CNS, Inc. Breathes Easier with Selection of Unica's Affinium.WALTHAM, Mass. -- Unica(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:UNCA UNCA University of North Carolina at Asheville UNCA United Nations Correspondents Association ), a global provider of Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM (Expanded Memory Manager) Starting with 386-based PCs, an EMM is software that converts extended memory (beyond one megabyte) into EMS memory, the first technique used to increase memory in the PC. ) solutions, today announced that CNS See Continuous net settlement. CNS See continuous net settlement (CNS). , Inc., makers of widely recognized Breathe Right Breathe Right™ Sports medicine A proprietary Band-Aid™-like nasal strip worn on the nasal bridge, said to improve breathing by opening the nasal passages Indications Temporary relief of breathing difficulties due to deviated nasal (R) nasal strips, and FiberChoice(R) daily fiber supplements, has selected Unica's Affinium(R) software to streamline its marketing operations. "We selected Unica based on its ability to meet our technical and functional requirements See information requirements and functional specification. (specification) functional requirements - What a system should be able to do, the functions it should perform. across marketing planning and budgeting, project management, digital asset management and other marketing needs," said Don Himsl, director of IT for CNS. "We put Affinium software through a scenario-based test using an integrated marketing campaign that included TV, print, radio, and public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , and felt it was a marketing resource management product that met our needs." CNS's marketing department will use Affinium's marketing resource management capabilities to manage marketing program workflow, approvals, digital asset management and financial management. It expects to streamline its processes, create a central repository for assets and facilitate marketing team collaboration. A future step will be to expand usage of Affinium to the company's outside vendors responsible for media buying, public relations and creative development, in support of CNS's "virtual organization" business model in which many executional tasks are outsourced. "CNS has aggressive growth plans with expectations of becoming a much larger consumer products company," said Leah Stevenson, director of marketing services for CNS. "But our lack of a marketing software system could become an inhibitor of growth. Many of our processes are paper-based, and require the physical movement of documents through our company. We expect Affinium to be a growth enabler, allowing us to get to market faster, improve efficiency and facilitate decision making through one easily-accessible system." About Unica Unica Corporation is a leading global provider of Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) software designed to help businesses increase their revenues and improve the efficiency and measurability of their marketing operations. Unica focuses exclusively on the needs of marketing organizations and its Affinium(R) software addresses the principal functions of EMM including marketing and customer analytics, demand generation and marketing resource management. More than 400 companies in a wide range of industries use Unica software to manage the complexities and processes of marketing and to facilitate the operations of a customer-centric business. Unica's customers include ABN AMRO ABN AMRO Algemene Bank Nederland-Amsterdam Roterdam Bank (Dutch bank) , Capital One, Choice Hotels, Comcast, Lands' End
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