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UNIT4 Creates Hybrid Computing Division and Achieves Highest Security Level for Cloud Services
Leading Mid-market ERP Provider Backs Hybrid as the Future for Enterprise IT
SLIEDRECHT, The Netherlands, November 17, 2010/PRNewswire/ -- UNIT4, the world's leading provider of ERP and financial management
software for fast changing organizations, today announced the formation of a
corporate Hybrid Computing division dedicated to delivering services that mix
on-premise, private and shared cloud services for Businesses Living in
Change.
UNIT4 Hybrid Computing is the service provider behind UNIT4's Agresso
Business World and CODA Financials cloud deployment options for customers
around the world. Clients pay per use and have one point of contact for
service levels, billing, contracts and support irrespective of how their
solutions are physically deployed.
UNIT4 is seeing growing interest in its cloud services and recently
achieved the highest security certification from the British Standards
Institute: ISO 27001. ISO 27001 is an international best practice standard
for information security and proves that UNIT4 Hybrid Computing meets the
security requirements of the Code of Practice for Security Management. The
standard specifies requirements for the identification, execution, control
and improvement of documented Information Security Management Systems
covering business risks.
"We have recognized for some time that most clients, especially medium
and large organizations, want to take a hybrid approach to cloud computing,"
said Ton Dobbe, VP Product Management, UNIT4. "They want some specific
applications or functions to be delivered via a hosted or cloud service to
give them flexibility in areas that may have unpredictable demand, for
example, or need particularly high availability and uptime. But they also
have many questions about the security of data and processes. Organizations
want to be sure that their data is secure, which is why UNIT4 aimed to
achieve the highest possible certification. Besides a hosted or cloud
service, organizations inevitably have specific areas that make more sense to
keep in house. Companies should exploit technology that gets the most out of
existing core IT infrastructures and enables them to adapt quickly to
external drivers, which a hybrid approach readily facilitates."
About UNIT4
UNIT4 (http://www.unit4.com) is a global business software and services
company aimed at helping dynamic organizations to embrace change simply,
quickly and cost effectively in a market sector it calls 'Businesses Living
IN Change' (BLINC)(TM). The Group incorporates a number of the world's
leading change embracing software brands including Agresso Business World and
CODA financial management software.
Agresso Business World (
http://www.unit4.com/Products/agresso-business-world) is our flagship ERP
suite for mid-sized services intensive organizations. It is widely
acknowledged for delivering ongoing, post-implementation changes without the
typical external IT costs and services that cost firms huge sums of money
each year. This is achieved thanks to its powerful VITA(TM) architecture
which is unmatched in the ERP world.
CODA Financials (http://www.unit4.com/Products/CODA) is our
award-winning suite of best-of-class financial management software designed
to integrate with your industry- and company-specific applications. CODA's
LINK(TM) architecture sets it apart from ordinary accounting systems by
providing a financial information backbone for companies with fast-changing
and mixed application environments. It is a global accounting solution for
mid-to large sized organizations, offering a "no compromise" approach to
financial modeling, process control and application choice. UNIT4 is a top
six mid-market ERP software player globally and the 2nd largest European ERP
supplier. With offices in 17 European countries, as well as 7 countries
across North America, Asia Pacific and Africa and sales activities in several
other countries, a revenue of EUR379.4 million was realized in 2009. UNIT4 is
headquartered in Sliedrecht, the Netherlands. The company has 4,160
employees.
UNIT4 is listed on Euronext Amsterdam by NYSE Euronext and is included in
the Amsterdam Midcap Index (AMX). For more information on UNIT4 or any of its
operating companies, please visit the website at http://www.unit4.com.
