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Lilly Software Offers Customers More E-Business Options with fourthchannel Partnership
24 July 2000, Hampton, NH (USA) — Lilly Software Associates and e-business services provider fourthchannel have entered into a strategic referral partnership that will expand Lilly’s e-business offering for VISUAL customers. The new agreement is part of Lilly Software’s continuous effort to help its customers improve service and profitability.
“We want our customers to sell more products in larger markets,” explains Bob Bettencourt, Product Manager for Lilly Software. “Lilly is committed to helping its users build e-business Internet sites that fit their business processes. We feel fourthchannel offers effective solutions that will help our customers enter new markets and generate increased revenue.”
As participants in the business-to-business (B2B) marketplace, many of Lilly Software’s 2,500 customers are poised to take on an additional sales channel incorporating e-business. Lilly Software understands companies need integrated solutions that they can quickly implement in order to succeed in the marketplace. Lilly chose fourthchannel for its easy-to-use e-business solutions and its excellent reputation for service and support. “fourthchannel recognizes the potential for this alliance with small to mid-sized manufacturers,” says Jonathan
York, fourthchannel chairman and CEO. “Lilly has access to an important customer base that can benefit from our e-business services.”
In addition to traditional Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Lilly Software offers a suite of e-business applications, including storefronts and access to trading communities, helping companies lower purchasing costs and broaden their markets for sales. Lilly Software offers a full line of supply chain solutions for manufacturers and distributors that includes Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Quality Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), E-Business, and Warehouse Management System (WMS) capabilities.
About fourthchannel
fourthchannel’s e-business services provide manufacturers and distributors with a complete Internet sales and marketing environment that increases revenues and margins, protects brands, and creates demand from new and larger markets. fourthchannel’s services include full-featured selling solutions, based on the profitbuilder™ and profitlaunch™ services, which completely integrate with internal business systems, external partners, and marketplaces. fourthchannel was recently named one of Upside Magazine’s “Hot 100” privately held technology companies (www.fourthchannel.com).
About Lilly Software Associates
Lilly Software Associates, Inc. provides a complete line of enterprise and
supply chain solutions for manufacturers and distributors. The VISUAL
Enterprise™ suite of products helps companies capture and analyze real-time data
about all their business processes using ERP, Project Management, Business
Performance Management, Quality Management, Customer Relationship Management,
and Warehouse Management System capabilities. From award-winning software to
strategies in Lean Manufacturing and TOC, Lilly Software offers companies the
tools they need for higher productivity and profitability.
Most VISUAL® applications run on Windows® 98, Windows NT,
Windows 2000, Windows XP, UNIX®, LINUX, Novell®, using
SQLBase®, Microsoft SQL Server®, or ORACLE®
relational databases.
Lilly Software has received many industry awards for its products, service, and
financial growth since its inception. Most recently, the company has been voted
one of the Top 10 Best of Breed solutions for manufacturing by readers of
Consumer Goods Technology, listed in
Software Magazine's Top 500,
selected as a Top 100 Logistics Information Technology Provider in
Inbound Logistics, listed in the Top
100 Application Vendors in Supply Chain
e-Business, included in MSI's
Top 100 for its eighth year, and ranked as one of
Start magazine's Hottest Companies.
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