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Alti and SAPBUREAU Announce Joint Venture to Launch AltiSAP

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:44:58 GMT

ATLANTA, Ga. and NEW YORK, N.Y., April 30 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Alti, headquartered in Paris, with U.S. headquarters in Atlanta, is pleased to announce a joint venture with SAPBUREAU, part of the international ADA Software Group. This collaborative initiative launches a new North American organization called AltiSAP, with the goal of rapidly growing SAP-focused solutions and high-value services, particularly around Business Intelligence (BI) and NetWeaver (SAP's strong technology platform), and to propagate the adoption of SAP enterprise software in medium-sized enterprises.

AltiSAP will draw on Alti's extensive experience with SAP, including its Qualified SAP Partner Solutions for Mill Products, its All-in-One Straight preconfigured industry solutions, and other Alti business accelerators. AltiSAP will also benefit from Alti's extensive employee base and client service experience as a mySAP Service Partner, SAP Gold Partner in CRM, SAP Silver Partner in BI, and Preferred Partner in NetWeaver.

AltiSAP will inherit SAPBUREAU's focus on building business agility through SAP by using SAP NetWeaver's Service Oriented Architecture. The ADA Software Group's Rapid Transformation Methodology based on OMG's open standards will be tailored to the SAP platform for creating web services that encapsulate the client organization's differentiating factors.

Alti is an international computer services company with 1200+ employees focusing in three service areas: Information engineering; Enterprise systems implementation & integration, with a concentration on SAP; and general information technology consulting. Founded in 1995, Alti has rapidly grown both organically, and through strategic acquisitions. Cernum, acquired in 2006, is the SAP market leader in Belgium, particularly in BI, CRM and NetWeaver. Alti today is approaching US$ 200 million in revenues and is publicly traded on the NYSE Euronext Exchange under the symbol ALTI (NYSE:ALTI).

SAPBUREAU Services Worldwide, Inc. is a privately-held, SAP services firm that is part of the ADA Software Group, headquartered in Cologne, Germany, with international offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sweden, India, Singapore and China, and worldwide sales exceeding US$ 50 million. The group, with 400+ employees, is very closely associated with the Object Management Group (OMG). SAPBUREAU is currently involved in an initiative to produce software for rapid migration of applications to SAP using OMG's Model Driven Architecture, SOA and OMG's Architecture Driven Modernization (ADM) methodology.

More information about Alti and SAPBUREAU:
www.altiamerica.com
www.sapbureau.com.

All trademarks acknowledged.

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HNP Solutions International Unveils a Unique Approach to Outsourcing Application Development

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:12:13 GMT

New Method of Delivering Business and Technology Transparency Builds on Proven Services Portfolio

BALTIMORE, Md., April 29 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- HNP Solutions International (HNPSI), an Agile Software Development firm providing complex commercial and business applications, today announced a new and unique approach to outsourced IT services that provides organizations with complete technical and business transparency. Based on an environment of open communication and using a suite of web-based applications, clients are integrated into the delivery process from day one and have access to the same real-time management tools used by the development team.

"Customers making use of outsourced services have historically been kept 'hidden' from the processes that they have been paying for," said HNP CEO David Hanna, "We felt that bringing openness to the table, and making the client a part of the process not only delivers a faster and better result, but a more cost-effective one as well."

HNP can comfortably provide such an open approach due to its past three years of excellence and candor with its growing customer base. Through a wide variety of project types, from application development to knowledge transfer, HNP enjoys outstanding customer satisfaction and excellent client references. According to one client, Reston Radiology, HNPSIs new approach builds on its proven technology that have helped customers such as Reston Radiology Consultants reduce their IT costs and "future proofs" existing IT systems.

Virginia-based Reston Radiology needed to expand its in-house Radiological Information System (RIS), used for all patient transactions including appointment scheduling, billing and exam management. The RIS system had become outdated and could not be integrated with other systems Reston's physicians relied on for coordinating patient care.

"The RIS is absolutely critical to our day-to-day business and replacing it would have been extremely costly and time-consuming," said Michael Petriella, COO, Reston Radiology Consultants. "HNP Solution International redeveloped and redeployed the existing system, significantly reducing cost and downtime, while our end users realized increased operational performance without having to endure significant additional training."

Pricing and Availability
HNPSI prefers to operate in a fixed-cost, fixed-time manner and all services are available today.

About HNP Solutions International
HNP Solutions International is a worldwide software engineering firm focusing on commercial application and enterprise system development, as well technology migration and architecture remediation. With in-depth experience in dual-shore, agile software development, HNPSI has been the winning choice for many organizations looking for a candid, transparent service provider with a proven ability to deliver top quality software at a fair price.

