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Geac Computer
Corp. Ltd. - Performance Management Software -
Category Directory
905-475-0525
11
Allstate Parkway, Suite 300
Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 9T8
www.geac.com
Sales
$445
million
Business Description
Geac
is a leading global provider of business-critical software applications and
systems. We are organized around two business groups: our Enterprise
Application Systems, or EAS group, and our Industry Specific Applications,
or ISA group. Our EAS group serves global and medium-sized enterprises by
providing software systems that form the backbone of their information
technology infrastructures. Our EAS group offers enterprise resource
planning, or ERP, systems that consist of integrated business applications
for accounting, financial administration and human resources functions, as
well as for manufacturing, distribution and supply chain management. Our ISA
group provides industry-specific business applications that are used by
customers in the restaurant, construction, property management, library and
real estate industries, and by government and public safety agencies, to
manage their businesses and operations. In addition, we offer a broad range
of professional services related to our software such as consulting,
implementation and integration services, remote application management and
training. We also resell third party software and hardware products for use
in conjunction with our software products where appropriate to provide our
customers with a more complete solution. Geac is headquartered in Markham,
Canada.
Enterprise Application Systems
Enterprise Applications Systems in FY 2003 accounted for 76.9% of our total
revenues, compared to 74.2% in FY 2002. Our EAS group serves large, often
global, enterprises, as well as smaller, middle market companies. Our EAS
products include cross-industry business applications for accounting,
financial administration and human resources functions, as well as ERP
systems for manufacturing, distribution and supply chain management.
Our EAS products are designed to enable our customers to standardize the
management of information throughout the enterprise. This facilitates
performance comparisons between different sites, offices, countries, product
lines, brands, and profit centers. We believe our EAS products help
businesses to reduce inventories and working capital and improve
productivity and efficiency by providing accurate and flexible reporting,
production planning and scheduling systems.
At April 30, 2003, our EAS group had approximately 5,800 customers,
including approximately 50% of the Fortune 100 companies. We provide our EAS
solutions to customers in a variety of industries, including apparel,
textile and furniture manufacturing and retailing, automotive parts
manufacturing, financial services, food and beverage processing and
retailing, healthcare and local government administration.
Depending on the specific product, our EAS systems run on a number of
hardware platforms, including mainframe and mid-range computer and
client/server architectures, and use industry-standard databases such as
IBM’s DB2, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server.
Our EAS systems offer simple, consistent user interfaces, flexible reporting
options and sophisticated analytical tools, including third party solutions
provided by our alliance partners. These reporting and analysis tools enable
our customers to analyze information contained within their enterprise
management systems as they require. We also design our systems to be easily
integrated with our customers’ other business applications, as well as with
new, best-of-breed applications as they emerge, enabling our customers to
extend the functionality of their Geac enterprise resource planning systems
and to maximize the value of their existing information technology
investments.
The Web extensions incorporated in our EAS systems support our customers by
facilitating communication and transactions with their customers, suppliers
and other business partners. Customers can use the e-commerce functionality
offered in our EAS systems to reduce costs and attain more effective
management control, while at the same time decentralizing business
processes. Our EAS systems are Web-enabled to permit anytime-anywhere
browser-based access. As a result, users with Web access can access and
input data via the Internet using a standard Web browser. This allows
business processes to be made faster and more efficient. For example, our
customers can use our Web-enabled self-service applications to:
• facilitate their sales processes by enabling their customers to check
product prices and availability online;
• allow their employees to update their own personal data in the customer’s
employee benefits system, increasing convenience and relieving human
resources managers of administrative tasks; and
• empower their employees to procure necessary goods and services when they
need them by using e-procurement features available in our EAS systems.
Our principal EAS products include:
E Series and M Series
Our E Series and M Series products, formerly known as our Expert and
Millennium products, are integrated suites of financial, human resource and
procurement applications designed to run on mainframe computers, including
the IBM S/390 and e-server zSeries. Large and mid-sized enterprises in more
than 35 countries, primarily in North America and Europe, use our E Series
and M Series products, which are available in English, French and Spanish
language versions. The industries that use our E Series and M Series
products most widely include financial services, manufacturing, healthcare
and education. Seven of the ten largest companies in the Fortune 500 use our
E Series or M Series products.
System21
System21 is a fully integrated suite of financial, manufacturing, customer
service and logistics and service management applications based on the
mid-range IBM e-server iSeries (formerly known as AS/400) platform. Our
System21 products are used by companies worldwide, particularly in the food
and beverage, apparel and shoe manufacturing, automotive parts manufacturing
and electronics industries.
