Third, our network-ready PCs enable people to transmit information to friends around the world or to share it with people they don't even know by posting it on a Web site. And, of course, we're providing the capabilities to print and duplicate that information. In fact, our all-in-one products do more than that. They print. They scan. They copy. They send and receive information via fax. This is just what the home user or small-business requires, because they don't have room for lots of different pieces of equipment. An E-Commerce competency is becoming a critical success factor for financial institutions around the world. HP has been working closely with Chinese financial institutions for several years to pioneer best E-Commerce practices in China. Let me highlight some of HP's contributions in this area. In 1995 we began to work with the China Construction Bank to develop a fund clearing system run on HP's UNIX platform. Today, HP's servers, PCs and support services are used throughout the bank's 44 branches across the country, helping to reduce typical transaction clearance times from up to 10 days to now less than 24 hours. This month, we are launching a trial solution with the Bank of China to enable their corporate customers to perform their standard banking transactions on-line. This marks a first for China. HP's VirtualVault solution was chosen over other solutions for its superior security and reliability, as well as service support. HP, together with our VeriFone subsidiary, is continuing to work with Bank of China to build on this platform, so that by the end of the year a full range of E-Commerce services will be available on line, again marking a first for China.
第三,我們的網絡型PC機可使人們向世界各地的朋友發送信息或通過把信息貼到網上與陌生人分享信息。當然,我們也提供了打印和復制該信息的功能。實際上,我們的一體化產品涉及的功能更廣。它們可以打印、掃描和復制信息,可通過傳真發送和接收信息。這就是家庭用戶或小型企業所需的產品,因為它們沒有太多的空間安置不同的設備。如今,具備電子商務的能力已經成為全世界金融 機構成功的關鍵因素?;萜展鹃_始與中國的金融機構密切合作,在中國率先開創最佳電子商務。請允許我概述一下惠普公司在這一領域所做的貢獻。1995年,我們開始與中國建設銀行合作,在惠普的UNIX 平臺開發了資金清算系統。如今,惠普的服務器,PC機和支持服務用于該行在全國的44家分行,幫助它們縮短了交易清算的射間,從原先的10天縮短為現在的不到24小時。本月,我們將與中國銀行試行一個解決方案,使其公司客戶在線進行標準的銀行交易。在中國,這是首次進行此類項目。在所有方案中,惠普虛擬保險箱(Virtual Vault)方案因其卓越的安全性和可靠性,以及其服務支持而入選。目前,惠普與分支機構VeriFone正與中國銀行繼續合作,建立這一平臺,以便在年底之前確保在線提供電子商務服務,從而在中國再拔頭籌。