For more information on Agile Software Development please contact HNP Solutions International at www.hnpsolutions.com.

You may also gather detailed information on this contemporary methodology by visiting Wikipedia at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development .

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Cengea Solutions Inc. acquires Inform Network for Systems Management Limited

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:11:28 GMT

VANCOUVER, B.C. Canada - Feb. 5 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Cengea Solutions Inc. announces today that it has acquired the assets of Inform Network for Systems Management Limited. Cengea and Inform have been the two dominant suppliers of spatially enabled information systems to the forest products industry in Canada and have had growing success in providing systems to the forest products industry in the United States.

"The acquisition of Inform broadens the Cengea product set and strengthens our ability to address the emerging needs of the North American marketplace. The skill base that comes with Inform enhances our ability to not only service existing customers but address the opportunities we see rising in the related land use applications," said Garry Rasmussen, President and CEO of Cengea Solutions Inc.

Mary Jane Devine, President, Inform Network for Systems Management Limited said "By combining the capabilities of the two companies we provide our customers with an expanded capacity to meet their needs in future and our employees with a greater diversity of opportunities."

Cengea Solutions Inc. is the result of a merger in 2006 of Ansera Resources Inc. of Vancouver and Linnet Geomatics International of Winnipeg. The company is active in both the Forestry and Agriculture Industries with customers in Canada the United States and Great Britain.

Inform Network for Systems Management Limited is a joint venture of TELUS and Timberline Natural Resource Group. Founded in 1999 the company has customers in Canada and the United States.

More information: www.cengea.com.

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Spending on Managed Services Increasing As Enterprises Turn to Outsourcing to Handle Complexity, Says Insight Research

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:14:04 GMT

BOONTON, N.J. - Nov. 15 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- The US managed services market will grow at a compounded rate of 10 percent over the next five years as growth continues across all segments of the managed services value chain, says a new market study from Insight Research. The report notes that in today's sophisticated communications environment, full time managed service professionals are in the best position to assist enterprises to realize the full potential of IP networking. IP's vast array of capabilities greatly increases management complexity.

The study notes that revenues associated with the managed services market will grow from $28.6 billion in 2007 to nearly $47 billion in 2012.

Insight's newly-released market analysis report, "Managed Services in an IP World: New Opportunities for Wireless and Wired Networks 2007 - 2012," contends that carriers, service providers, equipment vendors, systems integrators, and specialist companies will all participate in the growth opportunities provided by this market.

The study differentiates among four managed service segments: managed data center services, managed infrastructure, managed LAN services, and managed WAN services. In addition to the revenue forecasts for these market segments, forecasts are provided for various market subdivisions, including managed IP VPNs, managed security services, managed VoIP, LAN extensions, WLAN extensions, managed hosting and storage, and a number of other significant areas within the managed services domain.

The report also provides Insight's survey of outsourced managed LAN, managed WAN, disaster recovery and storage management services by vertical industry.

"Because they can offer around-the-clock monitoring of network performance, improved application performance, and predictable service levels, managed service providers are in a unique position to expand their business in an effort to address the growth of this market," says Robert Rosenberg, Insight's president.

"The most significant driver may well be the growth in the number of business locations or endpoints that connect to each other across a WAN. When you compare the growth of establishments to the growth of managed network connections, the increasing need for managed services is unmistakable."

A free report excerpt, table of contents, and ordering information is available online at
www.insight-corp.com/reports/manserv07.asp.

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Technology Insight Corporation Awarded for Supplier Excellence

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:45:49 GMT

BOSTON, Mass. - Nov. 14 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- Technology Insight Corporation (TIC) was recently acknowledged for their product excellence. Wabash National Corporation, a leading manufacturer of semi-trailers in North America, awarded TIC the National Supplier Recognition Award.

"Technology Insight went above and beyond Wabash's expectations and we wanted to recognize them for their valuable contribution to our company," Ray Fattore, Director of Strategic Sourcing for Wabash National Corporation, said.

The award was presented to Technology Insight during Wabash National's recent annual event for its suppliers; they were the only award recipient.

"With Technology Insight's expertise, Wabash was able to integrate several purchasing and accounts payable systems into one consolidated database within six weeks," Fattore said. "This capability has allowed us to leverage our spending power to reduce costs and to improve delivery performance from our suppliers. We have also received outstanding-operational reporting enhancements as our implementation matures, allowing us to better control our procurement processes."

As a technology company, it's exciting for Technology Insight to achieve this recognition from a manufacturing company.

"We strive to leverage technology to empower our customers to maximize business information, whether it is for increasing operational efficiency, identifying breakdown in business process or analyzing spend to best leverage a company's supplier base," Karl Andersson, founder of Technology Insight, said. "With Wabash, their Strategic Sourcing group utilized the information to make an immediate impact to the bottom line, plus develop a path for future savings."

