Global eBusiness solutions leader PeopleSoft has announced the availability of Vantive 8.5, the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) industry`s first Internet server architecture. Vantive 8.5 enables PeopleSoft to implement comprehensive CRM solutions at companies that want quick, cost-effective, and seamless integration and support for sustained growth. Vantive 8.5`s scalability allows enterprise customers to support up to 20,000 concurrent users, more than any other CRM platform.
"PeopleSoft is helping to redefine the CRM landscape," says Jan Coetzee, MD of PeopleSoft South Africa. "Vantive 8.5 is the answer to companies` eBusiness needs offering the most scalable, high-performance platform in the business."
Vantive 8.5 seamlessly links such enterprise systems as billing, inventory and supply chain management, he explains. In addition, Vantive 8.5 provides an open platform for building robust, high-performance browser-based Internet applications. PeopleSoft designed Vantive 8.5 for performance, scalability and easy Internet use.
Vantive 8.5 supports Unix, Windows NT and all major database platforms. Vantive 8.5 also supports DB2, which, according to PeopleSoft, eases implementation in existing IT environments at large banking and financial services institutions.
Migration to Vantive 8.5 for Current Customers
Current Vantive customers can automatically upgrade to Vantive 8.5. The upgrade will be compatible with existing Vantive 8 clients, integrations and business processes. It also will remain compatible with existing "alternative clients," which access Vantive applications through the Application Programming Interface (API).
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PeopleSoft is a world leader in enterprise application software. PeopleSoft provides eBusiness applications for customer relationship management, human resource management, financials, and supply chain, along with a range of industry-specific solutions. For more than 4, 000 customers, PeopleSoft applications offer greater flexibility, rapid implementation, scalability across multiple databases and operating systems, and lower cost of ownership. Customers include some of the largest multi-national organisations in the world, as well as small- and medium-sized businesses. In addition to software, it offers PeopleSoft Advantage Customer Service, a comprehensive consulting, education and technical support programme. Headquartered in Pleasanton, California, PeopleSoft (www.peoplesoft.com) employs 7, 000 people and had 1999 revenues of $1.4 billion.