Ford Selects MERANT as Global Standard for Managing Change
28 February 2000
Ford Motor Company Selects MERANT as Global Standard for Managing Change; MERANT Egility Solutions Will Drive Ford's Application Development
ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 28 -- MERANT (London: MRN)
today announced that Ford Motor Company , the world's second largest
producer of automotive products and services, has selected MERANT to provide
Ford an enterprise standard for application development management (ADM).
With the MERANT Egility(TM) framework for managing Web content and business
applications, Ford will be able to effectively manage change while protecting
valuable software assets, allowing Ford to produce higher quality software in
less time and with fewer resources. For over a decade, Ford has trusted
MERANT with delivering best-of-breed solutions based on its robust technology
and experience in delivering the best ADM solutions available.
As part of the MERANT Egility solution, Ford Motor Company will
standardize on MERANT PVCS(R) for managing development, maintenance and
implementation projects across its Intranet Web and Client/Server application
development platforms. MERANT PVCS will be used in Ford's Solutions Delivery
Group to reduce time to market, increase developer productivity and
standardize the software build process for end-to-end software configuration
management.
According to Mike Misewicz, supervisor, development tools at Ford Motor
Company, "MERANT was the best choice for Ford because of its breadth of
technology, strength and reputation as an industry-leading company and its
long tenure as a Ford partner. PVCS enables Ford to organize, manage and
protect software assets throughout the organization including those crucial
for Web application and Web content development."
"MERANT will assist Ford in the automation of standard software
development processes across the organization enabling Ford to achieve faster
time-to-market and higher software quality," said Buff Jones, MERANT senior
vice president and general manager of application development management.
"MERANT has a proven track record at Ford and we have demonstrated our
capability to manage the most complex e-business development challenges on a
global basis."
MERANT Egility(TM) is the framework for rapidly enabling existing
businesses to compete in e-business and it defines the enterprise challenges
companies must overcome to e-enable the enterprise: creating the new,
transforming the existing, integrating the enterprise and managing the
application environment. MERANT Egility lays out the framework for how
customers can unite the best of both worlds to move to the forefront of the e-
business world -- combining a highly creative, compelling new electronic
customer experience while leveraging the existing application assets. MERANT
delivers Egility solutions for creating e-business strategy, building e-
commerce sites, extending legacy applications, accessing and integrating data
and applications, managing e-business applications and Web content, developing
Web applications, and more.
About MERANT
Founded in 1976, MERANT is a leader in Enterprise Application Development,
providing the products, people and processes to accelerate the customer's
business through the application of innovative information technology. The
MERANT Egility(TM) framework empowers organizations to transform their
enterprise applications for the changing technology and business requirements
of the e-business environment, manage the application development process, and
provide integrated data connectivity across the enterprise, from the mainframe
to the Internet. A global organization with $370 million in annual revenues
and 2,000 employees, MERANT has approximately 500 technology partners and more
than 5 million licenses at over 35,000 customer sites -- including the entire
Fortune 100 and the majority of the Global 500. For additional information on
MERANT and its solutions, visit the MERANT web site at http://www.merant.com.
PVCS is a registered trademark, and MERANT and Egility are trademarks, of
MERANT. All other trademarks contained in this announcement are the property
of their respective owners.