Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Partners with Viewlocity to Deliver DECS to the UK Ministry of Defense.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 2000 Marks Viewlocity's Initial Foray into Verb 1. foray into - enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly" raid encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon, invade - to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate; "This new colleague invades my Defense Industry Viewlocity, a global provider of 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 integration and online trading community An online trading community exists to provide its members with a structured method for trading, bartering, or selling goods or services. These communities often have forums and chatrooms designed to facilitate communication between the members. solutions, has been selected by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young to provide the integration solutions for the Ministry of Defense's new e-commerce system, Defense Electronic Commerce Service (DECS DECS Department of Education, Culture and Sports (Filipino; Kagawaran ng Edukasyon, Kultura at Palakasan; Philippines) DECS Domino Enterprise Connection Services (Lotus) ). DECS is an online trading Online Trading Making trades via the Internet. Notes: The use of online trading increased dramatically in the mid to late 1990's with the advent of high-speed computers and Internet connections. Stocks, bonds, options, futures, and currencies can all be traded online. exchange that will enable the MoD to conduct business electronically with its suppliers, across all industry sectors. Viewlocity's product, AMTrix(R), will enable the MoD's trading partners to communicate across disparate systems, connecting them to the exchange remotely and in a fraction of the time normally associated with software integration solutions. "Our partnership with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young represents yet another milestone and a first for Viewlocity," explained Viewlocity 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. Greg Cronin. "While we've made major advances in the logistics, consumer products and electronics industries, this is the first defense-related project we will be involved in. We anticipate further growth in this sector for our company." The Defense Logistics Organization (DLO DLO abbr. dead letter office DLO n abbr (= dead-letter office) → oficina de Correos que se encarga de las cartas que no llegan a su destino ) has an overall annual budget of $6.8 billion per year and spends $3.7 billion of this with trading partners. It is anticipated that a large percentage of this business will be channeled through DECS. DECS is considered an essential component in assisting the DLO to achieve 20% savings over the next five years. In addition it supports the DLO's Lean Support Chain initiative to significantly reduce costs in the Ministry's supply chain and shorten delivery times. In addition to Viewlocity, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is partnering with BT Defense; Oracle and Admiral Management Services. Best of breed products have been supplied by Baltimore Technologies Baltimore Technologies was an internet security firm founded in 1976 by Michael Purser. It was acquired in 1996 by a team financed by Dermot Desmond and led by Fran Rooney, who became CEO. , Cisco, Novell and Sun. About Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is one of the largest management and IT consulting firms in the world and is publicly traded on the Paris Bourse Paris Bourse National stock market of France. . The company offers management and IT consulting services, systems integration, and technology development, design and outsourcing capabilities on a global scale to help traditional businesses and "dot companies" continue to explore growth strategies in the new economy. The newly formed organization employs more than 57,000 people worldwide and reports global revenues of 7.7 billion euros (1999). More information about individual service lines, offices and research is available at www.capgemini.com. About Viewlocity Viewlocity is a global provider of the three essential technology layers needed to successfully integrate trading communities: B2B integration foundations, trading community frameworks and supply chain synchronization solutions. With more than 3,200 installations worldwide, AMTrix, Viewlocity's flagship software solution, allows trading partners to communicate no matter what the system, platform, application or communication format. The company's agnostic solutions allow its customers to leverage their existing technologies, and industry-based 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. connectors provide an open solution to conduct e-commerce. Viewlocity has 13 offices worldwide, with its global headquarters in Atlanta, GA, European headquarters in London and its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore. Viewlocity is focused on the consumer products, high tech, retail/e-tail and logistics service provider industries. For more information, call 877.512.8900 or visit the company on the chain at www.viewlocity.com. |
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