For more information, please visit: http://www.unit4.com, or contact:
Emma Hoyle
Group PR Manager
UNIT4
+44-1423-537-977
emma.hoyle@unit4.com
Source: UNIT4
Emma Hoyle, Group PR Manager, UNIT4, +44-1423-537-977, emma.hoyle@unit4.com
UNIT4 Creates Hybrid Computing Division and Achieves Highest Security Level for Cloud Services
Leading Mid-market ERP Provider Backs Hybrid as the Future for Enterprise IT
SLIEDRECHT, The Netherlands, November 17, 2010/PRNewswire/ -- UNIT4, the world's leading provider of ERP and financial management
software for fast changing organizations, today announced the formation of a
corporate Hybrid Computing division dedicated to delivering services that mix
on-premise, private and shared cloud services for Businesses Living in
Change.
UNIT4 Hybrid Computing is the service provider behind UNIT4's Agresso
Business World and CODA Financials cloud deployment options for customers
around the world. Clients pay per use and have one point of contact for
service levels, billing, contracts and support irrespective of how their
solutions are physically deployed.
UNIT4 is seeing growing interest in its cloud services and recently
achieved the highest security certification from the British Standards
Institute: ISO 27001. ISO 27001 is an international best practice standard
for information security and proves that UNIT4 Hybrid Computing meets the
security requirements of the Code of Practice for Security Management. The
standard specifies requirements for the identification, execution, control
and improvement of documented Information Security Management Systems
covering business risks.
"We have recognized for some time that most clients, especially medium
and large organizations, want to take a hybrid approach to cloud computing,"
said Ton Dobbe, VP Product Management, UNIT4. "They want some specific
applications or functions to be delivered via a hosted or cloud service to
give them flexibility in areas that may have unpredictable demand, for
example, or need particularly high availability and uptime. But they also
have many questions about the security of data and processes. Organizations
want to be sure that their data is secure, which is why UNIT4 aimed to
achieve the highest possible certification. Besides a hosted or cloud
service, organizations inevitably have specific areas that make more sense to
keep in house. Companies should exploit technology that gets the most out of
existing core IT infrastructures and enables them to adapt quickly to
external drivers, which a hybrid approach readily facilitates."
About UNIT4
UNIT4 (http://www.unit4.com) is a global business software and services
company aimed at helping dynamic organizations to embrace change simply,
quickly and cost effectively in a market sector it calls 'Businesses Living
IN Change' (BLINC)(TM). The Group incorporates a number of the world's
leading change embracing software brands including Agresso Business World and
CODA financial management software.
Agresso Business World (
http://www.unit4.com/Products/agresso-business-world) is our flagship ERP
suite for mid-sized services intensive organizations. It is widely
acknowledged for delivering ongoing, post-implementation changes without the
typical external IT costs and services that cost firms huge sums of money
each year. This is achieved thanks to its powerful VITA(TM) architecture
which is unmatched in the ERP world.
CODA Financials (http://www.unit4.com/Products/CODA) is our
award-winning suite of best-of-class financial management software designed
to integrate with your industry- and company-specific applications. CODA's
LINK(TM) architecture sets it apart from ordinary accounting systems by
providing a financial information backbone for companies with fast-changing
and mixed application environments. It is a global accounting solution for
mid-to large sized organizations, offering a "no compromise" approach to
financial modeling, process control and application choice. UNIT4 is a top
six mid-market ERP software player globally and the 2nd largest European ERP
supplier. With offices in 17 European countries, as well as 7 countries
across North America, Asia Pacific and Africa and sales activities in several
other countries, a revenue of EUR379.4 million was realized in 2009. UNIT4 is
headquartered in Sliedrecht, the Netherlands. The company has 4,160
employees.
UNIT4 is listed on Euronext Amsterdam by NYSE Euronext and is included in
the Amsterdam Midcap Index (AMX). For more information on UNIT4 or any of its
operating companies, please visit the website at http://www.unit4.com.
For more information, please visit: http://www.unit4.com, or contact:
Emma Hoyle
Group PR Manager
UNIT4
+44-1423-537-977
emma.hoyle@unit4.com
Source: UNIT4
Emma Hoyle, Group PR Manager, UNIT4, +44-1423-537-977, emma.hoyle@unit4.com