Vinculum Japan And webMethods Announce New Partnership For Helping Japanese Retailers And Suppliers Become Demand-Driven
Partnership Leverages webMethods Business Activity Monitoring Capabilities to Deliver Enhanced Operational Visibility and Predictability
TOKYO - April 24, 2006 Vinculum Japan Corporation (Jasdaq: 3784), a leading solution provider for the Japanese retail and wholesale industry, and webMethods K.K., a wholly owned subsidiary of webMethods, Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM), a leading business integration and optimization software company, today announced a new partnership for helping Japanese retailers and wholesalers further streamline their operations and improve their responsiveness so that they can become demand driven. Demand-driven enterprises are those that are operationally equipped to detect real-time changes in demand and are organizationally prepared to respond in a profitable manner.
Under the agreement, Vinculum Japan will build upon the significant functionality of webMethods business activity monitoring (BAM) capabilities to deliver real-time monitoring of business performance. By automating key business processes, retailers and wholesalers can realize greater efficiency and predictability from their operations, leading to improved customer service, faster time-to-market, better asset utilization and significant cost savings.
Beginning with service-oriented architecture as its basis, webMethods Fabric delivers a comprehensive array of tools for integrating disparate systems, managing complex business processes and proactively monitoring service levels from both an IT and business perspective with predictive analytics helping users anticipate and respond to real-time change. In particular, the BAM capabilities of webMethods Fabric are of significant interest to the Japanese retail market due to the sectors propensity for rapid change. The issues include numerous mergers and acquisitions, frequent changes and fluctuations in customer demand and product life cycles that are among the shortest in the world.
Through the use of BAM-based solutions, such as webMethods for Demand Fulfillment and webMethods for S&OP Planning, retailers and suppliers can more readily detect and respond to changes in demand. As a process-based solution, these offerings can deliver unprecedented, real-time insight into demand, allowing users to react to business changes as they occur instead of after the fact.
With its extensive system development and IT consulting experience spanning the entire Japanese retail sector, including supermarkets, department stores, restaurants and other retail businesses, Vinculum Japan offers webMethods and its customers significant domain knowledge for further customizing of webMethods Fabric to address the unique requirements of the Japanese market.
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Vinculum Japan Corporation
Vinculum Japan Corporation has extensive experience in providing information technology services to the retail and service industries. Vinculum Japan always thinks from the users viewpoint and offers total solutions with state-of-the-art technologies to solve customer problems. The company is under the umbrella of Fuji Soft ABC Inc, one of the largest Japanese solution providers, which gives Vinculum a technical advantage.
About webMethods, Inc.
webMethods (Nasdaq: WEBM) provides business integration software to integrate, assemble and optimize available IT assets to drive business process productivity. webMethods delivers an innovative, enterprise-class business integration platform that incorporates proven integration technology with next generation capabilities into one interoperable set of tools that delivers a unique combination of efficiency, agility and control. webMethods combines industry leadership with a zealous commitment to customers to deliver tangible business value to approximately 1,400 global customers. webMethods is headquartered in Fairfax, Va., with offices throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan.
The webMethods name and logo are registered trademarks of, and webMethods Fabric is a trademark of, webMethods, Inc. All other marks mentioned are trademarks or service marks of their respective companies.
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