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Unify Corporation has added a news release to its Investor Relations website.
Title: Unify Customer Symphony Group Wins Best Use of Technology Award in Regional Finals of UK National Business Awards
Date: 9/21/2004 8:10:00 AM
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SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 2004--Unify
Corporation (OTC BB:UNFY) today announced that Symphony Group, an
established customer of Unify in the UK, has won the "Best Use of
Technology" Award in the North East regional finals of the National
Business Awards.
Symphony Group, the largest privately owned furniture provider in
the UK, won the award for its innovative Extranet, which was developed
using Unify VISION Internet Integrator. Designed as part of a business
strategy to make it easier for customers to do business with Symphony,
the Extranet enables retailers, house builders and housing authorities
to track and review quotations, drawings and orders throughout the
business process.
Acknowledged by The Chancellor of the Exchequer as the UK's
"Business Oscars," The National Business Awards have been established
to reward and recognize the importance of national and regional
business excellence to the success of UK.
The judges appoint the Best Use of Technology Award to the
organization that can best demonstrate that it has effectively used
business technology to create a significant and exploitable
competitive or operational advantage in any business area including
revenue, improved quality and/or customer convenience. Evidence is
required of a well thought-through and executed strategy, addressing
not only the deployment of the technology, but also its effective
uptake by employees and stakeholders.
Symphony's IT Manager Ruth Rew said that the Extranet helped
customers by delivering real-time information relevant to all areas of
a particular order or service, freeing up time that would previously
have been occupied with telephone inquiries.
"We are the first company in the industry to provide a service
like this and client feedback shows that the Extranet is a very
welcome addition to Symphony's kit of customer service tools, so we're
delighted that it has been recognized in this way," said Rew. "The
benefits are very tangible and the only requirement on the user's
behalf is to have access to a PC and Internet browser."
Symphony chose Unify VISION Internet Integrator to develop the
Extranet because of its high development productivity and superb
database performance.
"We have been using Unify products since 1988 and have always been
impressed by the ease of use and performance of the application
development tools," said Rew. "We first started using Internet
Integrator in 2000 to develop mobile computing applications for our
sales force and found it very easy to learn and use, so it was the
obvious choice for the Extranet project."
"We are delighted that The Symphony Group's business innovation
and technical excellence has been recognized in this way," stated
Clive Radford, Unify's director of sales, UK and Distribution East.
"Their Extranet demonstrates how businesses can exploit IT to deliver
premium customer service and gain sustainable competitive advantage."
Symphony now goes on to compete against nine other companies in
the national finals later this year.
About The Symphony Group
Established in 1971, The Symphony Group is the UK's largest
privately-owned furniture manufacturer. Its annual turnover in 2003
was over GBP 105 million. With two large manufacturing plants in Leeds
and Rotherham, both in northern England, and a small bespoke
manufacturing complex in Nottingham, the group services customers
throughout the UK, as well as a growing worldwide export market.
Symphony markets its fitted kitchen, bathroom and bedroom furniture to
three main sectors: house builders, housing associations and
retailers. For more information visit www.symphony-group.co.uk.
About Unify
Unify develops and markets Unify NXJ, a solution unmatched in its
speed to develop and deploy enterprise Web applications. Mid-sized to
large enterprises turn to Unify for need-it-yesterday solutions, where
business success is often defined as "how fast can you act and how
fast do you react" with quickly deployed applications. Unify's
customers include ASI, Cast & Crew Entertainment, Inc., Credit
Lyonnais, Citigroup Inc., Documentum, Fox Racing, GE Healthcare,
GlaxoSmithKline, Heineken, PCN, Pinnacol Assurance, Pioneer Natural
Resources, Pioneer Electronics and TravelCenters of America. Founded
in 1980, Unify is headquartered in Sacramento, Calif. with offices in
the U.K., France and Australia, in addition to a worldwide network of
distributors. Visit Unify at www.unify.com.
CONTACT: Unify Corporation
Deb Thornton, 916-928-6379
deb@unify.com
SOURCE: Unify Corporation
