CBSI Helps Leading Computer Reseller Win Prestigious E-Business Awards.FARMINGTON HILLS Far·ming·ton Hills A city of southeast Michigan, an industrial suburb of Detroit. Population: 81,400. , Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 1999-- Complete Business Solutions, Inc., (Nasdaq:CBSI CBSI CUNA Brokerage Services, Inc. CBSI Cambodian Buddhist Society, Inc. (Silver Springs, Maryland) CBSI Certified Bridge Safety Inspector CBSI Custom Business Solutions, Inc. ) announced today that the E-Business application it developed for Forsythe Technology won the `Top 50 Intranet Award' from CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. (Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. Magazine and the INC/Cisco `Growing with Technology Award' from INC. Magazine. The awards recognize companies that transformed their business process through innovative E-Business applications. Forsythe, based in Skokie, Illinois, is the largest reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. of Hewlett-Packard equipment in the U.S and needed such an application to improve their business processes. CBSI designed OrderPRO as an intranet/extranet application that will help to deliver products in the shortest possible time frame. It is a single interface for automating sales requests, entering orders, configuring products, generating proposals and contracts and improving fulfillment ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. processes for delivery. "These awards help to prove CBSI's expertise in the E-Business arena and further demonstrate how we partner with clients to develop strategy, reengineering and implementation processes to help ensure their success," said Ron McIntyre, CBSI manager of the project. "OrderPRO went live two months ago and we are seeing tremendous benefits already." "The staff from CBSI have always had their finger on the pulse of this very complicated project," said Mitch Germaine, CIO of Forsythe Technology. "The attention paid to the details and idiosyncrasies of our business ensured for a successful end result. We consider OrderPRO an important internal tool that helps us manage a very complicated business model. We also expect it to mature into a very useful product for our customers and partners to use as the heart of Forsythe's E-Business solutions of the future." "Our track record for developing Internet-based applications for customers from every industry is very strong and we are consistently adding new clients to our E-Business portfolio," added McIntyre. "CBSI's highly skilled global workforce is particularly nimble nim·ble adj. nim·bler, nim·blest 1. Quick, light, or agile in movement or action; deft: nimble fingers. See Synonyms at dexterous. 2. in their ability to learn new technology, which gives us a highly flexible competitive advantage in this area." About Forsythe Forsythe Technology, in business for over 25 years, is one of the oldest privately held computer and communications equipment sales and leasing companies in the US. Forsythe Technology is a holding company that owns its leasing company, Forsythe McArthur, and its consulting, distribution and sales company, Forsythe Solutions Group. The structuring of its business units supports Forsythe's tremendous growth and validates a change from a computer lessor One who rents real property or Personal Property to another. A lessor of land is a landlord. Cross-references Landlord and Tenant. lessor n. the owner of real property who rents it to a lessee pursuant to a written lease. to a technology solutions provider. Forsythe has distribution agreements with those manufacturers that supply premier products in their marketplace and provides equipment from Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Sun, Compaq, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , DEC, 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) Printing Systems, Bay Networks, Xerox, Fujitsu, Oracle and others, as well as implementation support for SAP, BAAN and Red Brick. Forsythe is proud to be recognized as the no. 1 reseller of HP Open View management software, worldwide. More information on the company can be found at http://www.forsythemca.com. About Complete Business Solutions, Inc. CBSI is a worldwide provider of information technology (IT) services to large and mid-size organizations. The Company offers its customers a broad range of IT services, from advising customers on strategic technology plans to developing and implementing appropriate IT applications solutions. CBSI offers custom-tailored solutions based on an assessment of each client's needs. The Company's services include: emerging technology solutions; consulting; large systems applications development and maintenance; packaged software See software package. implementation such as 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. ; year 2000 conversion and testing services and contract programming services. To learn more about CBSI, visit its website at http://www.cbsinc.com. |
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