Agresso Extends Multi-Million-Dollar Win Streak with $2.5 Million ERP Contract to Landauer Inc.Agresso's Change-Friendly Architecture to Ease Business Transformation; Radiation Monitoring Experts Team w/Keane in Selection Process BOSTON -- Agresso (www.agresso.com/USA), the 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. market's definition of agility, announced today that it has extended its string of software and services contracts valued in the millions of dollars with a $2.5 million deal with Landauer, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :LDR See photocell. ), the world's leading provider of technical and analytical services to determine occupational and environmental radiation exposure. The contract announcement was made today at the seventh annual Grape Escape analyst event in Boston. Landauer selected Keane, a $1 billion-plus global services firm that specializes in enabling transformation of its clients' business and IT functions, as its transformation partner and program management office. Keane oversees its entire engagement and its numerous partners, including Agresso, providing a single point of accountability for Landauer. Together they initiated a program to re-engineer Landauer's business processes and help transform their customer-facing systems. "Agresso presented a unique combination of core functionality and custom development capabilities that were necessary to meet our project requirements," said Jonathon Singer, CFO See Chief Financial Officer. at Landauer, continuing "we could not make this shift under our current deadlines without Agresso's change-oriented architecture. Its implementation is fundamental to supporting the major goals for this project: improve customer service, accelerate our time-to-market with new product or service introductions, improve productivity and increase cash flow." Agresso's architectural platform is directed at businesses like Landauer that need ongoing agility in their 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) solution. Landauer has purchased a suite of Agresso Business World modules, including general ledger General Ledger A company's accounting records. This formal ledger contains all the financial accounts and statements of a business. Notes: The ledger uses two columns: one records debits, the other has offsetting credits. , accounts payable, accounts receivable accounts receivable n. the amounts of money due or owed to a business or professional by customers or clients. Generally, accounts receivable refers to the total amount due and is considered in calculating the value of a business or the business' problems in paying , fixed asset, purchasing, workflow procurement, inventory management, reporting and analysis, etc. The deal includes software, services, development and maintenance, and was bid out to other vendors that did not provide the comprehensive solution proposed by Agresso. Keane managed the entire selection process. "It is one thing for Agresso to continually tout the absolutely clear differences between our post-implementation-agility focused platform - and quite another for that platform to be scrutinized and validated through an extensive process by the Landauer-Keane team," said Shelley Zapp, president, Agresso - North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . "Agresso is 100 percent dedicated to organizations like Landauer focused on BLINC [TM] - Businesses Living in Change." "After an exhaustive look at the Agresso offering against the market leaders, it was clear to them that Agresso's architecture was the best choice to support transformational change," Zapp continued. "Our solution suite and feature/functionality is world class - but so are a lot of other offerings. It is the Agresso architecture, that cannot be duplicated by other ERP vendors A list of Enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors. ERP vendors by revenue The largest vendors worldwide in 2005 according to Gartner Dataquest: Market share 2005 according to Gartner Dataquest[1] # Vendor Revenue (million $) Market share , that continues to win Agresso large deals with companies that no longer want to take a risk on all of the other rigid architectures out there. Our ongoing change capability, without needing external IT intervention each time it occurs, is proven in the market with thousands of organizations." About Agresso Agresso (www.agresso.com/usa) is a $225 million enterprise resource planning (ERP) subsidiary of Netherlands-based Unit 4 Agresso Unit 4 Agresso (Euronext: U4AGR) is a Dutch provider of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications. Headquarters are in Sliedrecht, the Netherlands. The company is the result of the 2001 merger between the Norwegian software house Agresso Group ASA and Unit 4. (Amsterdam:U4AGR AGR advanced gas-cooled reactor ) and one of the top five providers of ERP solutions for professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. and public sector organizations. Agresso offers a uniquely integrated data/process/delivery architecture designed specifically for Businesses Living IN Change (BLINC) [TM]. Agresso is known as "The ERP Market's Definition of Agility" as it allows an unlimited amount of ongoing, post-implementation changes without the typical external IT costs and intervention that nets billions of dollars in revenue to the market leaders. Over 2,600 companies and organizations in 100 countries deploy Agresso Business World for both operational support and strategic management. The company's role-based, Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. and Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) enabled solutions include: Financial Management, Human Resources and Payroll, Procurement Management, Project Costing and Billing, Reporting and Analytics and Business Process Automation. About Landauer Landauer is the world's leading provider of technical and analytical services to determine occupational and environmental radiation exposure. For more than 50 years, the company has provided complete radiation dosimetry dosimetry /do·sim·e·try/ (do-sim´e-tre) scientific determination of amount, rate, and distribution of radiation emitted from a source of ionizing radiation, in biological d. services to hospitals, medical and dental offices, universities, national laboratories, and other industries in which radiation poses a potential threat to employees. Landauer's services include the manufacture of various types of radiation detection monitors, the distribution and collection of the monitors to and from clients, and the analysis and reporting of exposure findings. The company provides its services to 1.5 million people in the United States, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Canada, China, Australia and other countries. About Keane In business since 1965 and based in the United States, Keane is a global services firm that specializes in enabling transformation of its clients' business and IT functions. The transformation partner of choice for clients across a broad array of industries, Keane is unique in its passion for building satisfying and enduring relationships with clients. Keane's solutions - which comprise consulting, technology, and outsourcing services - are customized to address clients' industry-specific challenges and enable dramatic improvements in business performance. For more information on Keane's services portfolio, industry solutions, and global locations, visit www.keane.com. |
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