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Monday April 26, 11:31 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: EC Cubed Inc.
EC Cubed Teams With Cambridge Technology Partners to Offer E-business Solutions for Fortune 1000 Enterprises Worldwide
EC Cubed Expands its Partner Program; Partnership with Cambridge Enables Rapid Deployment of Sophisticated E-business Solutions Based on Innovative Component-based Technology
WILTON, Conn., April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- EC Cubed Inc., the premier provider of e-Commerce application components, today announced it has signed an agreement with Cambridge Technology Partners (Nasdaq: CATP - news), an international management consulting and systems integration firm, to offer world-class e-business solutions to Fortune 1000 enterprises. Cambridge has an industry-leading Interactive Solutions service line and unique, multi- disciplinary CoRad (consumer-oriented rapid application deployment) methodology to deliver innovative, high-impact interactive business solutions to clients. Cambridge will use EC Cubed's application component suite, ecWorks(TM), as the framework to rapidly develop and deploy e-business solutions.
The combination of technology and industry-leading strategic Internet consulting services enables EC Cubed and Cambridge to offer organizations the means to rapidly respond to the competitive pressures and market shifts that are driving e-business solution deployment. EC Cubed's component application framework provides the core business functionality needed to extend a company's unique business processes, effectively giving developers the jumpstart they need to create new, customer-facing applications for e- business. Cambridge will deliver these customized, integrated solutions to clients using its unique CoRad methodology, which brings together technical, business, creative design and user/brand experience expertise to create and implement successful e-business solutions in a fixed timeframe and at a fixed price. This delivery approach, which was developed to meet and exceed client demands, speeds the development of integrated solutions and the delivery of business value, while lowering the cost and risk of e-business deployment.
''EC Cubed's technology is clearly aligned with Cambridge's stated strategy of leveraging innovative component technology to drive customized, but rapidly deployed solutions throughout the client's value chain,'' said Mark Shirman, vice president of Interactive Solutions at Cambridge Technology Partners. ''Cambridge's e-business expertise, combined with EC Cubed's vision for a flexible application framework means that our joint clients will be able to deploy sophisticated e-business solutions that are easy to iterate, deliver business value and provide competitive distinction in what is becoming a crowded field of commerce sites.''
The partnership with Cambridge marks EC Cubed's expansion of its distribution strategy into indirect channels. Beginning immediately under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will collaborate on developing sales and marketing programs that promote the awareness, deployment and development of frameworks for component-based e-business solutions. Cambridge will select a core team of developers to specialize in developing ecWorks-based solutions for Fortune 1000 companies primarily in the financial services, high tech and consumer packaged goods markets.
''We believe our alignment with Cambridge Technology Partners will be a tremendous benefit to our joint customer base,'' said Faisal Hoque, CEO and founder of EC Cubed. ''Among the Fortune 1000, we're seeing business leaders looking beyond single-initiative e-Commerce efforts. Companies are waking up to the reality that they need the interoperable, component-based development approach that ecWorks offers, as well as a strong management consulting and systems integration firm like Cambridge to deliver it to them.''
Cambridge's Interactive Solutions service line has won a leadership position in the industry by helping clients rapidly transform their businesses to win in the digital economy. Cambridge has won multiple industry awards, and its robust strategy capability and strength in developing innovative, state-of-the-art electronic commerce and e-business solutions was recognized by Forrester Research in the October ''Grading the Transactive Content Integrator'' report. (for copies go to www.ctp.com/forrester-TCIs)
Using one or more of the ecWorks products, companies can select the functional components they require to rapidly develop a broad range of business-to-business e-Commerce applications and e-business solutions, from vendor- and supply-chain management, to customer care applications and interactive marketplaces for business-to-business trade. Building new applications or extending legacy applications with an ecWorks component-based development approach gives organizations the ability to capture their unique business processes in an e-Commerce system that offers tremendous flexibility in platform integration and development choices and greatly reduces time to deployment.
About EC Cubed
Headquartered in Wilton, Conn., EC Cubed develops, markets, and licenses ecWorks(TM), a series of application components that serve as the cornerstone of mission-critical, business-to-business e-Commerce solutions. With significant venture backing, the company is poised to take the lead in the growing e-Commerce application market. EC Cubed is the partner of choice for some of the industry's most prominent players, with MasterCard International, TPN Register, and Transamerica Leasing, Inc. among its development partners and clients. EC Cubed 100% Java Certified(TM) products are sold directly and through select system integrators. For additional information about the company's partner program, contact EC Cubed at 203-761-3900, toll free at 1-877-ECCubed, or visit eccubed.com.
About Cambridge Technology Partners
Cambridge Technology Partners is a new breed of consulting and systems integration firm. Since its founding in 1991, the company has applied its unique core values to the consulting and application development markets to fundamentally reinvent the way business and technology solutions are delivered. Working within a fixed-time/fixed-price model, Cambridge's services span strategic consulting, process innovation, custom and package software deployment (including ERP applications), networking and training to rapidly deliver end-to-end business systems that create immediate bottom-line impact for its clients. Cambridge has 55 offices and more than 4,400 employees worldwide. Cambridge on the Web: ctp.com.
ecWorks is a registered trademark of EC Cubed, Inc. 100% Pure Java is a trademark of SunMicrosystems, Inc. in the United States. All product names referenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
SOURCE: EC Cubed Inc. |
