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OpSource and ABM Data Systems Help European Companies Comply with New Excisable Goods Requirements
Santa Clara, Calif., March 25, 2010—OpSource, the leader in SaaS Hosting and Enterprise Cloud, and Irish declaration customs management software developer ABM Data Systems have teamed together to help companies easily fulfill new excise goods movement requirements for European companies. The combination of CustomsWare's enterprise-class customs declaration management and OpSource On-Demand’s powerful, SAS-70 Type II audited infrastructure provides both manufacturing and logistics service businesses with a flexible, secure and cost-effective solution for their customs declaration management needs.
On April 1, 2010, the EU will introduce the EMCS (Excise Movement and Control System). An integral part of the EU's e-Customs project, EMCS is a distributed, electronic system for monitoring movements of duty-suspended excise goods within the EU. The introduction of EMCS is a major development for those who trade in excisable commodities, including manufacturing businesses that use industrial alcohol, distributors of wine and other alcohol products, and storage and distribution of energy products. These companies are expected to benefit from a reduced administrative burden and faster discharge of movement guarantees but to do so they must quickly implement an entirely new system.
“The EMCS will be great for long-term business, but hard for companies to quickly adopt,” said Tony O’Grady, business development director, ABM Data Systems. “By building our solution on OpSource On-Demand, we are bringing companies of all sizes an easy and affordable way to comply and start reaping benefits today. OpSource On-Demand is not only highly reliable, with its 100 percent uptime guarantee, but also easy to use and highly secure, which is also important when dealing with sensitive customs information.”
In order to achieve the promised benefits of EMCS, businesses need the software tools to process the necessary electronic EMCS messages. As many businesses with an EMCS compliance requirement have modest transactional volumes, companies want a solution that is running only when they need it—and at a reasonable cost. Available as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product built on OpSource On-Demand, CustomsWare provides all the functionality required to fully satisfy the EMCS compliance requirements of primary import/export businesses and logistics service providers without the need for capital investment in software licenses or infrastructure. A standard web browser is all that is required to create, clear, print and manage EMCS and all supported customs declaration types through a single, consistent user interface.
“CustomsWare is a perfect example of how building a Software-as-a-Service application can remove major roadblocks for companies, turning compliance headaches into potential financial upside,” said Treb Ryan, CEO, OpSource. “We are pleased to work with ABM Data Systems to help EU countries make the most of this new electronic customs system.”
About OpSource On-Demand
The comprehensive, award-winning OpSource On-Demand™ empowers SaaS ISVs to bring the Cloud to the enterprise by quickly and securely delivering their applications and services over the Web. Going far beyond full-featured managed hosting, the Cloud operations solution includes the application management, compliance and business services that are necessary for on-demand business success. OpSource On-Demand includes:
Technical Operations
• Best-in-class, scalable software, hardware and network infrastructure
• World-class data center facilities
• Redundant carrier class load balancing architecture
• In-depth 24x7 monitoring, security, and management procedures backed by SAS-70 Type II audits
• Built-in high availability solutions from simple clustering to wide-area disaster recovery
Application Operations
• Data management
• Performance management, including multipoint user-experience monitoring
• Application roll out and change management
• Application optimization
• Compliant infrastructure, processes and procedures including: SAS 70 Type II audited, HIPAA and PCI DSS compliance and salesforce.com and WebEx certifications
Business Operations
• OpSource Billing™ - An end-to-end subscription management, metering and payment stand-alone solution, or as part of OpSource On-Demand
• OpSource Connect™ - A Web services infrastructure and integration toolset, for application integration in the "Cloud" and behind the corporate fire-wall
• OpSource End-User Support™ - 24x7 customer branded end-user support
• OpSource Analytics™ - A real-time application and customer usage information, and health of business analysis and reporting tool
About ABM Data Systems Ltd.
ABM Data Systems provides customs brokerage management software products and services. Operating in a European environment, ABM Data Systems supports a range of products which provide complete management of the entire customs process. The ability to demonstrate financial and regulatory compliance is becoming increasingly important to businesses—particularly those operating in multiple jurisdictions. Taking advantage of Web 2.0 technologies and leading edge software development methodologies and practices, the CustomsWare platform provides the tools
necessary to manage the entire brokerage process - catering for all aspects of the capturing, submission and reporting of information necessary to comply with local customs and reporting legislation.
From our offices in Dublin, Ireland we support a range of national and multi-national customers with offices and business operations across the world.
About OpSource
OpSource™ provides complete cloud operations, infrastructure and services for companies of all sizes, from Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) ISVs to the enterprise, with hundreds of applications, millions of users and billions of transactions supported daily.
OpSource Cloud™ is the first cloud to bring together the flexibility, availability and community of the public cloud with the security, performance and control the enterprise demands. Emphasizing security, OpSource Cloud provides enterprise users with a Virtual Private Cloud within the public cloud, allowing them to determine their own degree of Internet connectivity. For more information, visit www.opsourcecloud.net.
OpSource On-Demand™ empowers SaaS ISVs to bring enterprise-class Cloud solutions to their end-users by quickly and securely delivering their applications and services over the Web. Going far beyond full-featured managed hosting, the comprehensive, award-winning Cloud operations solution includes the application and database management, compliance and business services that are necessary for on-demand business success.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., OpSource has cloud and web application delivery centers in Virginia, London and Bangalore. For more information about OpSource, visit opsource.net.
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