Centerstone Software Joins PeopleSoft Alliance Program; Centerstone's e-Center One in Combination with PeopleSoft 8 Brings All Workplace Data Together for Strategic Decision Making.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers WESTWOOD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2002 Centerstone Software, Inc., a pioneer in Workplace Resource Management, today announced that it has become a PeopleSoft (R) (Nasdaq: PSFT PSFT PeopleSoft (stock symbol) PSFT Progressive Saturation Fourier Transform PSFT Prosoft-Technology, Inc ) Alliance Partner. Centerstone's e-Center One(R) customers using PeopleSoft applications to manage 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. and financial assets Financial assets Claims on real assets. can easily integrate data from those applications into e-Center One, a collaborative product suite for workplace managers and executives that ties together data from disparate sources creating a global view of the entire workplace for strategic decision making. "Managing the workplace today is tremendously challenging, especially since most large organizations keep the critical data needed to make sound business decisions hidden away in independent silos," said Matthew Meyer, founder and chief strategy officer for Centerstone Software. "e-Center One takes these silos of information and creates a centralized cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. view of the global workplace which drastically dras·tic adj. 1. Severe or radical in nature; extreme: the drastic measure of amputating the entire leg; drastic social change brought about by the French Revolution. 2. improves decision making across traditionally disparate sources. The integration with PeopleSoft software makes this process simple, and allows our customers to realize immediate benefit from using Centerstone and PeopleSoft products together." In today's volatile economy, businesses need to operate with new levels of agility. This includes carefully managing their facilities, one of the largest items on many companies' balance sheets. e-Center One combined with PeopleSoft software allows businesses to gain a single, desktop view of total facilities costs, including cost per square foot and space and capacity plans to match current workforce needs. More than half of Centerstone's customers use PeopleSoft applications, including PeopleSoft Human Capital Management and PeopleSoft Financial Management Solutions. By integrating existing data from these and other applications into e-Center One, organizations can immediately understand how changes in the global workforce impact workplace requirements from both a practical and financial standpoint. "Our partnership with Centerstone Software is a win for our customer base at large," said Anita Engles, product strategy manager, PeopleSoft Financial Management Solutions. "e-Center One's workplace resource management capabilities are a logical complement to Peoplesoft's enterprise application suite. An integrated solution allows organizations to make strategic workplace decisions that directly impact their bottom line." About Centerstone Centerstone Software offers an integrated Internet hosted model delivering a complete offering of Workplace Resource Management capabilities. Centerstone's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , e-Center One(R), is the industry's first integrated Internet solution that provides a secure, centralized platform for workplace information. With e-Center One, corporate managers and service vendors gain real-time access to a full range of critical workplace resource data, including floor plans, real estate portfolios, equipment locations, lease information, life-safety, operations management Operations management is an area of business that is concerned with the production of goods and services, and involves the responsibility of ensuring that business operations are efficient and effective. , evacuation evacuation /evac·u·a·tion/ (e-vak?u-a´shun) 1. an emptying. 2. catharsis; emptying of the bowels. e·vac·u·a·tion n. information, personnel locations and more. Centerstone's extensive client roster includes PeopleSoft, GENUiTY, GE Plastics, Digitas, FleetBoston Financial FleetBoston Financial was a Boston, Massachusetts-based bank created in 1999 by the merger of Fleet Financial Group and BankBoston. In 2004 it merged with Bank of America; all of its banks and branches were given the Bank of America logo. and Pearson Education Pearson Education is an international publisher of textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools. Pearson Education is part of Pearson PLC. It is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. . Founded in 1999, Centerstone is located in Westwood, Mass. Visit Centerstone on the Web at www.centerstonesoft.com. |
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