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Accenture

Accenture and sparesFinder have a partnership agreement covering Europe, and we have worked together on joint client projects in both the USA and Europe.

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.

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KPMG

sparesFinder has partnered with KPMG on a number of their client projects in the Oil & Gas sector, lead from Houston, Texas.

KPMG International's member firms have 137,000 professionals, including more than 7,600 partners, in 144 countries. The group delivers a globally consistent set of multidisciplinary services based on deep industry knowledge. KPMG professionals develop a rich understanding of clients' businesses and the insight, skills, and resources required to address industry-specific issues and opportunities.

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Platon

We are pleased to work with Platon on market education events and providing a complete solution to our clients in the data management area.

Platon are an independent information management consulting firm. They cover the full program and project life cycles, from initial strategy formulation through program management, building organizational skills, defining enterprise architecture, evaluating technologies, as well as project activities including analysis, design, development and implementation. These services are provided across all the disciplines of Information Management including Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Master Data Management, Meta Data Management, Data Integration, Information Life Cycle Management.

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Australia - Akrom

sparesFinder partners with Akrom to deliver market leading materials data cleaning and governance applications resulting in significant savings to the Oil & Gas industry.

Akrom is an innovative developer of solutions for the Oil & Gas industry. Through its high value supply chain, procurement and engineering services Akrom helps its Oil & Gas partners to optimize the use of their resources.

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Australia - The Asset Partnership

The Asset Partnership has supported sparesFinder in Australia since 1998, providing many of the early sales of our VPI application.

The Asset Partnership is amongst Australia's leading Maintenance and Operations Management consulting organisations. They specialise in helping their clients make efficient and effective use of their investments in physical assets.

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South America - Levin Global

Levin distribute sparesFinder's applications in South America and we have worked together on a number of projects in the region.

Levin Group is a leading consulting and software firm specialized in Corporate Asset Management and Valuation, focusing on: Fixed assets and warehouse stock management Appraisals Software for related purposes The group is made up of operating companies in the USA, Latin America and Europe. Since its foundation in 1952 the company has assisted more than 1850 clients, giving priority to the permanent search for excellence, which is reflected in the ISO 9001:2000 certificate, for the Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Federal District and Monterrey offices.

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We participate in and support several professional communities

ECCMA

sparesFinder is active within the ECCMA community, and the structure of our technical dictionary is based on the ISO 22745 compliant eOTD (ECCMA Open Technical Dictionary).

Formed in April 1999, the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA) is an international association of industry and government master data managers working together to increase the quality and lower the cost of descriptions of individuals, organizations, goods and services through developing and promoting International Standards for Master Data Quality.

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Material Masters

sparesFinder supports and contributes to the Material Masters website, which was set-up by one of our alumina, Paul Mayer.

The material masters website is an information resource for people who agree that data should be accurate, consistent, repeatable and duplicate free, and wish to learn more about the concepts behind managing data in a material master.

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UNSPSC

sparesFinder is a member of the UNSPSC organisation, and frequently uses this classification system in data cleaning or spend analysis projects.

The United Nations Standard Products and Services Code® (UNSPSC®) provides an open, global multi-sector standard for efficient, accurate classification of products and services. Search the code on this website to locate commodity codes that can be used by your company.

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PIDX

sparesFinder is a member of PIDX - Petroleum Industry Data Exchange - part of the API American Petroleum Institute.

The PIDX vision is to develop Global Energy Business Standards for the oil and natural gas industry and its trading partners. PIDX provides a forum for delivering business processes, information, and technology standards that facilitate seamless, efficient electronic business within the petroleum industry and its trading community.

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Our specialist software can enable supply chain integration companies to achieve real efficiencies and differentiated solutions

Brammer

Many of Brammer's customers struggle with poor data quality, and we work with Brammer to help them to overcome these challenges and increase the efficiency of their procurement processes.

Brammer employs over 2500 people in more than 300 locations in 15 countries, making us the leading pan-European distributor of bearings, belts & pulleys, chains & sprockets, linear motion, motors, seals, gearboxes, pneumatics, hydraulics, clutches & couplings, tools & maintenance and health & safety products. This unique pan-European scale makes them the only industrial distribution company in Europe able to offer a single source supply of all the world's leading brands. Brammer offers competitive pricing through their buying power and excellent levels of product availability through the most extensive stock holding in Europe.

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Entec

With Entec, sparesFinder has created a powerful procurement automation service, which both delivers compliance with negotiated price levels and greatly increases the efficiency of procurement processes.

Entec International is a global procurement service provider with offices in the UK, Africa and North America. They act as a single source of supply for any engineering spare parts and equipment which are used to maintain and repair large scale manufacturing plant and machinery. In addition they source a wide range of supplementary goods used for facilities management.

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J&P

The fresh thinking applied by sparesFinder and the J&P group has led to a number of joint initiaives with our mutual clients.

J&P Group is a leading provider of engineering, facilities management and security solutions to such blue-chip private sector organisations as Airbus Industries, Eon UK and Eriks Industrial Services, in addition to public sector organisations such as the NHS. Their strength lies in the unrivalled depth of their technical expertise, which enables them to provide innovative - yet socially and environmentally responsible - solutions to the most complex challenges for clients in a diverse range of market sectors.

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As an Independent Software Vendor (ISV), we like to work with other software companies to find the right solution

Microsoft

sparesFinder's applications are all developed on Microsoft's SQL Server database using .NET and Silverlight software technologies.

The world's #1 software company provides a variety of products and services, including its ubiquitous Windows operating systems and Office software suite. For software development they offer Visual Studio and the .NET framework, which combined with the SQL Server database enable software companies to create powerful enterprise class solutions.

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SAP

sparesFinder & SAP are offering free Master Data workshops to help you find out how to master your corporate data before it masters you. Click here to register.

As the world's leading provider of business software, SAP delivers products and services that help accelerate business innovation for their customers. They believe that doing so will unleash growth and create significant new value - for their customers, SAP, and ultimately, entire industries and the economy at large. Today, customers in more than 120 countries run SAP applications - from distinct solutions addressing the needs of small businesses and midsize companies to suite offerings for global organizations.

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Oniqua

Oniqua and sparesFinder are working together to create the most capable solution for data cleaning and analytics.

Oniqua provides advanced analytics-based Asset Performance Management solutions that dramatically improve the efficiencies of asset-intensive organizations across inventory, maintenance and procurement operations. With cross-functional integration, data cleansing services and 20 years of industry experience and expertise, Oniqua helps customers cut costs, minimize risk and achieve significant savings in a matter of months.

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Let's join forces to build a better solution

If you're involved in materials data work, inventory management or helping to solve problems in a related area, then we'd be very interested to see if we can work together.

No-one has a monopoly of knowledge or capability and it could be that together we can build an even better proposition for our mutual customers, as we have done with the other partners listed in this section.

Whether you're a lone consultant trying to solve a one-off problem for a client that trusts you or a huge company needing to find a specialist partner to support your business, please contact us and let's see what happens.