FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESeQent Announces A Reseller Agreement With EDS London, ON - May 2008 - SeQent, the leading provider of real-time visualization solutions for the automated manufacturing environment, solutions has signed a reseller agreement with EDS. Under the agreement, EDS will become a licensed distributor of SeQent’s Marquee Manager software product. Under the terms of the Master Software License Agreement (MSLA) with EDS, a General Motors (GM) plant can purchase the Marquee Manager product through EDS. Marquee Manager is the GM corporate standard deployed as part of Global Production Monitoring & Controls (GPM&C). GM or EDS third party partners can also purchase Marquee Manager under the terms and conditions specified in the agreement. According to Scott Burns, founder and CTO of SeQent, “The reseller agreement is a big win for SeQent. Not only have we extended our longstanding relationship with GM to include EDS, GM’s technology outsourcing provider, but we can now start targeting other EDS customers. It is significant for a company our size to have strategic relationship with a company the size of EDS”.
About SeQent SeQent is a leading provider of real-time automated condition monitoring, dispatch, and visual display management solutions that accelerate decision making, improves productivity and quality - while increasing plant floor visibility. Utilizing the logic and business rules already set up in your PLC's or Data Collection and Reporting Systems -- SeQent sends real-time production, quality, maintenance information via a BlackBerrys®, cell phones, pagers, PDA's, LED & LCD displays. SeQent supports customers including Chrysler, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Honda, Toyota, Heinz, Kellogg’s, Intel and John Deere. The company is privately held and is headquartered in London, Ontario with U.S. operations in Troy, Michigan. For further information, please visit www.seqent.com Media Contact: ### |
