Rimini Street Names Veteran JD Edwards Executive Ray Grigsby as Vice President of Global Support Services Delivery for JD Edwards Software Products.Rimini Street Continues Expansion of its JD Edwards See J.D. Edwards. Support Services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services Globally Following 400 Percent Year-over-Year Growth of its JD Edwards Client Base LAS VEGAS Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. -- Rimini Street, Inc., the leading third-party maintenance and support provider for enterprise software, including Oracle Corporation's (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ) Siebel, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards software and SAP AG (company) SAP AG - (Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung - German for "Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing") A company from Germany that sells the leading suite of client-server business software. The US branch is called SAP America. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : SAP) software, today announced the appointment of Ray Grigsby, an 18-year JD Edwards & Company veteran, as vice president, JD Edwards Support Services. In this role, Grigsby is responsible for building and managing the delivery of all JD Edwards support services for Rimini Street clients and will oversee the continued global expansion of Rimini Street's third-party support program for JD Edwards' licensees. Grigsby is a 26-year enterprise software industry veteran who spent more than 18 years in wide-ranging roles and responsibilities with software vendor JD Edwards & Company. Grigsby began his career at JD Edwards as a programmer/analyst, and later in his career at JD Edwards Grigsby was the executive overseeing the implementation, upgrade, and support of a full range of World and OneWorld (EnterpriseOne) releases for the largest and most complex domestic and global implementations. Most recently, Grigsby has been providing strategic guidance to executives of companies using Oracle's JD Edwards software. "As a proven, stable enterprise software platform that can provide reliable service for many, many more years, JD Edwards products are ideally suited for the value delivered by Rimini Street's third-party support," said Grigsby. "Rimini Street offers incredible value with its proven ultra-responsive support and innovative services such as support for customizations, interoperability and performance tuning Performance tuning is the improvement of system performance. This is typically a computer application, but the same methods can be applied to economic markets, bureaucracies or other complex systems. that are not part of the software vendor's standard support program. With more than a 400 percent year-over-year increase in our JD Edwards client base and a renewal rate over 90 percent, I'm excited to be at Rimini Street and look forward to leading the continued, aggressive global expansion of our very successful support program for our JD Edwards clients." "We are pleased to have Ray join our executive team and lead the continued global expansion of our support program for JD Edwards products," said Seth Ravin rav·in also rav·en n. 1. Voracity; rapaciousness. 2. Something taken as prey. 3. The act or practice of preying. , president and 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. , Rimini Street. "Rimini Street has committed millions of additional dollars to the expansion of our JD Edwards service line globally, and Ray will aggressively grow and lead an exceptional team of JD Edwards engineers who bring an average of 15 years of JD Edwards experience to our clients. We are committed to providing the highest quality and most responsive JD Edwards support services to clients around the world, while helping them immediately cut their annual support costs by at least 50 percent." About Rimini Street, Inc. Rimini Street is the leading third-party provider of enterprise software support services. The company is redefining enterprise support services with an innovative, award-winning program that enables Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, and SAP licensees to save at least 50% in annual support fees and to remain on their current software release without any required upgrades or migrations through 2020 and beyond. Hundreds of Global, Fortune 500, mid-market, and public sector organizations from nearly all industries have selected Rimini Street as their trusted, software vendor independent support provider. To learn more, please visit www.riministreet.com or call within the USA (888) 870-9692 or internationally +1 (702) 839-9671. Rimini Street and the Rimini Street logo are trademarks of Rimini Street, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Copyright [c] 2009. All rights reserved. |
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