webMethods-i2 Alliance "Creating Visibility"
webMethods and i2 have formed an alliance to provide a powerful
integration platform to help customers reduce costs, create
new revenue opportunities, strengthen relationships with customers,
increase supply chain efficiencies, and streamline internal
business processes.
Consider these questions regarding your current company’s enterprise:
- Does your company have difficulty integrating existing
systems, perhaps due to mergers and acquisitions?
- Is the information you are reliant upon to make daily
decisions residing in disjointed applications?
- Is your IS Team overwhelmed with integrating mainframe
data with today’s enterprise applications?
- Are you unable to model, execute, and manage business
processes across the extended enterprise?
- Are you having difficulty managing your trading network
daily, hourly, or minute-by-minute?
Visibility is the key to solving these problems. The
webMethods-i2 alliance is the solution.
Benefits of the webMethods-i2 alliance
The combination of i2 solutions and services for end-to-end
supply chain management and webMethods' integration platform
, have created a solution to allow companies to easily and
securely integrate their business partners with internal applications
and databases.
This unique solution allows companies to manage their value
chains more efficiently and effectively, to expand to new buyers
and sellers, and create new revenue opportunities. The relative
ease and reduced development effort required to make use of
the best in integration technologies allows enterprises to
accelerate their adoption of collaborative e-business and reduce
overall time-to-market.
Realize Return-On-Investment (ROI) Real-Time
The webMethods and i2 offering will help customers create a
rapid ROI across your entire enterprise by creating complete
visibility throughout your supply chain.
- Complete utilization of the i2 solutions for end-to-end
supply chain management across your enterprise to drive
efficient production planning, forecasting, and procurement.
- Efficient operations reduce production cycle times, lower
inventories, reduce error rates, and allow for faster time-to-market.
- Enable partner collaboration on production plans to slash
excess inventory.
- Integrate your data and logistics processes with shippers,
freight forwarders and marketplaces.
- Reduced cost to implement your value chain initiatives.
- Efficient operations allow for faster time-to-market
for your products.
Shared customer base
Currently webMethods and i2 share numerous customers including
global industry leaders such as 3M, Alcatel, Allied Van Lines,
COMDISCO, Corporate Express, e2open, Exostar, Kmart, Lucent,
Medtronic, Samsung, Sun Microsystems, UMC and Usinor. This
partnership will provide these customers and new i2/webMethods
customers with an unmatched solution to address their integration
requirements.
About webMethods
webMethods, Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM - news) is the leading provider
of integration software. The webMethods integration platform
allows customers to achieve quantifiable R.O.I. by linking
business processes, enterprise and legacy applications, databases
and workflows both within and across enterprises. By deploying
the webMethods integration platform, customers reduce costs,
create new revenue opportunities, strengthen relationships
with customers, substantially increase supply chain efficiencies
and streamline internal business processes. For more information
on webMethods, please go to www.webmethods.com.
Quotes
"i2 has a reputation for setting the standard for collaborative
commerce. [The i2-webMethods alliance] takes this leadership
a step farther by acknowledging the critical role integration
plays in making true collaborative commerce a reality. The
webMethods integration platform is already in place at more
than 500 industry leading companies and this partnership takes
webMethods one step closer to becoming the ubiquitous platform
for integration."
Phillip Merrick
Chairman and CEO
webMethods, Inc.
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