Back Bay Technologies (“BBT”), a member of the Zanett Inc. (“Zanett”) IT Commonwealth, today announced it has expanded its partnership with Sun Microsystems to provide strategic assessments and custom-built solutions architected on the Sun Java Enterprise System for organizations in the capital markets, insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing industries.
Additionally, Back Bay Technologies has been appointed to the Sun National Advisory Council, a group of U.S. channel partners that advises Sun on its partner policies and programs and is instrumental in driving major changes and process improvements across Sun.
“We are proud to have a consulting and integration firm such as Back Bay hold a seat on our council,” said Greg Stroud, vice president of Sun iForce Channels. “The value proposition of the Sun-Back Bay partnership is compelling. Coupled with BBT’s strategic planning capability, industry acumen, and systems integration best practices, Sun’s Java Enterprise System can reduce time to market and deliver measurable results to our mutual clients.”
Proven Success Utilizing the Sun and BBT Platform
BBT is working with customers in the capital markets, insurance, healthcare, and manufacturing industries using the Java Enterprise System – the strategic underpinning of Sun’s software strategy which provides an integrated, open software system that delivers a core set of industry-leading shared enterprise network services delivered on a predictable schedule at an affordable price. Customer successes include:
— Capital Markets – a broker/dealer self-service portal for a leading investment management firm which dramatically reduced call center costs and greatly improved broker loyalty. By consolidating the majority of its middleware software on the Java Enterprise System, BBT estimates the investment firm will lower its annual spending on e-commerce systems and software by over a million dollars, and after accounting for all migration costs, achieve an internal rate of return of over 100 percent with a break-even period of fifteen months.
— Insurance – a new business workbench which enabled straight through processing and drastically reduced underwriting cycle times – from 60 to 15 days – thus allowing the carrier to capture significant additional premium.
— Manufacturing – a supply chain portal which sharply reduced inventory costs while boosting vendor intelligence.
Back Bay Provides Assessment and Implementation Services for Java Enterprise System
BBT is a leader in bringing the Java Enterprise System to market, and has developed and refined a series of enterprise architecture assessment, business case definition, and roadmap creation tools to help clients measure the technical and financial value of adopting and deploying the Java Enterprise System in their organizations. BBT’s tools and professional services reflect total cost of ownership – including software and hardware expenses, process change, training requirements, organizational impacts, operational modifications, and cost of capital – to ensure accurate and achievable business cases. Based on the specific needs of customers, BBT creates pragmatic strategies and return on investment analyses to justify system development, determines the right mix of vendor software, and defines future-state architectures and applications to give clients enhanced competitive advantage.
“Sun’s commitment to software is a strong one. Pricing of Java Enterprise System at $100 per employee – as opposed to by CPU – is fundamentally changing how our customers are buying system software,” said Marc Maselli, chief executive officer at Back Bay Technologies. “The Java Enterprise System provides a robust platform upon which to build applications which address our customers’ unique business challenges. Our assessment, planning, and architecture services help customers determine which products and timing are best and deliver their applications with minimal risk.”
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