KCI Computing Inc. announces partnership with Summit Solutions

The partnership will draw strength from Summit's extensive experience in financial planning systems implementation in the UK, Middle East and Far East and KCI's world-class, end-to-end solution for every aspect of financial and performance management.

Under the terms of the agreement, Summit Solutions will promote the sales of KCI's comprehensive CPM solution, CONTROL and provide implementation, training and support services to end-users in the GCC.

Mr. Abhy Paul, Summit's CEO stated, "We evaluated the alternatives and found CONTROL to be the best tool for integrated performance management across an enterprise. CONTROL offers comprehensive functionality for the entire performance management spectrum including planning, budgeting, forecasting, modeling, financial consolidation, financial/management reporting and analysis. With CONTROL, you have everything you need at your fingertips. It is dramatically better than conventional packages comprising an assortment of distinct tools."

Mr. Abhy Paul, added, " CONTROL is an ideal product. It has the breadth and depth, integrates well with disparate data sources, is extremely flexible and highly scalable and provides an instantly familiar, easy-to-use, Microsoft® Excel front end. We anticipate CONTROL will be widely accepted.

"We always intended to expand the CONTROL offering outside the United States and we are pleased that Summit Solutions elected CONTROL as the corporate performance management solution of choice for their prospects and customers in the Middle East" said Clint Parker, Vice President, Business Development, KCI. "Summit Solutions has many years of experience delivering performance management solutions and has the proven business, financial and technical expertise to ensure customers achieve their planning and analysis goals. The powerful functionality and scalability of the CONTROL Performance Management Platform combined with the knowledge and skills of Summit will provide GCC companies the finest performance management solution available. This partnership marks another step in KCI's continued global expansion plans and the global unveiling of the "best kept secret" in performance management solutions'' Parker added.