Archive for January, 2010
MAC Trailer Manufacturing Selects Cincom Sales and Product Configurator Software
Worldwide software provider Cincom Systems (http://www.cincom.com) announces that MAC Trailer Manufacturing (http://www.mactrailer.com), a leading manufacturer of aluminum and steel trailers, has chosen the Cincom Acquire™ Sales and Product Configurator (http://www.cincomacquire.com) to provide online access to quoting and configuration information to their dealer network.
A key consideration for MAC Trailer Manufacturing’s selection of Cincom Acquire Sales and Product Configurator is its ability to handle complex configurations. “Cincom has shown that they are capable of handling the depth and complexity of our products, in a straight-forward manner,” says Dennis Postiy, Vice President, Systems and Materials, MAC Trailer Manufacturing. “We compared three configurators and Cincom came out on top in all relative categories.”
MAC Trailer Manufacturing expects not only a dramatic reduction in the time and cost associated with their quote-to-order process but improved dealer relations. “Cincom’s sales and product configurator will give us better visibility into our dealer quoting activity,” says Postiy, “so we’ll be able to better help our dealers respond quickly to their clients while also giving us the ability to evaluate our dealer network’s sales success.”
MAC Trailer Manufacturing also expects significant improvements in accuracy from the order itself to the product’s production and delivery. “Cincom Acquire will prevent our dealers and sales reps from inadvertently selling a customized product that—from an engineering perspective—can’t be created,” says Postiy. “It’ll remove a lot of the back-and-forth that currently happens now between our engineers and sales teams.”
Cincom Acquire automates the effective selling of complex products and services. Integrated with Cincom® CONTROL™, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP and Salesforce.com, it enables true collaborative selling processes and provides guided selling, channel and distributor collaboration, sales and product configuration, as well as quotation and proposal management.
Cincom Acquire has helped manufacturers selling complex engineer-to-order or configure-to-order products successfully streamline their sales, design and proposal processes by delivering critical product and sales knowledge to the point of sale, while significantly reducing “quote to cash” time. Cincom has helped manufacturers reduce proposal generation time from five days to 15 minutes, decrease time to close a sale by 80 percent and cut lead times from 14 weeks to six weeks. For more information about the Cincom Acquire Sales and Product Configurator, call 1-888-506-5460 (USA only), send an e-mail to acquire@cincom.com, or visit www.cincomacquire.com.
About MAC Trailer Manufacturing
MAC Trailer Manufacturing, based in Alliance, Ohio, is a privately owned company that was founded in 1993. Today, with 500,000 square feet of facilities under roof, sitting on a campus of 84 acres and having over 300 employees, MAC is the nation’s foremost manufacturer of dump, flatbed, transfer and pneumatic tank trailers. For further information, visit www.MACtrailer.com.
About Cincom
For 41 years, Cincom has helped thousands of clients worldwide by solving complex business problems with its software and services. For more information about Cincom’s products and services, contact Cincom at 1-800-2CINCOM (USA only), send an e-mail to info@cincom.com, or visit the company’s website at www.cincom.com.
NEWS RELEASE: Cincom to Kick Off Smalltalk Technology Conference World Tour in Seattle
Dynamic Languages and Cost Conscious Software Development to be Discussed
CINCINNATI – January 19, 2010 – Cincom Systems announces its next Smalltalk Technology Conference world tour, which kicks off January 21 with a stop in Seattle, Washington.
The free half-day conferences (9 a.m. to 1 p.m.) will begin with a brief webcast preview on cost conscious software development. The webcast features Tom Murphy, Gartner analyst, who discusses the value of dynamic languages. Suzanne Fortman, director, Cincom Smalltalk, will then speak about Smalltalk.
“The conference presentations will cover how other successful companies have used Smalltalk to increase their revenues and productivity with the simplicity and flexibility of the product,” Fortman said. “We’ll be covering the value of Smalltalk through other successes.”
Attendees will also be able to interact with Smalltalk gurus Georg Heeg, James Robertson, Arden Thomas and Andreas Hiltner who will outline specific ways Smalltalk can help outmaneuver the competition.
The conference tour will also stop in Toronto, Ontario on Jan. 26, the Washington, D.C. Metro area on Jan. 28, London on March 2, and Paris on March 4. All conferences take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. local time.
For more details on the World Tour, or to register for the Seattle conference, go here.
Smalltalk is an object-oriented application development language for creating and maintaining portable, cross-platform business applications. Smalltalk helps you build applications quickly and efficiently from client-server systems to highly scalable web applications.
About Cincom (http://newsroom.cincom.com/about/)
For 41 years, Cincom has helped thousands of clients worldwide by solving complex business problems with its software and services.
Media Contact:
Suzanne Fortman
STAR Team Program Director
Cincom Smalltalk
sfortman@cincom.com
NEWS RELEASE: Ninety-Eight Percent of Cincom Customers Report Good, Very Good or Excellent Service
Nine Out of 10 Customers Would Recommend Cincom Software to Others
CINCINNATI – January 14, 2010 – Software and services provider Cincom Systems announces the quarterly results of its customer-service survey conducted from September 2009 through December 2009. Over 430 surveys were sent only to customers who had actually used Cincom support services.
2009 Survey Results – Good, Very Good or Excellent
Ninety-eight percent of customers rated the overall quality support received from Cincom as good, very good or excellent.
