Giant Retailer Carrefour All For SeeBeyond's ICAN 5.0
11/17/2003
Carrefour, the world's second-largest retailer, and SeeBeyond, which says it is the provider of “the world's first integrated composite application network built on a comprehensive integration platform,” say Carrefour has selected the SeeBeyond Integrated Composite Application Network (ICAN) Suite 5.0 as its global standard for enterprise integration. The Carrefour-SeeBeyond multi-year agreement calls for the supply of software as well as consulting services around the globe.
Carrefour's strategy focuses on strengthening its market share by expanding the type of retailing best suited to the local market and taking advantage of the complementary nature of store formats.
“With SeeBeyond's unified and comprehensive standards-based integration solution, Carrefour will be able to achieve its strategic imperatives,” SeeBeyond says. “These focus on integrating thousands of stores, applications and partners in different countries, creating an integrated composite application network and leveraging past and current technology investments with the flexibility to change them over time.
“The SeeBeyond implementation will start with an international business-to-business project to replace the incumbent EDI VAN system on logistics, invoice, dispatch and inventory management between Carrefour and its suppliers, dramatically reducing costs and allowing for fast trading exchange growth. Other projects include integrating different heterogeneous applications within and between various country organizations, warehouses and stores, inside and outside the Company's boundaries.”
"Increasing agility and reducing risk and cost through integrated business process management is what SeeBeyond is all about," said Jean-Pierre Roux, Vice-President Continental Europe for SeeBeyond. "By partnering with SeeBeyond, Carrefour is investing in a company with a proud history of consistent technology leadership and an ability to execute global integration projects which is unmatched. We are proud to be working with this industry leader whose reputation for excellence is so aligned with our key focus areas."
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