Edgbaston, Birmingham-based IBM Corp software house JBA International Plc intends to give its already booming international business a boost by exhibiting for the first time at the CeBIT ’93 Exhibition in Hannover next March. JBA, which supplies its Business 400 software and services to the mid-range computer market, is particularly keen to exploit the thriving […]
Edgbaston, Birmingham-based IBM Corp software house JBA International Plc intends to give its already booming international business a boost by exhibiting for the first time at the CeBIT ’93 Exhibition in Hannover next March. JBA, which supplies its Business 400 software and services to the mid-range computer market, is particularly keen to exploit the thriving European AS/400 market, which it reckons is overtaking that of the UK. The company, which has a new German subsidiary in Dusseldorf – and affiliates in Karlsruhe and Hamburg – reckons it is better placed than its US competitors to tailor its products for European needs. It has recently produced a new ‘World Trade Module’ for example, a system that helps companies organise fiscal procedures such as value-added tax reporting and control in accordance with the single European market. While it prefers not to supply figures, JBA reckons sales of this new offering are setting internal records. The company is not limiting its focus to Europe though and has continued to expand its international network into the US, the Far East and Australia. Its software products include finance, customer service, logistics and production applications and niche products for the brewing, clothing and warehouse sectors. They are available in 15 languages and, the company says, are now used by over 1,500 organisations worldwide. JBA is now developing client-server versions of the products – there is no information on expected release dates.
