A3 Solutions Supports IBM Enterprise Information Portal; EIP Hailed For Access To Unrivaled Number of Information Stores.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 2, 1999-- A3 Solutions Incorporated (A-cubed) today announced support for IBM's Enterprise Information Portal See corporate portal. , which will allow A3 to more effectively deploy A3 Profit Center for e-business solutions combining Profitability Analysis, Allocations, Budgeting, Costing, Forecasting, Planning, and Management Reporting. "The Global 2000 know that success demands creation, broadcast, and management of information about customers, competitors, and suppliers, regardless of the location of that information," 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. "IBM's Enterprise Information Portal will help our customers leverage their investment in business intelligence and web technologies, and to integrate, automate, and centralize e-business solutions for planning, analysis, and management." "Managing an e-business requires planning, discipline, and access to information across a wide range of systems and in a broad spectrum of formats," said Jim Kelly, Vice President of Marketing, 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) Data Management Solutions. "A3 Solutions coupled with the extensive search capabilities of the IBM Enterprise Information Portal enable customers to leverage the vast amount information supporting today's e-business applications." About IBM's Enterprise Information Portal IBM's Enterprise Information Portal is the first step of a company-wide software strategy designed to help corporations leverage the vast and growing amount of information supporting today's e-business applications. The IBM Enterprise Information Portal will allow users to access, search, integrate, and manage a wide range of information sources. 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 and Excel 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 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, , 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. Partners: A3 Profit Center software is co-marketed with partners firms, including Hyperion Solutions (Nasdaq: HYSL), IBM (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : IBM), and ShowCase Corporation (Nasdaq: SHWC SHWC St. Helena Wine Center (California) SHWC Student Health and Wellness Center SHWC Senior Health and Wellness Center SHWC Solar Hot Water Centers SHWC supervised home work classes SHWC Stigler Health and Wellness Center ). In addition, A3 Solutions partners with system integrators, consulting partners, and resellers worldwide. 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