SBYN Seebeyond Technology Corp (MM)

SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN) today announced that the UK's largest service and distribution organization, Nisa-Today's, has deployed the SeeBeyond Integrated Composite Application Network Suite (SeeBeyond ICAN Suite) as the backbone of its new application infrastructure. Supporting the replacement of a large number of core systems with several "best of breed" applications, the SeeBeyond suite has streamlined supply chain operations and optimized the Company's systems functionality. To maintain and enhance its competitive advantage in an ever-changing marketplace, Nisa-Today's identified the need for a new infrastructure to ensure fast, streamlined exchange of data between systems. As a result, it had to find the best way of seamlessly linking new applications with existing systems, many of which would ultimately be replaced. "With antiquated legacy systems running on a variety of different platforms, our existing infrastructure allowed very little flexibility and resulted in large amounts of support overhead," said Peter Walker, senior systems development manager at Nisa-Today's. "For example, numerous islands of duplicate information had evolved across our organization causing significant resource overhead in terms of data entry. It also limited the level of functionality we could offer our members in terms of pricing and promotional strategies." The Company's new application infrastructure is based around the Retek Merchandising System (RMS). This system is linked to a variety of other business applications, both old and new, including an online Order Capture System (OCS) developed specifically for Nisa-Today's by services firm, Enabler, and Nisa-Today's warehousing and distribution systems. For the project to be manageable, rollout of the new systems had to be gradual with functionality maintained throughout. As a Retek partner, SeeBeyond supports customers like Nisa-Today's through its eMerchant offering to help both maximize investments in Retek software through integration with legacy applications and reduce cost and time to market. "It is essential that any organization operates its supply chain in the most cost-efficient way possible and to do this they need to seamlessly integrate data across best-of-breed and legacy applications with guaranteed delivery," said Ian Hill, senior vice president and general manager, EMEA, SeeBeyond. "SeeBeyond has proven success in delivering this capability with an extensible solution suite that provides the flexibility, market-leading connectivity and reliability to streamline and manage supply chain operations." The new Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based infrastructure gives Nisa-Today's the ability to adopt a more flexible approach to pricing and promotions and enables the organization to enhance its existing services to members. For example, Nisa-Today's can now set prices individually for more than 6,000 stores, and can also offer targeted promotional offers to members who are willing to buy their goods in larger quantities. Ultimately, the new solution allows change to be implemented much quicker than before with minimal impact. For more information about SeeBeyond's solutions for Retail, please tune into the Company's recent webinar: http://www.seebeyond.com/webinars/webinarPreReg.asp?wid=1. About Enabler Enabler is one of the leading Retek and SeeBeyond international implementation partners. Enabler designs and delivers IT solutions to the retail and wholesale industry by combining leading edge technologies with its considerable retail and wholesale experience. In addition to Nisa-Today's, Enabler is proud to serve leading international retailers such as Tesco, Sonae, AVA, Esprit and Despar. For more information, please visit www.enabler.com. About SeeBeyond With more than 15 years of software innovation and real-world experience in integrating systems across Global 2000 organizations, SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN) delivers the industry's first integrated composite application network built on a comprehensive integration platform. The SeeBeyond(R) Integrated Composite Application Network Suite(TM) helps organizations rapidly assemble and deploy enterprise-scale end-user applications built on existing systems and infrastructure to dramatically improve business operations. SeeBeyond has more than 2,000 customers worldwide, including Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, BHP Billiton, The Cleveland Clinic, The Dial Corporation, DuPont, Florida Power & Light, Fujitsu, General Motors, Halliburton, Hertz Corporation, HP, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer, Samsung, Sprint and Sutter Health. For more information, please visit www.SeeBeyond.com. SeeBeyond is a registered trademark of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation in the United States and select foreign countries. SeeBeyond Integrated Composite Application Network Suite is a trademark of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation. The absence of a trademark from this list does not constitute a waiver of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation's intellectual property rights concerning that trademark. All other brands or product names are trademarks of their respective owners.