The Cincom video interviews are 30-60 second snapshots of the business proposition of the competing teams.

All 14 videos were filmed, created, edited and produced in the Cincom Studio.

Thanks to Liz Harter and Claire Eldridge for filming, editing, producing and uploading the videos for distribution. Thanks also to Mike Wehry and Midge Fatheree for technical support and troubleshooting during the awards-banquet presentation.

The Teams

University of Oregon
Casino Coach
Casino Coach is a virtual casino games tutorial delivered over the existing hotel TV network that is operated using the TV remote.
Faculty Advisor: Al Cochrane
Team Members: Andy Jenness, Silas Olson, Neal Rosenshein and Lily Feng

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
BiologicsMD, LLC
BiologicsMD, LLC is developing a new prescription osteoporosis solution, OsteoFlor, that will improve patient quality of life and reduce the osteoporosis burden on the healthcare system.
Faculty Advisor: Carol Reeves
Team Members: Misty Stevens, Paul Mlakar, Robyn Goforth and Michael Thomas

University of Michigan
North Coast Fisheries
An aquaculture firm that provides fish native to the upper Midwest for stocking and consumption, without the use of antibiotics, growth hormones and methyl mercury.
Faculty Advisor: Paul Kirsch
Team Members: Aaron Skrocki, Andrew Chamaj, Philip O’Niel and Matthew Turner

University of Manitoba
SpectroDent
An innovative medical-device company specializing in dental diagnostic equipment, SpectroDent is finalizing the development of its initial product offering, the Perio1Diagnostic System (Perio 1).
Faculty Advisor: Robert Warren
Team Members: Sideek Ali, Jonathan Enright and Angad Singh

University of Cincinnati
vMouse
vMouse is a vertical computer mouse that proposes a welcome change to the traditional carpel-tunnel-inducing mouse design that has essentially remained unchanged since its commercial introduction 25 years ago.
Faculty Advisor: Charles H. Matthews
Team Members: Niraj Kapadia and Gregory Case

University of Illinois at Chicago
MMPe Technologies
A seed-stage drug delivery company working to further investigate and license biologically controlled drug delivery systems.
Faculty Advisor: Rod Shrader
Team Members: Rebecca Hirschboeck, Dianne Gaffney and Jennifer Schoenberger

University of Louisville
CALMsenior
CALMsenior is an internet-based service that connects impaired seniors living apart to the daily lives of their families.
Faculty Advisor: Van G.H. Clouse
Team Members: Matthew Wilson, Joseph Rotella, Aaron Welenken and Colin Lippy

Rice University
OrthoIntrinsics
OrthoIntrinsics is a medical-device venture that is positioned to become a leading innovator of measurement tools for the orthopedic, upper-extremity market.
Faculty Advisor: Maria Oden
Team Members: Steve Xu, Matthew Miller, Robert Likamwa and Naveen Yadav

Kennesaw State University
Drive Safe Glucose Monitoring System
A medical device company whose mission is to make driving safer for diabetic drivers and the general public.
Faculty Advisor: Charles Hofer
Team Members: Jennifer Renshaw, Bill Cross and Conley Ingram

Johns Hopkins University
Cortical Concepts
Cortical Concepts has created an implant for use in spinal surgery, completed three rounds of prototyping and shown efficacy in cadaveric testing.
Faculty Advisor: A. Jay Khanna
Team Members: Evan Luxon, Nicholas Martinez, Jason Hsu and Chris Komanski

Indiana University
QP Digital
QP Digital will develop and license Quilt Packaging technology to supercomputer manufacturers to solve the energy expense issue—one of the industry’s most pressing problems.
Faculty Advisor: Donald Kuratko
Team Members: Gavin Ferlic

Purdue University
GlucaGO LLC
A “one-step-inject” system that is slightly larger than a Chap Stick container and only requires the removal of the safety cap and compression at the injection site. GlucaGO’s device allows any active ingredients (vaccines or drugs) to be stable for a year on the shelf in lyophilized (freeze-dried) form.
Faculty Advisor: Tim Folta
Team Members: Rush Bartlett, Arthur Chlebowski and Peter Greco

Florida Atlantic University
Generation Oxygen
Generation Oxygen is a cause-driven website for people who are eager to make positive contributions to the world.
Faculty Advisor: Derrick Huang
Team Members: Freddy Moldt

Media Contact:
Liz Harter
PR Specialist
Cincom Systems, Inc.
513-612-2155
Lharter@cincom.com
http://www.cincom.com

CINCINNATI – March 1, 2010 – The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, won 1^st place at the sixth annual 2010 University of Cincinnati (UC) Spirit of Enterprise MBA Business Plan Competition, taking home the Cincom Systems (http://newsroom.cincom.com) $10,000 Champion Award and an automatic invitation to the 2010 Global Moot Corp® Competition with over $100,000 in total prizes at stake. Johns Hopkins University received first runner-up and University of Illinois Chicago earned second runner-up.

