Strategix, leading European software house, dedicated to the development and rapid deployment of supply chain software, has joined IBM's ISV Advantage Initiative, a program designed to provide independent software vendors (ISVs) with technical and marketing support to develop solutions that address the specific needs of small and medium business (SMB) customers.

Strategix specializes in helping mid-sized organizations maximize the efficiency of their supply chain and in turn deliver vastly improved customer service. Its OneOffice product is a new generation of supply chain software that combines operations, finance, customer and event management in a single innovative system. By integrating both front and back office functions in a unified solution, OneOffice gives businesses a real-time view across their organizations, enabling them to share information across their workforce and deliver information to users at the moment it is required.

Enabling Strategix on IBM's WebSphere Application Server - also available on Linux - will help Strategix expand into the mid-sized market faster and more effectively than is possible with proprietary platforms.

"An assurance of reliability, availability and performance underpins our OneOffice software and it is essential to deliver our solutions on a robust hardware platform that shares these qualities," says Peter Lusty, chief executive of Strategix. "By partnering with IBM we can deliver a compelling offering, and this has already contributed to a number of significant customer wins. Together we have in-depth knowledge of the needs of mid-market companies, recognizing that such organizations prefer to define themselves by industry rather than size and that simply offering cut-down versions of enterprise solutions will not do."

The IBM WebSphere family includes products that are designed and priced specifically for small and medium businesses -- easy to install and manage, scalable to grow with a business, rich in functionality, and based on open standards to allow integration with existing software and hardware platforms.

ISV Advantage is administered by PartnerWorld for Developers, the developer resource for IBM Business Partners. It is a worldwide program designed to help software developers reach broader markets, lower their costs of doing business, and take their products to market faster. For more information, visit http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld, or call 1-800-426-9990 in North America, 1-770-863-2048 outside North America.

About Strategix
Strategix is a leading European software house, dedicated to the development and rapid deployment of supply chain software. We focus on the wholesale and retail distribution, logistics and service sectors where our software maximizes supply chain efficiency and accelerates customer service. Our systems are designed for reliability, availability and performance. Our customers enjoy a rapid return on their investment and genuine competitive advantage.

Focused on key growth sectors which range from high technology to household and building products, Strategix numbers businesses such as Avnet, Azlan, Dimension Data, Eurodis, Fired Earth, Fuller Smith and Turner, Midwich, Mission Symphonix, Virgin Cars, Virgin Mobile, Westcon and William Wilson among its customers.
 

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February 2004

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