Optical Network Startup Metro-Optix Buys ROI Systems' Software Solution
Integrated Business Software Suite Will Help Equipment Maker Increase Operational Efficiencies, Enhance its Customer Response
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota - <%=company%>, a fast-growing optical networking equipment company, is moving to streamline its operations and improve its responsiveness to customers as it implements the MANAGE 2000 software suite from ROI Systems, Inc. ROI Systems announced today that Metro-Optix has become the latest high-profile customer for its MANAGE 2000 solution, which integrates a range of business processes to support extended enterprises. Metro-Optix, headquartered in Allen, Texas, and Santa Clara, California, is developing and manufacturing CityStream, a third generation multi-layer bandwidth manager that delivers metropolitan access and inter-office networking applications for public network service providers. The company was formed in December 1999, and has grown quickly as it nears the commercial introduction of CityStream to the market.
Metro-Optix is implementing MANAGE 2000 across the 200-employee company, taking advantage of the software suite's ability to enhance manufacturing, enterprise resource planning, and customer service and support. "We are a leading-edge company dedicated to disrupting the traditional paradigm when it comes to optical networking," said Arun Bellary, chief executive officer and chairman of Metro-Optix. "The ability to tightly integrate our business functions is very important to us. The MANAGE 2000 suite will help us refine our virtual manufacturing center, focus resources on product development, and meet customers' demands for high-quality intelligent optical networking equipment."
Metro-Optix will use the customer relationship management features of MANAGE 2000 to assure high-quality service and support for customers. The system's core manufacturing functions and supply chain management capabilities will help Metro-Optix efficiently manage its inventory and materials requirements. With MANAGE 2000, Metro-Optix will be able to leverage its manufacturing efficiencies to deliver a cost-competitive product right on time to fill customers' needs. "In addition to the high capacity that our CityStream product brings to public networks, we already have a clear cost advantage over our competitors," Bellary noted. "As we use MANAGE 2000 to maximize our product development and manufacturing capabilities, we will be able to not only maintain, but even widen, our pricing advantage and help keep customers in our corner." "We're pleased to be working with an aggressive young company like Metro-Optix, because it is so well-positioned to make the most of the MANAGE 2000 features," said Bill Pisarra, executive vice president of marketing for ROI Systems, Inc. "Fast-moving companies like this understand the importance of integrating all their functions and making them as efficient as possible, so they can deliver products to match their customers' timetables."
Designed for mid-sized manufacturers, ROI Systems' MANAGE 2000 Internet-enabled software suite integrates back office Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) with Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and e-business capabilities to support today's extended enterprise. The easy-to-implement suite offers seamless interfaces to business intelligence and e-business technologies. MANAGE 2000 runs on Microsoft Windows NT, UNIX and AS/400 platforms. Founded in 1978, ROI Systems, Inc. is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn., with sales offices in Chicago, Ill., Boston, Mass., Somerset and Marlton, N.J., Dallas, Texas, and Los Angeles, Calif., and business partners located worldwide.
Jointly headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and Allen, Texas, Metro-Optix is a privately-held, optical networking equipment provider that is pioneering a new generation of Internet infrastructure for metropolitan networks. The company is developing solutions that enable carriers to effectively transition from traditional circuit-based services to high-performance cell and packet-based services.