According to Andersson, Technology Insight's unique understanding of the purchase-to-pay cycle and extensive experience with numerous ERP systems enables their company to deliver 100 percent visibility of data across all systems for detailed, comprehensive analysis that can truly impact the bottom line.

"Companies can't get this level of analysis from their IT group," Andersson added.

About Technology Insight:
Technology Insight specializes in providing Fortune 2000 Accounts Payable and Supply Chain organizations with secure, web-based data analysis solutions. These services enable these groups to overcome the challenge of multiple A/P or Purchasing systems and high-transaction volume.

Technology Insight's solution combines 100 percent visibility with detailed analysis to empower these companies to: increase efficiency, identify breakdown in business process, to perform detailed spend analysis, and to increase duplicate payment identification and recovery.

For more information about Technology Insight Corporation, visit: www.tic-us.com.

Intelligent Chaos CEO Offers Insight into SOA Business Value

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:27:00 GMT

TAMPA, Fla. - Sept. 14 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- According to the President and CEO of EMS Consulting - Intelligent Chaos, the future is now for companies and industries looking to implement Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). "Service Oriented Architecture represents a new standard that assists the overall architecture that's been designed to be replicate-able and reusable," said Elaine Myrback, CEO. "And it begins to have a payback as you develop those web services within that architecture."

Intelligent Chaos (IC), a division of EMS Consulting, has emerged as the proven innovator in bridging the traditional implementation approach to the next generation of services, leveraging Oracle's Fusion Middleware family of products in the development of SOA.

Myrback outlined the reasons why the Tampa, Fla. based Certified Oracle Partner and leading ERP Systems Integrator is considered a gold standard SOA practice.

"Adopting the technology in the most user-friendly way is where we come in," she said. "While the EMS Consulting side simplifies the implementation piece, the Intelligent Chaos side minimizes doing it the old way and brings in the new transformational way of doing business. And as that progresses and matures, it all becomes one."

Intelligent Chaos brings a cost-effective alternative to investing in high-maintenance, non-reusable vendor specific ERP customizations, specializing in taking advantage of the more flexible and adaptable solutions offered by the SOA approach.

"We are really closely tied to the enterprise. We are SOA from the enterprise standpoint. In our organization we have two entities," Myrback explained. "One is the consulting piece, which is the traditional implementation of those enterprise applications, so we know how to customize and how to implement."

The second side of the coin takes the SOA architecture group and lays it on top of the traditional implementation. This is a solution provider that separates the experienced Intelligent Chaos approach by furnishing a vision and framework for the new tool set.

"We understand the empire so well on the consulting side, the technology on the SOA side. We meld the two together. That's the EMS -IC approach and the experience we have on both sides. It's very important and strategic to an organization," Myrback said.

CIO's and CTO's across major industries are seriously thinking how web service technologies can assist in consolidating and streamlining internal IT operations offering savings and efficiency. Many are turning to SOA. Earlier this year, prestigious Northwestern University contracted Intelligent Chaos as the exclusive provider for SOA solutions.

"The higher education market is just catching on now. That's a really nice market to be able to show the long-term benefits of SOA," noted Myrback. "Our strength is in being able to take our clients along the lifecycle. We teach them the lifecycle, we walk them through the lifecycle, and when we leave they are able to carry it forward."

As more industry leaders begin to see the ultimate value that implementing SOA brings to the table, Myrback believes senior management, such as a CEO or CIO, are harboring differing visions about deploying the customizations and changes required for the business user.

An important aspect is getting a buy-in from middle tier management. There is beginning to be a universal understanding of the importance of SOA for the future and how it saves money in the long run.

"So it doesn't save you money your first 12 months. After your first couple of years, you'll start seeing that your upgrades are easier, there's less customization, there's less cost, and less maintenance and you can utilize and facilitate the business more appropriately utilizing SOA," she said.

Considering the rate of SOA adoption, a decision to implement the technology now versus later can mean a significant IT savings for the next upgrade and success in meeting marketplace needs. Myrback also feels it's important to know where your wins are.

"The wins? They are most always in the user front end, where you can get creative and combine traditionally siloed data or simply put a new face on a traditional back-end providing improved usability or intuitiveness," she said. "Let's get a couple of quick wins when your user community says, 'wow' I want more of this, then you get the ball rolling. There are progressive steps we can take, different levels of service at different pricing."

Myrback also offers up some advice for early business transformation strategy.

"Crawl before you walk. Not ready to go full SOA? Look at your infrastructure and how you want to handle it the next three to five years. Construct an achievable roadmap and start with the small wins," she said.

For more information call (813) 287-2486 or visit www.intelligentchaos.com.