JD Edwards & Company and IBM recently announced plans to develop and jointly market a specialised IBM eServer designed to run JD Edwards` collaborative commerce software for small to medium businesses.
Optimised for JD Edwards` OneWorld collaborative commerce and supply chain management applications, the IBM eServer for JD Edwards is the only server co-branded with an independent software vendor. The solution is tailor-made for small and mid-sized businesses looking for ways to effectively manage and reduce the complexity of their e-business infrastructures.
As part of the strategic alliance between the companies, the IBM eServer for JD Edwards will be jointly marketed worldwide through IBM business partners, JD Edwards` direct sales force, and JD Edwards` business partner network.
"This step by IBM and JD Edwards moves the companies` global alliance to a new level of collaboration and cooperation. The IBM eServer for JD Edwards supports our goal to deliver leading collaborative solutions to mid-sized businesses. It provides customers a lower total cost of ownership, simple integration, and access to technology previously available only to larger companies," said Mike Evans, managing director of JD Edwards South Africa.
"Leveraging the global reach of our two companies` sales infrastructures will give us the power to move our joint offering into new markets."
Evans added that both JD Edwards and IBM are working jointly to configure additional models of the IBM eServer for JD Edwards to address the further needs of mid-enterprise customers.
The IBM eServer for JD Edwards will be pre-configured to run HTML, Java or Linux. In addition, as an IBM eServer this specialised offering shares the same technology that helped establish a world record of Java performance on a single IBM eServer iSeries system. Also, the IBM eServer iSeries established a new industry record of 6 000 concurrent users in a recent benchmark running JD Edwards` OneWorld Xe applications.
"Providing simple solutions for complex problems is a hallmark of IBM eServer," said Buell Duncan, general manager, midmarket servers, IBM Server Group. "Customers of all sizes must operate today in an increasingly complex Internet world. It`s particularly daunting to smaller companies. Working with partners like JD Edwards allows us to give our joint customers innovative, flexible, cost-effective solutions that help reduce the complexity of their e-infrastructures."
General availability is expected sometime during the third quarter 2001.
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