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Fast and simple access to discounted software

In collaboration with Eduserv Athens, Adept Scientific plc (the Technical Computing Software Specialists) have made history by being the first software supplier to provide 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. Adept Scientific are extremely excited to be able to combine their own online information systems with Athens’ 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. 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 don’t 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 Adept Scientific plc
Since 1984, Adept Scientific has provided scientists, engineers and technical professionals in industry, research and education with the best in personal computer based solutions. The company, based in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, with subsidiary offices in Denmark, Germany and the USA, has built a reputation as one of the world’s most efficient and technically able suppliers in its field. Customers include leading industrial corporations involved in engineering design, process and control, scientific research and product development, as well as major universities and research labs. For more information about Adept Scientific, please visit www.adeptscience.co.uk

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.

For more information about Eduserv Athens, please visit http://www.eduserv.org.uk/athens.

With offices in the UK, USA, Germany and throughout the Nordic region, Adept Scientific is one of the world’s leading suppliers of software and hardware products for research, scientific, engineering and technical applications on desktop computers.