Walker, a leading provider of financial, analytic and operational software solutions, today announced that it will begin serving the fast-growing NT market with applications using IBM`s Suite* for Windows NT. Walker will now offer Aptos financial solutions to business customers in a broad range of industries, including utilities, oil and gas, transportation, manufacturing, retail, financial services, insurance and consumer products. Aptos, a part of Walker`s Smart Financials family of solutions, delivers comprehensive financial information and provides customers with actionable business intelligence. Aptos uses IBM`s DB2 Universal Database, a key component in IBM`s Suite for Windows NT. Using its experience in providing financial solutions for Fortune-1000 class companies, Walker created Aptos, which will ship in July, using the IBM Suite for Windows NT. Future plans for Aptos include Web-enablement with another IBM Suite component, Lotus`s Domino groupware. "Walker developed Aptos applications for use with the IBM Suite for Windows NT with the belief that true financial applications should add value beyond presenting performance after the fact"," said Leonard Liu, chairman and CEO of Walker. "Our partnership with IBM enables us to extend our business expertise into the red-hot NT market space." Walker`s customers typically go through a series of steps to implement solutions. The steps include choosing the software environment, defining the computing environment, and building or buying the application software. Walker`s choice to integrate Aptos applications with IBM`s Suite for Windows NT reduces costs and shortens the implementation time by eliminating the first two steps, increasing the opportunity for profit in mid-market solutions. IBM`s Suite makes it easy for Windows NT users to build, deploy and manage business applications. "We`re delighted to be working with Walker, a company that shares IBM`s vision and sees the potential of the small and medium business market," said Steve Solazzo, IBM Software Group vice president, ISV and SMB sales & marketing. "IBM software is proven in the large enterprise market, now with IBM`s Suite for Windows NT we provide the same robust, `bet your business` function and reliability in an integrated package for the small and medium business customers."
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