ARCHIVE 2003

Aldata enters into strategic alliance with EDS

Aldata today announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with EDS, the leading global service firm, whereby Aldata and EDS will jointly promote Aldata’s G.O.L.D. supply chain management software and services to EDS clients in the consumer goods industry.

Under the terms of the agreement, Aldata will provide G.O.L.D. supply chain software and EDS will provide consulting, integration and project related services. Concentrating initially on the retail and wholesale consumer goods markets in North America, the agreement covers full collaboration at the technical, functional, project and support levels. Each company will complement the other's offering to ensure successful implementation and deployment for customers at both the application and overall project levels.

As a part of the agreement, a competence and skills transfer will be effected, in which Aldata will train key EDS personnel in G.O.L.D. software and methods and, in parallel, EDS will deploy and resource a G.O.L.D. competence center, initially in the United States, for demonstration, integration and support purposes. EDS will also actively contribute in ongoing and future G.O.L.D. projects and source specific service requirements where necessary.

According to Aldata’s President and CEO, Jarmo Kalliola, the agreement is a significant step to Aldata to the US market, which covers 59 % of the total retail software markets (IDC). ‘’ The alliance with EDS secures an equal position for Aldata with the local competitors, and we will be able to join sharing out the growing supply chain software markets ‘’ says Kalliola. Aldata believes that the agreement will bring net sales and profit already this year and help Aldata to reach its objective to become one of the major players in the retail software markets.