Key Executive Appointments To Lead Operations in Central Europe
BI Specialist NewFrontiers Announces Key Executive Appointments To Lead Operations in Central Europe
On the back of growing demand for its enterprise management reporting solution, QuickStart for SAP R/3, and a number of successful customer engagements within their home market (Benelux), NewFrontiers is making a major investment to expand its operations globally.
Nieuwegein, The Netherlands, May 21st ,2007 – NewFrontiers, a specialist provider of BI solutions for SAP and Siebel, today announced two significant Senior Executive appointments to lead and manage its business expansion in Central and Eastern Europe and open the operating subsidiary NewFrontiers GmbH to handle product distribution in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Eastern Europe.
Uwe Weimer joins NewFrontiers as VP Central Europe. Uwe has over 22 years working in a sales and management role within Central Europe. He started his career selling hardware for HP and Sun before moving into the software area, where he has worked for established and start-up companies, with significant enterprise software experience in data warehousing, business intelligence and data integration. He has run Central Europe for Cognos, Acta Technology (acquired by Business Objects), Hummingbird (acquired by OpenText) and Informatica.
Ralf Goetz joins NewFrontiers as VP Client Services. Ralf has over 12 years experience in the IT industry, the majority of time spent working as a technology expert for software start-ups principally focused in the Enterprise Software market space. His main expertise lies in the data warehousing, data integration and metadata management technology sector. He has held senior and management positions at Cyrano, Acta Technology and Informatica.
“We are extremely pleased to have secured the services of both Uwe and Ralf to lead our expansion into the strategically important Central European Region” said Patrick Teunissen, Chief Executive Officer of NewFrontiers. “Both of them bring proven expertise in growing operations in Central Europe and the fact that we can attract such high calibre people demonstrates the progress we are making as a company and the market potential for our QuickStart solution. Our relationship with Oracle continues to strengthen internationally and combined with the high market penetration of SAP across Central Europe I am confident the team will rapidly exploit the significant demand for our solutions.”
About QuickStart for SAP R/3
QuickStart for SAP R/3 was first released in June 2006 and is based on standard Oracle technology, following a joint development project between both companies to enhance connectivity to SAP R/3. It combines the use of Database 10g, Fusion Middleware (OWB) and Oracle BI with the QuickStart pre-packaged business content supporting all of the major SAP Business modules. The content has been developed during eight years experience of implementing BI solutions for SAP customers. The solution is further enhanced with the support of IBM P Series hardware, enabling it to be sold as a plug and play appliance. QuickStart provides significant savings in both time and cost when compared to other alternative solutions for enterprise management reporting from SAP, from initial deployment through to follow on phases of the project, as the solution is based on open standards and does not need skilled SAP developers.
About NewFrontiers
NewFrontiers is a private company established in 1999 providing specialist BI consulting services to ERP customers. It is this combination (BI focus and ERP knowledge) that makes their services and solutions unique in the market place. The experience gained in delivering many successful BI consulting engagements over a number of years to SAP customers resulted in the creation of the enterprise management reporting solution “QuickStart for SAP R/3”. The company has over 30 customers including Shell, Unilever, Epson, Bridgestone, Hunter Douglas, Tommy Hilfiger and has strong partnership agreements with Oracle and IBM.
