just-auto.com: Geac Holds the Key to Automotive e-Business

14 September 2000
just-auto.com: Geac Holds the Key to Automotive e-Business
    LONDON, Sept. 14 Geac Enterprise Solutions, a worldwide
supplier of enterprise management software to the mid-market automotive
sector, today launched an intensive awareness campaign in the form of a series
of fact files to educate and inform mid-market companies about e-business.
The fact files are available at http://www.just-auto.com/eteam
    E-business is not only changing the way companies do business; it is also
having a direct impact on the IT infrastructure necessary to support the
business.  The fact files, developed in conjunction with IBM, are an
invaluable quick reference guide to provide companies with the essential
knowledge to get ahead and begin their e-trading.
    Bertrand Sciard, MD Geac Enterprise Solutions Europe, comments, "Our
campaign with IBM is intended to simultaneously educate about the kinds of
solutions Geac can provide, and present mid-market businesses with a checklist
of the areas they should be considering in taking their companies into the New
Economy."
    With topics ranging from security to collaboration, scalability and
optimising existing assets, the fact files highlight that actually doing
business over the web means integrating through to sales, inventory,
suppliers, production and accounts.  "Companies sometimes fail to realise that
by not integrating their web store-front to core business processes they are
actually driving their costs up.  Full integration will drive their costs
down, improve responsiveness to customers, and increase efficiency," said
Sciard.
    The alliance with IBM couples Geac's automotive industry expertise and
leadership position as a software provider to the sector with System21, with
IBM's e-business technology leadership, and clarifies their strength as
e-business solutions provider.
    The initiative will run in conjunction with a web campaign that combines
advice and commentary about e-business solutions.  The website --
http://www.just-auto.com/eteam -- will also feature customer case studies so that
visitors can read more about how companies such as One 2 One, Carli Gry and
Hazelwood Foods are already benefiting from the integrated end-to-end
e-business solutions Geac provides.
    For further details of the initiative and to receive a copy of the
"21 Essential facts for e-business in the automotive industry" visit
http://www.just-auto.com/eteam