Ross Systems Names Head of e-Business Strategy and Initiatives
Executive to Focus on Resynt e-Business Product Line and Other Internet Issues
ATLANTA, May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Ross Systems (Nasdaq: ROSS), a leading supplier of end-to-end enterprise management and e-business solutions for the process manufacturing, healthcare, and public sector markets, today announced Gary Nowacki as Vice President of e-Business Strategy and Initiatives. Mr. Nowacki will be the Ross executive responsible for all key planning and actions needed to transition Ross fully to e-business and will work with and support all Ross departments as needed to insure this transition. The Resynt e-business product line is central to Ross Systems' offerings for leveraging the Internet.
"Mr. Nowacki exemplifies the drive and energy of the new Internet economy," said Pat Tinley, President and next CEO of Ross Systems. "This combined with his experience with our early e-business customers makes him the right person to advance Ross to an e-business."
"Our iRenaissance ERP system has been Internet enabled with thin-client and browser-based capabilities for inward facing functions in the enterprise," said Gary Nowacki, the new Ross Systems e-business executive. "Companies like Cambrex / BioWhittaker, Alcoa CSI, Eisenhart Wallcoverings, Gehl's Guernsey Farms, Air Quality Sciences, and others are already enjoying the Resynt e-business solutions for outward facing applications. Several of these companies are already using these solutions in a live environment," Nowacki continued, "and all of them are satisfied and referencable."
Mr. Nowacki joined Ross Systems in 1993 as an account executive from a thirteen-year career in technology including programming, consulting, sales and management. He has worked for Effective Management Systems (EMS), TEC Computer Systems and Xerox. While at Ross, Mr. Nowacki became the highest awarded regional sales director. He briefly left Ross Systems for a year with I2, the supply chain management software giant. When returning to Ross, he spear-headed the sell-side e-commerce project that grew into the Resynt e-business product family. Mr. Nowacki has two children, lives in New Jersey and is a graduate of Lawrence University.
The Resynt e-business product line is a comprehensive digital market place suite spanning procurement, sales, Internet trading exchange connectivity, collaboration and employee productivity. The Resynt eBusiness product family includes Resynt.commerce, Resynt.procure, Resynt.trade, Resynt.collaborate, Resynt.employee and Resynt.connect. The Resynt suite combines unique Resynt modules designed to provide advantages to manufacturers in process industries, public sector and healthcare companies. The suite includes underlying licensed best of breed foundation and horizontal application modules. The Resynt products are all designed to compliment, leverage, and integrate with the comprehensive iRenaissance ERP suite of products and the Renaissance Classic financial applications.
About Ross Systems
Ross Systems, Inc. provides a family of solutions including our award winning iRenaissance, Internet-enabled, enterprise management applications and our Resynt e-business solutions for the process manufacturing, healthcare, and public sector markets. The Resynt eBusiness product family includes digital market place applications spanning procurement, sales, Internet trading exchange connectivity, collaboration and employee productivity. iRenaissance comprises a broad range of applications including financials, manufacturing, advanced planning, supply chain management, maintenance management, transportation management, materials management, and human resources/payroll. More than 3400 companies around the world use Ross Systems solutions in open systems environments including NT and UNIX. Ross Systems has more than 60 offices around the world to serve its customers. Ross Systems, Inc, Two Concourse Parkway, Suite 800, Atlanta, Georgia 30328, 770-351-9600, 1-877- ROSS-INC, www.rossinc.com .
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