Product category:
Enterprise Resource Planning software (ERP)
News Release from: Microsoft
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 20 October 2006
Avnet and Microsoft to Promote ERP
Solutions
Integration of Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Microsoft Platform technologies to provide efficient and affordable ERP solutions for mutual customers
Avnet Technology Solutions, an operating group of Avnet and a distributor focused on enterprise computer products and embedded subsystems, and Microsoft have announced they will work together to help certified value-added resellers (VARs) market, sell, service and support enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for midmarket and medium-sized enterprises based on Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Microsoft platform technologies Avnet plans to provide the following:
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 13 Nov 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Our relationship with Avnet combines the power of the Microsoft platform technologies with Avnet's innovative delivery model to provide an efficient and affordable ERP solution to our mutual customers," said Rob Bernard, general manager of the Worldwide ISV Group at Microsoft.
"The technical work that we've done to support new and existing Oracle JD Edwards customers helps them get more value from their ERP investments".
"By working with Microsoft, we can provide our partners with cost-effective, turnkey solutions that help enhance productivity, better manage risk, and simplify operations and processes for end-user customers," said Scott Abbott, vice president of Enterprise Applications at Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas.
"Our solutions-based strategy is designed to meet the needs of our partners by offering new services and technologies tailored to their customers' business challenges".
"Our partners and their customers have been vocal in their support of and validation for this solution".
Avnet and Microsoft have worked together for over five years to deliver world-class solutions to their mutual customers.
This new collaboration deepens that relationship and provides both resellers and end users with more options and flexibility.
Microsoft and Avnet will develop a joint go-to-market strategy that provides VARs with the tools needed to effectively market, sell, service and support these comprehensive ERP solutions.
"This is exactly the type of innovative, collaborative solution that we need for ERP," said Christian Franklin, owner of TAM Group , an Avnet partner based in San Francisco.
"We appreciate the fact that they are working together to give us the choices we need to be more successful".
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