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EDS And VINnet Collaborate to Help Automotive Retailers Streamline Licensing Process

24 September 1997

EDS And VINnet Collaborate to Help Automotive Retailers Streamline Licensing Process

    TROY, Mich., Sept. 24 -- EDS announced today a
collaborative marketing agreement with VINnet, Inc. to offer services that
will enable automotive retailers to electronically issue permanent license
plates on the spot and eliminate the need for temporary tags.
    EDS and VINnet will provide services that allow automotive retailers to
streamline the process of registering vehicles, recording liens, transferring
registrations between vehicles, and verifying information electronically with
state motor vehicle agencies.  With this customized system, dealership
customers purchasing new or used vehicles will be issued permanent plates
instead of paper tags at the point of sales, thereby avoiding delays in
receiving permanent plates and eliminating the need for temporary tags.
    "EDS' agreement with VINnet enables us to provide automotive retailers
with an electronic one-stop processing tool," said Bernie Johnson, vice
president of the EDS Automotive Retail Group.  "The VINnet program is
Internet-based, user-friendly, cost effective and available 24 hours a day, 7
days a week."
    "The collaboration between VINnet, Inc. and EDS will provide a totally
integrated system for auto dealers to maximize the level of service to their
customers during the delivery process," says Stan Paul, President and CEO of
VINnet, Inc.
    VINnet is a leader in providing electronic processing of registration
and titling activities for automobile retailers, fleet management companies,
rental car companies, financial institutions and the insurance industry.
VINnet solutions provide complete integration of Internet-based systems and
state motor vehicle computers creating real time on-line fee calculations,
vehicle registration, recording of liens, title applications, tag transfers
and renewals in addition to duplicate document issuance or request at point of
sale, thereby eliminating errors while streamlining the customer delivery
 experience.  VINnet can be visited via the Internet at http://www.vinnet.net.
    EDS is a leader in the global information services industry.  The
company's approximately 100,000 employees specialize in applying a range of
ideas and technologies to help business and government customers improve their
economics, products, services and relationships.  EDS, which serves customers
in 42 countries, reported revenues of $14.4 billion in 1996.  The company is
independent and publicly owned, and its stock is traded on the New York Stock
Exchange and the London Stock Exchange under the symbol EDS.  EDS can be
 visited via the Internet at http://www.eds.com.

SOURCE  EDS