Misty Stevens and Robyn Goforth from BiologicsMD, LLC at the University of Arkansas accept the $10,000 grand prize at the 2010 University of Cincinnati Spirit of Enterprise MBA Business Plan Competition

The winning team’s (Misty Stevens, Paul Mlakar, Robyn Goforth, and Michael Thomas) business plan, BiologicsMD, LLC is developing a new prescription osteoporosis solution, OsteoFlor, that will improve patient quality of life and reduce the osteoporosis burden on the healthcare system.

Entrepreneurial Battle of Ideas

Contestants and judges of the 6th Annual University of Cincinnati Spirit of Enterprise MBA Business Plan Competition stand with Cincom CEO Tom Nies at the event on Feb. 26

The Spirit of Enterprise, hosted and sponsored by Cincom, is an invitational forum for next generation entrepreneurs to “road test” business-venture concepts – ideas that may have a powerful effect on business and the world.

The Johns Hopkins University team of Evan Luxon, Nicholas Martinez, Jason Hsu and Chris Komanski developed an implant for use in spinal surgery. The technology has already been through three rounds of prototyping and shown efficacy in cadaveric testing.

University of Illinois Chicago’s Rebecca Hirschboeck, Dianne Gaffney, and Jennifer Shoenberger created MMPe Technologies, a seed-stage drug delivery company working to further investigate and license biologically controlled drug delivery systems.

Purdue University won the Limo/Taxi Ride Competition. Mirroring a chance encounter with a potential angel investor, teams must try to sell their business plan’s viability within 10 minutes on the road.  

About the UC E-Center
Founded in 1997 by Matthews, the E-Center’s mission is to provide a state-of-the-art entrepreneurship curriculum and research base not only for potential student entrepreneurs and scholars, but also for people in the many organizations that interact with small, entrepreneurial and family-owned businesses. Success magazine has listed The University of Cincinnati as one of the top 50 programs for entrepreneurship in the U.S., and in 2008, The Princeton Review ranked UC the 21^st best Undergraduate Entrepreneurship program in the country.

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:
Steve Kayser
Public Relations Manager
Cincom Systems, Inc.
513-612-2348
skayser@cincom.com
http://www.cincom.com

Remarkable – The New Rules of Marketing & PR, –   Jay Conrad Levinson, author of the Guerilla Marketing series of books.

“You are not supposed to be able to do what David Meerman Scott tells you in this book.” Robert Scoble, co-author of Naked Conversations.

The New Rules of Marketing & PR focuses on the radical evolution and transformation of marketing and public relations in the past decade with the advent of digital media. It includes topics like social media, video/audio podcasts, news releases, blogs and search engine marketing.

Cincom’s Expert Access is featured on pages 148 and 149 as a successful example of “Leveraging Thought Leaders Outside Your Organization” in the chapter on how online thought leadership can turn your organization into a trusted resource 

David Meerman Scott has been a contributor to Expert Access since 2006.

Media Contact:
Steve Kayser
Public Relations Manager
Cincom Systems, Inc.
513-612-2348
skayser@cincom.com
http://www.cincom.com

CINCINNATI, Ohio – February 22, 2010 – Cincom Systems (http://www.cincom.com) will host and sponsor the 2010 sixth annual University of Cincinnati (UC) Spirit of Enterprise MBA Business Plan Competition on Thursday, February 25 and Friday, February 26, 2010.

CRITICAL ISSUES
Health care access, creation of advanced medical devices and clean energy are some of the most critical issues facing the world. The teams competing in the Spirit of Enterprise competition have entrepreneurial ideas to help face and overcome these challenges.

SHOW ME THE MONEY

 

Cincom CEO Tom Nies signs the Grand Prize Check

To win, teams must communicate their business plans in a powerful, persuasive way to an esteemed panel of bankers, venture capitalists and business leaders. The most innovative and commercially viable plans will be rewarded with cash prizes up to $20,000.

WHO IS COMPETING?
University of Oregon; University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; University of Michigan; University of Manitoba; University of Cincinnati; University of Illinois at Chicago; University of Louisville; Rice University; Kennesaw State University; Johns Hopkins University; Indiana University; Purdue University; Florida Atlantic University.

HOW DOES IT WORK?
The winning teams are identified through a competition format consisting of three intense and challenging preliminary rounds — very much like the NCAA Basketball Tournament. At the conclusion of the preliminary round, the top four teams will advance to the final round’s single track, where they will again have 25 minutes to sell their venture — this time to a new panel of judges.

CAN YOU THINK ON YOUR SEAT?

