EXTOL International, a leader in business integration solutions for the iSeries (System i5) market, today announced they have been selected as a strategic solution provider by Kingsley IT Consulting Ltd, Gloucestershire, UK. Kingsley is a System i5 Technical consultancy. EXTOL will provide them with business integration software solutions for their customers faced with limited IT resources and growing demand for partner integration as well as internal system and application integration, PR Web reported.

"The EXTOL business integration platform offers our customers a ready to use set of applications their existing IT teams can use to take advantage of market opportunities as well as customer demands," stated Austen Deane, Technical Director of Kingsley IT.

"These include EDI requirements going beyond the X12 and EDIFACT- based exchange of transactions to a more collaborative business model. As well, our customers require a robust internal integration solution to improve business efficiency, order, forecast and inventory accuracy, and elimination of custom coded interfaces that are the main roadblock to business agility and responsiveness", continued Mr. Deane.

"Integration is not about IT efficiency", stated Dennis J. Bonagura, President and COO of EXTOL. "Business integration lets a company align its business processes, application functionality and customer, supplier and partner relationships as a whole, in order to achieve specific business results. Often the results are compliance with a customer or industry initiative or specific business opportunity.

"Many EXTOL customers have improved business performance by using B2B Integration to address internal initiatives for cost elimination, process efficiency, and improvement in order fulfillment accuracy, forecast accuracy and inventory management based on downstream demand. A solution such as the EXTOL Business Integrator lets a company address a variety of supply chain and internal challenges with a single business integration platform", continued Mr. Bonagura of EXTOL.

EXTOL has attracted distributors and resellers throughout the UK, Scandinavia and Europe, such as RJT Information Systems and Woodstock, AB.