Avocent implements DesignWin® from PolyDyne Software
Avocent implements DesignWin® from PolyDyne Software
Austin, Texas— February 15, 2010— PolyDyne Software Inc.®, the leading provider of strategic sourcing solutions for the electronics industry, today announced that Avocent Corporation (Nasdaq: AVCT), a global leader in IT Operations Management, has implemented PolyDyne’s DesignWin strategic sourcing application for global OEMs.
Avocent, a U.S. based OEM with over 1,800 employees, provides IT operations and infrastructure management solutions to help customers reduce costs and simplify complex IT environments via integrated, centralized in-band and out-of-band hardware and software. Some of the world’s leading brands – such as Microsoft Corp., Intel, HP, Dell, IBM, Time Warner, Verizon, General Electric, Exxon Mobil, Disney, FedEx and Home Depot – depend on Avocent technology to help them simply manage mission critical physical resources, in the data center, remote branch locations, and at end point devices.
Over the past five years, Avocent has experienced significant growth through product innovations, global expansion and strategic acquisitions. This growth led to its acquisition for about $1.2 billion in 2009 by Emerson Electric. During this high growth period, Avocent became aware of the need to improve the automation of its strategic sourcing and outsourcing price management processes.
As with most midsize to large OEMs, Avocent’s price management functions for material suppliers and contract manufacturers were spread across multiple departments and geographies. This lack of coordination made it impossible to leverage the enterprise’s full buying power and thereby reduced the scope of Avocent’s visibility into material and transformation spend.
Using DesignWin, Avocent has been able to reduce headcount and increase the productivity of its strategic sourcing and outsourcing management teams. DesignWin gives Avocent the ability to identify pricing variances from quarter to quarter within an individual contract manufacturer and across several contract manufacturers. This helps Avocent complete cycles more quickly while being more competitive.
Linda Elkins, PolyDyne Vice President of Sales and Marketing, said “we worked closely with the Avocent team to understand the nuances and complexities of their markups and transformation cost factors to ensure that DesignWin accurately captures and calculates each critical pricing element”.
About PolyDyne
PolyDyne Software Inc. develops and markets strategic sourcing software applications. PolyDyne’s products enable companies to gain control over and insight into their direct material spend, supplier management, outsourcing price negotiation, sourcing and quote management processes. PolyDyne’s product suite consists of DesignWin®, QuoteWin® , BidRacer®, SupplyWin® and ConnectWin™. For more information, call (512) 343-9100 or visit PolyDyne’s website at http://www.polydyne.com.
PolyDyne, the PolyDyne logo, PolyDyne Software, DesignWin, QuoteWin, BidRacer, SupplyWin and ConnectWin are registered trademarks of PolyDyne Software Inc.
For more information contact
Linda Elkins
Vice President of Marketing
Ph: 512-343-9100
About Avocent Corporation
Avocent delivers IT operations management solutions that reduce operating costs, simplify management and increase the availability of critical IT environments 24/7 via integrated, centralized software. Additional information is available: at www.avocent.com