Looking to develop a new Dealer Business System, Nissan North America has selected HP Enterprise Services.

HP Enterprise Services provides end-to-end IT services in applications, business process, and infrastructure technology outsourcing for increased productivity, innovation, and security so businesses can plan for future growth and governments can efficiently deliver citizen services. Recently, the company announced that EDS (News - Alert) will now be called EDS Is Now HP Enterprise Services.

Using a service-oriented architecture, this new system will help the dealers to access new features and improved functionality with a state-of-the-art platform. Apart from offering near-real-time integration between the dealer management systems and NNA’s back-end processing, this system will also allow NNA’s sales, service, parts ordering, warranty claim processing and delivery reporting to accommodate multiple access methods.

“Today’s auto buyers have high expectations for customer service, and technology plays a key role in enabling a positive experience at the dealership,” said Stephen Mason, director, Automotive Sector, HP Enterprise Services. “HP will use its automotive industry and applications services expertise to provide a solution to help NNA and its dealers achieve their business goals with less risk,” he continued.

HP will provide application development, implementation, management and hosting services under Nissan’s direction. It will also provide system certification for the DBS with multiple dealer management system providers. HP also will provide technical support for dealers through a technical service desk environment, the company has announced. Offering HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosures with HP ProLiant server blades, the DBS application will be developed, tested and operated on HP technology.

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