Partnership Helps Government Users, Military Personnel, and Federal Contractors Save Taxpayer Money When Buying Technical Equipment
SAN BRUNO, CA and SAN MATEO, CA February 12, 2007 — Technical Communities, Inc, a leading sales, marketing and online strategy partner for the science and technical community, today announced a new partnership agreement with Siperian Inc., developer of an award-winning adaptive master data management (MDM) platform. As part of this agreement, Technical Communities will provide Siperian with a government product catalog and marketplace-specific services in order to better serve and expand Siperian’s growing federal customer channel.
The agreement authorizes Technical Communities to present a catalog of Siperian MDM Hub™ the most complete, integrated software platform for adaptive master data management (MDM). Siperian MDM Hub enables government agencies, military personal and federal contractors to provide real-time access to accurate and reliable data, and to secure the sharing of information across disparate data sources and systems. With Siperian Hub, government agencies can deliver the right data, at the right time, to the right people for critical decision-making while ensuring adherence to cost savings measures and resource utilization.
“With a mandate to serve and protect citizens, Government agencies continually strive to provide benefits to constituents; improve security and ensure privacy protection; align with cross-agency mandates and continue the shift to adopt new advances in computer and information technology,” said Sean Ward, Vice President of Sales at Siperian. “Through this partnership, government agencies can leverage Siperian to create a comprehensive data integration hub that allows them to integrate and eliminate entity data discrepancies across disparate data sources and systems and ensure compliance with various mandates.”
“Including Siperian in the Technical Communities product offering provides us with the opportunity to offer the federal government an even broader array of high quality test instrumentation,” said Peter Ostrow, President and CEO of Technical Communities. “US government users and buyers will continue to have an easy way to search and procure the highest quality items that are compliant with the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FARs).”
Siperian products are under General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) managed by Technical Communities, which will provide content, transaction, marketing, sales support, and reporting services around them. Technical Communities also will provide presentation and order processing though the GSA’s e-commerce web site, www.gsaadvantage.gov, and the company’s own online marketplace,www.gsamart.com.
About Siperian Inc.
Siperian offers the most complete, integrated software platform for adaptive master data management (MDM). Siperian helps companies create and present real-time unified views of their customers, products, and suppliers to business users from distributed data sources for higher profitability, reduced operational costs, and improved compliance. Our award-winning solution, Siperian MDM Hub™, uniquely adapts to different architectural styles to meet companies’ evolving business needs while delivering significantly lower total cost of ownership, faster time-to-value, and superior return on investment. Siperian business solutions for Financial Services, Health & Life Sciences, High Tech, Communications and Media, and Manufacturing industries improve customer relationship management, marketing, regulatory compliance, and order-to-cash processes. For further information, visit us on the Web at http://www.siperian.com or call 1-866-SIPERIAN (1-866-747-3742).