(ELTX) Eltrax Expands Its Professional Consulting, Customer Care Staff to Support ASP Initiative.Business Editors ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 2000 Eltrax Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: ELTX), an integrated eSolutions and application service provider (ASP), hired nearly 80 employees for the Technology Services Group during the first quarter of 2000 and continues to increase its staff to accommodate the company's growth including ASP service launches, customer acquisition programs and new strategic partnerships. Of the new employees, 34 are dedicated to the newly-formed ASP organization for service development and delivery, network and application engineering and customer care support. This growth resulted in the launch of Eltrax's customer relationship management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) ASP solution during the first quarter. The professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. organization of Eltrax increased its staff by 38 technical consultants, a 42 percent increase from the end of 1999. With the additional consultants, Eltrax created a strategic partnership with NewSouth Communications to provide Internet-based services and gained the ability to provide e-commerce solutions for customers such as NetGen Learning Systems. Eltrax's sales organization grew its staff to 56, which led to the opening of a new sales office in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of for a total of 23 sales offices across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . "The combination of leading edge initiatives and our strong corporate culture has proved to be successful in attracting talented professionals in a very tight labor market labor market A place where labor is exchanged for wages; an LM is defined by geography, education and technical expertise, occupation, licensure or certification requirements, and job experience ," said William P. O'Reilly, president and chief executive officer of Eltrax. About Eltrax Eltrax is an integrated eSolutions provider that designs, develops, implements and manages the infrastructures that enable e-business for fast-growth companies. Eltrax uses its experience in application services See ASP and Web services. , consulting services and customer care to provide customer-specific solutions for enterprises growing on "Internet time In the early days of the public Internet, Internet time referred to the breakneck speed with which companies scrambled to gain traffic and market share on the Web. A new business could come and go within a matter of weeks. ." Eltrax offers application service provider (ASP) services including a Web-based customer relationship management (CRM) ASP service; iMessaging(TM), an email and collaboration application; HRe-source(TM) , a human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. application; and InnDemand(TM), an online hotel management system. Eltrax is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and is continually expanding its portfolio of services to new offices, business partners and agents worldwide. For more information visit the Eltrax Web site at www.eltrax.com or contact Sara Shoemaker at 678.589.3566 or sshoemaker@eltrax.com. |
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