By William Fellows
Transformation engine specialist, Convoy Corp says it didn’t mean to give anyone the impression it knows the extent of Andersen Consulting’s business with Software Technologies Corp or other EAI vendors when it spoke to us about its third party relationships a couple of weeks ago. Andersen owns a chunk of EAI shop STC and Andersen’s CEO sits on STC’s board, but Convoy has a specific relationship with Andersen’s PeopleSoft practice, which is not what STC does. Convoy says the other big five integrators – plus about 20 others – also resell its software, while Andersen will also begin to sell Convoy/DM in place of its own Interface Manager tools.
It’s amazing, not how many of the EAI enterprise application integration crowd claim to have some kind of relationship – public or off the record – with Andersen, but how secretive Andersen is about its EAI partners. It doesn’t much like them talking about their work and apparently Andersen doesn’t want to talk to the press about its EAI strategy either. It’s interesting that a company, whose mission is to improve its customers’ business processes, couldn’t release a list of its preferred EAI partnership arrangements.
