ACCPAC International, Inc, a subsidiary of Computer Associates International, Inc, announced today an agreement whereby ACCPAC will distribute IBM's DB2 Universal Database as a standard component of its ACCPAC Advantage Series and ACCPAC Pro Series accounting software and other end-to-end business management applications.
ACCPAC Advantage Series and ACCPAC Pro Series are designed to address the accounting needs of small and mid-size businesses. Both serve as a foundation for ACCPAC's integrated suite of end-to-end business management applications. ACCPAC will begin offering DB2 immediately with ACCPAC Advantage Series 5.1 Enterprise, Corporate, Small Business, and Discovery Editions. The offering will include the DB2 database and 3 user licences, with the ability to purchase additional licences from ACCPAC. ACCPAC will offer the DB2 database option for Pro Series and other ACCPAC end-to-end offerings in future versions.
"With over 60 million DB2 users in 400 000 companies worldwide, DB2 is a proven, world-class database with impressive performance capabilities," said ACCPAC President and CEO David Hood. "Delivering DB2 with our applications provides tremendous value to our customers and our global reseller network, offering a powerful and affordable platform on which to deploy a scalable business management system-and the freedom to do so in either a Linux or Windows environment."
"We're excited that ACCPAC has selected DB2 as their database of choice and recognises the value that DB2 brings to small and mid-size business customers," said Scott Handy, Director, Linux Solutions Marketing, at IBM. "The combination of IBM's market share leading database software and ACCPAC's end-to-end suite of business applications is an outstanding offering for companies focused on managing their business, not their technology."
DB2 is a database server designed for deployment in a small or mid-size business environment. Among its many features are self-configuring, self-optimising and self-managing capabilities, new federated capabilities that enable customers to integrate information as Web services, and sophisticated business intelligence capabilities that allow customers to easily organise stored information to perform faster and more insightful queries.
ACCPAC Advantage Series is a modular suite of accounting applications that can be accessed via a Web browser, a wireless device, or a traditional desktop computer. Advantage Series is highly customisable, designed to scale as a company grows, and is a foundation for ACCPAC's end-to-end business management applications including CRM, e-commerce, point-of-sale, human resources and warehouse management. Advantage Series runs on Microsoft, Novell and Linux-based operating systems, and supports IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, and Pervasive P.SQL 2000 databases.
ACCPAC Pro Series is a modular suite of accounting applications that offers source code availability. Like Advantage Series, Pro Series is also a foundation for ACCPAC's end-to-end business management applications. Pro Series runs on Microsoft, Novell and Linux-based operating systems, and supports Microsoft SQL Server and FoxPro databases with DB2 database support currently in development.
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ACCPAC International, Inc, a subsidiary of Computer Associates International, Inc (NYSE: CA), provides small and mid-size businesses a broad range of end-to-end business management applications designed to enhance customers' competitive advantage. Product lines include ACCPAC Advantage Series, ACCPAC Pro Series, ACCPAC HR Series, ACCPAC Business Analysis Suite, ACCPAC eTransact, ACCPAC Exchange, ACCPAC eCRM, ACCPAC Warehouse Management System, ACCPAC ePOS, Simply Accounting, FAXserve and ACCPAC Messenger.
Based in Pleasanton, California, USA, with offices in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, Mexico, the Middle East, the Netherlands, SA, Southeast Asia and the UK, ACCPAC has more than 500 000 customers and more than 6 500 business partners in more than 130 countries worldwide. For more information about ACCPAC and our products, call 1-800-945-8007 in North America, or visit ACCPAC at www.accpac.com and www.accpaconline.com.
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