We’ve put e- in its place. Prefix or suffix notwithstanding, e- is not why we do business, it’s how we do business.The people of TSYS have been innovative pioneers in electronic commerce for more than a quarter of a century, since before the company was even incorporated.Long before most people found the Internet, before “dot-com” meant “market cap,” TSYS was moving transactions across states by phone lines, across continents by satellites, and now, at the speed of light across fiber optic cables.

Now think about this: Most customers don’t buy through the Internet with cash or checks; they use cards—plastic or virtual.That’s the business behind business on the Internet, and we do it better than anyone else.Without that framework, e-commerce would be “e-comatose.” Now we’re extending those lessons ever further, building more and more potential beyond card processing into knowledge management.

Trade is the fundamental business we’re in: providing the secure, reliable, efficient, invisible link between the world’s buyers and sellers.The currency has evolved and so has our business.We started by building a revolutionary framework to support a growing world of electronic transactions. Now, we have the architecture to move and manage massive volumes of data and present information in a way that gives our clients a superior advantage in the marketplace…and in a way that gives their cardholders unparalleled access, service and convenience. Wherever the business goes, we’ll still be in the middle of things.

This is the heart of knowledge management.

As part of one of FORTUNE magazine’s “100 Best Companies To Work For”, TSYS is also one of the best working companies in America. Over the life of this company, TSYS has consistently offered high returns to shareholders, a 5,583 percent appreciation in 17 years as a publicly traded company. In 1999, TSYS reported its 17th consecutive year of record revenues, net income and earnings per share. Our 1999 earnings increased 25.1 percent over 1998. Now we’ve revised our 2000 earnings forecast from 15 percent up to 20 percent. If we follow our basic strategies and execute the tactics discussed here, our opportunities for growth are immediate and incredible.

We are blurring the lines between the mainframe and the PC to create a new reality. That’s the greatness of our systems, the most technologically advanced transaction processing systems in the marketplace today. We offer PC flexibility backed by mainframe power.We provide fully customized solutions to suit the specific needs of individual clients.We are a connection to knowledge, giving our clients access to data that’s otherwise useless without the power to interpret it.

“What’s our
connection to
the Internet?
Have you ever tried to buy anything through the Web with a check or cash? If shipping companies are the feet for e-commerce, then we are the
handshake. We will be the world’s safest, most effective electronic connection between buyers and sellers any time goods and services change hands anywhere.”

Philip W. Tomlinson,
President