Elevator Pitch on Wheels

Those not chosen for the final championship round will move onto the consolation track: the Limo/Taxi Ride Competition. Mirroring a chance encounter with a potential angel investor, teams must try to sell their business plan’s viability within 10 minutes on the road.

THE CINCOM “SPIRIT of ENTERPRISE” GRAND PRIZE
This year’s competition is featuring cash prizes totaling $20,000, with first place being the Cincom Spirit of Enterprise Champion Prize and an automatic bid to the 2010 MOOT CORP® Competition. Other cash prizes will be allotted to the second and third place recipients of the Finalist Round, first place in the UC Taxi/Limo Competition, and the winner of the Best Technology Plan.

LEARN FROM REAL-WORLD ENTREPRENEURIAL SUCCESS STORIES
“Cincom Systems’ World Headquarters is a great venue in which to compete. It gives students a chance to learn about global business from one of the all-time great entrepreneurial success stories in the software industry, CEO Tom Nies,” said  Dr. Charles Matthews, director of the UC Center for Entrepreneurship Education & Research (E-Center).

Aside from monetary awards, participants will receive valuable practice in competing against teams from top universities, as well as invaluable business-plan assessments and critiques from the panel of judges.

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About the UC E-Center (http://www.ecenter.uc.edu/)
Founded in 1997 by Matthews, the E-Center’s mission is to provide a state-of-the-art entrepreneurship curriculum and research base not only for potential student entrepreneurs and scholars, but also for people in the many organizations that interact with small, entrepreneurial and family-owned businesses. Success magazine has listed The University of Cincinnati as one of the top 50 programs for entrepreneurship in the U.S., and in 2008, The Princeton Review ranked UC the 21st best Undergraduate Entrepreneurship program in the country.

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:
Steve Kayser
Public Relations Manager
Cincom Systems, Inc.
513-612-2348skayser@cincom.com
http://www.cincom.com

 Cincom CEO Thomas Nies, the longest-active serving CEO in the technology industry is a busy man. He’s the featured presenter at the Executive Speaker Series on February 23, 2010 at Miami University’s Farmer School of Business, then on Feb. 25 and 26, he and Cincom are hosting the 2010 University of Cincinnati “Spirit of Enterprise” Graduate Business Plan Competition, providing $20,000 in overall prize money.

What do these two things have in common?

Nies is sharing his hard earned and learned leadership lessons with the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders … hoping to help them become the entrepreneurial leaders of tomorrow – today.

DRUM ROLL PLEASE …

To help share Nies’ ideas, information, insights and inspirations, a Tom Nies entrepreneurial leadership Web site (http://tomnies.cincom.com) launched today. The Web site provides, articles, interviews, images and video to help tell the remarkable story of one of the pioneers of software industry. What story you say?

LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY

Long ago and far away (from Silicon Valley anyway) in September of 1968, a radical idea for a new product and a new company was born in a Cincinnati basement; an idea that took seed with $600, a card table and a dream.

A DAUNTING DREAM

The challenges of the dream were daunting: create, market, and sell a product that one of the biggest companies in the world (IBM) was giving away for free.

NO PRODUCT, NO CUSTOMERS, NO INDUSTRY

That dream also included no venture capital; no one would finance it. Why? Because no one understood it. Software or softwear? What’s that, clothes? One bank actually thought that and turned him down. They didn’t finance women’s lingerie stores. Why the confusion?

BEFORE MICROSOFT – BEFORE ORACLE

This was seven years before Microsoft was founded in 1975 and nine years before Oracle was founded in 1977. And, this was in Cincinnati, Ohio, not Silicon Valley.

Forty-one years of pioneering, advancement and leadership in the turbulent and unforgiving software industry followed by Nies and his Cincom employees.

PRESIDENTS AND PRIME MINSTERS

Along the way a few people noticed. People like President Ronald Reagan, several Governors, Former British Prime Minister Heath, the Smithsonian Institute and Harvard Business School among many other prestigious organizations have recognized Nies, and Cincom.

LEARN TO BE ONE OF TOMORROW’S LEADERS – TODAY

Visit the Web site and explore the entrepreneurial ideas, information, insights and inspirations that Nies has garnered along the way of his extraordinary 42 years in the software industry.

The Executive Speaker Series brings key business leaders to Miami and provides an engaging atmosphere in which they can reflect on their experiences and share what they have learned with tomorrow’s leaders.

“We’ve been quite successful in bringing to Miami some really outstanding thought leaders,” said Dr. Alan Oak, Dean of external relations for Miami University. “Tom is an entrepreneur and he has built a business over a long period of time. He has managed and has grown a significant business that has gone through tremendous changes. Students and faculty members gain insights about how these leaders think, manage and inspire.”

Recent speakers have included:

• Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric (GE)
• Brad Alford, President and CEO of Nestle Brands Company
• John Faraci, Chairman and CEO of International Paper.

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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.

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

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

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