Aberdeen Group Selects Surebridge to Provide Suite of ERP Business Applications.Business/Technology Editors LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2000 Full Service ASP asp, popular name for several species of viper, one of which, the European asp (Vipera aspis), is native to S Europe. It is also a name for the Egyptian cobra (Naja haja). Integrates Corporate Accounting Solution Surebridge, Inc., a leading single-source application service provider (ASP), today announced the Aberdeen Group Aberdeen Group is a provider of business-related research services. It has its headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts and belongs to the Harte-Hanks group. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen's research is used by over 2. , a leading provider of technology market consulting and research, has selected Surebridge to provide its corporate back office solution. Through the agreement, Surebridge will implement, host and manage Great Plains enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (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. ) software applications for Aberdeen. The applications will enable Aberdeen to service the accounting departments of all of its U.S. offices from its downtown Boston location. In addition, Surebridge will streamline Aberdeen's reporting requirements, allowing the company the flexibility to extract key financial data into operational reports for each of its functional managers. "Surebridge recognized the importance of our reporting and has made our reporting requests a top priority," said Bob Ellefsen, controller/vice president of finance and administration for Aberdeen. Through its strategic partnership with Great Plains, Surebridge offers the technology as part of its suite of ERP business solutions for mid-market companies. Surebridge was recently named to Great Plains' President's Club, a recognition based on business performance and a high level of sales achievement. "With our access to industry background and information on IT companies, we felt Surebridge's one-stop approach to managed business services, implementation methodologies and organizational structure  This article has no lead section.To comply with Wikipedia's lead section guidelines, one should be written. offers a solid business model and the best choice to help us meet our long term goals," Ellefsen said. "With a member of their team dedicated to understanding our current and future business needs, Surebridge demonstrated the ability to not only implement and host the applications, but to continually manage them over time." "As Aberdeen's ASP analyst, I meet many different service providers," said Lew Hollerbach, senior analyst, application service providers, for Aberdeen. "What impresses me about Surebridge is its grasp of the fundamentals of any business: targeting a realistically addressable Reachable. When something is addressable, it can be identified and manipulated independently of its surroundings. For example, screen pixels and RAM memory are addressable. Each of the screen's picture elements can be individually turned on and off, and each of the memory's bytes can be market, delivering a well-rounded set of functionality, and focusing the business model on financial sustainability. Surebridge is showing that the ASP model can work." "Having one of the IT industry's leading consulting firms Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a choose Surebridge to host and manage its applications, confirms the need for the full service ASP model which we provide," said Pradeep Khurana, founder and chairman of Surebridge. "Aberdeen is able to take advantage of our proven customized approach to delivering applications reliably and affordably. We look forward to working with them to ensure that the solution matches their needs." About Aberdeen Group Aberdeen Group is a leading provider of technology market consulting and research for the investment and IT supplier communities. Steeped in technology and armed with end-user field research, Aberdeen answers clients' critical business and technology questions in the context of the Internet economy The Internet Economy refers to conducting business through markets whose infrastructure is based on the Internet and World-Wide Web. An Internet economy differs from a traditional economy in a number of ways, including: communication, market segmentation, distribution costs, and price. and across the product life cycle. Founded in 1988, Aberdeen is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts “Boston” redirects here. For other uses, see Boston (disambiguation). Boston is the capital and most populous city of Massachusetts.[3] The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the unofficial economic and cultural center of the entire New , and has research centers in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. ; Ft. Collins, Colorado; and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Aberdeen is located on the Web at www.aberdeen.com. About Surebridge, Inc. Surebridge, a leading single-source application service provider (ASP), was built from the ground up to service the complex needs of the middle market. Surebridge delivers brand name application choice, quality deployment and value-priced solutions. Its full service offerings include software selection based on business need, rapid and precise application deployment, affordable and secure hosting, application management and continuous business improvement services. Surebridge's complete portfolio comprises back-office, front-office, e-commerce and productivity applications. Surebridge's customers include leading manufacturing, professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , healthcare and financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. firms. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Lexington, Mass. For more information, please visit www.surebridge.com, or call 781-372-3222. All products mentioned in this release are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders. |
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