Nine months after hiring 30 former employees of SAP's shelved TomorrowNow subsidiary and entering the third-party ERP software support business, Spinnaker Management Group LLC has signed on 70 customers, most of them manufacturers and all of them users of Oracle Corp.'s JD Edwards applications.
"The JD Edwards support business has been a good fit for us," says Mathew Stava, co-founder and managing principal at Spinnaker in Denver. "We saw it as an opportunity, and something that many of our clients were asking for."
Privately owned Spinnaker started seven years ago as a strategic consulting firm focusing primarily on manufacturing, distribution, and supply chain processes. In January 2007, the company expanded into supply chain execution software and logistics outsourcing services through the acquisition of Atlanta-based Prosero.
Last fall, the company jumped into the third-party ERP support market after SAP AG announced its plans to wind down TomorrowNow, which has been embroiled in a trade secrets lawsuit filed by rival Oracle. Spinnaker hired 30 former TomorrowNow employees in Denver, the United Kingdom, and Singapore who had been providing third-party support to JD Edwards users.