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Beijing, April
19, 2004 – Powerise and Microsoft signed a memorandum of
cooperation today in Beijing, announcing that the two parties
will form a global strategic partnership, and cooperate in the
fields of training and certificate, software development, sales
and marketing, corporation protocol and international project
cooperation. Present at the ceremony were the leaders from the
Ministry of Information Industry, the Ministry of Science and
Technology, the Ministry of Commerce, China Software Industry
Association, and the People’s Government of Hunan Province, the
People’s Government of Changsha City, the Department of Science
and Technology and the Department of Information Industry of
Hunan Province, and the Management Committee of Changsha State
Hi-Tech and Industrial Development Zone. Larry Ding , Chairman
of Powerise Technology, and Tim Chen, Vice President of
Microsoft and CEO of Microsoft Greater China, were also present
at the signing ceremony.
According to
the memorandum, Powerise and Microsoft will co-develop vertical
industry application solutions based on the Microsoft .NET
platform. Both parties will fully take their advantages in
industries and technologies to bring about more business values
to enterprise customers.
Ding Wenwu,
Vice Director of the Information Product Management Department
under Ministry of Information Industry, extended his welcome of
the cooperation between Powerise and Microsoft. He pointed out
that the establishment of strategic partnership between Powerise
and Microsoft complies with the trend of development; It will
not only benefit both parties, but is significant in putting
forward the cultivation of Chinese software professionals,
improving the technology and management skills of domestic
software enterprises, and boosting the development and
internationalization of the domestic software industry; I
sincerely hope that the two parties can contribute more to the
development of Chinese software industry and China’s information
construction.
Zheng Maoqing,
Vice Governor of the People’s Government of Hunan Province,
said, The products and technology of Microsoft are deployed and
adopted by numerous enterprises in China. Powerise is a leading
software enterprise growing up from Hunan, which has for more
than 10 years provided quality services to many industries such
as telecommunication, social security, finance, broadcasting and
TV, and government. We believe that the cooperation between
Microsoft and Powerise will largely improve the competitiveness
and market penetration of both enterprises. We are very happy to
see the development of Powerise and we believe that such
development of Powerise will set a good example for Hunan’s
software industry and facilitate its leaping development.”
Larry Ding ,
Chairman of Powerise said, “The establishment of global
partnership with Microsoft is of great significance to the
internationalization of Powerise in four aspects – the
internationalization of human resources, internationalization of
technology, internationalization of management and
internationalization of marketing. We hope that through the
cooperation, we will combine Microsoft’s leading software
technology, outstanding R&D mode, mature management and sales
experience with Powerise’s advantages in local market, vertical
industries and channels, so that we can improve our
comprehensive capabilities and competitiveness in international
market and speed up Powerise’s internationalization process from
being China’s Excellent Software Enterprise to World Class
Excellent Software Enterprise. The cooperation between Powerise
and Microsoft is conducive to both parties’ better understanding
of the needs of the local enterprise customers so as to provide
mission critical industry solutions based on world’s cutting
edge platform technology. We believe that the cooperation will
have a positive impact on both parties, the development of
China’s software industry, and the industrial and enterprise
information construction.”
Tim Chen, Vice
President of Microsoft and CEO in Microsoft Greater China
pointed out, “Microsoft has a long-term commitment to China’s
market. The establishment of strategic partnership with Powerise
is another demonstration of our commitment. In China, Microsoft
continuously strengthens the cooperation with its partners to
jointly help domestic customers to fully tap the potentials of
IT applications and realize greater business value. By forming
strategic partnership with China’s leading software enterprises
like Powerise, Microsoft hopes to provide more leading
enterprise level computing solutions for enterprise customers.
At the same time, through such in-depth cooperation, we expect
to facilitate China’s leading software companies to explore a
broader international market so as to boost the development of
software economy in China.”
Powerise and
Microsoft have already carried out long-term cooperation in
different layers and ways. In 1998, the Powerise-Microsoft
training center began its operation. In 2003, Powerise Software
Park and Microsoft initiated closer cooperation in software
research and development and production. In coming months,
Microsoft will establish a training center in Hunan to provide
all-round training and Microsoft .NET solutions for Powerise and
other partners.
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