Ross Systems Announces New Strategic Partner in France
ATLANTA, Dec. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Ross Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: ROSS), a leading provider of enterprise management software and e-business solutions for the mid-market process industries, today announced a deal with Euriware, a leading Systems Integrator in the French marketplace. The deal allows Euriware to market and implement Ross' iRenaissance ERP suite of software to leading process manufacturing and retail organizations in France.
Euriware is Ross' largest partner in the French marketplace, employing some 1,500 people. They have offices throughout France. They specialize in large-scale systems integration projects in manufacturing, finance, public sector and local government and are part of COGEMA, a global corporation with offices all over the world.
Euriware will market and deploy iRenaissance throughout France for Manufacturing, Finance and Supply Chain applications. They have already implemented 170 seats of iRenaissance across several sites of a leading food manufacturing and retail company.
"The iRenaissance ERP system gives the best available capability for process industries today and is particularly strong for food companies," said J. Patrick (Pat) Tinley, Ross Systems' President and CEO. "The powerful combination of Ross' iRenaissance applications and the domain expertise from Euriware has allowed us to seamlessly transition our business in France from a direct to an indirect operation. Euriware currently has very talented resources trained on Ross' industry leading enterprise applications. We look forward to more deals from our very strong partnership with Euriware."
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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Resynt and "The business of e-Commerce" are trademarks of Ross systems, Inc. Renaissance and GEMBASE are registered trademarks of Ross Systems, Inc. Throughout this release, software and hardware products are mentioned by name. In most, if not all, cases, these product names are claimed as trademarks by the companies that manufacture the products. It is not our intention to claim these names or trademarks as our own.
SOURCE Ross Systems, Inc.
CO: Ross Systems, Inc.; Euriware
ST: Georgia, France
IN: CPR MLM
SU: CON
12/20/2000 15:26 EST prnewswire.com |
