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Sierra Announces New Contracts.


VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 15, 1999--

Sierra Systems(TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange.

TSE

1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).

2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE).
:SSG SSG
abbr.
staff sergeant
.) Sierra has recently received a series of awards and contracts to total $10.7 million CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. .

Enterprise Resource Planning See ERP.

(application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses.
 

(Includes Financial and HR/Payroll systems) Sierra has been awarded a project to enhance the PeopleSoft Human Resources and Payroll system at a major university and to upgrade the PeopleSoft Financial Management system. The awards are for $2.5 million CDN.

Sierra has been engaged by the Ontario College Application Service and St. Lawrence College St. Lawrence College is the name of more than one educational institution:
  • St. Lawrence College, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
  • St. Lawrence College, in Ramsgate, Kent, United Kingdom
  • Cégep de Saint-Laurent, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • St.
 to implement PeopleSoft's Student Administration application. The project is being viewed as a "proof of concept" by many other Ontario colleges that are also considering replacing their legacy registration systems. The contract is for $0.5 million CDN.

A major US financial institution has entered into a series of contracts with Sierra to enhance their PeopleSoft Human Resources and Payroll systems for a total of $4.0 million CDN in 1999.

A US-based software product company has engaged Sierra to implement PeopleSoft Inventory, Billing, Receivables, and Order related modules, including the implementation of eCommerce for their large volume customers. The contract award is in excess of $1.8 million CDN.

Justice

Sierra has contracted for the enhancement of the Case Management System and related development of the Administrative Management System with the Alternate Public Defender of the County of Los Angeles. The award is in excess of $0.7 million CDN.

General

The New Hampshire Department of Education engaged Sierra to provide business process re-engineering See reengineering.

(business) Business Process Re-engineering - (BPR) Any radical change in the way in which an organisation performs its business activities. BPR involves a fundamental re-think of the business processes followed by a redesign of business activities to
, systems development, and project coordination services related to their Education Information Systems initiative. The contract amount is $1.2 million CDN. About Sierra

Sierra Systems Group Inc. is a leading Information Technology Management Consulting and Systems Integration company in North America. With 12 branch offices in Canada and the United States The United States and Canada share a unique legal relationship. U.S. law looks northward with a mixture of optimism and cooperation, viewing Canada as an integral part of U.S. economic and environmental policy. , its 750 employees help to enhance the competitive position of its clients through the implementation of information technology based business solutions.
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