Ascent Technology selects TaskCentre® for its solution portfolio

Monday 1st of November 2004

The UK’s largest Sage Line 500 reseller, Ascent Technology, has added an extra dimension to its customers’ ERP solutions by formalising a partnership with the international EDA (Event Driven Architecture) vendor, Orbis Software.

Following the company’s recent acquisition by CIBER Inc, Ascent Technology has added Orbis TaskCentre®, to its product portfolio to provide customers using its Sage solution with an additional level of pro-active business management.

Malcolm Jones, Marketing Director for Ascent Technology highlighted the rationale for the interest in Orbis TaskCentre®, “Ascent has become the leading supplier worldwide for Sage ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) products by providing systems based around the sage products and integrating them with a range of Ascent’s own software and third party applications to provide a complete solution for each customer. We were looking for a best of breed EDA solution which would sit on top of the core Sage business applications and deliver customers with the type of event driven business process automation that will help them manage their business more pro-actively. Orbis TaskCentre® will complement our existing Ascent Workflow product in this arena. “Our immediate objective is to demonstrate this leading edge technology to our UK customer base where we expect the adoption of this technology to be significant.”

To start the educational campaign, Ascent Technology will be running a series of seminars throughout December and the new year, to illustrate the capabilities of Business Process Automation technology and its importance in future IT projects.

Philip Smith, Managing Director for Orbis Software, added, “Ascent Technology is the UK’s largest Sage Line 500 reseller and this partnership represents a significant development in our Sage channel strategy. We are now providing additional resources to tighten our product range with all Sage products and Ascent Technology will be helping us in the Enterprise channel.”

Orbis Software

Orbis Software is the market leader in automation and alerting software, helping organisations drive efficiency through event-based automated business processes.

Founded in 1997, Orbis Software Ltd provides a scalable suite of applications to suit any size of organisation. There are more that 4000 organisations around the world already using Orbis products, including such names as Nasdaq, Telstar, BP, BDO Stoy Hayward, GE Capital Equipment, The Rank Group, Salomon Brothers, Zenith, BUPA, Jaguar, Lloyds TSB and Rolls Royce.

Ascent Technology

Ascent Technology has been providing information technology to business since 1982. The company focuses upon the provision of complete IT solutions using major third party applications such as Sage Line 500 and mySAP All-in-One ERP software. It also develops and distributes its own Ascent software applications providing solutions for Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Contact Centres in business environments as well as integrated customer interaction solutions for consumer markets.