Application Consulting Group joins Comshare's Value-Added Consulting program.ANN ARBOR Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as , Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 1996--Comshare Inc. has announced that Application Consulting Group, Inc. (ACG ACG American College of Gastroenterology; angiocardiography; apexcardiogram. AcG accelerator globulin (coagulation factor V). AcG accelerator globulin (clotting factor V). ) has signed an agreement to participate in Comshare's "Value-Added val·ue-add·ed adj. Of or relating to the estimated value that is added to a product or material at each stage of its manufacture or distribution: Consulting" program. The program provides for a formal partnership between Comshare and selected consulting organizations. The partnership is intended to benefit consumer goods consumer goods Any tangible commodity purchased by households to satisfy their wants and needs. Consumer goods may be durable or nondurable. Durable goods (e.g., autos, furniture, and appliances) have a significant life span, often defined as three years or more, and manufacturers with the most effective possible application implementations. "We see strong synergy The enhanced result of two or more people, groups or organizations working together. In other words, one and one equals three! It comes from the Greek "synergia," which means joint work and cooperative action. in partnering with ACG; its extensive consumer goods expertise will deliver high value for our customers in the consumer goods industry," said Sheldon Feinland, Comshare's Vice President Consumer Goods Sales and Consulting. Comshare provides software applications tailored to the consumer goods manufacturing industry, including the BOOST line of Sales and Margin Planning and Sales Analysis applications. "We expect to speed the delivery of highly functional applications to our customers using the BOOST products and Comshare's other software applications," said Jim Cloninger, President, Application Consulting Group. Founded in 1987, the Application Consulting Group (ACG) is a leader in the development of custom sales, marketing, and financial applications using multidimensional mul·ti·di·men·sion·al adj. Of, relating to, or having several dimensions. mul  ti·di·men on-line analytical processing (database) On-Line Analytical Processing - (OLAP) A category of database software which provides an interface such that users can transform or limit raw data according to user-defined or pre-defined functions, and quickly and interactively examine the results in various dimensions (OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. ) technology. ACG has headquarters in Morristown, NJ and also has offices in Chicago and Brighton, England. The group's expertise in the consumer goods industry as well as its broad experience with a variety of other industries gives it a unique perspective on the effective use of technology to solve business problems. (ACG's home page address is http://www.acgi.com ) Comshare, The Decision Support Company(TM), develops, markets, and supports complete client/server decision support applications designed to improve business analysis, planning, reporting, and decision making. Comshare decision support applications result in better decisions, improved profits, and enhanced competitiveness for its more than 3,000 customers in over 40 countries worldwide. Comshare's suite of applications for the consumer goods industry represent an integrated solution set for some of the most important information management problems facing the industry today. Comshare, Inc. is a Microsoft Solution Provider. For more information about Comshare products and services, call 1-800-922-7979 or see our home page on the World Wide Web at http://www.comshare.com. -0- Comshare is a registered trademark and The Decision Support Company and BOOST are trademarks of Comshare, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. CONTACT: Comshare, Inc. Marge Cramton, 313/769-8742 or Eiler Communications Larry T. Eiler, 313/761-3399 |
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