Benelogic Benefits From Dell EMC Storage; Online Benefits Software Provider Selects Dell EMC SAN for Performance.

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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2002

Benelogic LLC, a leading provider of software applications to help simplify employee benefits administration, has implemented a Dell EMC storage area network (SAN) to more efficiently host its application software products.

Benelogic, with more than 50 employees serving customers within all fifty United States, Puerto Rico and Canada, has nearly as many Dell(tm) servers as it has employees. Its data center includes a SAN built on a Dell EMC storage array, a Microsoft(R) SQL cluster and Dell PowerEdge(tm) servers running Microsoft Windows(R) 2000 Advanced Server. The SAN provides Benelogic 3.1 terabytes of added storage capacity.

"The combination of our success with Dell servers and Dell's relationship with EMC gave us the confidence to consolidate onto Dell EMC storage," said S. Stuart Spector, Benelogic's chief operating officer. "We're using the SAN to host our application software products, so it's designed more for performance than capacity. The scalability and flexibility allows us to build out the SAN as our storage needs grow."

Benelogic has also deployed almost 100 Dell Latitude(tm) notebooks and OptiPlex(tm) desktop computers, and uses Premier Dell.com Pages to simplify its online ordering and track its Dell purchases.

"Dell has given us a single point of contact for all our technology needs," Spector said. "Dell has made it possible for a smaller business to build an enterprise data center."

Joe Marengi, senior vice president of Dell Americas, said the need for affordable, scalable data storage is becoming more and more prevalent. "Just as Benelogic has, an increasing number of companies are recognizing and taking advantage of Dell's ability to provide the enterprise products and services they need," he said.

About Benelogic LLC

Benelogic provides intuitive software applications and services designed to simplify employee benefits administration. By enabling the logical use of data to streamline and enhance the benefits administration process, Benelogic offers end-to-end products and services including: Human Resources Portal, Employee Self-Enrollment, Carrier Data Exchange, Payroll/HRIS Integration, Enrollment and Eligibility Warehousing. For more information about Benelogic and its services, please visit the company's Web site: www.benelogic.com or call 877/716-8778.

About Dell

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