Viewlocity Acquires EDT and SC21.Business Editors & Technology Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 23, 2000 Expands Presence in France, Adds Application Development Capabilities in Asia Viewlocity, Inc., a leading global provider of software and services that integrate e-business networks and synchronize See synchronization. supply webs, announced today that it has acquired Electronic Data Transfer, SA ("EDT EDT abbr. Eastern Daylight Time EDT Eastern Daylight Time EDT n abbr (US) (= Eastern Daylight Time) → hora de verano de Nueva York EDT ") of France and SC21 Pte, Ltd. ("SC21") of Singapore. The acquisitions will serve to bolster Viewlocity's French presence and augment its ability to provide supply web applications to customers around the globe. "These acquisitions represent a noteworthy milestone for Viewlocity," explained Viewlocity 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. Greg Cronin. "Acquiring EDT and SC21 serves to benefit our existing customers by expanding the breadth of the services and solutions we can offer and further deepening our ability to solve in the most locally relevant way some of the most vexing problems faced by companies participating in global supply webs." Expanding Presence in France EDT, a systems integrator focused on EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) Refers to various techniques used to share data and business processes in large enterprises. When companies acquire another organization, disparate information systems have to be made to work together. and B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business integration solutions, has been distributing and supporting Viewlocity's AMTrix(R) product, throughout France since 1995. EDT serves more than 50 customers including Carrefour, Hewlett-Packard and Philips. "Our acquisition of EDT is in line with our overall strategy to become a truly global B2B player with deep experience in each core market," Cronin pointed out. "Viewlocity can now scale more quickly in France, enabling us to provide a quicker benefit to our French customers." Jean-Jacques Hirsch, former EDT president, will take on the position of VP, Hosting Services, reporting directly to Cronin. He will head a team of 30 professionals in Viewlocity's French and South European territory. He added, "Our French customers have offered us only positive feedback regarding this acquisition and it is clear for EDT that being part of a larger organization gives us the ability to respond to bigger projects. This acquisition is a logical step for EDT, allowing the two organizations to merge activities, expertise, resources and customers." Adding Application Development Capabilities in Asia The SC21 hosted supply web execution suite increases visibility of information between manufacturers, suppliers and customers. The solution enables customers such as Compaq Asia to collaborate with their trading partners such as Sony, Samsung and Circle Concord International Logistics The negotiating, planning, and implementation of supporting logistic arrangements between nations, their forces, and agencies. It includes furnishing logistic support (major end items, materiel, and/or services) to, or receiving logistic support from, one or more friendly foreign to execute fulfillment at Internet speed. As a hosted solution designed for the Internet, it can be used by all parties in a supply web, independent of their technological sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. , which enables faster time to market and reduced inventory levels. "For many industries, Asia is where the supply web originates," Cronin continued. "Viewlocity is already working with over 100 local and multinational customers in the region to help them speed up cycle times and integrate their supply webs. With SC21's applications and domain expertise in the Asian manufacturing sourcing market, our customers will be able to base their competitive strategies on efficiencies realized through their end-to-end supply chains." Dr. Robert de Souza De Souza or D'Souza is a common Portuguese family name. Although it is still quite common outside Portugal -- especially in Brazil and India --, Souza is the old spelling of present-day Sousa. , former CEO and co-founder of SC21, will take on the role of Viewlocity's Chief Knowledge Officer. After the acquisition, SC21 will become Viewlocity's primary R&D facility in Asia-Pacific. The focus will be on developing B2B supply web optimization solutions for Asia-Pacific and other global marketplaces. "Viewlocity's B2B integration solutions will greatly enhance the value of SC21's applications," Dr. de Souza commented. "Through this acquisition we will help to deliver more deals for the company at increased revenue levels." About EDT EDT is a leading player in the EAI market in France, positioned as a system integrator and AMTrix distributor with more than 50 large customers and 150 installations running critical applications for the B2B supply web automation. The company was started in 1990 in Grenoble, with the aim of providing X400 e-mail services for the EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. needs of large organizations. In 1995, EDT began focusing on EAI by selecting AMTrix as the core offering. By providing turn-key systems on Unix and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. platform, EDT has continuously promoted, adapted and supported the AMTrix software in France for customers like Castorama, Carrefour, Salomon, Hewlett-Packard and Philips, in the retail, automotive and high-tech industries. A total of 30 persons covering consultancy, development, support, operation, sales, marketing and administration are joining Viewlocity. About SC21 SC21's solution uses a single interface to place, confirm, resource, track and fulfill customer orders at Internet speed, enabling companies to immediately react to changes in market demand, reduce supply web cycle time and lower inventory levels. Already adopted by several companies from small-to-medium enterprises to multinational corporations
About Viewlocity Viewlocity is a leading global provider of software and services that integrate e-business networks and synchronize supply webs. Our agnostic solutions provide application integration, B2B integration and trading community management, allowing our customers to leverage their existing technology. Viewlocity's supply web synchronization (1) See synchronous and synchronous transmission. (2) Ensuring that two sets of data are always the same. See data synchronization. (3) Keeping time-of-day clocks in two devices set to the same time. See NTP. solutions, based on XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and other open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced , provide business process automation over the Internet between customers, suppliers and trading communities. With more than 3,200 installations worldwide, our event-based integration broker runs on major operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. (Unix, NT, AS/400) and provides a unique non-intrusive method to rapidly connect business partners' heterogeneous systems heterogeneous system n. A chemical system that contains various distinct and mechanically separable parts or phases, such as a suspension. , platforms, applications or communication formats. Viewlocity has 14 offices worldwide, with its global headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, European headquarters in London and its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore. For more information, call 877.512.8900 or visit the company on the web at www.viewlocity.com. |
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