Agilera.com and J.D. Edwards Partner to Offer Greater Ease and Flexibility for Hosting Initiatives.Business/Technology Editors ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2000 Alliance Delivers Leading E-business Solutions Directly to Customers via the Internet Agilera.com, a leading application service provider (ASP) that delivers Internet-enabled, end-to-end enterprise and e-business solutions to emerging and middle-market companies, today announced that they have partnered with J.D. Edwards (J.D. Edwards & Company, Denver, CO, www.jdedwards.com) A developer of multinational, integrated enterprise software for distribution, finance, human resources, manufacturing and supply chain management. & Company's (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :JDEC JDEC Joint Data Exchange Center (US/Russian missile warning) JDEC Joint Document Exploitation Center (US DoD) ) second generation application hosting initiative, JDe.sourcing. This alliance will allow Agilera.com and J.D. Edwards to deliver enterprise software applications and e-business solutions directly to professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. customers via the Internet with greater ease and flexibility. The alliance allows customers to decrease their total cost of ownership and time-to-market, enabling them to focus on their core competencies A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
"As a solutions aggregator, it is vital to affiliate ourselves with partners who provide top enterprise applications, and J.D. Edwards is a clear leader in the market," said Robert Unger, president of Agilera.com. "This partnership strengthens Agilera.com's appeal to emerging and middle-market companies and enables us to expand our ability to deliver worry-free enterprise application services See ASP and Web services. ." "Agilera.com's business model and expertise in enterprise class e-business solutions and the ASP market, coupled with JDe.sourcing's agile solutions for e-business, creates a winning combination," said Gayle Sheppard, vice president of JDe.sourcing at J.D. Edwards. "The JDe.sourcing initiative is designed to maximize the benefits of providing our software through the hosted model. Agilera.com has all the necessary components, such as infrastructure, expertise of the needs of the professional services vertical market and applications, and value-added services, under one umbrella to deliver a quality hosted solution with our technology." The Agilera.com/JDe.sourcing partnership is already helping companies like MD Helicopters MD Helicopters is an aerospace company that produces helicopters primarily for commercial use. Coverage here includes the company's tenure as McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems, a subsidiary of McDonnell Douglas. , Inc. (MDHI MDHI MD Helicopters, Inc. MDHI Main Deck High ), a world leader in the development, manufacturing and support of light single- and twin-engine helicopters. Agilera.com was chosen by MD Helicopters to host and manage a complete line of enterprise applications from J.D. Edwards. "When we launched the company, we needed help to get our key business processes up and running fast," said Henk Schaeken, chairman and chief executive officer of MDHI. "Agilera.com's established relationship and expertise with J.D. Edwards solutions allowed us to quickly roll out all the needed applications, such as manufacturing, distribution, financials and human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , to get our business off the ground." About Agilera.com Agilera.com is a next-generation application service provider that delivers e-business and enterprise solutions to emerging and middle-market companies. A joint venture of CIBER CIBER Center for International Business Education and Research (various locations) CIBER Center for International Business and Research (Michigan State University) CIBER Cellular Inter-Carrier Billing Exchange Record , Inc. (www.ciber.com), the largest publicly held enterprise software implementor, Verio Inc. (www.verio.net), the world's largest Web-hosting company, and Centennial Ventures (www.centennial.com), Colorado's largest venture capital firm, Agilera.com provides its customers the velocity for faster time to market, as well as "dot.com agility and Fortune 500 stability.(TM)" The company is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado Englewood is a city in Arapahoe County, Colorado, USA. As of 2005, the city is estimated to have a total population of 32,350.[5] It is part of the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area. . Agilera.com's web site is www.agilera.com. About J.D. Edwards J.D. Edwards is a leading provider of agile business-to-business software solutions that make new business models work. The Company's integrated ActivEra(TM) Solutions deliver supply chain collaboration and fulfillment, and enable business-to-business trading communities in the consumer products, industrial and services industries. The Company's solutions are web-enabled and operate in multiple computing environments. Founded in 1977, J.D. Edwards is headquartered in Denver and posted fiscal 1999 revenues of $944.2 million. Additional information can be obtained by contacting the Company via the Internet at www.jdedwards.com or at 1-800-727-5333. |
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