A3 Solutions Presents Enterprise Profit Planning Seminar with IBM; Finance Director Touts Success Story at Del Monte.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 4, 1999-- A3 Solutions Incorporated (A-cubed) today announced "Enterprise Profit Planning Solutions for the Global 2000," the inaugural A3 Solutions Seminar 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) , taking place on Tuesday, November 9 at the IBM office in San Francisco. Stephen S. Young, Director of Finance at Del Monte Foods Del Monte Foods (NYSE: DLM) is an American food production and distribution company based in San Francisco, California. It offers canned goods in Del Monte, S&W and Contadina brands, pet foods under Kibbles n' Bits, 9Lives, Pounce, Milk-Bone and several premium brands, (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :DLM See ILM. DLM - Distributed Lock Manager on distributed VMS systems. ), will discuss "Integrating Product Profitability and Budgeting Applications" -- and how his company transformed planning chaos into online, integrated Enterprise Profit Planning solutions, using A3 Profit Center. Young endorses the A3 approach. "We required a solution to quickly replace the existing system, while significantly enhancing its capacity and functionality. A3 Profit Center met all of our goals and exceeded our expectations. We turned off the mainframe system 3 months ahead of schedule. With the software from A3 Solutions, we have a Y2K-compliant enterprise profit planning solution from which we have already seen significant return on our investment." This complimentary business seminar is not a technical briefing, but a session for executives and managers in finance, manufacturing, marketing, operations, and sales organizations who want to learn how to use existing data to make better, faster business decisions. "This seminar is designed for companies that are stuck in Spreadsheet Hell. It's an opportunity for them to see how Del Monte and other Fortune 1000 customers can harness the web to redeploy re·de·ploy tr.v. re·de·ployed, re·de·ploy·ing, re·de·ploys 1. To move (military forces) from one combat zone to another. 2. their spreadsheet modeling systems," said Robert Lautt, President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of A3 Solutions. A proponent of software and technology for business modeling and the visionary behind A3 Solutions, Lautt will discuss "Using Enterprise Profit Planning to Escape Spreadsheet Chaos." Topics in the continuing A3 Solutions Seminar Series with IBM include integrating planning across multiple organizations; speeding the planning cycle; and incorporating the corporate ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. system with a web-based planning solution. The Enterprise Planning seminar is open for registration: 800/520-9126, fax 800/778-1846, or www3.software.ibm.com/bpseminars. About Del Monte From local canner to international food supplier, Del Monte has been a staple at the table for over 100 years. A3 Solutions helped the food giant roll out a Product Profitability application, yielding yet another quality Del Monte crop. About A3 Solutions Incorporated A3 Solutions, headquartered in San Francisco, develops and markets A3 Profit Center, the Web-Ready Enterprise Modeling Software Suite that deploys Advanced Analytic Applications (A3) for Enterprise Profit Planning (EPP (1) (Enhanced Parallel Port) See IEEE 1284. (2) (Ethernet Packet Processor) A chip from Kalpana, Inc., Santa Clara, CA that doubles speed of Ethernet transmission to 20Mbits/sec. In 1994, Kalpana was acquired by Cisco. ). Corporations use A3 Profit Center to speed planning, increase collaboration, and make more informed decisions regarding enterprise profitability. EPP solutions configured with A3 Profit Center unify all Profitability Analysis, Allocations, Budgeting, Costing, Forecasting, Planning, and Management Reporting functionality under a common end-user application umbrella. Enterprise Profit Planning (EPP): A3 Profit Center empowers Global 2000 companies to leverage state-of-the-art Online Analytical Processing Online Analytical Processing, or OLAP (IPA: /ˈoʊlæp/), is an approach to quickly provide answers to analytical queries that are multidimensional in nature. (OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. ) technology, Excel, and Web Technology to integrate mission-critical analytic models, remove their limitations, enhance their functionality, and elevate them to dynamic, realtime, collaborative, Internet-enabled Enterprise Models. Leveraging the domain expertise from generalized versions of real-world implementations, A3 Profit Center deploys Advanced Analytic Applications that exceed the flexibility and functionality of single-purpose, pre-packaged or time-consuming, custom-developed offerings. Success Stories: A3 Profit Center customers include Abbott Laboratories, American Airlines, Avon Products, Bear Stearns & Co., The Clorox Company, Consolidated Edison, Cox Communications, Del Monte Foods, Deloitte & Touche, Fidelity Federal Bank, Staples, Sun Life of Canada (U.S.), T. Rowe Price T. Rowe Price (NASDAQ: TROW) is an independent global investment management firm and mutual fund manager based in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1937 by Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.. T. , and Toyota Motors. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion