Sun Microsystems RSA has opened the first permanently manned Enterprise Solutions Centre in South Africa at enterprise resource planning supplier Baan.
According to Baan SA managing director, Gary Lawrence, Sun Microsystems has proven to be a reliable and significant provider of powerful systems for ERP applications. "Over the past several years, Baan and Sun have developed an unparalleled strategic relationship which organisations depend on for business application environments.
"Critical success factors of the relationship are the companies` unified vision and technology roadmaps. Sun and Baan are most notably aligned in the sectors of electronic commerce and streamlining the supply chain management process.
"Baan will use Sun`s Java technology to develop distributed, networked application components to rapidly deliver this advanced functionality to current and future customers Concurrently, we will ensure their range of applications will seamlessly integrate with our range of emerging systems."
Sun and Baan`s alliance represents a broad initiative aimed at enhancing Java enterprise APIs for the development of distributed, networked enterprise solutions. By accelerating the delivery of large-scale Internet and intranet applications functionality, the solutions streamline the methods companies use to do business and enhance interaction within the supply chain.
Since July last year (1997), Baan and Sun have jointly operated the original Baan Global Enterprise Centre (BGESC) in Amersfoort, Netherlands, as well as the seven other centres worldwide. The centres serve all customers considering a Baan solution with the best possible advice, solutions and support.
Derek Galvin, the local Baan Enterprise Solutions Centre (BESC) manager, explains that the centre is the only solution centre manned full-time with highly skilled IT and ERP specialists. "Not only do we have full-time technical people on site at the Baan offices in Midrand, but we also uses the premises to set up certain product scenarios for existing and potential Baan customers."
These services can save mutual Sun and Baan customers a large chunk of implementation time by helping address critical sizing, support and systems management questions before systems and software are installed at the customer site.
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