BCE Teams With Wakesoft to Build Promotion Management Application; Wakesoft Services Platform To Provide Grocery Store Chain with a Flexible Foundation to Manage In-Store Promotions.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 7, 2003 Wakesoft, a leading supplier of service-oriented application architecture for building and managing enterprise applications and services, announced today that Bureau Conseil pour les Entreprises (BCE BCE abbr. 1. Bachelor of Chemical Engineering 2. Bachelor of Civil Engineering BCE Abbreviation for before the Common Era. ) has joined the Wakesoft System Integrator See systems integrator. Partner Program. BCE is using the Wakesoft Services Platform to build a promotion management application for its Italian grocery store chain client. This application will aid multiple business units in managing in-store promotional campaigns. BCE realized that in order for its client to generate successful promotional campaigns, the grocery store chain needed a flexible, service-oriented platform on which they could build a forecast management application. They chose the Wakesoft Services Platform for its proven, application architecture that can be rapidly adapted, as business needs change. The promotion management process includes gathering and analyzing historical data from multiple business units to determine forecasts for upcoming promotions as well as leveraging analytics to create detailed market forecasts and reports. Wakesoft provides a flexible, reusable re·use tr.v. re·used, re·us·ing, re·us·es To use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing. re·us platform for the company's category business managers and store managers to manage their workflow application A workflow application is where various applications, components and people must be involved in the processing of data to complete an instance of a process. For example, consider a purchase order that moves through various departments for authorization and eventual purchase. for creating successful store promotions. "System Integrators are a vital part of our business," said John Hoye, vice president of business development at Wakesoft. "Wakesoft is committed to providing its partners with a proven application architecture that enables their customers to reap the benefits that Wakesoft's platform provides such as highly flexible, service-oriented applications that reduce IT delivery risk and lower total cost of ownership." "BCE is pleased to be working with Wakesoft," said Corrado Nordio, 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. for BCE. "We are currently using Wakesoft on a large project for an Italian grocery store chain and are realizing the benefits of the Wakesoft Services Platform. Wakesoft is enabling us to focus on building the business applications for our client, not the underlying application architecture. The training and support that Wakesoft is providing has been superior and we are looking forward to future projects with Wakesoft as a key partner." About BCE Bureau Conseil pour les Entreprises (BCE) is a system integration company that provides breakthrough, service-oriented architecture See SOA. to help businesses achieve the adaptive use of key performance indicators Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to quantify objectives to reflect strategic performance of an organization. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action. . BCE is based in Padova, Italy. For more information please visit, www.bcent.it or call +39 (049) 8705979. About Wakesoft Wakesoft is an enterprise software company providing a breakthrough service-oriented application platform that enables Global 2000 IT organizations to deliver new business capabilities and evolve existing applications and services. The Wakesoft Services Platform enables IT organizations to support business innovation by rapidly delivering business capabilities that take advantage of leading-edge technologies. Through service-orientation, these capabilities are optimized for business flexibility, reduced IT ownership cost, delivery risk and high quality-of-service. The Wakesoft Services Platform consists of an architectural core - The Wakesoft Architecture Server - that is based on open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced and best practices for defining service-oriented applications and runtime capabilities to integrate and manage the services to deliver optimized business results. The Wakesoft Architecture Server allows customers to build distributed enterprise-level Java, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and 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. applications across many industries including 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. , insurance, healthcare and others. For more information, please visit www.wakesoft.com or call (415) 281-0300. |
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