Northwest Savings Bank invests in software

Northwest Savings Bank, a $7 billion, full-service community bank, has selected uMonitor’s uOpen & uFund, with an integrated financial relationship switch kit, for opening and funding accounts online. uOpen & uFund automates and streamlines deposit, loan and credit card applications into one unified application and eliminates the need for multiple processes. It will enhance Northwest Savings Bank’s online banking experience by giving customers the ability to set up new deposit accounts, including checking, savings, money market and CDs. (David E. Westerburg, senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Northwest Savings Bank.)

$750,000 contract to develop a modular software framework

SSCI, a developer of technology solutions for defense and industrial suppliers, has been awarded a $750,000 contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a modular software framework for testing and evaluation of navigation sensors and algorithms. The Small Business Investment Research (SBIR) contract leverages SSCI’s leadership in technology enabling intelligent autonomous land-based and aerial unmanned systems to perform their missions in hostile or challenging environments. In order to encourage adoption by sensor manufacturers, the project is being developed in open source format, with code available for download at http://code.google.com/p/functionalnavigation.

U.S. Lumber 3,623% RoI

Nucleus Research analysts examined the deployment of IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence at U.S. Lumber and found a 3,623% return on investment (ROI) with payback in only eleven days. U.S. Lumber is a $325 million distributor of specialty and wholesale building materials. The company has approximately 6,000 customers and eight distribution facilities.

Translation for company with 750,000 representatives

Nu Skin has chosen Lingotek to help centralize and streamline its ability to bring localized materials to its multiple markets in the Americas, Europe and South Pacific. Under the agreement, which includes Lingotek’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) collaborative translation platform and the use of Lingotek translators, as needed, Nu Skin expects to increase translator productivity to enable them to translate a greater number of documents more quickly and accurately—and at a lower cost. Nu Skin has more than 750,000 independent representatives selling personal care products and nutritional supplements in 48 global markets, representing 35 languages. (Greg Darlington, vice president of marketing and operations for Nu Skin’s Americas, Europe and South Pacific region.)

United Rentals purchase

United Rentals has purchased WhereScape RED to ensure that the structure of its data continues to meet the evolving needs of its business and markets. (Dan Mosher, Director of Enterprise Data Warehousing for United Rentals.)

Equipment dealer invests in software

Butler Machinery, a Caterpillar equipment dealer, has licensed the Lawson for Equipment Service Management and Rental Suite, a software system designed for heavy equipment manufacturers, distributors and rental companies. Butler will use the Lawson solution to help promote efficiency within the company and position it for growth. In addition, Butler will use the Lawson Human Resource Management Suite to support its HR-related activities. Butler is a privately held, third-generation Caterpillar equipment dealer. The company focuses on construction, mining, power generation and agricultural industries. The company has 11 dealer locations providing sales, rental, parts and service and employs more than 600 associates, with many in service-related positions. (Twylah Blotsky, director of IT, Marketing and Six Sigma for Butler Machinery.)

Bank risks investment in software

As many financial institutions are looking for methods to enhance lending compliance and credit risk management, Bank of Idaho has deployed Cypress Software Systems’ BizMark software to develop an automated application and underwriting system for its small business loans. Beyond the efficiencies achieved with the loan software, Bank of Idaho also gained additional control over its credit risk management and compliance efforts. Bank of Idaho has seven branches across Idaho, holding more than $200 million in assets with more than 100 employees. (Warren Roberts, vice president and assistant loan administrator at Bank of Idaho.)

$35 million payroll contract

STG, Inc. has been awarded the Department of State’s Bureau of Resource Management (RM) Worldwide Agency-wide Locally Engaged Staff (WALES) contract. Under this $35 million, 5-year contract, STG will design, develop and implement a payroll solution for more than 90,000 American & Foreign Service National staff and Foreign Service Annuitants.

Egg delivery routes: NFC shells out

Major egg producer and processor, National Food Corporation, has revolutionized the way it plans and coordinates its delivery routes to customers throughout North and Midwest America and the Pacific Rim. Using routing and scheduling software from Paragon Software Systems, Inc, (http://us.paragonrouting.com) one person is able to plan up to 50 complex routes per day to complete over 11,000 deliveries per week. This high efficiency also enables the company to provide third party logistics services for several clients, including some very recognisable names in retail.

National Food Corporation uses a combination of Paragon Multi Depot and Integrated Fleets software. This has proven to be the ideal solution to automate planning and optimize transportation from its distribution centers and DCs. The system replaces a time consuming, manual process that was completely dependent on local DC managers. (Kevin Bookey, Transportation Manager, National Food Corporation.)

Case management solution

Kansas City Municipal Court (KCMC) in Kansas City, Kansas recently integrated their JustWare | Municipal Court case management solution with their local law enforcement's Advanced Public Safety, Inc.'s (APS) electronic ticketing devices. This integration automatically enters ticket information directly into JustWare using the data from each officer's APS PocketCitation ticketing device, saving both the municipal court and police department both time and resources. Prior to implementing an eticket solution, the Court would receive two of the four paper copies of the citation. Once data entry entered all citation information, KCMC manually filed each citation with the appropriate court date and would relocate the ticket when the date approached. Not only was this process time consuming but also expensive to store and maintain old violation records. (Lisa Garcia, KCMC Administrative Supervisor.)

