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Monday 7th April 2003
ComponentSource grows expert international sales-force promoting large-scale software reuse platform ComponentSource SAVE-IT
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This should be win-win scenario for ComponentSource and its partners.
For ComponentSource it leverages some of the leading practitioners of CBD to help them expand the market for SAVE-IT, without having to grow their own organization. Though with the exception of Select they are small organizations, they bring best practices and a high degree of maturity in CBD. For the partners, SAVE-IT delivers an excellent reuse management capability for them to take to their customers who have already adopted CBD, and for future engagements.
ComponentSource claim they hand-picked these partners from a number of organizations who had expressed interest in the programme and will announce only 2 or 3 more partners to increase their geographical spread. Their objective is to find partners who truly understand CBD and Reuse to ensure the successfully implementation of SAVE-IT, and not partners who are interesting just in selling the catalog capability or software components. That said, ComponentSource will no doubt welcome SAVE-IT customers taking advantage of the catalog of components on offer. This program complements an OEM version of SAVE-IT already delivered via other large partners.
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ComponentSource has announced a number of strategic partnerships to increase the sales-force for its large-scale reuse solution SAVE-IT in the European, Asia-Pacific and North American regions.
Component-based development consultancy and training companies, Everware, ICS Solutions, Select Business Solutions and Trireme International are among the first selected companies to sign-up to resell SAVE-IT under ComponentSource’s newly launched Value Added Reseller (VAR) program.
Under the terms of the VAR program companies with a specialist focus on component and Web services based development and reuse practices, are able to increase their existing revenue opportunities by introducing ComponentSource SAVE-IT, a mature Web services based solution and approach for the large-scale reuse of software assets, to their customer base. VAR program partners receive a percentage of the licensing fees charged for SAVE-IT dependent on the additional services they may offer.
SAVE-IT customers are typically large geographically dispersed organizations looking for centralized control and multiple secure views over their software assets. As a hosted Web services based infrastructure and reuse process, SAVE-IT offers ‘scalable total cost of ownership’ integrating with existing tools, installed repositories and development methodologies to ensure minimal disruption to the development environment. SAVE-IT furthermore offers a holistic view and access to the software asset universe within an organization as well as over 10,000 commercial off-the-shelf components available on the open market.
Accredited with ComponentSource’s highest level of partnership, Enterprise Tier, SAVE-IT partners enjoy varying terms of engagement:
• Everware, a leading consultancy and training firm focused on J2EE development, will add ComponentSource’s SAVE-IT Web services reuse infrastructure (SAVE-IT Catalog) and organizational model for reuse, SAVE-IT Process, to the list of professional services offered to customers in North America looking for a return on their Java investment. Everware has over eight years extensive experience architecting, constructing and delivering mission critical componentized solutions for a broad customer-base in state and federal government as well as within sectors such as logistics and financial services.
• ICS Solutions, a leading software development and services-based organization targeting Microsoft managed enterprise accounts across sectors, will offer customized SAVE-IT Catalog implementations to its FTSE 100 UK customer-base. Moreover ICS Solutions is a licensed customer of SAVE-IT Catalog which it uses to describe and expose over 500 pre-built reusable assets that exist within Microsoft’s .NET server range as an additional service for their customer-base.
• Select Business Solutions, formerly AONIX, a leading component based development and reuse design company, has a substantial outreach of professional services focused on software development and easing the transition to Web services architectures throughout Europe and North America. The company will offer SAVE-IT Catalog to provide a scalable best of breed large-scale reuse solution for existing customers of Select Component Manager.
• Trireme International, a leading consultancy specializing in development process, software engineering and training will offer SAVE-IT Catalog to large dispersed customer organizations as part of its Reuse and Component Based Development adoption programs. Trireme’s team of expert consultants includes Alan Cameron Wills, co-author of the industry acclaimed Catalysis approach, and Ian Graham, a widely published expert in Software Development Methodology. Trireme has an extensive Global 2000 customer base across Europe and Asia-Pacific regions. |
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