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June 30, 2003
ANC SPORTS ADDS POWER TO EXTRANET PURCHASE, New York -- Sports signage company ANC Sports LLC announced today it has added a new suite of tools to its extranet which will improve their customer service while streamlining operations. The tools, which include a dynamic events calendar and work report system, are part of ongoing engineering provided by Manhattan-based Mediapolis, inc. The tools enable ANC's field staff, located in over forty cities through out North America, to directly create and report on games and events in which ANC signage is involved. These reports are then automatically processed by the extranet and delivered to clients -- in a fraction of the time and effort required before. ÒI donÕt know what ANC Sports would do without the extranet,Ó said ANC President and CEO Jerry Cifarelli. ÒIt has given us a significant advantage versus our competition. WeÕre giving our clients a tremendous amount of information, and we can do all this with minimal investment of people on our end. ItÕs unbelievable.Ó "ANC's operations team has done an amazing job of identifying the way technology can improve what they do," said Mediapolis prinicpal Carl Pritzkat. "It's very gratifying for us to create software tools for them and then see those tools used so successfully." ANC's extranet uses Mediapolis's Iowa content management system. Iowa is a Web publishing environment that simplifies the creation and maintenance of large scale Web sites through the sophisticated integration of industry-standard hardware, operating systems and applications. Its unique database structures and template-driven presentation synchronize with software and hardware modules to make it easily scalable at typical Web site bottlenecks. Iowa has been built from the ground up to deliver high performance and high availability Web serving at a fraction of the cost of other systems. Based in Purchase, N.Y., ANC Sports Enterprises, LLC is one of the leading providers of signage systems for sports and entertainment facilities. ANC Sports provides signage for 100 plus venues/stadiums in North America and counts among its clients: eleven Major League Baseball and four Minor League baseball teams; twelve NBA, fourteen WNBA teams, and eight NBDL teams; several specialty events for the NBA; nine NFL teams; nine NHL teams; five NCAA basketball teams and three college basketball tournaments; ESPN, for itÕs X-Games and EXPN events; and a wide range of other special events. Mediapolis (www.mediapolis.com ) creates technology that simplifies the production of high profile, high performance Web sites. Since 1994, Mediapolis has used the Iowa¨ Software Suite to build more than 180 sites for clients including Sony Music, The New York Times, Johnson & Johnson and now Volvo Cars.
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