WASHINGTON, June 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Computer Enterprises (GCE) announced today that a new version of the Core Accounting System (CAS) had been successfully released for use by the United States Coast Guard (USCG), the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS). These agencies consist of over 100,000 federal employees within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

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"The latest software release further enhances the CAS software baseline to allow more features and functionality for use by our customer organizations," said Ray Muslimani, president of GCE. "Another benefit is that the baseline is now ready for adoption by other agencies within DHS."

"This new release improves the performance of the real-time integration already available within the product suite. Applications, such as Sunflower, Prism, and the Finance and Procurement Desktop (FPD), record the financial impacts of business events as diverse as contract awards and asset creation into Oracle Financials, the accounting system of record. This is done in real time and without the need to reconcile the data between the systems," commented David Winslow, director of financial systems for GCE.

CAS is built upon a Services-Oriented Architecture and employs open standards based web services as the real-time integration technology. The new features of this release offer both enterprise users and field users greater flexibility, while at the same time lowering costs by creating a more robust multiple organization implementation.

"By constantly improving the multi-org capabilities of CAS, we continue to position this state-of-the-art product suite to support the needs of DHS. Our goal has been to mitigate the risks of building a centralized departmental financial system, to lower the overall program costs, and to support DHS financial system consolidation efforts for the benefit of the department and the taxpayer," said Avie Snow, chief of financial systems for USCG.

About GCE, Inc.

Founded in 1998 as a full-service government IT provider, GCE is a small business offering a wide-range of IT services. For more than six years, GCE has dedicated itself to quality service and client satisfaction, becoming a leading-edge provider of large system integration, custom software development, production operations control and support, and management, organizational, and business improvement services to the federal government. GCE's clients include federal agencies such as United States Coast Guard, General Services Administration, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Transportation, Transportation Security Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, and Department of Commerce. Over the last two years, GCE has grown with its tremendous success and now employs approximately 150 employees with offices in Reston and Chesapeake Virginia. As a leader in large system integration, GCE has delivered the Finance and Procurement Desktop (FPD) and Core Accounting System (CAS) to the United States Coast Guard.

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