USIS workforce featured in Microsoft case study

FALLS CHURCH, Va., March 28, 2007- USIS, a leading provider of background screening and investigation services, including pre-employment and government clearance screening, and the largest provider of background investigations to the federal government is featured in a case study posted on Microsoft’s website.

USIS employs approximately four thousand mobile staff members nationwide. Its investigators and sales staff need reliable, mobile handheld devices to send and receive internal correspondence, and communicate with clients. The desire to improve communications among a widely dispersed workforce led USIS to seek a solution that would be easily implemented, work with existing IT infrastructure, and allow for lower administration costs.

In late summer 2006, forty USIS employees took part in a 90-day pilot program and were given mobile e-mail phones equipped with Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 Messaging platform with Inbox, Calendar, Contacts, and Task functionalities. The system also allowed IT managers to remotely enforce corporate policies such as mandatory PIN passwords and remote device wipe to protect USIS’ intellectual property. Find out how Windows Mobile 5.0 with Messaging and Security Feature Pack worked for USIS by reading the case study at the Microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=201074

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Michelle Corum: office 703.637.1653, Mobile 443.310.1881, michelle.corum@usis.com

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Established in 1996, USIS (www.usis.com) is a world-wide provider of total client solutions in human resources, investigations, and security services to businesses, federal agencies and institutions. USIS offers a broad range of services including background investigations and drug screening solutions, security and related professional services, and national security related staffing and training. Headquartered in Falls Church, Va., USIS employs more than 7,000 associates that support business operations in all 50 states, U.S. territories, and overseas.