2011-11-25

 

Zetes becomes a PreCom partner
PocketMobile has entered into a partnership with Zetes, a leading pan-European company in the value-added solutions and services industry for Automatic Identification of Goods and People. The agreement was made between PocketMobile and Zetes’ Northern Europe-division.
 
Both companies regard their partnership as an important and mutually beneficial alliance. Combined, Zetes’ wide range of products and services, together with the PreCom platform, create a very strong solutions portfolio.
 
For PocketMobile, its partnership with Zetes offers access to extensive international resources and a blue chip customer base. Zetes is Europe’s largest system integrator specialising in enterprise mobility solutions for supply chain applications. It has operations in 15 countries including offices across Europe, South Africa and Israel with 1,000 employees of which, a large proportion are solutions development professionals.
Both companies regard their partnership as an important and mutually beneficial alliance. Combined, Zetes’ wide range of products and services, together with the PreCom platform, create a very strong solutions portfolio.
    
“We see the partnership with Zetes as an opportunity to work with a company that has a proven track record delivering enterprise mobility solutions for the supply chain. It enables PocketMobile to significantly broaden its market reach at a time when demand for mobility is starting to really accelerate,” says Anders Tormod, CEO of PocketMobile.
 
Zetes has already certified and trained a number of its mobile application developers on the PreCom platform and is now able to offer its customers PreCom based solutions. The benefit to the customer of a solution based on the PreCom Platform is the opportunity to specify higher levels of customisation, which can be achieved with a shorter development time and lower ongoing costs.
 
“Our customers face difficult times ahead with the continued economic uncertainty, yet they need to keep investing in enterprise mobility applications that improve operational productivity and reduce costs. The PreCom platform provides an astute way for to us to offer customers the best possible application functionality, delivered in the shortest possible timeframe, without having to pass that additional cost on as higher prices or maintenance charges,” says Andrew Southgate, joint managing director of Zetes UK and Nordics.    
 
About ZetesZETES INDUSTRIES (Euronext Brussels: ZTS) is a leading pan-European company in the value-added solutions and services industry for Automatic Identification of Goods and People (Goods ID and People ID). Zetes uses both emerging and mature technologies (barcode, voice recognition, RFID, smartcards, biometrics), and develops Solution Architecture Frameworks to optimise the business performance of many customers in many market segments: manufacturing, transportation, logistics, retail, healthcare, finance, telecommunication, government and public services. The Zetes group has its headquarters in Brussels, with subsidiaries in Belgium, Côte d'Ivoire, Denmark, Germany, Greece, France, Ireland, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, South-Africa and the UK. Zetes currently employs more than 1,000 employees and generated consolidated revenues of €216.7 million in 2010. For more info: www.zetes.co.uk.