Our experience working with users of our System21 product in these
industries have enabled us to tailor our products to the specific needs of
customers and, in many cases, to develop industry-specific versions of our
System21 product. For example:
• our System21 Drinks system, widely deployed in the beverage industry,
incorporates specialized features required by liquor producers and importers
that operate across multiple jurisdictions. These include the ability to
handle the complex tax and regulatory requirements that apply to bonded
warehouses, and to manage excise tax issues that are specific to the
beverage industry.
• our System21 Style product, a fully integrated distribution and
manufacturing solution for the apparel and footwear industries, offers
apparel manufacturers and retailers a complete end-to-end solution, with
applications that address design, product lifecycle development and
definition, sourcing, manufacturing, contract and stock management, customer
services, customer relationship management and retail.
SmartStream
SmartStream is a suite of financial, procurement and human resource
solutions that can be deployed on a local area network or wide area network
or on a Web-based infrastructure using the Windows NT or Unix operating
systems and Microsoft SQL and Sybase SQL databases in a two-tiered
client-server architecture. Hundreds of companies use SmartStream, ranging
from large global enterprises to mid-sized and smaller businesses, primarily
in
North America and Europe and, to a lesser extent, in the Asia Pacific region
and in South America. The industries in which SmartStream is most widely
deployed include banking, insurance and other financial services,
manufacturing, retail, healthcare, government and education.
Anael
Anael solutions is a fully integrated suite of financial, accounting, human
resources, e-commerce and customer relationship management applications,
consisting of eleven products and services based on the IBM iSeries
platform, as well as Windows NT and Windows 2000. As at April 30, 2003, over
2,000 customers, primarily in France, as well as in 40 other French-speaking
countries, use Anael solutions.
Industry Specific Applications
Industry specific applications in FY 2003 accounted for 23.1% of our total
revenues, compared to 25.8% in FY 2002.
We provide software products and related support, maintenance, development
and consulting services to meet the specific management and data processing
needs of organizations in selected vertical niche markets, including the
real estate, restaurant, construction, property management, public safety
and library markets.
Architecture, Electrical and Construction (AEC) Applications
Our AEC group provides integrated software suites, including project
management, job-costing, bidding and estimating, and financial and
accounting solutions to engineers, architects and general and specialty
trade contractors in the residential and commercial construction business.
The AEC group is one of the largest suppliers of construction application
software solutions in North America.
Property Management Applications
Our Property Management Systems group provides software applications
designed to improve productivity in the day-to-day management of residential
and commercial buildings. The group’s products, which primarily service the
multi-unit residential market, help to monitor traffic and conduct
marketing, leasing and rent collection operations. Accounting and financial
applications and on-site management tools complete the product offering. New
Web-based applications provide easy-to-use and cost effective data
collection. Clients include real estate investment trusts, pension funds,
insurance companies, property management companies and other real estate
investors.
Human Resource Applications
Geac TotalHR provides applications for human resource and payroll
management. TotalHR software facilitates the processing of employee
information and improves the reliability and usability of that information.
TotalHR is a client/server-based application that allows customers to manage
and evaluate human resource and payroll needs. It has administration and
configuration features that address diverse user-group and departmental
security and accessibility requirements.
Residential Real Estate Applications
Our Interealty Corp. subsidiary provides Web-based information systems,
services and products to multiple listing services and real estate brokers
primarily in North America. Interealty provides real estate professionals
with online multiple listing systems, desktop productivity software, agent
web-site development and hosting, and customer relationship management
systems. Interealty’s new MLXchange product has advanced, Web-enabled
features that can automatically page a real estate broker on her mobile
phone when the price is reduced on a property she is watching or when a
prospect expresses interest in a listing on the realtor’s web-site.
Restaurant Applications
The Restaurant Systems group provides applications to quick-service and
table-service restaurants and food service providers designed to improve
customer service and to manage production and administrative operations.
Applications include point-of-sale, back office reconciliation and inventory
control. The group primarily serves franchisers and franchisees of chain
restaurant companies. The group’s advanced store management and executive
information software systems enable the group’s customers to meet high
volume transaction management needs.
Public Safety Applications
Our Public Safety Systems group provides computer-aided dispatch and records
management systems for emergency services such as law enforcement agencies,
fire departments and ambulance service organizations. The group’s systems
assist critical services delivery organizations to improve call response
times and to disseminate important information to response personnel.
Library Applications
Our Libraries Systems group provides automation solutions for public,
academic and specialty libraries. The group’s products are able to handle
records in different formats and character sets, as well as to provide
interconnectivity with other information services. For example, our Vubris
Smart library application, developed in conjunction with Brussels Vrije
Universiteit and Eindhoven Technische Universiteit, enables libraries to
implement a Web-based service to provide users with greater flexibility and
interconnectivity with the library’s database.
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