Edify Corp., a provider of self-service software, wants to reach deep into the Senterprise marketplace. This
week, the software vendor will release the next major Tversion of its flagship product, Electronic Workforce 5.0,
which for the first time Gsupports Windows NT. Edify is also announcing plans to deliver Windows PJNT-based
applications for electronic banking and human resources.R
Adecco SA, a temporary employee agency in Redwood City, Calif., is testing the Tlatest version of the
Electronic Workforce product on NT. Electronic Workforce is a Edevelopment platform that lets companies
create and deploy their own Xself-service applications. Adecco has used the product to build a system that lets
Vnearly 30,000 of its temporary employees check the status of their paychecks over the telephone.P
Enhancements to the new version of Electronic Workforce include an extended, Sopen architecture, more
object-oriented visual development tools, and greater 2scalability. Pricing begins at $50,000.T
Until now, support for all Edify products was limited to the OS/2 platform, thus Npreventing the company from
making major inroads into the enterprise. "It was VEdify's dirty little secret that they were only OS/2," says Ezra
Gottheil, Kan analyst with the Hurwitz Group, an IT research firm in Newton, Mass.sN
"I see a bright future for Edify now that they are identified with NT."
Eager For NTP
The Santa Clara, Calif., company's current customers seem anxious Tto move to the NT platform. "We have
been running it on OS/2 for the past few years Tbut we don't think OS/2 is a viable platform for the future," says
Larry RPytlik, manager of network services at Adecco. "NT is the strategic direction our industry is moving
to."sO
Edify will deliver prepackaged Windows NT-based electronic banking and sWhuman resources soft- ware this
quarter. Pricing for these applications begins at lS$150,000. These products have been available from Edify for
about one year; tLthe company says it has 25 customers using the banking software on the OS/2 Qplatform, and
a dozen using the OS/2-based human resources package. It also CJsays several companies are now beta-testing
the NT versions of these applications.e& |
