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Volume 6, Number 28 -- July 18, 2006

English Consultancy Taps EXTOL for OS/400 Integration Software

Published: July 18, 2006

by Alex Woodie

EXTOL, a developer of OS/400 integration software, announced last week that it has been selected as a strategic solution provider by Kingsley IT Consulting, an English technical consultancy that specializes in high availability and business integration needs.

Kingsley IT picked EXTOL for several reasons, explains Austen Deane, Technical Director of Kingsley IT, which serves England and Ireland. "The EXTOL business integration platform offers our customers a ready-to-use set of applications their existing IT teams can use to take advantage of market opportunities as well as customer demands," Deane says. "These include EDI requirements going beyond the X12 and EDIFACT-based exchange of transactions to a more collaborative business model. As well, our customers require a robust internal integration solution to improve business efficiency, order, forecast and inventory accuracy, and elimination of custom coded interfaces that are the main roadblock to business agility and responsiveness."

Dennis Bonagura, President and COO of Pennsylvania-based EXTOL, expects regulatory compliance to be a driver of EXTOL's software at Kingsley. "Integration is not about IT efficiency," Bonagura says. "Business integration lets a company align its business processes, application functionality and customer, supplier and partner relationships as a whole, in order to achieve specific business results. Often the results are compliance with a customer or industry initiative or specific business opportunity."

Kingsley IT also partners with Lakeview Technology for high availability software.



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Editor: Alex Woodie
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