January 24, 2000 11:26 AM
(Full text of press release from Canada NewsWire) J.D. Edwards Canada Ltd. ports results for fiscal
year ended October 31, 1999 Company Reports 15% Growth over Same Period Last Year
TORONTO, Jan. 24 /CNW/ - J.D. Edwards Canada Ltd., a leading provider of agile E-Business solutions for Canadian business, has announced a 15% increase in growth during fiscal 1999. The Canadian subsidiary attributes its success to strong sales of its business application software solutions. These agile, interoperable e-business solutions enable customers to quickly put their ideas into action. J.D. Edwards delivered additional functionality and enhanced its e-business capability in the front office, collaborative supply chain management, and e-procurement areas.
Major Highlights include:
- The development and launch of Toronto's new state-of-the-art, 20, 000
square foot education centre, designed to extend client services in
North America. This initiative allows J.D. Edwards Canada to train
North American customers, business partners and employees on the
company's software applications. The 10 classrooms contain the latest
technology including fully equipped multimedia workstations.
- The most exciting room is the Install and Configure Lab, one of only
three in the world, designed to train students in the real world
installation of J.D. Edward's software. Students perform a complete
installation to a server, then deploy the software to workstations
exactly as they will at client sites. Until this year, only Denver has
been able to offer this unique, one-on-one type of training.
- Expansion of supply chain management capabilities. J.D. Edwards
expanded its supply chain solution with the acquisition of Toronto
based Numetrix, and subsequent integration of OneWorld and the
Numetrix supply chain planning system. The combined J.D.
Edwards/Numetrix solution offers the most comprehensive line of
integrated planning and execution software available in the market
today. The solution gives the Company a leadership position in the
market as "brick and mortar" companies evolve into e-business
companies and want real-time supply chain collaboration with tightly
integrated back-office applications.
- The appointment of Robert Beauchemin as Vice President and General
Manager of Canadian operations. Former President of SAP Canada Robert
has held several management and sales management positions for a
variety of high technology companies. Robert is responsible for
setting strategic direction, managing operations, maintaining
corporate culture and building and strengthening the company's
position as a leader in the E-business solutions marketplace.
- Partnership with IBM Global Services in the creation of a national
tour to introduce e-start: a fully integrated and seamless approach to
implementing e-business strategies for Canadian companies. E-start is
a simple, structured process combining business analysis, strategic
thinking, a range of technologies and implementation capabilities that
gives organizations "one stop shopping" for their e-business
initiatives.
- Signing of several new OneWorld customers including: Intrawest
Corporation, the leading developer and operator of mountain resorts
across North America; Teck Corp; Cominco; World Wide Fiber; Teekay
Shipping; Wajax Ltd; Kindersley Transport; Gildan Activewear, a
manufacturing company based on Montreal; Standard Paper Box; BioChem
Pharmaceautical; Trevi Pools and Royal Group Technologies an Ontario
based manufacturer of PVC (polyvinylchloride) building products.
- The addition of over 84 new employees to J.D. Edwards Canada and
resulting office expansions in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. This
brings the total Canadian employment to 275 including 70 in research
and development.
About J.D. Edwards
J.D. Edwards provides Idea to Action(TM) software for managing the virtual enterprise and supply chain. The Company's integrated applications deliver agile e-business solutions that give customers control over their front office, manufacturing, logistics/distribution, human resources and finance processes for the consumer, industrial and services industries. J.D. Edwards enables Idea to Action with ActivEra(TM), a collection of tools and technologies that extend J.D. Edwards OneWorld(TM) and WorldSoftware(TM) enterprise business software and its Numetrix supply chain planning solutions. ActivEra allows customers to change their software quickly and easily during and after implementation. The Company's solutions operate in multiple computing environments, including Windows NT(R), UNIX(R) and OS/400(R), and are Java(TM) and HTML enabled.
Founded in 1977, J.D. Edwards is headquartered in Denver, Colorado. Additional information can be obtained by contacting the Company at 1-800-727-5333 or via the Internet at www.jdedwards.com.
J.D. Edwards Canada Ltd. is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, employs more than 270 people across Canada with regional sales and service offices in Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver and services over 300 customers. For additional information on J.D. Edwards Canada and its products, visit the World Wide Web site at jdedwards.ca.
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