Borland Software Southern Africa, a leading provider of e-business platform solutions, today announced that ProBusiness Services, Inc the service leader in providing outsourced employee administrative services to large companies, had selected Borland JBuilder as its development platform of choice for applications across the enterprise.
Using JBuilder, the market-leading Java development environment, ProBusiness is building and deploying Web-based applications that allow client administrators, account managers and employees to operate in the same real-time environment. The ProBusiness applications aim to streamline processes, reduce administrative costs and improve overall service levels for employee administrative services.
With the changing dynamics of today`s workplace, companies need integrated human resources applications with sophisticated functionality to serve employee needs.
By using JBuilder to build Web-based applications for its customers, ProBusiness can deliver integrated, highly functional applications across the enterprise, while raising the level of service to outsourced benefits providers.
"We chose JBuilder for all current and future development because it allows us to meet two key business objectives: to use technology that delivers the highest levels of services to our customers while also employing best practices to provide low process costs," said Stephen Reyes, senior manager, Web Development of ProBusiness. "We were able to integrate JBuilder into our current development process, which allowed the development organisation to be more productive and build applications faster."
"Borland JBuilder truly delivers on the promise of a superior integrated development environment for creating enterprise scale e-business applications," said Manoli Rodokanakis, Country Manager for Borland Southern Africa. "ProBusiness` choice of JBuilder as the foundation for its employee administration applications highlights Borland`s continued success with today`s leading enterprises."
For further information, please contact Borland Southern Africa on
tel (011) 622 1635,
fax (011) 622 1534,
or visit the local or international Web sites at www.borland.co.za or www.borland.com
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Borland JBuilder is a rapid application development environment for creating business, database and distributed applications based on the Java 2 platform. The award-winning product supports development on the Windows, Linux and Solaris operating environments. It includes strong support for the J2EE platform, allowing programmers to rapidly deliver reliable and scalable EJB technology-based components. JBuilder provides wizards and visual tools for creating reusable JavaBeans components and deploying to BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere and Borland AppServer, all of which support J2EE platform technology standards. JBuilder provides visual tools and reusable components for rapidly creating platform-independent applications for the Java 2 platform.
ProBusiness Services, Inc
ProBusiness Services, Inc (Nasdaq:PRBZ - news) is the service leader in providing outsourced employee administrative and HR services that streamline processes, reduce administrative costs and improve service levels for large, blue chip employers nationwide. ProBusiness offers services for payroll, payroll tax filing, benefits administration, human resources, and Web self-service. Clients have the flexibility to choose either single-function back-office services or end-to-end Comprehensive Outsourcing. Comprehensive Outsourcing extends ProBusiness services with employee-facing services, such as payroll administration and employee inquiry management, through employee service centres.
ProBusiness has been named one of the fastest-growing technology companies in the Deloitte & Touche Silicon Valley Fast 50 and the National Fast 500 every year since 1998. CIO magazine recognized ProBusiness for customer service excellence with a CIO-100 award in 2000.
Borland Software Corporation
Borland is a leading provider of high performance e-business implementation platforms designed to increase developer productivity and reduce time to market for enterprise software projects. E-business implementation platforms consist of software products that allow businesses to develop, deploy and manage e-business applications. Borland is the vendor of choice for professional e-business solution providers who demand a vendor-independent implementation platform that supports rapid time to market, high productivity, performance and availability. Founded in 1983, Borland is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, with operations worldwide.
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