Leading UK Retailer Invests in Business Process Integration Solutions From Vitria
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John Lewis Partnership Makes Strategic Commitment To BusinessWare
CHICAGO, IL, GARTNER APPLICATION INTEGRATION AND WEB SERVICES CONFERENCE-October 28, 2002 - the leading provider of business process integration solutions, today announced that Waitrose, the supermarket trading arm of leading UK retailer the John Lewis Partnership, has selected Vitria`s BusinessWare® as its business process integration platform. It is part of a strategic move to create a more flexible information technology (IT) infrastructure to respond more rapidly to business change across its enterprise.
Waitrose plans to upgrade to BusinessWare 4, the new version of Vitria`s business process integration platform. The BusinessWare implementation will initially focus on the partnership`s Waitrose supermarkets, providing integration between the point of sale systems and a variety of head office systems. Waitrose will achieve a substantial return on investment (ROI) based on reduced integration costs across a wide range of IT projects.
"We operate in a highly competitive world and must be able to bring new initiatives to market in a timely and well-executed fashion. To achieve this we need an IT architecture that we can change quickly and effectively to support new processes and innovations," said Tessa Murray, head of Business Support Systems, Waitrose. "Vitria`s process-driven integration platform is a key element in our IT strategy for Waitrose, allowing us to develop solutions based increasingly on reusable components, giving us flexible solutions, faster development and easier, cheaper maintenance. BusinessWare will both cut our development costs and allow us to be much more responsive to business change."
"Visionary customers like John Lewis Partnership are leveraging business process integration solutions to grow their business and remain competitive," said JoMei Chang, president and chief executive officer, Vitria. "With the adoption of BusinessWare, John Lewis will become more agile, reduce costs, increase revenue and produce a clear return on investment."
Waitrose selected Vitria following an extensive competitive analysis. During the process, John Lewis developed a number of BusinessWare integration projects, including process management, analysis and usability. These projects were used to validate the projected ROI and detailed performance testing was successfully carried out with both Sun Microsystems and IBM. The adoption of BusinessWare as the Partnership`s integration standard for Waitrose has followed the successful completion of this pilot.
About Vitria
Vitria Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:VITR) is the leading provider of business process integration solutions. The company pioneered the enterprise application integration market in 1994 and the use of business process management in 1997, and is now the first integration solution provider to solve integration challenges through collaborative applications. With 35 offices around the world, Vitria`s customer base includes such companies as Bell South, The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, BP, DaimlerChrysler Bank, Dana, Generali, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, PacifiCare Health Systems, Reynolds and Reynolds, Schneider Logistics, Sprint, Trane, Trans Union, and The United States` Departments of Defense and Veteran`s Affairs. For more information call +1-408-212-2700, email info@vitria.com or visit www.vitria.com.
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