Ross Systems Expands Customer Base WithNew Human Resources and Payroll Contract
ATLANTA, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Ross Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROSS), a leading provider of enterprise management software and e-business solutions for mid-market companies, today announced Community Education Partners of Nashville, Tennessee has contracted to purchase the iRenaissance Human Resource (HR) Management and Payroll solutions from Ross Systems.
Community Education Partners provides education services to at risk youth at three sites in Texas and one in Philadelphia. They have over 500 employees and expect to grow to over 800 by the summer of 2001.
The iRenaissance HR and payroll system gives Community Education the capacity to handle the fast growth and complex multiple bargaining unit support demanded in the education sector. Although Community Education Partners is not a traditional sized client of Ross, where the average client has 2,000 plus employees, they do have the level of complexities that require the support of the Ross application.
"The powerful capabilities of our human resources and payroll system transcend beyond the typical Ross Systems customer in process manufacturing," said Ross Systems' CEO and President J. Patrick (Pat) Tinley. "We are able to leverage our investments in horizontal functions like financial accounting and HR by redeploying them for other markets who can leverage the competitive advantages of our solutions".
About Ross Systems
Ross Systems Inc. is a leading supplier of enterprise resource planning (ERP) and management software and e-business solutions for process manufacturing industries including food, beverage, chemical, pharmaceutical, paper and metals. The Ross Systems family of solutions includes the award- winning iRenaissance, a broad range of Internet-enabled enterprise resource planning and management applications for financials, manufacturing, advanced planning, supply-chain management, maintenance management, transportation management, materials management and human resources/payroll. Ross Systems' Resynt e-business product family includes digital marketplace applications spanning procurement, sales, Internet trading exchange connectivity, collaboration and employee productivity. More than 3,400 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, Ga. 30328, 770-351-9600, 1-877-ROSS-INC rossinc.com .
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SOURCE Ross Systems, Inc.
CO: Ross Systems, Inc.; Community Education Partners
ST: Georgia, Texas, Pennsylvania
IN: CPR MLM EDU
SU: CON
12/13/2000 08:59 EST prnewswire.com |
