Overview
Our enterprise management solution, the ITAA*2000 certified Ramco Marshal, has been developed with an understanding of the forces of change in the business world. Supply chain requirements and customer support issues force many companies to operate from multiple locations and with multiple currencies and multiple languages. Organizational growth and diversity cause businesses to require a broad range of applications and features. Continual business process reengineering is necessary to stay competitive. To respond to forces such as these, Ramco Marshal provides a unique approach featuring distributed computing, breadth of applications, and flexibility.

Distributed Computing
Marshal divides the processing load between the client and the server. Application logic that does not require any external data and the graphical user interface are placed on the client. Application logic that requires access to external data resides on the server. Overall, Marshal allocates about half of the computing load to the server, which minimizes network traffic. Marshal also allows the application modules to be distributed over multiple servers, which balances the processing load even more effectively. At the same time, Marshal provides transparent access across this distributed area, making all the databases appear to be a single, integrated database. In addition, to simplify widely distributed computing, Marshal provides support for multiple companies, locations, currencies, and languages.

Breadth of Applications
Marshal consists of 35 applications in 9 functional areas: Process Production, Discrete Production, Sales, Treasury, Financials, Human Resources, Logistics, Plant Maintenance, and Statistical Process and Quality Control. Marshal also includes security features and various productivity tools such as an Application Configurator, Dcube (a data drill down tool), the Workflow engine and the Report Writer.

Flexibility
Each of Ramco Marshal’s application modules are capable of working alone or with other Marshal or third party applications in any configuration, in order to meet specific business needs. Marshal is fully scalable, allowing the addition or subtraction of users, functions, applications, servers, or locations with minimal effort. Marshal’s tools and utilities facilitate customization on every level from the entire user interface to individual data fields - for a single user, an entire organization, or any number in between. In addition, Marshal was created using industry standard tools (Visual C++ for Microsoft Windows NT and SQL Server) to simplify future addition to or modification of the source code.
 

Other Key Features

Ease of Use
Marshal's intuitive graphic user interface dramatically shortens learning curves and reduces training time and costs. Information list boxes and defaults reduce code memorization and redundant data entry. The comprehensive printed documentation and context-sensitive, cross-referenced on-line help included with each application enhance Marshal’s ease-of-use.

Security
Security permissions may be defined and customized for application modules, roles, users, and/or transactions, based upon organizational structure and/or company policy. Marshal also allows generation of an audit trail for specific transactions to track changes to the data.
 
 

About Ramco Systems Corporation

Ramco Systems arrived in the United States in 1994 after penetrating the Asian market and commencing operations in Europe. Our goal was to understand the needs of potential ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) customers in the United States so that we could build solutions to these needs into our software suite, Ramco Marshal. As we undertook this task, continued aggressive forays into the European and Asian markets resulted in impressive contracts with companies such as ETA SA (the production corporation for Swatch) and in Ramco Systems Limited being named one of the ten hottest IT (Information Technology) companies of 1997 by Computerworld magazine, Switzerland’s premier IT publication.

During our introduction into the United States market, we achieved contracts with companies like Rohm Semiconductor, Orbit Semiconductor, and SNC Manufacturing. We also focused on Microsoft technologies such as Windows NT and SQL Server. As a result, we became a Microsoft Solution Provider and Bill Gates of Microsoft launched version 3.0 of Marshal.

Building on our experiences with our early United States customers, we expanded our operations, especially in marketing and product support, and opened new offices in Atlanta and Chicago. We have been commercially operational since December 1997, and our recent customers include Hoosier Energy, Columbia Helicopters, and Sunkist. We have also recently formed strategic partnerships with implementation experts Robert Abair and Associates, T. A. Carlson and Company, and the Strategic Concepts Group in Canada. The current version of Marshal, version 3.1, is fully 32-bit compatible and has been certified as Year 2000 compliant by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA).
 
 

Contact Information

Online: http://www.ramco.com/

mailto: info@rsc.ramco.com

U.S. Headquarters: 5 Independence Way, Suite 300

Princeton, New Jersey 08540

International Headquarters: 5 Sardar Patel Road

Taramani, Chennai 600 113

India

U.S. Offices: Fremont, California

Atlanta, Georgia

Chicago, Illinois

International Offices: Singapore

Basel, Switzerland

Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Employees: 1250 worldwide

Products: Ramco Marshal (see below)

Recognition – Marshal certified by ITAA as Year 2000 compliant; Ramco Systems named one of the 10 hottest information technology companies of 1997 by Computerworld magazine.

Partners – T. A. Carlson, Strategic Concepts, Robert Abair

Customers – U.S. customers include Columbia Helicopters, Hoosier Energy, and Sunkist. International customers include ETA SA (Production corporation for Swatch) and Unicom (Swiss telecommunications).