care application which provides a
client/server solution with a graphical user environment for
admitting, discharging and transferring of patients; entering all
patient-care-related orders; reporting results for orders where
applicable; and developing and monitoring of diagnosis-based
patient care plans. The user company for the application is a
288-bed, acute care hospital located near Detroit.
The user benefits resulting from this application were: 80%
reduction in new-employee training time (approximately 200
employees annually); improved productivity by automating several
tasks that previously involved significant manual intervention;
approximately 15,000 hours saved annually in care planning and
other patient care tasks; improved documentation that has already
achieved $1,000,000 in patient revenues by capturing previously
lost billable services, and which is also expected to reduce
future litigation; and elimination of down-time utilizing server
and network redundancy.
"We are extremely honored to have won this award because we are
not a giant in the industry and as a small player we have to use
technology appropriately to gain competitive advantages," said
Vimal Chowdhry, chief financial officer at Mount Clemens General
Hospital. "This award is recognition by our peers that we have
done a good job."
Chrysler Financial Corporation won the award for Improving
Application Development Productivity Using Object-Oriented
Technology. In the highly competitive financial marketplace where
time-to-market of mission-critical applications translates to real
profit (or lost opportunities), Chrysler Financial sought to
deliver applications faster, adapt to changing regulations, reduce
maintenance cycle times and provide users with an easy-to-learn
interface.
Using NEXTSTEP's object frameworks and development tools (which
include the ApplicationKit, DatabaseKit, ProjectBuilder,
InterfaceBuilder, C/Objective C/C++ compilers, debuggers and class
browsers), Chrysler Financial reimplemented more than 24 legacy
applications to run its daily branch office operations. Example
applications include: FleetMaintenance, LoanTerms and
NewBusiness. These applications, coexisting with bundled and
third-party office productivity applications such as NeXTMail and
WordPerfect, have been deployed to more than 50 branch offices and
1200 desktops throughout North America.
"NeXT shipped its first software product, NEXTSTEP for intel
processors one year ago today," said Ronald Weissman, director of
corporate marketing at NeXT Computer, Inc. in a short acceptance
speech at the ceremony. "These awards are a great anniversary
present for NeXT and demonstrate how fortunate NeXT is to work
with these great customers. A year ago, some viewed our rebirth as
a software company with skepticism. DB/EXPO underscores NeXT's
object technology leadership and the customer acceptance and
momentum that we've gained in the past year."
A finalist in the Improving Application Development Productivity
Using Object-Oriented Technology category, NEXTSTEP customer Quest
International and Improve S.A., developed an application called
MIRIAD (Multimedia Initiative Re-defining Intelligent Aromatic
Design) which is the latest creative tool to be developed for
Quest's Fine Fragrance operations based in Paris. Quest's main
objective is to explore new ways of creating olfactive structures
based upon how consumers see raw materials and key market
fragrances. The cutting edge application allows Quest to capture
all of its perfumery capabilities in one state-of -the-art
Object-Oriented multimedia client-server application.
About the RealWare Awards
Co-sponsored by Intel Corp., the RealWare Awards program was
designed to allow companies exhibiting at DB/EXPO an opportunity
to demonstrate their proven business solutions that have made
innovative use of database, client/server and related information
technology to solve a bonafide business solution.
Norm DeNardi, DB/EXPO founder and chief executive officer stated,
"What's unique about this awards program is that it mandates that
exhibitors submit proven applications-not applications that are
still in R & D." Among the criteria, exhibitors are asked to
clearly demonstrate how their products are being used by customers
to reduce costs, improve information sharing, increase
competitiveness and produce measurable business benefits.
NEXTSTEP Enables Client/Server and Rapid Application Development
NEXTSTEP, the award winning object-oriented operating system
software from NeXT, is used by Fortune 1000 corporations and
government organizations to rapidly develop and deploy mission
critical business applications. NEXTSTEP's business value is in
simplifying and speeding the process of developing complex
client/server software by providing the industry's first
object-oriented framework for distributed computing.
In its third release, NEXTSTEP runs on hundreds of industry
standard Intel-based PCs, and will soon run native on
Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC workstations and Sun's SPARC
workstations. NEXTSTEP's Application Environment also will be
integrated into SunSoft's Solaris system software as part of the
OpenStep initiative.
About NeXT Computer, Inc.
NeXT develops and markets the award-winning NEXTSTEP
object-oriented software for industry-standard computer
architectures. Customers use NEXTSTEP's advanced object
environment to rapidly develop and deploy custom, enterprise-wide,
client/server applications. NeXT is headquartered in Redwood
City, California, and has offices in North America, London, Paris,
Munich and Tokyo.
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NeXT, the NeXT logo and NEXTSTEP are registered trademarks of NeXT
Computer, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned belong to their
respective owners.
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