William Penn Life, 1985 (20. évfolyam, 1-6. szám)

1985-01-01 / 1. szám

New Personal Computers at William Penn Association The William Penn Associa­tion has recently taken a giant step forward in to the age of personal computer technology with the acquisi­tion of, not one but, two of the newest members of the IBM Personal Computer fami­ly, the IBM-PCAT (Advanced Technology). The installation of these computers along with printers and tele­communications equipment numbers William Penn among the first companies in Pittsburgh and perhaps the entire country to receive and use this equipment. These computers which represent the most advanced personal (desk top) com­puters were purchased at the recommendation of the Com­puter Committee of the Board of Directors, with the en­thusiastic support of the officers and the aid of Com­puter Sciences Corporation, the service bureau from which William Penn currently purchases computing services. These new advanced ver­sions of the extremely popular IBM Personal Com­puter represent the state of the art in micro-computer technology. They operate at two to three times the speed of the standard model, can have up to five times the working memory and up to four times the permanent memory. The demand for the IBM-PCAT Model 99, the model which we have pur­chased, has by far exceeded IBM’s ability to produce them and computers ordered cur­rently will be delivered in about nine months. Two outstanding software programs have also been purchased for use with these computers. LOTUS 123 a so called “spreadsheet” pro­gram which allows the com­puter to be used to automate many mundane office chores, such as re-typing letters, recording data, updating records, analyzing data, and automatically producing tabular and graphic reports. The utility and functionality of this program is limited only by the imagination and vision of the users. Training of the staff in the use of this pro­gram has only just begun but we are looking forward with great anticipation to the use of this LOTUS software. A second software package purchased for use with these computers is a word process­ing package called Display­­write, which is produced by IBM. This is a program which allows a personal computer to act as a full function word processing machine. This program is written to provide the functionality of the IBM Displaywriter, IBM’s popular and longselling dedicated word processing machine. Several members of the secretarial staff have been trained and are currently us­ing this product to great effect. These computers are also capable of communicating with other computers over standard telephone lines. They can when requested phone the Insurance or Financial Databases, main­tained at Computer Science Corporation, to view the data and if desired retrieve selected information to its own files. Later when discon-By Anthony F. Waskiewicz, General Manager, Computer Sciences Corporation Did you ever stop to think about ... How and where a premium notice is printed???? What happens to your premium payment stub???? How are cash value ques­tions answered so quickly???? Does the William Penn Association have a computer???? Let’s begin by answering the last question first. The answer is yes and no. Yes, the William Penn Association, like most large companies uses a computer in its business operations, and no, the William Penn Association doesn’t own one. The William Penn Association uses the services of a data processing services company called Computer Sciences Cor­poration. Computer Sciences Cor­poration is committed to provide a quality data proc­essing service to the William Penn Association. Computer Sciences Corporation or “CSC” as everyone calls it, has the most up to date com­puter equipment installed in its Data Center in Pittsburgh. The William Penn Association “uses” or “taps into” that powerful system. Using high speed communications lines between the Computer Center and the Home Office, nected from the phone line the retrieved data can be fur­ther analyzed and used to produce reports and graphs using either Displaywrite or LOTUS 123. It is quite clear that ex­citing times are ahead for William Penn, the use of the new IBM-PCAT’s can only im­prove the ability of the Home Office staff to respond to the increasing requests and needs of the membership and the demands of state regulatory agencies. Roger G. Nagy, Director Chairman, Computer Committee ana wnn computer terminals at their fingertips, Home Of­fice personnel use the com­puter system constantly to perform all the tasks required to service you. The answer to the other questions now become some­what easier to understand. Through the use of the com­puter system’s terminals, all insurance policy information is available to Home Office personnel simply by entering the certificate number or policyholder name. The system has the very latest in­formation regarding benefits, premium payments, policy loan status, cash values, even annuity values, all at the touch of a button. No longer is there a need to wait until tomorrow for the infor­mation you requested today. The question can be answered immediately, while you’re still on the telephone. That’s what we call service. Computer Sciences Cor­poration points with pride to its relationship with the William Penn Association. Ours is a relationship that began in 1974, and has enhanced with the changing needs of the William Penn Association. Computer Sciences Corporation’s com­mitment grew as the William Penn Association grew. All of our employees that help manage the William Penn Association account, from the management, to the account representatives, computer operators, and computer pro-Continued on page 24 column 2 Computerization William Penn Style 13

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