Cap Gemini Ernst & Young and Cybrant Form Strategic Alliance to Extend Reach Into High-Growth eBusiness Market.Business Editors & Technology Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2001 Cybrant: Cybrant and Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Accelerate eBusiness Sales to Maximize Profits Cybrant Corporation, the leading developer of Internet-based solution design, product selection, and configuration applications, today announced a strategic alliance with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young U.S. LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , one of the world's largest management and IT consulting firms Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , to provide its customers with Cybrant applications. "Cybrant is very excited about working with a world-class systems integration leader like Cap Gemini Ernst & Young," said Dave Buchanan, 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. and co-founder of Cybrant. "By joining forces, we will be able to provide a larger pool of businesses with tailored selling solutions aimed at increasing the effectiveness and profitability of their sales channels." Cap Gemini Ernst & Young will train teams of business consultants on Cybrant's suite of Complex Selling Automation applications, and combine Cybrant with other solutions that it currently provides to its clients. In turn, Cybrant will provide full training and support to Cap Gemini Ernst & Young consultants who are implementing its solution. "Our customers' sales success relies on their ability to harness an immense amount of knowledge, perform needs analysis and build products and solutions, all at lightning speed," says Bob Patton, vice president of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. "Cybrant's products are flexible, fast and intuitive enough to dramatically improve our customers' sales processes A sales process is a systematic approach for performing product or service sales. The reasons for having a sales process include seller and buyer risk management, achieving standardized customer interaction in sales and scalable revenue generation. ." Rapid time to market was another key factor that led Cap Gemini Ernst & Young to work with Cybrant. Deploying Cybrant's solutions has proven to be quick and easy for customers and alliance partners. Cybrant's technology seamlessly integrates into a company's selling system, with an incredibly small footprint, and dramatically reduces infrastructure and implementation costs while allowing companies to rapidly introduce new products and respond to changing business needs. "Responsiveness is a make-or-break variable for every business today," said Jim Lane See also Jim Lane (Microsoft) Jim Lane (full name James Anthony Lane) is an Irish republican and socialist who was born in 1938 on Devonshire Street North in Cork's north inner city. , Cap Gemini Ernst & Young's Cybrant Alliance Director. "One reason we opted for Cybrant's suite of applications is that they enable us to swiftly build streamlined sales solutions for our clients. Plus, they're easily managed and upgraded, so everyone saves time and money." Cybrant's suite of Complex Selling Automation applications simplify and automate all areas of solution selling, including solution design, product selection, configuration, pricing and quoting. Cybrant Solutions Architect enables sales organizations to create solution selling applications that align business requirements and priorities with the appropriate set of solution components. Cybrant Business Velocity guides sales forces through product and service configurations by quickly delivering up-to-date product and service information and ensuring that configurations, pricing and quotes are appropriate and error free. Cybrant Commerce Velocity enhances the effectiveness of online sales channels by increasing browser-to-buyer ratios, sales per visit and purchase frequency on commerce sites. Cap Gemini Ernst & Young will also bundle Cybrant's services with its existing products and solutions to offer a complete end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. to its customers. About Cybrant Corporation Cybrant solves a new class of business problems with its suite of Complex Selling Automation (CSA (1) (Canadian Standards Association, Toronto, Ontario, www.csa.ca) A standards-defining organization founded in 1919. It is involved in many industries, including electronics, communications and information technology. ) applications and breakthrough technology platform. Cybrant's CSA suite simplifies and automates all areas of solution selling including solution design, product selection, and configuration. Cybrant delivers immediate and powerful ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). to customers with unparalleled expertise and service. Cybrant is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. backed by venture capital. Its worldwide headquarters are located at 650 Castro Street
Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. , with additional offices in Atlanta, Boston, Boca Raton Boca Raton (bō`kə rətōn`), city (1990 pop. 61,492), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; inc. 1925. Boca Raton is a popular resort and retirement community that experienced significant industrial development in the 1970s and 80s. , Chicago, and Dallas. For more information about Cybrant Corporation, please visit the company's Web site at www.cybrant.com or call 650/210-0800. About The Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group Cap Gemini Ernst & Young is one of the largest management and IT consulting firms in the world. 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 implement growth strategies and leverage technology in the new economy. The organization employs more than 59,000 people worldwide and reports global revenues of about 8.5 billion euros (2000 pro forma As a matter of form or for the sake of form. Used to describe accounting, financial, and other statements or conclusions based upon assumed or anticipated facts. The phrase pro forma ). More information about individual service lines, offices and research is available at http://www.cgey.com. |
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