Covisint to Present Webinar on New Ways to Drive Down Costs Through a Secure, Global Ecosystem

Compuware Corporation has announced that its Covisint subsidiary is presenting a webinar for automotive OEMs and their suppliers to learn how to enable global automotive ecosystems in a software as a service (SaaS) model.

When: Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 10:15 a.m. EST

Presenters: Don Guibord, Lear Global EDI Manager; Joe Grabowski, Covisint Director, Automotive; Henriette Douglas, Covisint Global Automotive and Manufacturing Product Marketing

Who should attend: managers, directors and executives from automotive OEMs and their suppliers

What: Thought-provoking presentations and a live question-and-answer session from automotive experts at Lear Corporation and Covisint, discussing how Lear designed a strategy to increase efficiency while reducing cost. This complimentary webinar will explore how OEMs and suppliers can:

reduce risk through a cloud-based service provider;
manage the global impact of doing business;
lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) for EDI;
support business activity monitoring; and
enable a flexible platform that supports future growth.

Why: Developing ecosystems that support interoperability is one of the greatest challenges faced by automotive companies today. It can be difficult, time consuming and expensive to ensure that secure, reliable information is shared across an increasingly complex ecosystem of technology systems and platforms. Covisint’s comprehensive Data Exchange and Portal Services ensure interoperability by managing the complexities of message formats, protocols, APIs and network interconnectivity through secure, reliable communications in a SaaS model. This webinar will present new ways to enable ecosystems that drive down costs and run operations more smoothly, securely and effectively.

Sign-up: http://tinyurl.com/yf3og3r

Covisint’s on-demand collaboration platform and cloud computing approach helps virtual communities securely access, use and share time-sensitive information. Covisint solves business problems by streamlining and automating processes globally–connecting state and nationally based communities, organizations and systems in the healthcare, automotive and financial services industries, as well as the public sector. Learn more about Covisint at www.covisint.com.

Compuware Corporation

Founded in 1973, Compuware provides software, experts and best practices to ensure applications work well and deliver business value. Compuware solutions optimize application performance across the Enterprise and the Internet for leading organizations around the world, including 46 of the top 50 Fortune 500 companies and 12 of the top 20 most visited U.S. web sites. Learn more at: http://www.compuware.com.