Active Software Supports AMS 360si Framework for Integrated Communications Providers; Enhanced Partnership Enables ICPs to Rapidly Implement eBusiness Solutions.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers SUPERCOMM 2000, booth No. 4027 SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif., and FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000 Active Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASWX), a leading provider of eBusiness infrastructure software products, today announced that they are expanding their existing partnership with American Management Systems American Management Systems (previous NASDAQ symbol: AMSY) was founded in 1970 as a technology and management consulting firm. It was founded by a group of five former United States Department of Defense officials who worked under Robert McNamara in the Kennedy and Johnson (AMS AMS - Andrew Message System ) (Nasdaq: AMSY AMSY American Management Systems, Inc (stock symbol) ) to provide the adaptive enterprise application integration (EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Refers to various techniques used to share data and business processes in large enterprises. When companies acquire another organization, disparate information systems have to be made to work together. ) software for the AMS 360si eBusiness Integration Approach targeted at Integrated Communications Providers (ICPs). Utilizing Active Software's ActiveWorks(TM) Integration System, the AMS 360si framework encompasses the business processes, business logic and integration products required to deliver an integrated Operations Support System (OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. ) platform, enabling communications companies Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. to rapidly become eBusinesses. The AMS 360si approach will be demonstrated at Supercomm 2000 at MetaSolv Software Inc.'s Partner Pavilions Booth No. 4027. "Designing and implementing a true eBusiness solution can be an involved, time-consuming task for companies in the communications sector," said John Schmidt John Schmidt was associate Attorney General of the United States from 1994 to 1997 under President Bill Clinton. He has risen to small fame of late, for his support of President George W. Bush's secret NSA wiretapping scandal. , vice president in AMS's New Media and Communications group. "The combination of Active Software's ActiveWorks Integration System, which integrates enterprise applications, with AMS's 360si framework, enables ICP's to quickly deploy a proven eBusiness solution that speeds time to market for new products and enhances customer service." "In today's eBusiness landscape, time to market is critical for ICPs in order for them to quickly react to the latest regulatory, competitive, internal or customer-driven pressures," said Chet Kapoor, vice president, business development, Active Software. "Our partnership with AMS allows ICPs to rapidly implement their eBusiness infrastructure and respond to these changing business requirements in real time." The Active Software/AMS Solution In AMS 360si, Active Software's ActiveWorks Integration System provides the eBusiness integration software to integrate the various packaged and custom applications in an ICP (1) (Internet Cache Protocol) A protocol used by one proxy server to query another for a cached Web page without having to go to the Internet to retrieve it. See CARP and proxy server. IT environment. ActiveWorks offers a unified environment between the various applications and information systems, and enables AMS 360si to provide fast, tailorable business processes necessary to operate in a communications environment. ActiveWorks was chosen as the initial eBusiness integration platform for AMS 360si because it provides: -- Rapid implementation. ActiveWorks offers an easy to use platform for rapidly building and deploying the cross application enterprise business processes required in an ICP environment, providing fast time to market. -- Packaged Adapters. Active Software offers dynamic Adapters for key applications used by ICPs, including Siebel, Kenan, MetaSolv and Portal, enabling rapid deployment of the AMS 360si framework. -- Flexibility. The ActiveWorks platform is based on distributed, Internet technologies, and is completely cross-platform, enabling customers to leverage a comprehensive array of platforms to quickly deploy eBusiness integration solutions. -- Scalability. ActiveWorks Multi-Broker option has a proven track record in scaling across large customer environments in a variety of industries, including telecommunications. AMS 360si AMS's 360si approach provides a packaged integration infrastructure and business processes for communications service providers A Communications Service Provider or CSP is a company that transports information electronically. The term encompasses public and private companies in the wireline, wireless, Internet, cable, satellite, and managed services businesses. , including fast growing ICPs. AMS 360si enables customers to rapidly automate the following business processes resulting in significant time savings and cost efficiencies. o Flow-through Order Provisioning. AMS 360si provides a solution for the end-to-end delivery of new service order information in conjunction with customer care, billing, order management, inventory and other applications, eliminating error-prone manual processes. -- Holistic Customer Relationship Management. AMS 360si synchronizes customer information across applications, maximizes customer service representatives' interactions with customers, opens Internet-based customer self care, and minimizes customer account problems. -- Speed to Market. The AMS 360si approach takes new services defined in the product catalog and quickly moves them into the sales, customer care, and billing applications, enabling these services to be marketed, sold and delivered to customers quickly. AMS 360si for ICPs, the first in a series of OSS frameworks for rapid eBusiness solutions for communications providers, is available today from American Management Systems (www.ams.com/newmedia&comm). Active Software Provides Proven Results Active Software has worked with its partners such as AMS to successfully deliver eBusiness integration solutions to more than two dozen leading global telecommunications companies See telecom company. including Bouygues Telecom, Lucent, Concert Systems, Ipulsys, Level 3 Communications
Level 3 Communications NASDAQ: LVLT is a communications and information services company headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, USA. , MediaOne, Telecel, Telenordia, Teligent, Time Warner and others. About AMS AMS is an international business and information technology consulting Information technology consulting (IT consulting or business and technology services) is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives. firm - one of the 20 largest such firms worldwide. AMS is the premier provider of next generation enterprise business and technology solutions that dramatically improve business performance and create value for clients. AMS's suite of leading edge business and technology solutions, featuring eBusiness strategy, management and technology services make business reinvention possible in Internet time In the early days of the public Internet, Internet time referred to the breakneck speed with which companies scrambled to gain traffic and market share on the Web. A new business could come and go within a matter of weeks. for large organizations. Founded in 1970, AMS is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia Fairfax is an independent city forming an enclave within the confines of Fairfax County, in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Although politically independent of the surrounding county, the City of Fairfax is nevertheless its county seatGR6. , with over 9,000 employees and 59 offices worldwide. AMS had 1999 revenues of $1.24 billion, with eBusiness-related revenues representing 40%, an increase of more than 150% over 1998. FORBES magazine ranked AMS among the best-performing big companies in the U.S. in their "Best of the Biggest," and FORTUNE magazine placed AMS on its list of the "100 Best Companies to Work for in America" in 1999. AMS is traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol AMSY. AMS can be found on the World Wide Web at ams.com. About Active Software, Inc. Founded in 1995, Active Software, Inc, (Nasdaq: ASWX) is a leading provider of eBusiness infrastructure software products. Active Software's eBusiness platform, the ActiveWorks(TM) Integration System, automates end-to-end business processes within the enterprise. Active Software has approximately 200 customers in industries such as telecommunications, 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. , government, technology, utilities, distribution, manufacturing and transportation. Active Software is headquartered in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. . For more information, visit the company Web site at www.activesoftware.com. The Active Software logo, Active Software, and ActiveWorks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Active Software, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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