Webstore speeds access to educational discount

Adept Scientific has become the first software supplier to provide personalised product offers via a single sign-on facility to its education WebStore for any visitor with an Eduserv Athens account.

In collaboration with Eduserv Athens, Adept Scientific has become the first software supplier to provide personalised product offers via a single sign-on facility to its 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 is extremely excited to be able to combine its 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 its customers in the academic and public sector community as a whole.

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