SKILLED
Ninety-eight percent of customers rated the support skill level as good, very good or excellent.
RAPID RESPONSE TIME
Ninety-five percent of customers rated Cincom support engineers’ sense of urgency in resolving the problem as good, very good or excellent.
NINE OUT OF 10 CUSTOMERS WOULD RECOMMEND CINCOM SOFTWARE TO OTHERS
Ninety percent of customers would recommend Cincom software to another company.
About Cincom (http://newsroom.cincom.com/about/)
For 41 years, Cincom has helped thousands of clients worldwide by solving complex business problems with its software and services.
Contact Information:
Sherrie Eimer
Manager, North America Customer Contact Center
Cincom Systems, Inc.
513.612.2133
NEWS RELEASE: Ultriva Signs Partnership with Cincom Systems
Worldwide software provider, Cincom Systems, has signed a partnership agreement with Ultriva, a California-based software company specializing in Lean and Kanban solutions. As part of the agreement, Cincom will offer to existing and new customers Lean manufacturing solutions that complement its Cincom CONTROL™ enterprise resource planning (ERP) and Cincom Acquire™ Sales and Product Configurator software.
This partnership provides manufacturers with complex engineer- or made-to-order products—a solution that features intelligent, role-based operations management combined with proven Lean execution. “We believe this combination will provide our customers with the operational efficiencies required to meet the unique challenges facing manufacturers today,” says Jerry Miller, director of Cincom’s manufacturing business solutions division.
“Ultriva’s Electronic Kanban and other Lean manufacturing solutions have been working synergistically at Cincom customers over the years,” says Narayan Laksham, CEO of Ultriva. “By formalizing this business relationship, we can enhance the value to our customers with a pre-packaged, tightly integrated solution.”
“Cincom’s operations management capabilities and Ultriva’s Lean execution solution are a natural fit and complementary on both the business and technology levels,” says Dick Pearse, Cincom enterprise product director. “Alliances are successful when the combined value delivered is greater than the sum of the parts. This passes that test with flying colors.”
About Ultriva
Ultriva’s Lean Execution Suite consists of modules like Customer Kanban, Supplier Kanban, Internal Kanban, SBR, Lean Production and OEE, which allow manufacturing companies to systemize, sustain and scale Lean disciplines across the organization. Ultriva’s flagship product, Collaborative Electronic Kanban, eliminates stock-outs while reducing inventory levels up to 75%. Ultriva modules are in use in more than 130 plants worldwide, incorporating more than 5,000 suppliers and transacting over 1.5 billion dollars of inventory at industry leaders such as AGCO, CNH, Emerson, IR-Trane, McKesson, Rexnord and ThermoFisher.
About Cincom
For 41 years, Cincom has helped thousands of clients worldwide by solving complex business problems with its software and services. For more information about Cincom’s partner program, contact Cincom at 1-800-2CINCOM (USA only), send an e-mail to partners@cincom.com or visit the company’s website at www.cincom.com/partners.
RELATED LINKS
Cincom Acquire web site
http://www.cincomacquire.com
Cincom CONTROL web site
http://www.cincomerp.com
Ultriva web site
http://www.ultriva.com
Cincom Partner Program
http://www.cincom.com/partners
NEWS RELEASE: Cincom Presents Webcast on Software Development in a Cost Conscious Environment
CINCINNATI – January 12, 2009 – Cincom Systems recently developed a webcast featuring Gartner regarding how working with (or leveraging) dynamic languages can protect and enhance software development projects in a cost conscious environment.
In the webcast, featured speaker Thomas E. Murphy, research director at Gartner, discusses agile development practices and the economy, while Suzanne M. Fortman, Smalltalk STAR team program director at Cincom, discusses how Cincom Smalltalk allows companies to quickly develop and deploy applications which allows for faster return on investment and can help companies thrive in a tough economy and better position themselves for when the economy recovers.
Based on current economic conditions, some companies have had to cut back on resources and projects, making it necessary to do more with less or do the same with fewer people. In terms of application development this can mean that applications need to be built in a more agile way which requires greater productivity, development tool flexibility and, with tools that allow for rapid inspection and feedback from consumers.
As these agile development practices are utilized by more people, companies are looking for proven technologies that allow them to increase efficiency and effectiveness while reducing overall costs, according to Murphy.
“Companies are reassessing,” Murphy said in the webcast. “[They’re asking,] what’s my portfolio? What are the technologies I have? Which places should we cut? What are the things we can do to help drive productivity … and improve or reduce my costs that way I can in essence rough it out but not only rough it out in tough times but put myself in a better position for when the economy recovers?”
They’re looking for high-value, easy-to-learn dynamic languages that allow them to integrate a new project, while protecting their existing investments, Fortman said, something that the Smalltalk products – ObjectStudio, VisualWorks and WebVelocity – can deliver. Companies are looking to reuse their current development tools and build on successful projects while saving time and money also. Smalltalk makes this possible.
The “Software Development: A Cost Conscious Way to Outmaneuver the Competition” Webcast can be found at: http://www.itbriefingcenter.com/programs/gartner_913_cincom.html.
About Cincom (http://newsroom.cincom.com/about/)
For 41 years, Cincom has helped thousands of clients worldwide by solving complex business problems with its software and services.
Media Contact:
Liz Harter
Cincom Public Relations
513-612-2155
Lharter@cincom.com
