EDS and SlaterLabs Building Global Partnership.
Partnership to cover marketing, sales and professional support services for the SlaterLabs family of Etude based offerings: Etude™, the Etude Programme™ and Etude-Virtuoso™
LONDON, 12 July 2007 ¾
SlaterLabs Inc. and EDS, the leading global technology services
company, today announced they are building a global partnership for
joint marketing, sales and professional support services for The
Etude Programme™ and SlaterLabs innovative, fully Internet delivered
Etude-Virtuoso™ Banking System. Etude-Virtuoso™ allows customers to
evaluate on-line, purchase, implement and upgrade Etude™ entirely
over the internet – a major breakthrough in the sale and delivery of
mission critical banking systems.
Under the partnership, EDS will be offering Etude™, the first
banking system built on Microsoft’s .NET Framework, to its global
customer base of financial institutions. Etude™ affords its
community of users increased levels of operational excellence
through faster time-to-market of banking products and services,
value-added customer intelligence capabilities, industry-leading
economies of scale, and the reliability and scalability of
Microsoft’s .NET Framework. Through its innovative sales and
software delivery model, together with the company’s network of tier
one technology and professional services partners, SlaterLabs has
positioned itself as the first banking software manufacturer capable
of simultaneously reaching its global target market by fully
leveraging the strengths of the Internet.
“There is strong demand for a next-generation banking system amongst
our global financial services client base. We see tremendous
potential in the development and deployment of a banking system
delivered through sophisticated new channels, and based on
Microsoft’s .NET Framework," says Jim Scurlock, Vice President,
Global Financial Services Industry, EDS. “This partnership will
allow our financial services customers immediate and continuous
access to the latest advancements in banking application software.
We are very excited at the opportunity to fulfil the large market
demand with the Etude Programme™ and Etude-Virtuoso™.”
“Etude-Virtuoso™ is a market-changing breakthrough. By adding the
recognition and support from EDS, our Company is further positioned
to more efficiently deliver our software products to an even broader
customer base worldwide,” says John Slater, Chairman and CEO,
SlaterLabs. “We’ve been able to announce a number of significant
milestones recently including Bank J.Van Breda joining the
Programme, and we are looking forward to working with EDS to
maximize our market potential.”