MANILA, Philippines, Dec. 18, 2006 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- SES (Pink Sheets:SFWJ) CEO, Clarisa Rojo, today announced that Huawei Technologies, global provider of communications equipment, has purchased SES's CRM suite to enhance management of their equipment procurement and integration operations in the Philippines.
Huawei Technologies (www.huawei.com) has signed an agreement to purchase SES's Equipment Management tool to enhance control of the purchases of equipment components from outside manufacturers and their integration into Huawei's own products. Huawei's products and solutions include wireless products, core network products, network products, application and software, as well as terminals, and are sold to communications companies in over 100 countries worldwide.
"Huawei designs and develops ASIC chips, with most of its products based on shared platforms, including fixed network, mobile network, data communications, optical network, software & services and terminals. The company's equipment purchase and integration operations faced a serious challenge by the complexity and scope of control needed to maintain a tight reign on costs and quality. Effective was selected as their solution of choice for their enormous equipment control and tracking needs," states Clarisa Rojo, CEO of SES.
"This very exciting deal opens up a vast horizon for SES. Huawei is fast becoming a leading vendor in the communications industry, and we are very proud that Huawei selected our equipment management solution for its internal needs. Due to the system's rapid deployment, Effective will be up and running at Huawei, with assimilation and training completed by the end of January 2007, and Huawei will begin to reap the benefits of its new system in the very near future," added Clarisa Rojo.
About Huawei Technologies
Huawei Technologies is a leader in providing next generation telecommunications networks, and serves 28 of the world's top 50 operators, as well as over one billion users worldwide. Almost half of Huawei's 56,333 employees are dedicated to R&D. Huawei's global R&D centers are located in Bangalore in India, Silicon Valley and Dallas in USA, Stockholm in Sweden and Moscow in Russia, in addition to several centers throughout China. Sales in 2005 reached USD8.2 billion, of which 58% came from international markets.
About Effective
Effective is a unique, technologically advanced Customer Relation Management (CRM) tool which caters to the current and future needs of small to medium enterprises as well as large telecom operators, mainly in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.
This software tool, aptly named "Effective," maximizes the utilization of organization resources such as manpower, equipment and time, and optimizes the execution of daily activities such as inventory management, service center and sales process. Effective offers several major advantages over existing solutions: cost-effectiveness, scalability, modularity, rapid deployment and functionality. In addition, Effective can be enhanced to be used as a web-based management tool, allowing organizations to manage, monitor and track their relations with their customers over the internet, from outside the office.
About SES
SES Inc. is a Philippine-based software company providing enterprise software that enables small and medium-sized enterprises and telecom operators to optimize functions such as workforce management, call centers, and resource management. Effective, the company's user-friendly, rapidly deployable software package includes many Customer Resource Management (CRM) functions with a focus on customer needs for greater internal efficiency, cost control and maintaining service quality.