ACCESS COMMERCE Wins Two New Significant Contracts.Business Editors TOULOUSE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2000 ACCESS COMMERCE recently inked multi-million dollar contracts with two well respected industry leaders for its Cameleon software suite. One of these contracts was won by the ACCESS COMMERCE Large Account Sales Team and the other one was closed by QAD QAD Quality Assurance Division QAD Quality Assurance Department QAD Quick And Dirty QAD Quality Audit Division QAD Quick Attach/Detach QAD Question Answer Detail (language arts education) QAD Quality Application Development , the fourth largest software vendor worldwide for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and NT-based 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. systems, a reseller of Cameleon products internationally: 1) The first contract is with ALSTOM's Protection and Control Division ($330 million in revenue, and 21 sites globally). This ALSTOM group manufactures equipment for the protection and control of electric utility networks. Cameleon has been chosen as the Front Office solution for this division, with 500 users planned. ALSTOM specifically chose Cameleon because of the rapid 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). the solution provides. The ALSTOM PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. sales force will, with the implementation of Cameleon, be able to quickly generate complex estimates, effectively manage client relationships and more efficiently plan and execute their sales activity. To seamlessly connect ALSTOM's Front and Back Office systems, Cameleon will be integrated with SAP, using the Cameleon Universal Bridge module. 2) The second contract involves a large American enterprise (20 factories located in 9 countries) which is a global leader in designing and manufacturing poles, towers, and structures for lighting, communication and utility markets, and providing protective coating services. This group also leads the world in mechanized mech·a·nize tr.v. mech·a·nized, mech·a·niz·ing, mech·a·niz·es 1. To equip with machinery: mechanize a factory. 2. irrigation irrigation, in agriculture, artificial watering of the land. Although used chiefly in regions with annual rainfall of less than 20 in. (51 cm), it is also used in wetter areas to grow certain crops, e.g., rice. and water management equipment for agriculture. ACCESS COMMERCE will equip two of the divisions of the Public Lighting and Communication Towers group with its Business-to-Business e-commerce offering including Cameleon Visual Selling and Cameleon Commerce Portal. The solution will permit the organization's partners and distributors, by simply using an Internet navigator to access, via the web, all the services they need to automate and simplify their sales activities. These new implementations are examples of the vertical capabilities that ACCESS COMMERCE is including in its product offerings. They further validate ACCESS COMMERCE's forecast for continued growth in license sales of Cameleon, fueled by the strong demand for e-commerce solutions (+150% growth predicted worldwide from '99 to 2000 according to IDC). The first e-commerce software editor to be listed on the 'Nouveau Marche' of the Paris Stock Exchange, ACCESS COMMERCE provides enterprises with software and services that simplify and automate the sale of customizable product on the Internet, on mobile PC's and desktops. ACCESS COMMERCE is positioned in the dynamic market segment of interactive commerce at the dawn of the Internet's phenomenal growth. Specializing in a high value-added niche, the configuration of customizable products, ACCESS COMMERCE is well positioned with its unequaled technology and its leadership position in Europe. Today, ACCESS COMMERCE addresses a large group of customers including both innovative Fortune 1000 accounts and mid-sized companies such as Alcatel, Chabert et Duval, Framatome, General Electric, La Redoute, Lapeyre, Manitou Manitou supreme deity of Algonquin and neighboring tribes. [Am. Indian Religion: Collier’s, X, 91] See : God , Nordx/cdt, Potain, Renault, Schlumberger, Sidel and Speedline. In 1999, ACCESS COMMERCE realized Revenue of 95.7 MF (14.59 M), an Operating Income Operating Income The profit realized from a business' own operations. Notes: This would not include income from things such as investments in other firms. Also referred to as operating profit or recurring profit. of 3.2 MF (0.49 M) and Net Income of 2.1 MF (0.32 M). www.access-commerce.com Sicovam Code : 7424 Reuters Code : ACCS ACCS Air Command and Control System (NATO) ACCS Advanced Cisco Campus Switching ACCS Association of Copyright for Computer Software ACCS Air Command & Control System ACCS Airborne Command & Control Squadron .LN |
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