Pronto expands IBM partnership

Pronto Software has announced an expansion of its 30-year partnership with IBM, offering customers integration between third-party business apps and systems with the Pronto Xi ERP and Business Analytics platform.

The partnership follows the recent reveal of the new Pronto Xi web interface. Pronto says the benefits for customers include:

• enhanced flexibility through faster integration with third-party cloud, mobile, SaaS and on-premise applications such as Salesforce, Magento, eBay, etc;
• streamlined business processes through a highly connected ERP and business intelligence infrastructure;
• rapid deployment, cutting out the need for significant development timeframes and costs involved with developing custom-coded APIs and middleware.

It also gives the Pronto support team full end-to-end visibility of client business management ecosystems (including third-party applications), which will allow faster diagnosis of any system issues.

Chad Gates, chief operating officer, Pronto Software, said, “Our vision is to deliver tools to enable a modern, web-based, connected enterprise. Customers want a singular interface for all of their business information and Pronto Connect provides the capability to do that efficiently.

“The IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud integration features a preconfigured architecture, allowing us to create new API connectors for Pronto Xi quickly and simply. This offers a significant cost saving and productivity gain when compared to the more traditional approach of custom coding,” said Gates.