Intentia Standardizes on IBM's Open Technology Platform to Strengthen Collaborative Enterprise Applications, Broaden Market Reac
2003年10月28日 - 7:10PM
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Intentia Standardizes on IBM's Open Technology Platform to
Strengthen Collaborative Enterprise Applications, Broaden Market
Reach Strategic Alliance Expands Joint Marketing and Development
Efforts; Intentia at Core of IBM's Mid-Market Strategy WHITE
PLAINS, N.Y., and STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- IBM and Intentia International AB (XSSE: INT SE) today announced
a significant expansion of their strategic alliance designed to
help customers integrate their business processes for enterprise
and supply chain management through a consolidated software
offering. As part of the alliance, Intentia will standardize and
ship its J2EE-based Movex collaboration applications on IBM's open
middleware and hardware running on Linux, OS400, UNIX and NT. The
companies will also expand their joint sales, marketing and
development activities. With over 3,500 customers in 40 countries,
Stockholm, Sweden-based Intentia is one of the world's leading
enterprise and supply chain application vendors and second-largest
specializing in the mid-market. Intentia's strategic focus to grow
and extend its mid-market and enterprise share by strengthening the
Movex application suite with an open, scalable foundation is
achieved with the decision to standardize on IBM infrastructure
software. Intentia's J2EE-based Movex applications running on IBM
infrastructure can enable customers to develop and implement
collaborative enterprise solutions across different computing
platforms at a lower cost. "The ability to collaborate, anticipate
opportunities and respond quickly to changes transparently
throughout the supply chain is an important element of an on demand
environment," said Bjorn Algkvist, president and CEO of Intentia
International. "Customers can have the flexibility to integrate
solutions both within and across the enterprise with their
suppliers, partners, customers and other members of the extended
value chain." Intentia will pre-integrate its Movex applications
with IBM's WebSphere* Application Server, WebSphere Portal -
Express and DB2* Universal Database. As such, every order from a
medium-sized business will be shipped with IBM's enterprise-proven
technology embedded inside the Intentia application suite. The
Movex suite is built on proven Java-based technology that is unique
to the enterprise applications industry. Intentia will also develop
an optimized version of Movex for Linux, a low cost and reliable
platform that continues to gain momentum in the mid-market. The
Movex collaboration application groups include: Enterprise
Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain
Management (SCM), Business Performance Measurement, Value Chain
Collaboration and e-Business. "Leading ISVs are crucial to IBM's
strategy for supporting mid-market customers with on demand
solutions," said Marc Lautenbach, general manager, Global Small and
Medium Business, IBM. "Together, IBM and Intentia can deliver the
benefits of best-in-class application functionality on a secure,
solid foundation in a convenient, user-friendly package to
customers. Through this strategic initiative, IBM and Intentia have
united to better serve our customers by providing collaborative
commerce solutions that meet the requirements of an on demand
environment." Under the terms of the agreement, IBM and Intentia
will jointly market and sell the solution to target segments and
customers worldwide. IBM's industry-largest sales force will market
the combined offering, further extending Intentia's market reach.
IBM will have dedicated consultants in Intentia's IBM Competency
Center to support application development and testing, and
optimization, tuning and other development activities. Intentia
will work with IBM Global Services in marketing and sales
activities in selected cases. Intentia will promote IBM's eServer*
iSeries*, xSeries* and pSeries* hardware and middleware as its
technologies of choice and optimal reference platforms in marketing
and sales activities. Companies in bellwether industries, such as
manufacturing and retail distribution, are integrating key business
processes and experiencing tangible productivity gains. Industry
observers have noted that after years of cost- cutting, these
companies are starting to benefit from the integration of
marketing, sales and fulfillment processes through ERP, SCM and CRM
applications, contributing to overall market expansion. Others are
being asked by their supply chain partners to deliver information
on demand so they can better manage their own business processes.
"Standardizing our enterprise applications on IBM's infrastructure
technology can help us reduce development costs, increase
development productivity and take advantage of the growing
opportunity created by the on demand era," said Algkvist.
