Patricia Seybold Report Designates Divine as Extended [...]

📅 November 8, 2001 - divine, inc., (divine.com), an integrated solution providerfocused on the extended enterprise, was profiled in a research report issuedrecently by the Patricia Seybold Group (psgroup.com). In the report, Patricia Seybold designates divine as the company defining and primed to lead the extended enterprise category.

The report provides significant insight into divine's extended enterprisestrategy, detailing many of the acquisitions that divine made in 2001 andexplaining their significance in terms of divine's overall vision of helpingits customers evolve from a supply-centered model to a customer-centered,demand-driven marketplace.
"In today's market, corporations live and die on their ability to makedecisions quickly, and to streamline the flow of information through theirextended enterprises," says Seybold. "divine is clearly placing its bets onowning the extended enterprise category."
Seybold defines divine's market position as a full-service solutionsprovider for extended enterprises seeking to take advantage of net-nativearchitectures, and highlights divine's software-solutions focus in the areasof information sharing, collaboration and knowledge management.
"This report validates divine's role as a pioneer and powerhouse in theextended enterprise space," said divine chairman and CEO Andrew "Flip"Filipowski. "We are thrilled to gain the understanding and enthusiasticsupport of industry analysts as well respected as Patricia Seybold and weremain committed to helping our clients create a competitive advantage byleveraging all externally facing touch points through knowledgeoptimization, collaboration and customer interaction."
divine's extended enterprise strategy includes:
Net-native solutions that enable all of the extended enterprise fromcustomer-touching services; Full-service solutions that combine professional services, softwareservices and managed services; All the tools that organizations need to manage, evolve and deploytheir knowledge assets, including support for interaction and collaborationwith customers, colleagues and trading partners;A modern technology architecture that straddles Sun's J2EE andMicrosoft's .NET; andA mature sales and professional-services organization with deepunderstanding of vertical industries.