Milwaukee, WI – July 14, 2002 – Symmetry Corporation, the BASIS Experts, announced today that it has signed a strategic alliance agreement with Hayes Technology Group (HTG), of Gurnee, Illinois. Hayes Technology Group (HTG) is the author of "Project Gold Client", a selective client copy utility for SAP R/3®.
"Project Gold Client solves a major problem for our larger clients", said Dan Wilhelms, President of Symmetry Corporation. "Inherently, our client's Production systems grow out of sync with their development systems. Project Gold Client enables them to keep their landscape in sync, while saving hundreds of gigabytes of disk space".
"We developed Project Gold Client in response to real-life problem that most of our clients are experiencing", said Matthew Hayes, President of Hayes Technology Group. "With our tools, our clients were able to reduce the size of their non-Production client copies by 80%". "We have product-ized these utilities into Project Gold Client, a comprehensive set of products and services to streamline the R/3 client maintenance processes".
The alliance agreement between the two firms will enable Symmetry Corporation to resell Project Gold Client to its clients and prospects. The offerings include: licensing of the software utilities, implementation consulting services, and optionally, out-sourcing of Basis client maintenance services. HTG will provide sales support and on-going maintenance of the software.
Hayes Technology Group was founded by Matthew Hayes in 1998 and provides SAP R/3 Basis consulting services and products in support of several Fortune 500 corporations.
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.