Like a six straight into the pavillion

Enterprise resource planning solutions provider Epicor Software Corporation has gotten a mandate from the world’s leadership of the great game of cricket, the International Cricket Council. Epicor execs made the announcement at the GITEX 2006 convention at the Dubai International Exhibition and Convention Centre. GITEX is billed as the “Middle East’s premier IT expo.”

The ICC’s integrated ERP mandate to Epicor will begin with the implementation of Epicor iScala financial management and iScala Active Planner for enterprise-wide budgeting and forecasting. Epicor officials promised that the implementation would assist the cricket entity in “streamlin[ing] its business processes with end-to-end visibility.”

ICC CFO Faisal Hasnain stated that “Our decision to partner with Epicor comes at a time of a rapid expansion of our activities and the need to have an integrated ERP system to further streamline our business processes, reduce costs and save time.” (Is the ICC really expanding activities? Good on ‘em.)

The ICC was founded on June 15, 1909 by Australia, England and South Africa. These three founding members have since been joined by seven full members, 32 associate members and 55 affiliate members, including such well-known cricket hotbeds as Mexico and Cuba.

The Epicor client portfolio now numbers 350 sites in the Middle East and North Africa. Founded in 1984, Irvine, Calif.-based Epicor Software serves over 20,000 customers in more than 140 countries in thirty-one languages. Epicor delivers end-to-end, industry-specific solutions for manufacturing, distribution, retail, hospitality and services.