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Activant

Activant Solutions Inc. is a leading technology provider of business management solutions serving small and medium-sized businesses in four primary vertical markets: hardware and home center, lumber and building materials, the automotive parts aftermarket and wholesale distribution. Founded in 1972, Activant provides customers with tailored proprietary software, professional services, content, supply chain connectivity, and analytics. Over 23,000 customer locations use Activant to manage their day-to-day operations. Activant's systems are designed to help customers increase sales, boost productivity, operate more cost-efficiently, improve inventory turns and enhance trading partner relationships. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Activant has operations in California, Colorado, Illinois, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom. Contact us at www.activant.com or (800) 678-5266.

Activant Solutions - Wholesale Distribution Group

Activant provides technology solutions and services to more than 4,200 wholesale distributors throughout North America. A leading technology provider for the distribution industry, Activant develops comprehensive enterprise software solutions to help distributors improve customer service and maximize the return on their technology investment. In addition, the company offers an Internet trading network that expedites sourcing, expands geographic reach, and streamlines transactions between distributors and manufacturers. Find out more at http://distribution.activant.com.

Byte Managers

Byte Managers operates one of the largest electronic content factories in the world, providing a wide range of data cleansing and data enhancement services. Our focus is to produce and deploy high end, attribute rich content for use across a wide range of e-commerce and print applications in multiple vertical markets, resulting in improved procurement efficiencies, incremental revenue, and an expedited return on investment.

ByteManagers Content Services:

• Content Digitization for Electronic Product Catalogs
• Content Digitization for Print Catalogs
• Content Cleansing and Aggregation
• Custom Taxonomy Development
• UNSPSC Mapping
• Digital Imaging

Byte Managers provides the content production services on a fee for service basis.

For additional information, please contact Jeff Bertrand, at 312.243.1140 x 111 or visit www.bytemanagers.com

DATAgility

DATAgility, a leading data management services provider, helps suppliers and their data receivers achieve and maintain quality data. Quality and accurate data is one of the single most important issues facing suppliers and data receivers today. Through recent technology advances, a global focus, and the adoption of data related standards-companies are beginning to realize the benefits of quality data flowing throughout the entire supply chain.

Here is a brief overview of our services:

• Data Governance - Effective Data Governance is built on organization, policies, systems and standards. It is an enterprise-wide data management initiative to control how organizations permit and govern access to product master data.
• Data Quality - Quality product data needs to be timely, complete, accurate, standardized, synchronized, and easy to use. DATAgility helps suppliers achieve each of the vital data quality metrics.
• Data Sync - Product data matching and alignment is an essential foundation for all e-commerce applications, and usually represents a formidable challenge. Recent evidence in the industry shows substantial cost savings, but more significantly, proof of huge increased sales opportunities.

Let us show you how - "Quality Data Sells More Products!"™

For more information, please contact Angela Baraks @ 815-623-7810 or email: abaraks@datagility.com or info@datagility.com. To learn more about our services, please visit: www.datagility.com

Datalliance

Datalliance from Enterprise Data Management (EDM) is a comprehensive VMI-based e-commerce service that enables electrical industry suppliers and their customers to take an active role in VMI by facilitating collaboration across the Internet. The most effective VMI solution available today, Datalliance is the fastest to implement and the easiest to operate. Datalliance is a service, not a software product that you install and maintain. Because it is a service, Datalliance requires no additional IT staff or hardware to support your VMI efforts. Datalliance delivers the full range of VMI capabilities. It is highly effective for virtually any product mix and scalable to any number of locations. With Datalliance, trading partners increase profits by effectively managing inventory with minimal day-to-day effort.

To learn more about Enterprise Data Management and Datalliance, go to www.datalliance.com, or call Carl Hall at 513.791.7272.

Electric Pilot

ElectricPilot.com is an internet search engine and resource specifically designed for the Electrical Industry. Electric Pilot links the industry to 4,000 Electrical Manufacturers and their online catalogs!

Contractors and Distributors enjoy the quick access to Manufacturers online catalogs for identifying electrical products for estimating and purchasing solutions. Professionals save time printing Manufacturers catalog pages for Project Submittals.

To learn more visit our website at www.ElectricPilot.com or contact Alan Wulff, Electric Pilot, Benicia, CA - (707) 486-3800 | email: aw@electricpilot.com

Embassy Software

Embassy Software is a leader in easy-to-use, affordable, EDI/XML translation software that meets the demanding needs of today's integration projects. Customers can choose between EDI translation software and any-to-any translation software. Products are ideal for companies wishing to leverage the IDX2 /IDW, new to EDI/XML or companies seeking to enable their trading partners with EDI. Embassy Software offers the following:

• Unmatched price/performance (usually 50-75% below comparable software products)
• Third generation software representing over 10 years of translation software refinement (mature/reliable)
• Pre-defined industry templates / maps
• Powerful mapping tool to map any type of data, including XML, EDI, flat file, or ODBC compliant databases

To learn more about Embassy Software go to www.embassysoft.com or contact:

Dan Wancura
danw@embassysoft.com
888.467.2936 - office
913.620.1255 - cell

Full Tilt

FullTilt Solutions is a leader in custom software, integration, and product development for clients seeking to exploit the Internet and improve their competitive positions.

