| Wed 28 Feb 2001, 0:00 | | Idion's Us Subsidiary Vision Solutions Announces S |
|
IDION Technology Holdings Ltd
IDION's US subsidiary Vision Solutions announces successes at IBM's
PartnerWorld 2001
IBM relationship, and new customers, partners, products, services
and executive team members highlighted
Vision Solutions, a leader in information availability management, announced
several recent company successes at IBM's PartnerWorld 2001, the premier event
gathering all IBM Business Partners. Vision Solutions, IDION's US subsidiary,
is an IBM Premier Business Partner and a member of IBM's B2B Team that provides
information availability management solutions - software to ensure that
company's mission-critical data is always available, no matter what.
Vision continues to build strong partnerships and business relationships and to
deliver product innovations and enhanced customer service offerings. Together
these successes are propelling the company into unrivaled industry leadership.
IBM Relationship
Vision Solutions has enjoyed a long working relationship with IBM. Its Vision
Suite is one of the most recommended and widely deployed solutions for high
availability, disaster recovery and continuous operations on the IBM iSeries
(AS/400). As a result of this relationship, Vision Solutions is an IBM Premier
Business Partner, as well as a B2B Team Member. Additionally, the company is
deeply involved in new product and technology innovations being developed by
IBM. Vision Solutions' information availability management software was chosen
to demonstrate prototype clustering features at PartnerWorld.
New Partners and Customers
Vision Solutions has signed a significant number of new partners and continues
to attract new customers. A recently forged partnership with Crede Experto, an
international bank consulting company, expanded Vision Solutions' presence to
include its Crede Experto/E-Bus Labs Deutschland GmbH in Germany.
Jiri Sandanus, Managing Director at Crede Experto/E-Bus Labs Deutschland GmbH
in Germany said, "Banking clients are very concerned about security. So we
recognised very quickly the demand for a high-quality solution to offer our
customers. Vision Solutions is the most scalable and technically advanced
solution available."
Vision Solutions continues to make strides with new customers as well, with 44
percent of Fortune 100 companies currently relying on Vision Solutions'
information availability management software, according to a recent study
conducted by Dun & Bradstreet. Vision Solutions has sold more than 4,000
licenses in more than 40 countries, and boasts more than 1,500 customers.
New Data Sharing Product - SYMBIATOR v. 3.0
Vision Solutions is enhancing its offering of information availability
management products. It will debut a new data-sharing product on March 15 -
SYMBIATOR v. 3.0. This new product provides the link between databases and
hardware platforms, helping to facilitate the exchange of information critical
to the business of today's enterprises.
SYMBIATOR v. 3.0 has a cross-industry focus; it can be used in any environment
where there is a need to share data between disparate, or non-disparate,
systems or databases. It enables bi-directional, cross-platform sharing of
data between e-commerce servers, data warehouses/datamarts or application
servers across databases including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Progress Software,
Informix and Sybase. SYMBIATOR v. 3.0 is a powerful, scalable tool that can
bridge multiple relational databases with heterogeneous environments for access
to mission- and business-critical data.
New Customer Care Services
Vision Solutions is debuting its Customer Care Response Center - a
comprehensive, relationship-focused version of the company's former Technical
Support Center - as part of the company's Professional Services department.
After surveying its customers to determine what the group most valued -
empathy, relationships, responsiveness, and proactive services/support - Vision
Solutions adjusted the focus of its support services and re-named the
department to reflect the changes. The Customer Care Response Center will
establish ongoing services and support relationships with its customers.
Additionally, Vision Solutions' Professional Services Group will expand its
existing educational offerings by adding several new career development tracks
for partners and customers, including many in conjunction with the debut of
SYMBIATOR v. 3.0.
New Energy in Executive Team
As part of Vision Solutions' focus on rejuvenation, this year the company
formed a seasoned management team, with members offering an average of 18 years
of experience at companies such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Arthur Andersen
and Ernst & Young.
The Vision management team is headed up by Nicolaas Vlok as CEO, responsible
for the overall strategy. Other members of the Vision Solutions team include
Tim Keithahn, Chief Financial Officer, David Peterson, Chief Operations
Officer, Rean Pretorius, Executive Vice President of Sales, Alan Arnold,
Executive Vice President of Engineering, Rob Dobson, Executive Vice President
of Marketing and Business Development, and Denny Mack, Executive Vice President
of Professional Services and CustomerCare. Dave McLelland, co-founder of
Vision Solutions, is Chief Architect, and Dave Brown is Chief Scientist.
Nicolaas Vlok, Chief Executive Officer of IDION Technology Holdings commented,
"We have built a solid financial and management foundation that will vault us
into even greater growth in 2001. Information is only valuable if it is
available. We are continuing to expand the possibilities of information
availability management and the digitally connected world by developing new
ways to empower our customers with great software that makes information
available at any time, in any place and on any device. Vision Solutions is
committed to providing rock-solid technology to keep up with the demands of the
world's enterprises. We're pleased to see the results of our hard work in
strong new customers and partners, and a continuing strong relationship with
IBM."
Enquiries: 28 February 2001
IDION Technology Holdings Tel: 011 517 1500
Corne Arnold - Corporate Communications
College Hill Tel: 011 447 3030
Tom Allison
Julia Kerr
About Vision Solutions
Vision Solutions provides software to ensure that company's mission-critical
data is always available. Vision Solutions is an IBM Premier Business Partner,
and its Vision Suite is one of the most recommended and widely deployed
solutions for high availability, disaster recovery, and continuous operations
on the IBM iSeries (AS/400). Vision Solutions is a member of the IDION group
of companies. For more information about Vision Solutions, please visit the
company's website at www.visionsolutions.com.
About IDION Technology Holdings Limited
IDION was founded in 1994 and listed on the JSE in 1998. Vision Solutions and
IDION Business Solutions Group are wholly owned subsidiaries of IDION
Technology Holdings. For more information about IDION, please visit the
company's website at www.idion.com
-ENDS-
