Business & decision, international Consulting and Systems Integration (CIS) company specialized in Business Intelligence, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and E-Business, and FatWire Software partner up to provide enterprises with turnkey web content management solutions.

Business & Decision's e-business agency has joined the Web Content Management (WCM) specialist vendor, FatWire Software, partners' network. This partnership agreement is in line with the vendor's strategy to develop relevant web content management solutions for marketing/business teams; solutions incorporating the whole value chain, from consulting to implementation and integration.

Business & Decision and FatWire Software will combine technological skills and functional expertise to improve the synergy of their offerings and to satisfy enterprises' needs for user-friendly, customizable, interactive sites and productivity increase.

As part of this partnership, FatWire Software has agreed to train Business & Decision's e-business experts on deployment and use of its Content Server V7 platform, dedicated to web application content management for all.

The two partners already have projects under way and will soon announce a common customer.

Alain Werdenschlag, e-business Director at Business & Decision, states: "We see FatWire as an extremely powerful content management tool, with huge volumes management capabilities and a mostly configuration-driven approach, namely as regards workflows, multilingualism and multi-sites. Features that enable customization, integrated analysis and implementation of an integrated web 2.0 collaboration environment are particularly relevant when it comes to satisfying current customer needs or adapting to market trends."

About FatWire Software - www.fatwire.com

FatWire Software is a vendor providing content management and publishing solutions for the deployment of interactive websites and applications. The Content Server platform combines complete business user control over the creation and presentation of content with a scalable architecture for dynamic content delivery and multi-site deployment. Unlike other Content Management solutions that focus on getting content under control, FatWire's solutions enable organizations to put content to work by delivering highly targeted and persuasive experiences to customers, partners, and employees. Created in 1996, FatWire is based in New York and has offices across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. As for the French office, it has been in operation since 2003. Some prestigious names can be found amongst FatWire Software customers, namely J.P. Morgan Chase, Sony, Radisson/SAS, European Space Agency, Bank of China, La Cité des Sciences, la Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Center Parcs and Areva.

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