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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.
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