Ford Motor Company Selects PeopleSoft Enterprise Service Automation; Automaker Will Drive Hard Cost Savings by Controlling Services Spend.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PLEASANTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 2002 PeopleSoft (Nasdaq:PSFT PSFT PeopleSoft (stock symbol) PSFT Progressive Saturation Fourier Transform PSFT Prosoft-Technology, Inc ) announced today that Ford Motor Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :F) has licensed PeopleSoft Enterprise Service Automation (ESA 1. (architecture) ESA - Enterprise Systems Architecture. 2. (body) ESA - European Space Agency. ). Ford Motor Company will deploy PeopleSoft ESA at its Dearborn, Michigan-based worldwide information technology (IT) division to manage its resource acquisition, placement, and release process. In addition, Ford will use PeopleSoft ESA to manage the skills inventory of all IT resources to meet its business and strategic IT demands. Ford Motor Company's IT division employs 6000 people and utilizes internal and contracted resources to execute thousands of projects annually. PeopleSoft ESA will help Ford reduce costs by controlling its spend on outside contractors outside contractor n → contratista m/f independiente , and provide improved 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). on IT projects by streamlining project resource acquisition, skills inventory management, and execution. Using PeopleSoft ESA, Ford will be able to collaborate online with its service suppliers to aggregate, analyze and evaluate spend for contracted services. As a result, Ford can optimize optimize - optimisation the mix of internal and external resources and staff projects accordingly. In addition, PeopleSoft ESA enables Ford to manage and analyze spending by standardizing processes and expense controls, providing access to a comprehensive view of critical resource and project data. "Leading enterprises like Ford Motor Company are recognizing the urgency of controlling their services spend to improve business performance," said Renee Lorton, vice president and general manager of PeopleSoft Financials. "PeopleSoft ESA provides companies with the insight and knowledge to make informed strategic decisions in an often unpredictable business environment." PeopleSoft ESA solutions give organizations real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. visibility and control to manage spending on services and projects. The industry-leading solutions include Resource Automation and Project Automation. Resource Automation controls the processes and costs related to managing resources and securing contractors. Project Automation allows companies to collaboratively prioritize pri·or·i·tize v. pri·or·i·tized, pri·or·i·tiz·ing, pri·or·i·tiz·es Usage Problem v.tr. To arrange or deal with in order of importance. v.intr. , manage, and execute projects more efficiently. Ford selected PeopleSoft Consulting to implement the ESA solution. With 2,700 professionals worldwide, PeopleSoft Consulting delivers a comprehensive set of value-added services A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. for implementing, optimizing, and upgrading PeopleSoft applications. About PeopleSoft PeopleSoft (Nasdaq:PSFT) is the world's leading provider of business enterprise software. PeopleSoft pure internet software enables organizations to reduce costs and increase productivity through real-time collaboration with their customers, suppliers, and employees. PeopleSoft's integrated, best-of-breed applications include Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management, Human Resource Management, Financial Management, and Application Infrastructure. More than 4,700 organizations in 107 countries run on PeopleSoft software. For more information, visit us at www.peoplesoft.com. Note to Editors: PeopleSoft and the PeopleSoft logo are registered trademarks. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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