Email archiving and e-discovery

Windsor Foods has deployed LiveOffice Personal Archive and LiveOffice Discovery Archive to provide unlimited storage capacity, improved server performance and e-discovery capabilities to its more than 600 users spread throughout 11 U.S. facilities. A national provider of frozen food products, Windsor Foods required a scalable email archiving and e-discovery solution to address its rapidly growing data stores, which were pushing the company’s in-house mail servers to near capacity and beginning to cause performance issues. (Windsor Foods’ Vice President of Information Technology, Stephan Henze.)

Software for law firm

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, a law firm, has launched Recommind’s MindServer Search software and Recommind’s Matters & Expertise module. MindServer Search’s Matters and Expertise module gives Davis Polk 750 attorneys and their support staff quick access to its work and its people through the automated integration of information from diverse repositories including time and billing, matter profiles and human resources. (Michael Mills, Davis Polk’s Director of Professional Services.) http://www.davispolk.com.

Macy’s customer sales data

dunnhumbyUSA, builder of sales and brand value for consumer goods and retail companies, has an expanded contractual partnership with Macy’s. Macy’s and dunnhumby initially entered into a contractual agreement in August 2008. Under the agreement, dunnhumby will continue to analyze Macy’s customer sales data, develop customer segmentation models, and work with the Macy's organization to apply the learnings, in alignment with the company’s existing customer-centric business initiatives, to accelerate future sales growth.

Hospitality Management System

The Mayo Hotel and Residences has chosen to install PAR’s ^SMS|Host Hospitality Management System. First opened in 1925, The Mayo was the preeminent hotel of its age. Newly reborn as a hotel and residence, The Mayo once again reigns as one of Tulsa’s most elegant and luxurious properties. The Mayo Hotel has selected PAR Springer-Miller’s ^SMS|Host solution for the system’s total property integration capabilities to manage both the hotel and residences from one integrated system. Using the ^SMS|Multi-Property Management module, guest and other property charges can be directly posted to a resident’s account. PAR’s EverServe 6000, the newest POS hardware platform from PAR, has been chosen for the retail and food and beverage outlets. Fully-integrated into the ^SMS|Host hospitality management system, the Mayo will utilize ^SMS|Touch Fine Dining and ^SMS|Retail Point-of-Sale in these outlets. (Wesley Ludloff, General Manager of The Mayo Hotel.)

University Medical Center selects Lawson

Oklahoma State University Medical Center has selected the Lawson S3 Enterprise Financial Management and Supply Chain Management suites. These software suites will help the healthcare provider automate its business and supply inventory processes and improve efficiencies – all geared toward helping the organization reduce operating costs. (Craig McKnight, chief financial officer for Oklahoma State University Medical Center.)

Common set of business processes

CAS has been selected by The Coca-Cola Company to provide sales force automation solutions to its bottler network, as part of the Program Scale Mobile Customer Management (MCM) initiative. According to Tom Miller, General Manager of Program Scale and Vice President, Bottling Investments for The Coca-Cola Company, Program Scale is designed to provide company-owned and franchise bottlers with a common set of business processes under the Coke One operating model, using the SAP platform. MCM is designed to take the power of Scale to the next level - extend Coke One to include advanced customer facing capabilities, particularly in the area of mobile customer management.

Ocean Spray optimizes marketing and trade investments

Ocean Spray has signed a multi-year agreement for the M-Factor Software-as-a-Service platform. “M-Factor has helped us to better understand what we’re doing right and how we can further optimize our marketing and trade investments to drive even more incremental profit and volume in the future,” said Larry Martin, VP Marketing at Ocean Spray.

School district spends $1.7 million

Mansfield Independent School District (MISD) has invested $1.7 million in the Fast ForWord family of products from Scientific Learning to help the district’s struggling readers and boost the performance of students already at grade level reading proficiency. Designed to accelerate learning by developing the student brain to process more efficiently, the Fast ForWord educational software was purchased this spring will be used this school year by elementary, intermediate, middle and high school students within Mansfield’s 37 schools. (Dr. Bob Morrison, MISD superintendent.)

School District buys ERP

Cherry Creek School District No. 5 has signed a multi-suite contract that includes the Lawson S3 Enterprise Financial Management and Supply Chain Management suites as well as the Lawson Human Resource Management suite. The new system will help the district automate manual processes, such as budgeting, purchasing and personnel transactions. Lawson Teacher Contract Administration will help the district manage complex tracking and reporting requirements associated with teacher pay to help ensure accurate payroll, benefits, time and taxation processes tied to teacher contracts. (Lyndal Brookhart, director of Human Resources for Cherry Creek School District.)

Encryption and key management solutions

Follett Higher Education Group has selected Thales encryption and key management solutions. As a result Follett has eliminated time-consuming manual processes for managing encryption keys – a key requirement for compliance under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Follett Higher Education Group sells more than 23 million textbooks annually in stores and online, and operates more than 700 campus bookstores for colleges and universities across the United States. For every transaction the company protects its customers’ personal data from breaches, complying with PCI DSS. Prior to selecting the Thales solution Follett security administrators manually replaced or rotated old encryption keys by hand in order to fulfill one of the PCI DSS requirements. (Irwin Gafen, Follett’s director of wholesale and distribution systems.)