Sierra Atlantic's manufacturing CoE launched

Sierra Atlantic has announced the launch of a manufacturing Center of Excellence (CoE) at their global development premises in Hyderabad. The CoE will specialise in offshoring enterprise application management for discrete and process manufacturing companies.

The manufacturing CoE applies Sierra Atlantic's NShore™ methodology for offshore application management and draws upon best practices, tools and processes honed over a decade supporting the needs of manufacturing companies including Ciena, Stratex Networks, Network Appliance, Hempel Coatings and many others.

"Manufacturing companies have unique business processes that can only be easily understood by professionals with direct experience in the field," said Sanjay Khendry, vice-president of Sierra Atlantic.

"Our manufacturing Center of Excellence combines experts in manufacturing and enterprise application management, enabling us to provide complete lifecycle support," he said.

Sierra Atlantic's CoE unites project managers with direct manufacturing experience and software consultants with a strong familiarity with the enterprise applications manufacturers most often employ-supply chain management (SCM), product lifecycle management PLM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) suites "� to provide services ranging from business consultation to application development, implementation, customisation, upgrades, maintenance and support.

The CoE will provide a strong suite of offshore, outsourced lifecycle enterprise application services including enterprise-wide eBusiness technology vision, strategy and planning, ERP application integration with a focus on eBusiness solutions, internet application design, development, and implementation, Oracle Process Manufacturing "� implementation, customisation and integration, and Oracle Financials "� implementation, customisation and integration, data warehousing, business intelligence "� design and implementation.

Apart from this, the CoE will offer CRM services, enterprise information portals "� implementation, customisation and integration B2B infrastructure "� deployment, legacy systems migration to the internet platform using Sierra Atlantic-developed Genie migration tools (including Oracle Forms 3, Sybase PowerBuilder, Ingres ABF, and JYACC JAM/JPL) apart from outsourced offshore application development and maintenance.