FullTilt offers I-Accel™ a product information management solution that provides a shared repository for all product information needed to enable online buyers to make smart, educated purchasing decisions and online sellers to present their products with a competitive selling advantage.

Learn more about Full Tilt and I-Accel™.

Gillani, Inc.

Gillani provides a full range of ERP/Supply Chain Management software and services to its customers across the globe. Based in USA, Gillani serves small to mid-sized as well as large enterprise customers in wholesale, retail, manufacturing, technology, government and financial verticals. Gillani offers iDistribute, an integrated distribution management solution with comprehensive financial management and analyses capabilities that addresses the growing requirements of distributors across the entire spectrum of supply chain – from planning, forecasting and replenishment to financials, and distribution of merchandise.

Gillani specializes in distribution management, warehouse management, supply chain management, and e-business applications. For more information, visit us at www.gillani.com, or call us at 972-918-0400.

SAP

SAP for Wholesale Distribution is a set of state-of-the-art software solutions for midsize and large wholesale distribution businesses worldwide. With SAP for Wholesale Distribution, companies can improve their operational excellence and profitability while supporting innovative business models and customer services.

The solutions include SAP core enterprise software combined with industry-specific applications that support fundamental business requirements helping organizations solve real-time business issues and adapt to an ever-changing business and IT environment. The modular design of SAP for Wholesale Distribution enables a customer to decide on an initial solution scope to meet the current requirements and then incrementally add solutions or new applications at any time as needs change and grow.

SAP for Wholesale Distribution is powered by the SAP NetWeaver platform, an extensive integration and application platform that lays the foundation for innovative, cross-functional business processes. This powerful combination of software and platform enables organizations to sense and respond to market changes, thereby continuously aligning operations with market demand to reduce costs and increase revenue opportunities.

Learn more about SAP for Wholesale Distribution at: http://www.sap.com/wholesale

Silver Creek Systems

Silver Creek Systems is the leader in Product Data Integration solutions that change the economics of sharing and integrating product data throughout the Information Supply Chains that connect enterprise systems, manufacturers, distributors, partners and more. 

Despite enormous investments in IT infrastructure, data is still a serious issue – 80 percent of companies are not confident in the quality of their product data, and 73 percent find it “difficult or impractical” to standardize their product data.  The results are broken links in the Information Supply Chain, lost sales, and increased operational costs.

The DataLens™ System uses patented semantic technology to overcome the limitations of traditional data integration technologies and deliver complete, correct and consistent data from any source – increasing the value and usability of product data for eCommerce, PIM (Product Information Management), MDM (Master Data Management), SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) and any other form of Product Data Integration. Find out more at www.silvercreeksystems.com.   

Stibo Catalog

Stibo Catalog is a leading provider of software and service solutions that help companies to manage product content efficiently, and deliver consistent product promotions across multiple delivery channels. Stibo Catalog was founded in 1976, and has over 170 employees in the UK, USA, France, Germany, Denmark and Singapore. It is part of Stibo A/S, with its two sister companies CCI Europe, the world’s leading supplier of system solutions for newspapers and magazines, as well as Stibo Graphic, one of Europe’s largest printing installations. Stibo Catalog’s customers include BayWa, Denios, RS Components, Premier Farnell, Siemens, Conrad Electronic, Millipore, MSC Industrial Supply Company, ELFA and many others. Find out more at www.stibocatalog.com.  

ThomasTech

ThomasTech is a leading systems integrator that provides solutions for e-commerce/e-catalog, product information management, content management, and cross-media publishing. As a full-service solutions provider, we can assist companies with normalizing data to be included in the IDW. ThomasTech utilizes best-of-breed technology and custom-developed solutions to enable our customers to operate their businesses more efficiently and generate new revenue opportunities. With a history of over 40 years serving customers in the manufacturing and publishing industry, ThomasTech has helped produce the Thomas Register of American Manufacturers for more than 30 years.

To learn more about ThomasTech go to www.thomastechsolutions.com or contact Steve Quirke at 215-682-5060.

Trade Service

With over 70 years of electrical product content and industry domain expertise, Trade Service is uniquely qualified to support manufacturers in their transition to the IDW. From the time the raw data is received from the manufacturer, to when it is ultimately extracted from the IDW, as pristine, standardized information for use in the marketplace, Trade Service ensures that participation in the IDW is hassle-free, low cost, and expedient for manufacturers of all sizes.

Trade Service and IDEA's strategic partnership has focused, since its inception in 1996, on populating the IDW with manufacturer-sanctioned data and promoting its flow to authorized parties throughout the distribution channel. For more information about the value of our manufacturer content services, please contact Tod Moore at (858) 521-1502, or email tod_Moore@i2.com.