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OpalSoft Joins R101's Companies that Care Network
Alliance adds system integration and consulting services to R101's
efforts to bridge the digital divide between for-profit and not
for profit corporations
 PALO
ALTO, CA (May 8, 2001) -- R101 today announced a strategic relationship
with OpalSoft , a leading systems integrator. Under the terms of the
one-year agreement, OpalSoft will be a founding member of R101's
Companies that Care Network and will donate engineering, deployment,
and integration consulting services to R101.
R101 ensures that Silicon Valley is the beneficiary of its own innovation
by providing strategic eBusiness solutions to local nonprofits at
no or low cost. Through the alliance with OpalSoft , R101 will be
able to reach more nonprofits more quickly, providing them with critical
solutions for serving clients, scaling their operations, and reaping
the economies technology provides. Deidre Paknad, founder and CEO
of R101, says, "We are thrilled that OpalSoft will join our
Companies that Care Network. OpalSoft complements its reputation
and expertise with this statement of great leadership and citizenship.
More importantly, they significantly increase R101's capacity to deliver
technology to the nonprofit corporations in our community who have
been left out of the technology revolution."
OpalSoft CEO OP Choudhary comments that "R101 is making an important
contribution to the community and we are proud to be early participants
in their efforts. They have made it easy for us to contribute in a
manner consistent with our daily business practices." He adds,
"we believe R101's Companies that Care Network and its portfolio
of technology companies will not only bring nonprofits best of breed
applications, it will provide us with new business relationships with
other socially responsible companies. R101's efforts to catalyze the
affluent resources of the bay area will succeed, fundamentally changing
the way not-for-profit organizations operate. These stronger not-for-profit
organizations, in turn, will help eliminate the distance between 'haves'
and 'have-nots' in our community."
About R101
R101's mission is to ensure that Silicon Valley is the beneficiary
of its own innovation and to create an ethic of reciprocity that extends
beyond corporate walls to our families and our neighbors. The company
is distinguished by its focus on deploying strategic constituent-facing
technologies that fuel the "5 Cs" - content, context, collaboration,
community, and commerce - to nonprofits within the community. These
sustainable technologies provide exponential benefit back to the community
by allowing nonprofits to economically scale services, improve quality
and increase constituents served. R101's Companies that Care Network
is comprised of Silicon Valley's best corporate citizens, who provide
their technologies in part to mitigate the significant impact of the
tech boom on the areas nonprofits. R101 launched in March 2001 and
is based in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit www.r101.org
or call 650-461-0010.
About Opalsoft
OpalSoft, Inc. is a software and services consulting company, focused
on the e-Business integration market. The company was founded in 1997,
and is headquartered in San Jose, California. OpalSoft works with
the leading technology companies nationwide and provides its Fortune
500 clients with systems integration and consulting services in Enterprise
Relationship Management (ERM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP),
Customer Relationship Management (CRM), eBusiness, data warehousing,
Business Intelligence Applications, and wireless applications. OpalSoft clients
include Broadbase software, CISCO, Hewlett Packard, Icarian, Kaiser
Permanente, LabCorp, Telesynergy, and Visa, among others. Its technology
expertise includes XML, Java, and ODBMS technologies as well as traditional
EAI. In addition to its 60 engineers, OpalSoft has an offshore development
center to assist its clients in projects of any scale. For more information,
visit www.OpalSoft .com or call 408-267-2211
Media Contacts
R101
Virginia Dickson, virginia@r101.org, 650-461-0010
OpalSoft, Inc.
Sharad Sharma, SharadS@opalsoft.com, 408-267-2211
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