StarPound Technologies Announces New Partnership with Cirrugistics: Bringing On-Demand Logistics Solutions to Third Party Logistics Providers (3PL's)
Online, January 26, 2011 (Newswire.com) - StarPound Technologies, an open-source solution provider that streamlines the way businesses electronically interact, communicate and operate, announces its formal partnership with Atlanta-based Cirrugistics, a provider of on-demand supply chain solutions for critical industries.
This partnership marks the culmination of months of research and joint development on an advanced suite of technologies that are oriented at solving some of the supply chain's most vexing challenges. Through the partnership, Cirrugistics will leverage their deep expertise in supply chain along with StarPound's advanced technology and development platform to augment and further develop critical supply chain solutions that tackle problems such as order execution, order visibility, and inventory control.
The partnership will focus first on third party logistics providers (3PLs) that would immediately benefit from Cirrugistics on-demand software solutions that facilitate coordinated communication amongst the numerous stakeholders that are present in an outsourced logistics service offering. Kelsey Hughes, Cirrugistics Marketing Director, commented, "We fundamentally believe that as the market for outsourced logistics continues to grow the necessity to tie the various stakeholder together in meaningful communication, and with near real time order visibility, will be paramount. The partnership of these two companies ensures that this vision can be realized for companies both big and small that are struggling with these types of operational dilemmas. Most importantly, to the end consumer of these services they can pay for the capability on a transactional, on-demand basis as opposed to making a significant upfront capital investment which sometimes is the key limiting factor in deployments."
The fruits of this partnership have already been realized with the formal launch of its first Fortune-50 customer in the late 2nd Quarter.
Robert Shoe, Vice President of StarPound, states "This partnership will allow StarPound and Cirrugistics to each focus on their core competencies and obtain real, quantifiable wins for supply chain organizations looking to make the leap to the "cloud". The flexibility of our platform allows us to comprehensively address key process and operational challenges faced by today's supply chain organizations everywhere. By deploying this solution, you have the flexibility to adapt to your ever-changing business and technology environment which includes WMS, order management, inventory control, and mobile-apps with an added option of a fully integrated BPO service like a call center... Cirrugistics has really demonstrated how a great idea and our development platform can effectively deliver enterprise-level solutions."
Cirrugistics is currently focused on developing existing relationships with large supply chain entities that can immediately benefit from the company's on-demand solutions. Kelsey Hughes commented, "We have a great technology in a space that is exploding. We want to remain focused on our goals and become the most dominant player in this emerging market. The projects we are already involved in are significant enough to start letting people know we are a company that should be taken note of."
About StarPound Technologies
StarPound Technologies, Inc., (formerly M1 Global), is the application development company behind StarPound, an open-source, J2EE platform for developing Unified Communications applications that leverage network convergence, business process management, and service-oriented architecture (SOA). StarPound provides an open-source solution running on commodity hardware with functionality that rivals proprietary offerings from giants in the communications industry. Additionally, StarPound integrates multi-channel customer relationship management (CRM), web-based collaboration, and unified desktop features for today's rich media interactions.
About Cirrugistics
Cirrugistics is an Atlanta-based startup that provides on-demand supply chain solutions for critical industries. The company's mission is to develop software solutions for demanding supply chain environments that are flexible, easily integrated and provide total visibility. The company's leadership team features industry veterans with a wide breath of knowledge, contacts and insights into the unique challenges faced in critical supply chain environments. Armed with true operational knowledge and an excellent technology platform and software solution, Cirrugistics is helping companies of all size achieve measureable wins by implementing cost-saving and high-performing cloud-based supply chain solutions.
For More Information
Robert Shoe, Vice President
StarPound Technologies
Phone: 770-375-7214
E-mail: rshoe@starpoundtech.com
