Alamo Local Market Wins 2001 'TechKnow' Award.Business Editors FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 5, 2001 Alamo's Local Market Division, a division of ANC ANC abbr. African National Congress ANC African National Congress: South African political movement instrumental in bringing an end to apartheid ANC n abbr (= Rental Corporation (Nasdaq:ANCX), recently won the 2001 TechKnow Award from Inside Business Magazine for its desktop Web-based application See Web application. , MPOWERENT. The award recognizes companies that use innovation and creativity in information technology to create economic benefits for the companies and the customers as well as for their employees and communities. MPOWERENT, a Web-enabled insurance claims management tool designed for the company's many insurance clients, simplifies the insurance adjuster's previously cumbersome cum·ber·some adj. 1. Difficult to handle because of weight or bulk. See Synonyms at heavy. 2. Troublesome or onerous. cum and costly process of doing business. MPOWERENT connects insurance companies to Alamo's legacy rental system, enabling adjusters to better manage car rental details and order new car rentals. Just as its name implies, it empowers adjusters to create and track reservations from their desktop computers in addition to providing customized management reports and receiving and printing invoices. "This is a powerful tool and a real competitive advantage for Alamo Alamo Eighteenth-century mission in San Antonio, Texas, site of a historic siege of a small group of Texans by a Mexican army (1836) during the Texas war for independence from Mexico. Local Division," said Todd M. Faver, Alamo local market division president. "Because more than 50 percent of our business comes from the insurance market, we were particularly interested in developing a sophisticated E-commerce application that makes life easier for our business partners. This product not only makes life easier for them, it's so advanced, it's actually challenging the competition to meet the new standard that we've set," he continued. "MPOWERENT virtually eliminates the previous paper-based system," added Kevin Gill gill, in weights and measures gill, in weights and measures: see English units of measurement. , vice president business development, sales and marketing for Alamo Local Division. "By creating direct links with adjusters and claims centers, we lower the cost of doing business for us and for the insurance company in addition to making the entire process more efficient." With more than 425 locations, Alamo Local Market serves the insurance replacement and neighborhood auto rental needs of customers throughout 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. . Its parent company, ANC Rental Corporation (Nasdaq:ANCX), is one of the world's largest auto rental companies with revenues of approximately $3.5 billion in 2000. ANC Rental Corporation has more than 3,000 locations in 69 countries and employs approximately 19,000 associates worldwide. |
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