360Commerce Executive to Speak to New York City Alliance Leaders; Strong Relationships with Industry Leaders Create Bottom-Line Benefits.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 accepted the invitation to speak to other alliance professionals regarding 360Commerce's successful partnership program. Fornoff's presentation will take place on June 14, 2005 at a meeting of the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (A.S.A.P.) at The Reuters Building in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Fornoff's presentation, which examines techniques used to accomplish effective alliances with larger companies, includes a case study of 360Commerce's success partnering with large organizations, including 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) , Sun, Novell and Microsoft. "360Commerce has a reputation for strong and substantial partnerships," said Fornoff. "We have seen time and time again that partnerships with leaders across our industry create tangible benefits for 360Commerce and our joint customers. The key question we'll address in this session is how an emerging company can deliver collaboration benefits without becoming overwhelmed by larger partners' sometimes confusing array of people and programs." 360Commerce has a successful alliance program, providing consistent results for its customer base of leading retailers, including Circuit City and Pep Boys. One case study in Fornoff's presentation will be 360Commerce's relationship with IBM. 360Commerce is an active participant in IBM early-certification programs, which helps ensure customers' freedom-of-choice in 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. . 360Commerce has worked closely with IBM to meet customers' needs in several large scale retail environments. 360Commerce was recently recognized for partnership excellence via the 2005 PartnerWorld Beacon Award for 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) Solutions. 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. Fornoff is an active member of the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals and is leading efforts to organize an A.S.A.P. chapter in Texas. 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 The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box , 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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