360Commerce Executive Speaks at National Alliance Summit; Strong Relationships Create Bottom-Line Benefits to Retail Customers.AUSTIN, Texas -- 360Commerce, the leading Java store and workforce management Workforce Management (WFM) encompasses all the responsibilities for maintaining a productive and happy workforce. Sometimes referred to as HRMS systems, or even the larger ERP systems (Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP). There are many software vendors within this space. solution provider, announced today that its vice president of business development, Tom Fornoff, has been asked to speak to other alliance professionals on 360Commerce's successful partnership program. Fornoff's presentation will take place on February 9, 2005 at the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (A.S.A.P.) Alliance Summit at the Westin Stonebriar Resort in Frisco, Texas Frisco is a city in Collin County and Denton County, Texas (USA). It is a northern suburb of Dallas. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 33,714, while according to 2007 estimate, the city's population is approximately 95,000. . Fornoff's presentation, which focuses on techniques for effective alliances with large companies, includes a case study of 360Commerce's success partnering with IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . "360Commerce has a reputation for strong and substantial partnerships," said Fornoff. "We have seen time and time again that the partnerships worth cultivating are those that provide a tangible benefit to joint customers of 360Commerce and our partners. As we forge these long-term alliances, it always comes down to a key question. How will this reduce costs or alleviate a key pain-point for our customers?" 360Commerce has a successful alliance program, seeing proven results for its customer base of leading retailers, including Circuit City and Pep Boys. The case study to be used in Fornoff's presentation, 360Commerce's relationship with IBM, is particularly noteworthy. 360Commerce is an active participant in IBM early-certification programs, testing its applications on the latest platforms, ensuring its customers have freedom of choice when it comes to hardware platforms Each hardware platform, or CPU family, has a unique machine language. All software presented to the computer for execution must be in the binary coded machine language of that CPU. Following is a list of the major hardware platforms in existence today. See platform. and operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Proven with implementations on IBM's newest offering, IBM Retail Environment for SUSE Linux A Linux distribution from the SuSE Linux division of Novell. Both consumer and enterprise versions are available, and the distribution includes several user interfaces. SuSE Linux comes with the Yet Another Setup Tool (YaST), which is used to install, configure and maintain the OS, as (IRES), in the large-scale retail environment, 360Commerce was most recently the recipient of IBM's Solution Provider Excellence Award. Fornoff currently leads 360Commerce's initiatives to grow through channel partnerships and strategic alliances. He is a seasoned technology executive with a history of managing successful partnership programs. About 360Commerce 360Commerce's proven and flexible store and workforce management applications are running in more of the world's leading retailers than any comparable Java solution. 360Commerce empowers retailers to achieve profitable differentiation by enabling a superior shopping experience and providing a lower total cost of ownership and rapid time to ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). . 360Commerce's applications embody the best-practices functionality of customers such as Apple, Build-A-Bear Workshop Build-A-Bear Workshop (NYSE: BBW) is an American retailer that sells customizable teddy bears and other stuffed animals. Build-A-Bear is the largest of the create-your-own animal chains with the other companies in the business consisting of regional and/or locally-owned , Circuit City, The Home Depot, Gap Inc., KB Toys, FedEx Kinko's, and Rite Aid. Its suite of applications includes Point-of-Sale, Back Office, Inventory Management, Central Office and Workforce Management. On the Net 360Commerce site: http://www.360Commerce.com A.S.A.P. site: http://www.strategic-alliances.org Trademarks: 360Commerce, 360Store, 360Enterprise and Unleashed are trademarks or registered trademarks of 360Commerce Inc. |
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