Apriso Joins IBM SOA Specialty Program

Accreditation demonstrates and expands ease of use with IBM applications and services, facilitating faster, smoother integration of business processes across operations to drive business agility

(LONG BEACH, CA – November 28, 2007) – Apriso Corporation, a provider of adaptive software solutions for global manufacturers, today announced acceptance into the IBM (NYSE: IBM) SOA Specialty Program after successfully meeting IBM’s rigorous SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) technical and business requirements. 

With this achievement, Apriso’s operations execution system, FlexNet, has been recognized to seamlessly integrate with IBM’s suite of SOA-enabled applications, providing a unified platform to achieve collaborative manufacturing operations management.  With this IT architecture, manufacturers can rapidly integrate real-time global operations intelligence with enterprise applications to be highly adaptive and responsive to changing customer demands, increasingly complex product mixes and highly dynamic supply chain networks.

“SOA is an increasingly important business requirement for organizations because of the business flexibility it enables, and Apriso plays an important role in the SOA ecosystem,” stated Chris Will, co-founder and chief technology officer for Apriso. “Apriso’s commitment to SOA provides our customers with a powerful way to reduce systems integration costs while helping to rapidly deploy operational applications.”

Acceptance into the IBM SOA Specialty program is for business partners who demonstrate compatibility with IBM SOA Foundation products, endorse the IBM SOA strategy and have go-to-market activities that IBM determines to be in agreement with its own.  Apriso, an IBM Advanced Partner, has been working closely with IBM for several years to achieve a high level of business and technical alignment, leveraging the SOA Foundation by building reusable business processes, which can then be distributed enterprise wide.  To learn more, please go to:  http://catalog.lotus.com/soa?Search=1IW100452.

About Apriso
Apriso Corporation is a software company dedicated to providing competitive advantage for its customers. It does so by enabling manufacturing organizations to adapt quickly and easily to market changes and unexpected events. Apriso FlexNet applications provide visibility, adaptability and real-time control of manufacturing operations across the enterprise and supply chain network. Apriso leads the industry in multi-site, globally integrated Operations Execution Systems. Many of Apriso’s customers have chosen to integrate planning, execution and control to increase operational efficiency and eliminate errors in their production process. Apriso serves more than 160 customers in 40 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, powering more than 600 installations worldwide. A partial listing of customers includes General Motors, Lear, Honeywell, Microsoft, L'Oreal, Lockheed Martin, Becton Dickinson, Rubbermaid, Saint-Gobain, Novelis and Essilor. Learn more at www.apriso.com.

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