Powerway Chooses Nuclio To Safeguard Infrastructure For Running Online Supply Chain Collaboration Solutions
8 August 2000
Powerway Solidifies Transition Toward Using the Internet to Reliably Automate The Supply Chain
INDIANAPOLIS - Powerway, Inc. today announced it has selected Nuclio Corporation to manage and monitor the infrastructure for Powerway.com, the first collaborative Internet workplace dedicated to improving supply chain performance.Reliability is crucial to Powerway.com's ability to deliver critical information online across the entire supply chain. As a management service provider (MSP), Nuclio was selected based on its demonstrated ability to deliver predictable performance of networks, systems and applications. Dependable performance of its Web-based workplace ensures that Powerway customers can realize the full impact and efficiencies of online supply chain automation and integration.
"Because a critical aspect of Powerway.com is real-time collaboration and customers expect it to be available 24x7, Powerway needed to find a credible and dependable partner to ensure that Powerway.com meets customers requirements and expectations," said Mike Campbell, CEO of Powerway, Inc. "Nuclio was the logical choice to help us to provide these critical services to Powerway.com customers."
According to Campbell, outsourcing network, application and system management to Nuclio will enable Powerway.com to reliably deploy online supply chain solutions in mission-critical environments at some of the largest corporations in the world, including DaimlerChrysler Corporation, an equity shareholder in Powerway. As a pioneer in the emerging MSP industry, Nuclio has established a solid track record of ensuring reliable, predictable IT performance for Web-based and traditional companies.
"Getting your suppliers to collaborate online is every OEM's dream, but keeping the supply chain running over the Web reliably is everyone's challenge," said John Jazwiec, president and CEO, Nuclio. "This agreement is significant because it represents the convergence of two important shifts in information technology: online supply chain management supported by a management service provider--both making e-commerce simpler and more efficient."
"Nuclio will work with Powerway to help Powerway manage its technology assets. By serving as a single source of accountability and automating network management and monitoring, we will allow Powerway to concentrate on more strategic efforts," added Jazwiec.
Nuclio will deliver time and cost savings through automated IT management and monitoring, as well as providing customer service and technical support for Powerway.com, including a 24x7 help desk. Powerway found Nuclio to be an appealing alternative to a fully outsourced service provider model because Nuclio will increase Powerway's system reliability without giving up control of the company's technology infrastructure, applications, vendors and information. By offering management and monitoring tools that are 95 percent automated, Nuclio will enable Powerway to predict and correct problems before they occur, keeping the site's mission-critical applications up and running around the clock.
About Nuclio
Nuclio is a technology services company providing simplicity and reliability to IT applications through 24x7 management and monitoring. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Forsythe Technology, Nuclio is a management service provider offering leading-edge products and solutions designed to accelerate return on technology investments. Nuclio provides its customers comprehensive, best-of-breed components through a network of established relationships including Sun, EMC, Oracle, Cisco and HP OpenView. Nuclio is currently based in suburban Chicago.
About Powerway.com
In April 2000, Powerway, Inc. created an Internet-based software solution that automates and integrates a Web-enabled Advanced Product Quality Planning process, while streamlining the Production Part Approval Process online, Powerway.com. Automated IT management and monitoring by Nuclio enables Powerway's e-business software solution to deliver the predictability and reliability that suppliers and other stakeholders are depending on to improve quality and engineering performance throughout the automotive supply chain.
About Powerway, Inc.
Powerway, Inc., a privately held company founded in 1987, is a leading provider of advanced collaborative e-business software solutions and services for improving quality and engineering performance throughout the supply chain. Powerway has offices in Indianapolis, Mexico City and London, and 250 employees worldwide. Its list of approximately 3,500 customers spans the automotive, general transportation, appliance, and process industries, among others.