Unisys SA has announced the sale and implementation of Attachmate`s EXTRA! Personal Client to household and personal care fast moving consumable goods (FMCG) manufacturer, Sara Lee D E at the company`s office in Pine Town, Kwa Zulu Natal. EXTRA! Personal Client delivers business-critical information to any Windows desktop, from any data source, over any network. Commenting on why Sara Lee D E chose Attachmate`s EXTRA! Personal Client, IT manager Tony Brennan said; "In the past our PC to mainframe and mainframe to PC file transfer was problematic, costing us many person hours which affected our productivity. We needed a solution that would not only speed up the PC to mainframe and mainframe to PC file transfer, but would also be reliable and user friendly as well as supplying access to 5250 emulation on our AS/400. A product was also needed that could do object linking and embedding. Attachmate`s EXTRA! Personal Client consistently exceeded our expectations." EXTRA! Personal Client is the premier solution for enterprise information access. "It meets the increasing end user needs by providing access to wherever the information is on Sara Lee D E`s IT system, and wherever an end user happens to be. EXTRA! Personal Client is a high-performance enterprise solution that is reducing overall IS costs and increasing productivity at Sara Lee D E`s factory. EXTRA! Personal Client is designed to work the way users at the company prefer and expect. This interface and standards familiarity has reduced training and support costs at their factory," said Debbie Knight, Unisys accounts manager. "In our business most of our FMCG products have a short life cycle. Our New Product Development team continuously researches, develops and manufactures new products for our identified target market. Because of the workload involved in getting new products to market, time is important. EXTRA! Personal Client has cut down the person hours spent working on our large marketing databases, consequently boosting our productivity. This allows us to get new products onto the shelves and into the hands of our consumers quicker," added Brennan. EXTRA! Personal Client is able to increase end-user productivity with built-in Host-Aware technology. "Host-Aware technology manages the interaction with the host application, removing the complexity of delivering host based information to the desktop," said Attachmate South Africa corporate sales manager, Litisha Richardson. EXTRA! Personal Client is the premier solution for universal enterprise access. In one seamless client system it delivers host information to any Windows desktop including Windows 95 and Windows NT, over any network from any source, public or private. EXTRA! Personal Client leverages new technologies like OLE 2.0 and extends web-like navigation to host systems.
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