Mercury Interactive, the global leader in business technology optimisation (BTO) software, represented in South Africa by Mercury Africa, a division of EOH, one of South Africa`s largest consulting; technology and outsourcing, today at Mercury World 2005 announced that market leaders in software, system integration and outsourcing are supporting Mercury BTO Enterprise. Mercury BTO Enterprise is the industry`s first integrated suite of BTO offerings designed to help customers optimise the business outcomes of IT. BearingPoint, EDS, Oracle, SAP AG, Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro, among others, provide products, services and industry expertise to extend Mercury BTO Enterprise.
Over the past several years, hundreds of partners have joined Mercury in helping customers work in an automated and integrated manner to produce predictable business results from IT. Industry leaders supporting the recently announced Mercury BTO Enterprise include: Acquity Group, Advanced Technology Solutions LLC, Applimation Inc., BearingPoint, Birlasoft, Borland, BusinessEdge Solutions, CollabNet, EDS, Flashline, Genilogix, IQ Services, Mentora Group, Mindtree Consulting, Netli Inc., NetScout Systems, Netuitive Inc., Oracle, Peregrine Systems, PowerTest, Prolify Inc., ResultsPositive Incorporated, SAP AG, Siebel, Sierra Atlantic, Sky IT Group, Sofea Inc., Software Quality Solutions (SQS), Solstice Software, Spectrum Solutions Inc., SPI Dynamics, Tata Consultancy Services, Technisource, Total Resource Management, Utopia Solutions, VMware, Watchfire and Wipro.
"IT organisations today need to ensure that their activities are focused on maximising business value and delivering business results," said Darcy Moss, director, Applications Development Services, EDS. "Enterprises and government agencies worldwide rely on the combined offerings of EDS and Mercury BTO Enterprise to align IT with business priorities, manage change, and reduce costs and risks."
"To date, over 1 000 Oracle customers have used Mercury BTO offerings to deploy, upgrade, and maintain their Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft Enterprise, and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne implementations," said Richard Sarwal, VP, Server Applied Technologies, Oracle. "Oracle Fusion Middleware`s technology allows IT to spend less time on integration problems and more time aligning to meet the needs of the businesses. We look forward to working with Mercury to help our mutual customers optimize the business outcomes of IT."
"For many years we have worked with Mercury to help our mutual customers utilise BTO software to further optimise the quality, performance and scalability of their SAP solutions and to help ensure the business outcomes of their deployments of those solutions," said Ross Wainwright, senior vice president of consulting, SAP America. "Mercury`s adoption of SAP NetWeaver and SAP`s Enterprise Services Architecture is helping companies to create more flexible business processes and to align business process requirements with IT realities."
Partners announcing their support for Mercury BTO Enterprise include:
* Global system integrators and outsourcers that provide services using Mercury BTO software and offer a comprehensive range of IT services to clients in diverse industries such as banking and financial services, insurance, manufacturing, telecommunications, retail, transportation, and the public sector;
* National and regional solutions partners that provide customers with services that interoperate with Mercury IT Governance, Application Delivery and Application Management products; and
* Technology partners that develop specific software products to interoperate with Mercury BTO Enterprise offerings. Their complementary technologies span a wide range of categories including application security, database, CRM, data management, ERP, help desk, IT infrastructure, system and network management applications, and version control.
"We are proud that so many industry leaders are supporting Mercury BTO Enterprise," said Harry Gould, vice president of alliances at Mercury. "Mercury is committed to working with partners to help our customers optimise the business outcomes of IT."
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Mercury Africa, a division of EOH Group of companies, represents Mercury Interactive in Africa. As the global leader in business technology optimisation (BTO), Mercury is committed to helping customers optimise the business value of information technology.
MERCURY INTERACTIVE
Founded in 1989, Mercury conducts business worldwide and is one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies today. Mercury provides software and services to govern the priorities, people, and processes of IT; deliver and manage applications; and integrate IT strategy and execution. Customers worldwide rely on Mercury offerings to improve quality and performance of applications and manage IT costs, risks and compliance. Mercury BTO offerings are complemented by technologies and services from global business partners. For more information, please visit www.mercury.com.
EOH GROUP
EOH is a business and technology solutions provider creating lifelong partnerships by developing business and IT strategies, supplying and implementing solutions and managing enterprise-wide business systems and processes for medium to large clients.
EOH operates in the following three clusters of business units as a fully integrated business:
Consulting - Concentrated under the EOH Consulting brand are business units offering services ranging from strategic and business process consulting, project services, change management, supply chain optimisation and education.
Technology - Through a number of subsidiary companies, EOH is able to sell, implement and support a range of world-class business applications including ERP, CRM, Business Intelligence, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, e-Commerce and Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). Mercury Africa is a division within the technology sphere.
Outsourcing - EOH offers comprehensive maintenance and support of client`s IT infrastructure and applications through the rendering of full IT Outsourcing, Application Hosting and Managed Services. In addition EOH offers full Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services.
EOH has a presence in all major centres in South Africa and Botswana, and operates in the rest of Africa.
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