"Intentia's customers are seeking open and dynamic applications
that can run across a variety of computing platforms, as well as
flexibility and a lower cost of ownership over time. Partnering
with IBM and jointly selling the solution enables us to provide our
customers with an integrated, powerful and high quality offering
that is reliable, and easy to install and maintain." "TAL was
looking for an integrated supply chain system that could help us
better manage our relationship with suppliers, customers and
distribution centers, seamlessly," said Dr. Harry Lee, Managing
Director, The TAP Group. TAP owns and operates garment
manufacturing plants in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia,
Taiwan, Thailand and Mexico, and its customers include department
stores, specialty stores, branded labels, catalogue buyers and
retailers throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. "This
business is all about services, and with the joint IBM and Intentia
solution, we will be able to get to the next level," Lee said.
Since Intentia's founding nearly 20 years ago, Intentia and IBM
have successfully delivered enterprise management systems to more
than 3,000 customers worldwide. "We are choosing IBM's
infrastructure technology as the foundation for our applications
because of their leadership position in the middleware market and
strong support of Linux," said Algkvist. "The ability to access
data and view inventory quickly, while a customer is still on the
phone, is a major improvement. We couldn't do that before," said
Dave Hoover, Global Director of Information Services at Mission
Hockey. The California-based company manufactures and distributes
roller and ice hockey skates, hockey equipment and apparel for
amateur and professional players and teams. "This alone has
improved efficiency and customer service, in addition to reducing
excess inventory, because customers now know what's available and
when, at the time they place their orders. We see the joint IBM and
Intentia solution helping us further increase efficiency in moving
orders through the warehouse and out to customers." "We're in an
era when speed of communication and supply chain agility are
prerequisites to fulfilling customers' needs," said Roel Bakker,
Director, Information Management at Nutreco, a Netherlands-based
global food company. "The integrated solution will provide us with
visibility throughout the supply chain, and fast access to accurate
information from the businesses to give us a complete picture to
make informed decisions. The main payback areas will include
improved business processes, reduced stock and debtor days,
improved procurement, lower cost of IT ownership and increased
sales." About IBM PartnerWorld for Developers PartnerWorld for
Developers is the developer resource for IBM Business Partners. It
is a worldwide program designed to help software developers reach
broader markets, lower their costs of doing business, and take
their products to market faster. For more information, visit
http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld, or call 1-800-627-8363 in North
America, +1-770-835-9902 outside North America. About IBM IBM is
the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years
of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM works with
companies of all sizes around the world to deploy a full range of
IBM technologies. For more information about IBM, visit
http://www.ibm.com/. About Intentia Intentia is one of the world's
leading suppliers of collaboration solutions. Our vision is to
become the leading global collaboration solutions vendor by
supplying our customers with tomorrow's solutions today. Intentia
offers a one-stop shop for all collaboration needs within numerous
industry segments. We develop, implement and maintain our own
solutions to produce the highest possible level of customer
satisfaction. The Intentia Solution consists of applications
covering customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise
management (ENM), supply chain management (SCM), business
performance measurement (BPM), e-business and value chain
collaboration (VCC). Intentia has more than 3,000 employees and
serves over 3,500 customers in the manufacturing, maintenance and
distribution industries via a global network spanning some 40
countries. Intentia is a public company traded on the Stockholm
Stock Exchange (XSSE) under the symbol INT B. Visit Intentia's Web
site at http://www.intentia.com/. * A trademark or registered
trademark of International Business Machines Corporation.
DATASOURCE: Intentia International AB CONTACT: Thomas Ahlerup, Head
of Corporate and Investor Relations, +46-8-5552-5766, Cell,
+46-733-27-5766, Fax, +46-8-5552-5999, , Johan Berg, President,
+46-8-5552-5613, Cell, +46-733-27-5613, Fax, +46-8-5552-5999, ,
both of Intentia; or Barbro Lado, Media Relations Manager of IBM,
+46-8-793-4710, Cell, +46-70-793-4710, Fax, +46-8-793-4911, Web
site: http://www.intentia.com/ http://www.ibm.com/
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