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SOURCE: Oberon Software Inc.
Oberon Leadership in Enterprise Application Integration Further Validated By Strong Customer Commitment
Fourteen Customers Adopt Prospero in Q1, Reflecting Pervasive Demand for Business Process-based EAI Solutions and Services
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Oberon Software Inc., a leader in Enterprise Application Integration(TM), announced today that fourteen (14) new major customers for the first quarter of fiscal year 1999 selected Oberon's robust EAI solution to integrate mission-critical business solutions, including Australian Steel Company, Alphabet, Champion Industries, Coty, Crown Crafts, Dinwiddie Construction, Health Products International, Incentive Systems, International Service Systems, J.D. Edwards, Koll Construction, Mylex, Sigma Aldrich, and Sun Data. The continued escalation in sales for Oberon's Prospero further demonstrates Oberon's leadership position in the EAI market.
Several of the new companies choosing Oberon are utilizing the Prospero solution in conjunction with Manugistics Open Application IntegrationTM (OAI) strategy in which Prospero serves as the engine for application-to-application integration. Within the first month of announcing OAI, Australian Steel, Coty, Champion Industries and Mylex have taken advantage of Prospero under the Manugistics OAI solution, demonstrating both the tremendous need for and the supply chain industry's immediate responsiveness in selecting Oberon's new business-process driven integration solution. This dramatically simplifies integration between Manugistics and complementary applications, including ERP, manufacturing execution, logistics, and warehouse management systems. (See related OAI press release dated November 18, 1998 ''Oberon Selected to Provide Seamless Application Integration for Manugistics' Customers'')
''We are very proud of the way the market is responding to our integration solution as well as the fact that industry-leading vendors like Manugistics have selected Oberon for its [M1]expertise in EAI to achieve their goal of a strategically integrated enterprise,'' said Joe Chappell[C2], president and CEO of Oberon Software. ''We're extremely pleased to see customers' fast adoption and implementation of Manugistics' OAI solution, which yet again reinforces our business strategy.''
Providing Accurate and Timely Integration
Companies today are faced with business-critical integration requirements necessary to maintain their competitive advantages. In order to link sales force automation or customer relationship management with ERP applications, exchange orders from a financial application with a manufacturing system, or integrate new state of the art functional systems with legacy systems that do the work, companies have selected Oberon's powerful EAI solution. Using Prospero, companies can achieve shorter delivery times to partners and/or customers, their advanced planning and scheduling systems can determine the most optimum manufacturing plant, and they can increase profits, flexibility and enhance operations while maintaining existing technology investments.
''The speed and ease of integration between Manugistics' solutions and other enterprise applications, is a key to the success of our customers' implementation projects,'' said Steve Tonissen, vice president, marketing and strategic alliances, for Manugistics. ''The use of Oberon's Prospero in our OAI makes the exchange of vital information between our solutions and other systems easy and fast to achieve -- within a matter of weeks. Instead of spending valuable time on integration, our customers are able to focus on leveraging technology to optimize business processes and achieve bottom-line results.''
About Oberon Software
Oberon Software, Inc. (www.oberon.com) is a premier provider of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solutions that bring business benefits to corporations by integrating their application portfolio within their enterprise and then extending that integration to their customers, vendors, and third party service providers. Corporations use Oberon's software to integrate best-in-class applications focused on the unique business requirements to optimize profits, decrease costs, and enhance operating efficiencies. Oberon is headquartered in Cambridge, Ma.
Oberon's solution, Prospero, is based upon a unique component approach, which addresses business process integration. Business process integration comprises data, processes, and workflow, which together bring intelligence to the enterprise. A key component of Prospero is an easy to use graphical user interface that lets you configure your specific business processes by pointing to and clicking on icons representing business functions, all without programming. Using Prospero, business process flows can be added or changed to meet the ever-changing business needs.
Oberon Software has formed strategic partnerships with companies like Extricity Software, Hyperion Solutions, IBM, Intellicorp, J. D. Edwards, Manugistics, Microsoft, Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, and Siebel Systems. Additionally, Oberon is working with prominent system integrators and professional service firms, including Andersen Consulting, Arthur Andersen, AnswerThink Consulting Group, Clarkston-Potomac Group, Inc., CSC, Ernst & Young LLP, Excel Partners, Intelligroup, Inc., Keane Inc., ObTech, Inc., OneSystem Group, Plaut Consulting Inc., and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Oberon Prospero is a trademark of Oberon Software Inc. Manugistics is a registered trademark and Open Application Integration is a trademark of Manugistics, Inc. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
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