Peregrine Systems, the provider of infrastructure management software and employee self-service solutions, has completed its acquisition of Harbinger Corporation. The technology and services of Harbinger will immediately become the core of Peregrine`s new e-Business Connectivity Group.
CCH Enterprise Solutions, the local distributor for Peregrine, will now also represent Harbinger`s technology. This will significantly strengthen the delivery of CCH`s overall e-business integration vision.
"Our end-to-end e-business vision is gaining momentum with customers and among major consulting and managed services organisations," says Steve Gardner, president and CEO of Peregrine Systems. "Since announcing the acquisition, we have spoken to hundreds of customers and alliance partners.
The consensus is that the integration of e-business connectivity with e-procurement and the entire asset lifecycle management process offers substantial value."
The combined company capitalises on the strengths of two companies with experience in delivering reliable, scalable solutions for e-business. The new Peregrine solution set fully integrates processes for infrastructure Management, employee self-service solutions including e-procurement, and the creation and management of B2B connections and exchanges. The combined offering enables businesses of all sizes to access multiple e-marketplaces for requisitioning, acquiring, managing and disposing of assets, facilities and other operating resources.
With more than 44 000 worldwide customers coupled with a global e-commerce network already processing more than one million transactions daily, the combined company will be one of the largest providers of end-to-end e-business solutions.
"Companies are finding the supplier enablement component of e-procurement to be one of the biggest inhibitors to realising the significant ROI associated with e-procurement," says Heather Ashton, director, Electronic Business Strategies, Hurwitz Group. "Solution providers who can be a one-stop resource for procurement, enablement and back-end management can be the key to a company`s success in e-business."
The acquisition creates a company that delivers comprehensive capabilities to implement the complete lifecycle of e-business along with worldwide deployment services that help businesses rapidly deploy broad-based B2B initiatives. Integrated capabilities include:
e-procurement
Marketplace creation, management, and access
Catalogue content management
e-Business community integration
Infrastructure management for traditional and e-infrastructure
Employee self-service
ASP delivery of e-business solutions
Customers can use a full suite of electronic trading and procurement solutions from a single global provider, including integration to their asset management and other business systems. Peregrine solutions create the connection from supplier to market, from market to buyer, then connect to internal processes such as the buyer`s customer supply chain, e-procurement, and infrastructure management processes, and finally link the buyer back to the world of e-business at the end of those processes.
This end-to-end approach, starting from the suppliers outside the firewall, into a company, through the company, and back out again, delivering a complete e-business solution at every step in the lifecycle, creates a special value proposition for organisations.
Operational integration of the new combined entity has started, with joint sales and marketing activities and consolidated research and development planning immediately under way. Initial product integration of the Peregrine Get.Resources! e-procurement solution and the new e-commerce network solution has been completed and demonstrated to prospective customers.
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