NEWS
MarketSphere and ERP Suites Announce Partner Alliance
Alliance Provides End-to-End Services for Oracle Clients
Kansas City, MO – October 12, 2009 – MarketSphere Consulting LLC (“MarketSphere”) and Server Suites, LLC (“ERP Suites”) today announced a partner alliance that combines the shared strengths of each company specifically around the Oracle JD Edwards™ applications. Both firms serve a vast array of clients across a variety of industries and are considered trusted advisors to companies leveraging Oracle solutions and other technologies to improve business performance.
MarketSphere, founded in 2002, is a national business consulting firm with a broad range of advisory, enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise performance management (EPM), business intelligence (BI) and marketing solutions. An Oracle® PartnerNetwork Certified Advantage Partner and member of the Partner Advisory Council, MarketSphere provides extensive hands-on product expertise and deep functional and technical skills across Oracle’s ERP, EPM and BI offerings.
ERP Suites, founded in 2006, provides managed and technical services including technology foundations, hosting solutions, onshore developers, infrastructure consulting, managed services, database administration and disaster recovery. With specific emphasis on JD Edwards, ERP Suites implements, supports, manages and hosts the most advanced technology to best serve client business needs and protect their client’s information and data assets.
Together, MarketSphere and ERP Suites bring deep experience implementing JD Edwards EnterpriseOne™ and JD Edwards World™, as well as a comprehensive team for both project work and managed services support to their clients. The alliance will help clients’ better address end-to-end project requirements, from implementation to hosting, and leverage the partnership for application and technical managed solutions.
“Clients no longer need to navigate their vendor list to see who is responsible for a particular part of a project,” said Michael Moorman, chief executive officer of ERP Suites. “Together, we can do the internal navigation for our clients; whether its project work or support, they will get one team – one support system and less confusion. Furthermore, with MarketSphere’s experience across Oracle's family of products, we can offer a variety of new solutions to our clients.”
“The alliance with ERP Suites will allow us to continue to focus on delivering successful JD Edwards implementations, as well as create an all-inclusive solution for each of our customer’s managed services and hosting needs.” said Steve Sestak, chief executive officer of MarketSphere. “We can now offer our clients’ broader hosting solutions to ensure their system is fully functional and operational. This will allow our client’s to concentrate on their core business activities.”
“The alliance of MarketSphere and ERP Suites represents an excellent opportunity for organizations to leverage the industry's leading software platform, Oracle. Both partners provide knowledge, experience and insight to help organizations improve business performance utilizing Oracle technologies," says Dan Scheib, Vice President North America Alliance & Channels, Commercial Applications, Oracle.
EVENTS
Tri-State KOI (Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana) User Group Meeting
Friday, February 12, 2010
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April 18-22, 2010
Mandalay Bay Resort & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
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