Broadreach Consulting Joins Oracle Portal Partner Initiative; Companies to Collaborate, Leveraging Expertise in the Enterprise Information Portal --EIP-- marketplace.Business/Technology Editors PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 2000 Broadreach Consulting, an Internet Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. consultancy focused on delivering eBusiness solutions to Fortune 1000 companies, today announced it has joined the Oracle(R) Portal Partner Initiative as part of a growing community that will deliver solutions and services based on the open Oracle Portal. Broadreach will leverage the strength of Oracle Portal to extend its leadership in the EIP (1) (Enterprise Information Portal) See corporate portal. (2) (Extended Instruction Pointer) The program counter on x86 CPUs. marketplace, with emphasis on Enterprise Application Integration, Knowledge Management, and 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 solutions. "Enterprise portals are potent engines of competitive advantage," said Rich Schroeder, vice president of solutions for Broadreach Consulting. "They allow employees across the enterprise to solve problems and make better decisions. By partnering with Oracle, the leading e-business software provider, Broadreach further strengthens its leadership by adding to the wealth of technology and service developments around enterprise portals." Charlton Monsanto, director of Broadreach's Enterprise Information Portal See corporate portal. practice states, "The idea behind a corporate portal An internal Web site (intranet) that provides proprietary, enterprise-wide information to company employees as well as access to selected public Web sites and vertical-market Web sites (suppliers, vendors, etc.). is to build the go-to place for all of the data you need to make business decisions. This requires expertise in enterprise application integration - failure to integrate with legacy, 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. , Groupware, and business intelligence systems will only create new silos in your enterprise." The Oracle Portal Partner Initiative is dedicated to establishing a community of leading System Integrators (SIs), Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Content Aggregators (CAs) who build, deliver and support solutions built upon Oracle Portal. By joining the Oracle Portal Partner Initiative, Broadreach can collaborate with other members of the program, have access to sample portlets and code as well as the latest versions of Oracle Portal. "The Internet began a race for widespread information access, now the race is to manage the Internet information glut See information overload. by centralizing relevant, and timely information for individual use," said Jeremy Burton, Oracle senior vice president, Oracle Product Marketing. "Corporate portals built using Oracle Portal help solve the information and application management problem, while our partners provide vital, value-added content, integration and services to a hungry marketplace." Broadreach Consulting, Inc. Broadreach Consulting is an Internet Professional Services consultancy focused on delivering eBusiness solutions to Fortune 1000 companies. As a Crossroads 2000 A-List Award recipient, Broadreach delivers strategy and technology implementation on complex Internet-based initiatives with expertise in eBusiness Strategy, Enterprise Information Portals, Digital Marketplace Integration, and eBusiness Technology Architecture. As a preferred partner for those businesses dedicated to success in the new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. economy, Broadreach is recognized as a Microsoft Solution Provider Partner, an IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (R) Premier Business Partner, a Sun eIntegrator Partner and is a member of the Eastern Technology Council. Headquartered in Philadelphia, the company was founded in 1997, and has offices in Atlanta and Raleigh. Visit Broadreach's Web site at www.ebroadreach.com. Editors Note: Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. |
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