Agere Systems Chooses Azerity's ProChannel Solution for Real-Time Quoting and Design Opportunities; Agere to Gain Competitive Momentum Through Optimized Sales Execution.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 21, 2004 Azerity(R), a leader in sales execution and channel automation software solutions, today announced that leading semiconductor provider Agere Systems Agere Systems Inc. was an integrated circuit components company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Effective April 2, 2007, it was merged into LSI Corporation. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AGR AGR advanced gas-cooled reactor .A, AGR.B) has selected Azerity's ProChannel(R) solution to provide its extended sales organization with real-time capabilities to respond to, and effectively manage all quotations including the most complex quote requests. In addition, Azerity's capabilities will bring value to Agere by standardizing the management of their business processes as it relates to their global sales activities. Electronics component manufacturers face significant challenges in delivering global, consistent, and optimal pricing to their customers. Managing an effective and dynamic pricing policy is daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin . Maintaining timely communications to the field, coordinating price exception requests, ensuring contract compliance and applicability, delivering response accuracy, and addressing regional and multi-geographical issues is essential. With Azerity's ProChannel software solution, a manufacturer's direct and indirect sales channels now have a very intuitive and precise environment to get answers to pricing requests as they occur, based on relevant data such as customer, channel, quantity, geography, purchasing history, contracts in place, special promotions and competition. "We see Azerity's ProChannel helping us ensure that our customers receive accurate and timely response to their pricing requests. ProChannel will help Agere reduce costs and speed response time associated with sales transactions by synchronizing information around the world and across channel activities," said David Gilfoil, Director, Planning and Operations and Worldwide Sales, Agere. "ProChannel is an application which will help Agere enhance performance, maximize revenue and provide better service to our customers." "Azerity's domain expertise and deep understanding of industry requirements makes ProChannel a very unique and compelling solution," said Stephen E. Gold, President and 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 Azerity. "What matters the most is to make customers like Agere more efficient in every aspect of their sales execution processes, and make them more successfully bring their own product to market." About Azerity Azerity(R) is a leading provider of web-based enterprise class software applications for sales execution and channel automation. Sales execution, or next generation CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. systems, provides intelligent automation and management of customer transactions which result in improved revenues, reduced costs, enhanced margins, and accentuated customer and channel satisfaction. ProChannel(R), their award-winning suite of applications, provides manufacturers and their extended selling organization total visibility and management of the sales and marketing activities. A patent-pending process allows organizations to map their business processes across the ProChannel suite of 29 feature rich modules. Combining in depth functionality with extensive domain expertise, a proven 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). , unparalleled professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. , and total customer satisfaction, it is clear why Azerity has emerged as the standard for enterprise class sales execution and channel automation solutions for manufacturing industries with complex sales processes. The Company worldwide headquarters are located at 640 N. McCarthy Boulevard, Milpitas, CA 95035. The EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. headquarters are located at 1464 Chemin de Vallauris, 06410 Biot, Sophia-Antipolis, France. For additional information about Azerity, visit www.azerity.com or call 408-324-2300. 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