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Factory data acquisition
News Release from: Adept Scientific
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 05 October 2004
New collaborative education webstore
Together with with Eduserv Athens, Adept Scientific is providing personalised product offers via a single sign-on facility to their education WWebStore for any visitor with an Eduserv Athens account.
In collaboration with Eduserv Athens, Adept Scientific has made history by providing personalised product offers via a single sign-on facility to their education WebStore for any visitor with an Eduserv Athens account The Athens access and identity management system already provides users with single sign-on to hundreds of web-based e-resources and services, firmly establishing itself as the standard, within the UK education and health sectors, for secure access management
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 21 Feb 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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Adept Scientific are extremely excited to be able to combine their own online information systems with Athens1 authentication capabilities, delivering a more personalised and improved service in a way that's familiar to most students and academics.
Now, by typing in their Athens username and password, visitors to http://edustore.adeptscience.co.uk are automatically verified as a bona fide staff member or student at an Athens-authenticated site.
This streamlines the process of providing proof of ID when purchasing popular software packages like EndNote, Mathcad, Maple and ChemOffice at discounted student and education prices online.
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For visitors whose institution owns an Eduserv Chest licence for any Adept Scientific software package, the website automatically displays a tailored homepage offering those products they are eligible to buy at even lower personal edition prices for use on home computers.
"Now, when students and academic staff visit our education WebStore, they don1t have to sort through our full range of academic products to find the best deal," said Paul Bragg, Managing Director for Adept Scientific.
"Our systems are able to recognise whether a visitor is eligible to qualify for discounted education/student or personal editions of our software according to their Athens account information.
It should seriously streamline their journey through our online store." This latest technology further demonstrates Adept Scientific's commitment to providing the fastest, smoothest and best possible service to their customers in the academic and public sector community as a whole.
About Eduserv Athens Eduserv Athens is a leading single sign-on access and identity management technology system and service for distributed enterprises.
Developed in 1995, Athens has grown to become the de facto standard, within the UK higher and further education and health sectors, for secure access management to hundreds of internal and external online services and resources.
Currently, more than 2,000 organisations use Eduserv Athens to manage 3.1 million-plus user accounts and access rights, and its use is rapidly growing internationally and within the UK public sector. Request free introductory details about products from Adept Scientific ...
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