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Covast B2B Suite for Manufacturing Simplifies Acquisitions, Improves B2B Communications for Old Castle Architectural

ATLANTA - January 10, 2007 - Covast, a leading provider of business-to-business (B2B) integration solutions, today announced that Old Castle Architectural has implemented the Covast B2B Suite for Manufacturing. Old Castle Architectural, one of the world's largest suppliers of masonry and decorative lawn and garden products, confirms that Covast's manufacturing-specific B2B integration solution has dramatically improved business process management, reliability and communication for the company's complex supply chain.

A subsidiary of CRH plc, one of the world's largest building materials manufacturers, Old Castle Architectural supplies its comprehensive line of lawn and garden products to major retailers such as Lowe's, Home Depot and Target. The company's recent growth has been a result of several acquisitions, making the integration of different B2B systems and key business processes near impossible. In the past, a customer placing an order would encounter several types of interfaces and procedures depending on which products they ordered. This caused considerable frustration for Old Castle Architectural's largest retail customers.

After implementing the Covast B2B Suite for Manufacturing, Old Castle Architectural is now able to easily integrate disparate supply chain systems that enable reliable communication and consistent business processes with suppliers, customers and acquired parties. This has substantially reduced the IT manpower required to support the corporate acquisition process and improve supply chain productivity. Other impacts of the Covast B2B Suite for Manufacturing on the company's supply chain include:

  • Faster, More Reliable B2B Transaction Processing: The Covast B2B Suite for Manufacturing has significantly expedited batch processing of critical B2B communications, such as electronic data interchange (EDI) documents.

  • Ability to Painlessly Tweak, Customize B2B Systems: Old Castle Architectural is now able to easily tweak and customize various B2B systems and business processes without having to rework entire integration schemes.

  • Simplified Integration of Various Business Processes into the Supply Chain: The Covast B2B Suite for Manufacturing has simplified the introduction and support of new complex business processes following company acquisitions.

  • Improved Support of B2B Communications in a Fast Growth Environment: The Covast solution easily supports more than 100,000 B2B transactions a month. Furthermore, the solution is designed to support exponential growth as Old Castle Architectural's supply chain expands.

“In this fiercely competitive market, I think it's imperative that our customers find it easier to do business with us than with the competition. Covast has helped us achieve this. They've given us a solution with infinite capability to create and integrate the different business processes and IT systems found in a manufacturer's complex supply chain,” said John Faeth, EDI manager, Old Castle Architectural.

To learn more about the Covast B2B Suite for Manufacturing, please visit www.covast.com.

About Covast

Covast is a leading provider of business-to-business integration solutions for collaborative business environments. The company provides integration solutions that bridge the gap between legacy electronic data interchange (EDI) applications and today's new Internet standards. The suite of products that Covast offers is designed to facilitate fast and cost-effective business-to-business integration with single platform environments, such as those supported by Microsoft BizTalk Server and IBM WebSphere. Covast is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and an IBM Business Partner. With its European headquarters in the Netherlands and its U.S. headquarters in Atlanta, Covast has strategic relationships with partners and customers including GXS, Accenture, EDS, HP, Citrix and Siemens. For more information, visit http://www.covast.com.

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