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PeopleSoft, IBM join forces

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Kapil Dev Singh



SAN FRANSCISCO: At its Connect 2004 user conference, PeopleSoft Inc. and IBM announced they will establish the most significant enterprise applications alliance in the history of the two companies. As a part of the new alliance, PeopleSoft will standardize its industry leading applications on the market-leading IBM middleware platform, and both companies will market the joint solutions. PeopleSoft and IBM also announced they will collaborate to deliver new, pre-integrated industry solutions and establish the first business process interoperability lab.



The companies intend to execute a definitive agreement governing the alliance in Q4 2004 with a tentative investment plan of $1 billion over a period of 5 years.



The alliance combines the IBM Web Sphere platform, a widely installed, open standards-based middleware platform, with PeopleSoft's industry leading applications. This is expected to benefit customers by providing a platform with superior functionality and inherently more flexibility.



The alliance will focus on multiple dimensions of joint product development, marketing newer industry specific solutions and establishing a business process interoperability lab to drive integration & customization.



'Combining PeopleSoft's industry-leading applications with IBM's superior middleware provides customers with a significant opportunity to integrate business processes throughout their organization, leading them down the path to becoming an on demand business', said Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive, IBM Software Group.



Craig A. Conway, President & CEO of PeopleSoft, emphasized on PeopleSoft's commitment to developing and delivering flexible & adaptable applications rather than the underlying infrastructure. Explaining the Adaptable Business Process Architecture, which consists of the four layers of Strategic and Operational Plan, Business Process, Application & Infrastructure, Mr. Conway made PeopleSoft's future strategy very evident, and aligning with world leader IBM is a firm step towards that.



Rick Bergquist, Chief Technology Officer at PeopleSoft, defined the future roadmap of PeopleSoft products in terms of delivering Composite Applications based on Adaptable Business Applications Architecture. Composite applications include the essence of portal access, analytics, content, collaboration and ability to handle multiple channels of customer & supplier interface.





Kapil Dev Singh was hosted at Connect2004 in San Francisco by PeopleSoft Inc.

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