Andersen Consulting and Novient Form Alliance to Optimize Performance of Professional Services Organizations.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 2000 Novient Inc., a global provider of Internet infrastructure, and Andersen Consulting See Accenture. , a leading global management and technology consultancy, today announced a strategic alliance. This alliance will provide solutions that will enable Andersen Consulting to help its clients maximize their human capital assets capital assets n. equipment, property, and funds owned by a business. (See: capital, capital account) - an essential requirement of the growing electronic economy. Under the terms of the alliance, Andersen Consulting has named Novient as its preferred provider of Professional Services Automation See PSA. (PSA (Professional Services Automation) An information system designed to organize, track and manage all opportunities, work, resources, costs, revenues and invoices to improve the productivity and efficiency of the workforce. ) solutions. Through this alliance, Andersen Consulting will be able to offer its clients solutions that will enable entire services communities - clients, business partners, corporate alliances, and independent resource portals - to collaborate and communicate more effectively and efficiently. Novient provides users with innovative data access to permit real-time global collaboration and access to a "living" repository of skills, consultants, and upcoming projects. Traditional PSA providers force data through a centralized "hub and spoke Any architecture that uses a central connecting point. It is the same as a star topology in a network. A network hub is hardware that functions as a central hub to all nodes. See hub and full mesh.  " database, a time-consuming process requiring database replication and constant synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission.(2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. . On the other hand, Novient's Internet infrastructure allows users to access data on the servers where the information resides. "While evaluating professional services automation solutions for our own internal use, we determined that Novient offered the best solution for us and provided one of the most complete and proven PSA solutions for our global needs," said David Clinton David Clinton (b. January 2, 1960 in Sun Valley, California[1]) is an "Old School" former professional Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1973 to 1979. , Managing Partner of Andersen Consulting's Human Performance service line. Professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. organizations - firms that employ knowledge or creative workers with billable time - are streamlining their business processes and improving management capabilities to optimize their operations and profitability. Novient's PSA solution allows resource managers and other Internet and Intranet users to access the right skills for the right job at the right rate. Andersen Consulting will leverage this innovative PSA solution for its clients, their partners and customers to maximize their people assets. Ted Kempf, Senior Analyst at GartnerGroup DataQuest said, "This relationship is the first of its kind with a global consultancy and directly reflects the increasing market penetration Noun 1. market penetration - the extent to which a product is recognized and bought by customers in a particular market penetration - the act of entering into or through something; "the penetration of upper management by women" that professional automation administration solutions are achieving. I expect to see an increase in these types of alliances over the next 12 to 18 months." Novient President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. Halsey Wise said, "The choice of Novient as Andersen Consulting's preferred global PSA partner is a landmark event for Novient. The alliance between Novient and Andersen Consulting further expands Novient's global reach, making Novient's Internet infrastructure, iServerNet, and Novient's PSA solutions, eServices, one of the world's most widely used and recognized professional services automation solutions." Notes to Editors About Andersen Consulting Andersen Consulting is an $8.9 billion global management and technology consulting organization whose mission is to help its clients create their future. The firm works with clients from a wide range of industries to bring about far-reaching change by aligning their people, processes and technology with their strategy. Andersen Consulting has more than 65,000 people in 48 countries. Its home page address is http://www.ac.com. Andersen Consulting's Human Performance practice is the largest of its kind in the world and exists to help its clients address their most critical people issues through new approaches in the integrated areas of 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. , Learning, Knowledge Management and Performance Management. About Novient Inc. Founded in 1995, Novient Inc. (http://www.novient.com) is a global provider of Internet infrastructure for the services industry. Its services automation solutions are in use by leading services organizations and their communities worldwide. Using its patent-pending Internet infrastructure, Novient provides clients with their own internal services portal and the ability to establish an external collaborative B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business services exchange with their partners and customers. Novient delivers an advanced Professional Services Automation (PSA) solution that is designed to optimize the business results clients receive from their services organization. Novient's solution enables professional services companies, embedded service organizations, and systems integrators to automate and optimize management of their intellectual capital, engagements, alliances, and customers. The company's comprehensive suite of PSA solutions is used by approximately 120,000 consultants in 48 countries. Novient's global customers include Andersen Consulting, Compaq, SAP-AG Worldwide and its partner network, MYND (formerly Policy Management Systems Corp.), Hewlett Packard Corp., Siemens Business Services, Hyperion Solutions Hyperion Solutions Corporation is a business performance management software company, located in Santa Clara, California, USA. Many of its products are targeted at the Business Intelligence and Business performance management market. Corp., and Harbinger Corp. |
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