J.D. Edwards and FutureNext Consulting Team to Provide End-To-End Business Solutions for Mid-Market; Partnership Targets Organizations From Dot-Coms to $1 Billion in Revenue
DENVER, March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- J.D. Edwards & Company (Nasdaq: JDEC), a leading supplier of e-business software solutions that deliver speed and agility, and FutureNext Consulting announced today that they are partnering to provide critical e-business solutions for the middle market.
Under the agreement, FutureNext will provide consulting services for J.D. Edwards' ActivEra(TM) e-business Solutions, including Active Supply Chain and Active Procurement. This partnership extends the reach of J.D. Edwards' powerful solutions for e-business to mid-market enterprises that look to FutureNext for a customized, competitive IT solution.
"Mid-market organizations face some unique challenges in the new economy," said Don Beck, vice president of strategic alliances for J.D. Edwards. "FutureNext and J.D. Edwards are able to provide a measurable competitive advantage to these organizations by providing a customized solution with a rapid time to benefit."
"The digital economy has changed the competitive landscape for most mid- market organizations. Barriers to entry that competitors used to face, such as infrastructure requirements and access to distribution channels, have been replaced by e-procurement and e-selling," said Michael Caggiano, president of FutureNext.
"FutureNext's ability to provide an end-to-end solution from e-strategy through supply chain management, combined with the strength of J.D. Edwards' ActivEra e-business software, will help our joint clients move quickly to gain competitive advantage in their markets," said Caggiano.
J.D. Edwards' ActivEra e-business framework provides traditional brick- and-mortar and dot-com organizations with an agile, collaborative software solution, enabling companies to act as a virtual enterprise with customers, suppliers, and partners.
In addition to rapid implementation of J.D. Edwards' ActivEra E-business Solutions, FutureNext provides e-Strategy assessments for dot-coms and dot- corps, award-winning web development, e-Business Intelligence and data warehousing services, and KnowledgeNext(TM), a knowledge management system.
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, supply chain, logistics/distribution, human resources and finance processes for the consumer products, 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 end-to-end 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. Additional information can be obtained by contacting the Company at 1-800-727-5333, or via the Internet at jdedwards.com.
About FutureNext
FutureNext is the only consulting firm dedicated exclusively to delivering end-to-end e-Business and supply chain solutions to the mid-market. Its customers range from dot-com start-ups to middle-market manufacturers to divisions of Fortune 500 companies. FutureNext focuses on eliminating the risk of doing business on the Internet through customized e-Strategy, e- Commerce and Business Intelligence innovations. Headquartered in the technology hotbed of Northern Virginia, the company has offices throughout the country in Atlanta, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Phoenix, New York, San Jose, St. Louis and Bethesda, MD. Visit FutureNext on the Web at futurenext.com.
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