NVCC Selects Telemet America as Key Software Provider

NVCC selects Telemet America as key software provider.

Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) April 2, 2008

The second largest community college in the U.S., Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC), has selected Telemet America's Orion to run in its Global Capital Trading Center. NVCC compared the services of Bloomberg, Reuters, Thomson, Fact Set and Telemet America before making their final decision. Telemet America's Orion platform will be used by finance students to do in-depth analysis of US publicly traded equities with the same real-time and historical data being used by thousands of professional asset and wealth managers across the country.

NVCC Dean of Business, Dr. John Min stated, "We are very pleased to have selected Telemet America as an academic partner. The Telemet Orion platform will play a big role in giving our finance majors experience that is directly relevant to the real world of equity market analysts and wealth managers. Telemet America's Chief Executive Officer, Fred Parsons, commented, "It is a great pleasure for us to work with such an innovative institution like NVCC. The Telemet Orion Platform will give their students experience with the professional data and analysis that they will be using in the market in the very near future."

About Telemet America, Inc.
Telemet America, Inc. has been providing world-class equity data throughout the United States for 30 years. Telemet is a pioneer in providing data to mobile clients, which it has since complemented with a state of the art web-based investment platform. Several thousand clients are serviced from their Alexandria, Virginia headquarters.
Telemet America Website

About Northern Virginia Community College
Northern Virginia Community College is a state funded institution that opened its doors in 1964 to serve the extreme northern part of the state. Currently there are over 60,000 full time students and 2,300 faculty and staff. The student body consists of individuals from over 180 countries.
NVCC Website

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