Endeavors Technology To Brief Automotive Leaders on Secure Web Networks for Improved Supply Chain Collaboration at e-Automotive Summit
IRVINE, Calif.--April 22, 2002--Firm's Secure Peer-to-Peer Technologies and Web Services Requires No
Major Investment in New Infrastructures and Delivers Fast ROI; Deployment Will Greatly Reduce Management of Manufacturer-to-Dealer and Dealer-to-Dealer IT Integration, Data Sharing, Aggregation, Supply
Chain Visibility and Secure Relationship Management
Accelerating its drive into the automotive industry, Endeavors Technology Inc., the peer-to-peer (P2P) developer of secure, enterprise Web collaboration software, today announces a series of top-level delegation briefings of its award-winning Magi Enterprise 3.0 product to business leaders in the global automotive industry.
The briefings will take place at the e-Automotive Summit (April 24-26, 2002) at Palm Springs, Calif. Automotive firms attending this premier executive event include Blue Diamond Parts, BMW, Daimler-Chrysler, Audi, Fiat, General Motors, Honda, Mitsubishi, Renault, Schneider Logistics (Ford) and Toyota. Throughout the summit, delegations comprised of CIOs, CTOs, distribution and logistics managers, as well as e-Business executives and others responsible for the acquisition and deployment of enterprise-class e-automotive solutions, will receive one-on-one briefings from Endeavors' executives.
Participants to the Summit and Endeavors' scheduled briefings are pre-qualified based on their proven ability to purchase and drive new initiatives within and beyond their corporations.
Magi Enterprise software has significant relevance in the automotive industry, requires no major investment in new infrastructure in deployment, and delivers fast returns on investment. With Magi's extensive collaboration features, applications such as just-in-time supply chain and distribution channel management, and customer relationship management are improved and bridge the gaps left by unsecured email, incompatible networks and single point-of-failure bottlenecking that occur during manual or other inefficient data aggregation methods. Endeavors' solution allows users on the supply chain to easily search and collect information, such as inventory data, share proprietary documents and design, manage and use low maintenance, secure portals.
Four features of Magi software will prove of particular interest to automotive leaders and will help them to solve problems specific to their industry, including critical backorder management, recall supply chain administration, and federal oversight and compliance. Enterprise deployment will also open up new revenue opportunities.
| -- | Virtual peering making data accessible from anywhere at anytime in the supply chain with guaranteed security. This addresses the specific problem between the auto giants and their partners where automotive firms have sophisticated technologies to manage their supply chain, but cannot access relevant data in partner companies to make critical decisions. This leads to high inventory and expediting costs associated with customer service. Magi technology eliminates this problem by connecting a manufacturer to its dealerships in a fraction of the time normally expected. |
| -- | The Web is transformed into a secure two-way writable vehicle for anybody in the value chain from product design through to distribution and sales. This means people can share information point-to-point, be it for sharing designs from a remote workstation to dragging information from an inventory report into a shared spreadsheet. This dramatically speeds up the time-to-completion of any activity or decision from design through to inventory shipping. |
| -- | Executives can access information and trigger activities like inventory, ordering right from their desktops at the click of a mouse. |
| -- | Inter- and intra-enterprise collaboration is undertaken in a highly secure manner across company firewalls while keeping the complexities of security and authentication transparent from the ordinary user. This feature also provides IT managers with the necessary control mechanisms to ensure security of a corporation's data. |
Areas to be addressed in Endeavors' briefings to automotive leaders during the e-Automotive Summit will cover timely data sharing with dealerships and other partners, collaborative product design to accelerate product development, integrating CRM and SCM into a corporation's e-Business, and Web services for the automotive market.
Automotive manufacturers and dealers along the supply chain will learn that Magi Enterprise's P2P collaboration system transforms today's Web into a highly secure inter- and intra-enterprise collaboration network. This allows them to implement ad-hoc Virtual Private Networks across firewalls rapidly and affordably without disrupting existing applications, networks or work practices. Using Magi Enterprise 3.0, business professionals can securely access, share and act upon critical information over any wired or wireless connection, using any PC device as a full "peer" on the Web-based network.
"Every minute counts in today's business environment and making vehicles and inventory available to the customer where and when they want them is a fundamental goal of pro-active supply chain management," commented Bernard Hulme, Endeavors' chairman and CEO. "Magi Enterprise is leading the way for automotive companies to lower business costs, and provide real-time management of assets spread across multiple sites."
About Endeavors Technology
Endeavors Technology is a wholly-owned subsidiary of mobile computing and network infrastructure vendor Tadpole Technology plc (www.tadpole.com), which has plants and offices in Irvine and Carlsbad (California), and Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Bristol (UK). For further information on Endeavors' P2P solutions, call 949/833-2800, email to p2p@endeavors.com, or visit the company's Web site http://www.endeavors.com.
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