SSA launches BPCS Smart with newlook

Systems Software Associates Pacific (SSA) has joined looksoftware's Application Vendor Business Partner program, enabling SSA to distribute newlook, in conjunction with its new BPCS Smart ERP solution.

BPCS Smart, suited to small to medium enterprises, is a high performance, reliable ERP solution that relies on the same business rules used buy over 5,000 companies globally. newlook significantly reduces implementation and customization costs compared to alternative ERP solutions. BPCS Smart is intuitive to use and instantly configurable. newlook's intelligent, dynamic architecture allows BPCS Smart customers to rapidly customize, extend and integrate SMART with other AS/400 and desktop applications.

SSA Pacific's Managing Director, Andrew Barkla said "SSA's evaluation of alternative modernization strategies for BPCS CD concluded that newlook's dynamic architecture produced a flexible, sophisticated graphical interface for 30% of the estimated cost of alternatives. We selected newlook because it's dynamic architecture rapidly graphically enables BPCS and allows BPCS customers to instantly customize the graphical interface and extend BPCS behavior without the need for programming. Easy integration with the Internet can also be achieved in minutes without disruption to business users."

A joint looksoftware/SSA project has produced a customized graphical interface for 20 core modules of BPCS CD in less than a month. A looksoftware spokesman commented "a single newlook developer produced a customized graphical interface for over 2000 green screens in around 60 hours. We are pleased SSA and its affiliates have already made their first sales to new AS/400 customers, winning against alternative ERP solutions running NT and Unix. Smart customers will benefit from newlook's ability to rapidly extend and integrate their applications as their business environments dictate. "

SSA offices and affiliates in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, China and Japan are now underway with SMART and newlook.

SSA joins over 150 newlook partners and customers, including Aspect Computing/LANSA, Global Software, Porsche, WIM, Future 3, Department of Defence, IBM and Swinburne University. Leading AS/400 application vendors and customers have repeatedly selected newlook to modernize and extend AS/400 applications due to newlook's responsive dynamic environment.