Data Return to Provide Hosting for MS Supplier Enablement Solution

📅 November 6, 2001 - Data Return (datareturn.com) today announced it has been selected to provide managed hosting services as part of the Microsoft Solution for Supplier Enablement. Targeting suppliers, this solution is meant to help Microsoft clients increase revenue and customer satisfaction, lower costs by improving operational efficiency and retain their competitive differentiation in the marketplace. The Microsoft offering solves suppliers' needs to electronically connect to their trading partners.

As part of its agreement with Microsoft Corp., Data Return will providemanaged infrastructure services for customers seeking a Supplier Enablementsolution. "As we worked with customers to develop the Microsoft Solution forSupplier Enablement, they told us they wanted a flexible solution whichaddressed their unique business needs, helped them reduce their operationalcosts and would provide increased business efficiencies," said Thomas Rizzo,group solutions manager, Microsoft Corp. "Data Return's managed hostingservices for Supplier Enablement applications, offering the MicrosoftSolution for Supplier Enablement and running on Microsoft .NET EnterpriseServers, provides an implementation choice for customers interested inutilizing the solution through a hosted configuration running on thereliable and scalable Microsoft server foundation."
Data Return's production-ready configurations for the Microsoft Solution forSupplier Enablement are delivered in 10 business days or less for any numberof servers with clustering technologies, an unprecedented delivery time for.NET Enterprise Server technologies. Many industry-leading companies useData Return to competently deploy Microsoft .NET technologies, testapplications prior to deployment, shorten implementation timeframes, quicklyscale application infrastructures and improve application-monitoringcapabilities.
Using the Microsoft Solution for Supplier Enablement, customers can employData Return's Scalability Center testing services to ensure theirapplications will perform as expected in a managed hosting infrastructure.At the Center's lab facilities, customers can test the design andperformance of complex electronic connection applications before deployingthem on the Internet. By reducing downtime, the company says companies cansave millions of dollars in potentially lost revenue, while significantlyimproving customer loyalty and their reputation with trading partners in ahighly competitive landscape.
In addition, the Customer Service Center (CSC) provides Supplier Enablementcustomers with a powerful online interface to Data Return's tools andproducts, enabling a more hands-on, interactive approach to managed hostingservices. Capabilities enabled by the CSC include performance monitoring,the ability to view event calendars and support tickets, invoice review,customized summary reports and easy access to key application and systeminformation.
"We are excited to be working with Microsoft to deliver a comprehensiveSupplier Enablement solution to the market," said Jason A. Lochhead, DataReturn CTO. "With Microsoft Solution for Supplier Enablement, we have takenour relationship with Microsoft's .NET Enterprise Server Product Developmentgroups to a greater level of integration, and we look forward to workingwith the team as we continue to deliver a higher standard of managed hostingto our joint customers."