BuildLinks and Allconnect Strike Strategic Partnership; New Home Buyers Can Connect Their Utilities With Single Phone Call to Free Service.Business Editors, High Tech Writers RALEIGH Raleigh (rôl`ē, räl`ē), city (1990 pop. 207,951), state capital, and seat of Wake co., central N.C.; the site was selected for the capital in 1788, and the city was laid out and inc. 1792. , N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 2002 BuildLinks, a Web-based collaboration Working together on a project. See collaborative software. and options-selection software tool for residential homebuilders, announced today that it has struck a strategic partnership with Allconnect, a free service that helps customers select and order home utility and communications services. Within Allconnect's coverage areas, new home buyers whose builders use BuildLinks will be prompted to make a free call to a single point of contact (866-753-2514), and use a free service to connect their utilities and communications services. Allconnect uses sophisticated decision-support systems to help select the best service providers, service plans, and technologies for its customers, and initiates service for the customer by transmitting transmitting, v to send and receive information, signals, and so on; allows a therapist to perceive a client's physical, emotional, and spiritual states. orders to the service providers. Allconnect then acts as the single point of contact for the customer until the new services are up and running. "BuildLinks corporate motto is `the passionate pursuit of simple solutions' and this new free service offering fits us well. Using a single point of contact, customers of BuildLink's builders can set up their utilities and communications services, and not spend time chasing down information from multiple sources," said Chip Gillooly, BuildLinks' president and chief executive officer. "It is one more convenience we are offering to our builder customers, so they can pass it on to their home buyers and make the home building process a delightful "Delightful" is the first physical single released by Ami Suzuki under the label Avex Trax and also the transition single that marked the end of the old Ami making her return to the music industry. , not a painful, experience." Designed small and mid-sized builders, BuildLinks makes the new home building process dramatically more manageable by providing a private, personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. Web site and calendar for each and every new home, its buyer, and the various trades working on that house. BuildLinks has seen rapid adoption among residential homebuilders and has won significant industry and media interest for its low cost, ease-of-use, free training, and free support policies. Up and running in a day, BuildLinks is an affordable Web-based communication, change-order, and options-selection management tool that centralizes communication among builders, subs, and their homebuyers. During the entire new-home-building process, BuildLinks manages and documents threaded discussions A running commentary of messages between two or more people in a discussion group. See message thread and discussion group. , while coordinating building specifications, new product selections, approval deadlines, document management, and change orders, all processes that are handled by error-prone Adj. 1. error-prone - capable of making an error; "all men are error-prone" erring fallible - likely to fail or make errors; "everyone is fallible to some degree" paper-based methods today. BuildLinks also creates an "audit trail" for decisions, thereby reducing costly errors and misunderstandings, while providing a powerful marketing weapon to increase builder sales. BuildLinks recently announced that is had obtained $2 million in venture capital investment. The financing round was lead by Research Triangle Park Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , NC-based Southeast Interactive Technology Funds. About Allconnect Founded in 1998, Allconnect provides a free and simple service that helps customers select and order home utility and communications services from brands they know and trust. Allconnect uses a sophisticated decision support system, which is accessible via its toll-free phone number 1-800-255-2666 (1-800-ALLCONNECT) or Web site www.allconnect.com, to identify the best service providers, service plans and technologies for its customers based on individual usage patterns and preferences. Allconnect then initiates service for the customer by transmitting orders to selected service providers and will act as the single point of contact for the customer until the new services are connected and running smoothly. About BuildLinks BuildLinks is a Web-based collaboration and communication platform that centralizes and rationalizes construction information to make the building process dramatically more manageable. Accessible anytime and anywhere through a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , BuildLinks manages and documents threaded discussions, while coordinating building specifications, options selection, approval deadlines and change orders during the new home building process. BuildLinks is a profit-making profit-making adj → rentable profit-making adj → à but lucratif profit-making profit adj [organization tool for builders because it allows homebuyers to take a direct action in the personalization Custom tailoring information to the individual. On the Web, personalization means returning a page that has been customized for the user, taking into consideration that person's habits and preferences. of their homes. It also reduces costly errors and misunderstandings, while providing a powerful marketing weapon to increase builder sales. BuildLinks is affordable, requires no special hardware or software and can be up and running in a single day. It was developed by incorporating "best practices" that were gathered from focus groups of builders, marketing companies and land developers. BuildLinks has offices in Raleigh, N.C. and Atlanta Atlanta (ətlăn`tə, ăt–), city (1990 pop. 394,017), state capital and seat of Fulton co., NW Ga., on the Chattahoochee R. and Peachtree Creek, near the Appalachian foothills; inc. 1847. . For more information please visit www.BuildLinks.com. |
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