5square.com Appoints Ged Mackey as Senior Vice President of Products.WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. -- 5square.com, which delivers Sales Process Software and Dealership Analytics to automotive dealerships, today announced the appointment of Ged Mackey as Senior Vice President of Products. In this role Mackey will lead 5square.com's product development and engineering teams, set the overall vision and strategy for product development, and manage the software development lifecycle. Mr. Mackey brings more than 20 years of experience in software product development to 5square.com, with leadership roles at top technology companies including IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Access360, and Glovia International. "Ged is a world-class VP of Development with an unparalleled understanding of software applications and the service delivery challenges we face. Ged and I had great success working together in the past and I have seen first-hand what he can accomplish. He is well known and respected in software technology, and 5square.com's dealers will greatly benefit from his expertise," said Yuri Pikover, 5square.com Chairman. As Vice President of Product Development at Access360, Mr. Mackey managed more than 100 developers, redefined the company's technology direction and streamlined the product development lifecycle. Mackey provided guidance in the development of an innovative new product that revolutionized the identity management and provisioning industry. This product was acquired by IBM in 2002, where Mackey remained for four years to help IBM assimilate the product and manage the product team. Prior to Access360, Mackey worked for Glovia International, a leader in Enterprise Resource Planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) and Manufacturing Resource Planning Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) is defined by APICS as a method for the effective planning of all resources of a manufacturing company. Ideally, it addresses operational planning in units, financial planning in dollars, and has a simulation capability to answer (MRP (Material Requirements Planning) An information system that determines what assemblies must be built and what materials must be procured in order to build a unit of equipment by a certain date. ) applications. Mackey was instrumental in the development of the Glovia ERP/MRP suite, managing a team of over 100 engineers distributed across five different countries. Glovia ERP is a leading global enterprise with a mission-critical ERP application suite, extensively used to run Fujitsu manufacturing plants and other Fortune 500 companies. Mackey holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Warwick University, England. About 5square.com Based in Westlake Village, CA, 5square.com has brought together a unique team of world-class experts in both retail automotive and software. The industry's first Sales Process Software guides the entire sales team, from lead receipt to F&I. It extends CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. with an Integrated Showroom, tracking and managing the dealer's own sales process on every lead and every deal. The proven result: more units, more front and back gross per unit, and higher CSI CSI Crime Scene Investigator CSI CompuServe, Inc. CSI Commodity Systems, Inc. CSI Commodity Systems Inc. (Boca Raton, FL) CSI Crime Scene Investigation (CBS TV show) CSI Christian Schools International / SSI (1) See server-side include and single-system image. (2) (Small-Scale Integration) Less than 100 transistors on a chip. See MSI, LSI, VLSI and ULSI. 1. (electronics) SSI - small scale integration. 2. . Dealerships have repeatedly achieved these results in less than six months on the system. And 5square.com's Dealership Analytics delivers visibility and control dealers have always wanted and never had. It automatically integrates DMS (1) (Document Management System) See document management. (2) (Defense Messaging System) An X.500-compliant messaging system developed by the U.S. Dept. of Defense. data with every detail of the sales process. No other vendor in the world can do this, because they don't have end-to-end Sales Process Software to gather the data. Dealership Analytics gives dealers fast, easy access to information that rapidly increases profits. The system integrates easily with both ADP (1) (Automatic Data Processing) Synonymous with data processing (DP), electronic data processing (EDP) and information processing. (2) (Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Roseland, NJ, www.adp. and R&R DMS systems. It's Web-based, so dealers can concentrate on cars instead of servers. Automated configuration and training get dealerships running in less than two weeks. And 5square.com tests all of its software, and trains all of its people, at its own franchised dealership. For more information, visit www.5square.com, call 877-577-8273, or email dhill@5square.com. |
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