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20 April 2005

Product News

Ingenuus Redefines 'Lightweight' With New Release of Software

Ingenuus Software Inc. announced the release of Smart Expediter 5.1 claiming that new features, pricing and flexibility redefine "lightweight" software.

"Many companies think the term lightweight means limited functionality," says Ingenuus CEO, Christopher Williams. "At Ingenuus we are redefining lightweight by offering robust process/flow capabilities combined with ease of use and an affordable price point."

Traditional enterprise class software providers have offered lower cost solutions that have come to be known as "lightweight" or just "lite". These solutions typically have less functionality and are not as robust as the full enterprise versions. Ingenuus is redefining lightweight to mean that the solution is easy to deploy and use, costs thousands less to purchase and maintain yet remains rich in ability. Capabilities and configuration options are offered "a la carte" so that customers can add the features they need like integration or bill of material management without sacrificing basic process automation capabilities.

"Companies are deciding that they want to prove a software's ability before committing to a huge rollout," explains Ingenuus CTO Vivek Prasad. "With Ingenuus, they can automate one or many processes to prove the concept of Process Orchestration and then easily expand. That is not so easy to do with most enterprise class software."

The Ingenuus solution transforms processes, tasks and projects into web-based applications for companies whose employees are frustrated by lack of control, lack of visibility and the inability to easily get at the knowledge they need. Business Process Orchestration is an approach for automating all of the business processes and orchestrating them to function together. Customers are using Ingenuus to orchestrate processes including Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), IT Trouble Tickets, Return Materials Authorizations (RMA), Quality Testing, New Product Introduction (NPI), Job Management for contract manufacturers and Compliance Management (like Sarbanes-Oxley).

 

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