Milwaukee, WI – April 21, 2003 – Symmetry Corporation, "The BASIS Experts", announced today the launch of SymSoft Corporation, a related Corporate entity dedicated to marketing its own and 3rd party software tools and utilities to SAP customers.
"SymSoft answers a need in the SAP market place", said Bill Connelly, Director of Customer Relationship Management for SymSoft." "As a long time player in the SAP market, we have gotten to know several excellent SAP related tools and utilities developed by firms with limited marketing capabilities."
"SymSoft is a natural complement to Symmetry Corporation", said Dan Wilhelms, President of Symmetry and SymSoft Corporations. "Symmetry will continue to focus on its mission of being "The Basis Experts", and SymSoft will focus on marketing high-value software tools and utilities. Together, the two entities provide an extensive range of services and products that will reduce our customer's cost of SAP ownership and streamline their on-going technical operations."
"With a dedicated sales organization leveraging Symmetry's extensive market presence, SymSoft allows me to focus my internal resources on developing better product and supporting our clients", said Matt Hayes of Hayes Technology Group. "Our Project Gold Client software enables our customers to perform a selective client copy of their Production environment, saving hundreds of gigabytes of disk per copy. SymSoft gets our message out."
Initially, SymSoft will represent 4 software products: Its own Q-TMS, transport automation tool; Project Gold Client; Virsa Risk Assessment Tool for R/3 security segregation of duties compliance and mitigation from Virsa Systems; and Exception Manager from Y.O.E.X, a sales and distribution utility expediting sales order exception processing. Additional products will be evaluated and signed on based on proven success, demonstrable ROI and natural complement to the overall service offerings.
A sister company to Symmetry Corporation, "The Basis Experts", SymSoft focuses on marketing high-value software tools and utilities to the SAP marketplace. SymSoft also represents 6 other software products: Its own Q-TMSSM, transport audit tool; Project Gold Client®, selective client copy tools from Hayes Technology Group; Compliance CalibratorTM for R/3 security segregation of duties compliance and mitigation from Virsa Systems; RapidPro SuiteTM, automated ABAP/4 performance tuning tools; Exception ManagerTM, from Y.O.E.X., a sales and distribution utility expediting sales order exception processing; and DBShadow® database mirroring software for High Availability and Disaster Recovery.