Fountain Valley, Calif., April 17, 2000 - Managing legacy
applications while upgrading systems and maintaining flexibility to respond quickly to
dynamic businesses is a challenge for all information technology professionals.
Kingston® Technology Company, Inc. has found the solution to those IT challenges with
Personable.com, a leading Application Service Provider (ASP) offering a variety of software
and infrastructure solutions for businesses. By using Personable.com, Kingston has made
this roll-out as simple as adding an icon to every employees' desktop.
Serving as a virtual extension of Kingston's IT department, Personable.com's
technology will deliver access to application software including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
software, as well as Microsoft office products. Quite simply, a new icon is pushed by Personable.com
to a Kingston employee's desktop - working on the company's timeframe and according to their parameters.
This new roll-out method is saving Kingston significant IT/MIS personnel time and additional hardware
investment normally required for any enterprise installation -- a 90 percent reduction in project
roll-out costs alone. Even more important to businesses, the Personable.com solution eliminates employee
downtime for upgrades, allowing companies to maximize productivity during corporate-wide software roll-outs
and providing employees with the most recent versions of applications.
"Personable.com is literally transforming the software and IT industries as an
enabling platform for corporate roll-outs of client applications," said Benjamin Chou, president,
Personable.com. "By making our infrastructure and expertise available, companies, like Kingston,
can perform effectively and efficiently in today's dynamic business environment and realize
significant savings."
If this roll-out followed traditional methods, Kingston's IT department would
be required to install an additional hard disk drive and system memory on each employee's computer --
assuming the computer's processor was adequate for the minimum client requirement to run the new
application or upgrade - before loading or upgrading any applications. For MIS/IT professionals,
Personable.com means not having to open the box of a network user for new applications or upgrades.
With Personable.com, Kingston's roll-out dilemma was reduced from a project that
would require dedicated Kingston personnel months to implement down to just days. In addition, this
flexible approach has afforded Kingston expanded remote manageability leveraging Personable.com's
global position to tie together remote users. By using Personable.com, Kingston remote employees
are literally "plug and play ready" -- direct to the upgraded network.
"Kingston has chosen Personable.com for its proven technology and customer
support," said John Leitgeb, director MIS, Kingston. "This new service will allow Kingston to deploy
application software in an efficient and cost effective manner," added Leitgeb.
About Kingston Technology Company, Inc.
With annual sales over $1 billion, Kingston offers a complete line of memory,
storage, networking and PC enhancement products. With strictly regulated ISO-registered facilities
in the United States (ISO 9001), Ireland (ISO 9002), Malaysia (ISO 9002) and Taiwan (ISO 9002),
Kingston markets its products through an extensive worldwide network of distributors, major reseller
chains and independent dealers. Visit the Kingston home page on the Internet at
http://www.kingston.com.
About Personable.com
Personable.com is the first ASP providing maintenance, accessibility and ease
of use to a full spectrum of shrink-wrapped applications online for individuals and small-to-mid-sized
enterprises on a subscription basis. Personable.com's mission is to offer virtually limitless
application computing power anytime, anywhere. Visit www.personable.com for additional information.
For further press information, please contact:
Peggy Kelly
Kathleen Buczko
NMC Partners
562.436.4787
pkelly@nmcpartners.com
kbuczko@nmcpartners.com
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