Datacom International's dataSTOR Selected by Twin City Bagels; Web-based ERP Application Streamlines Bagel Manufacturer's Operations.Business Editors & Technology Writers MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2002 Enterprise business system provider Datacom International, Inc., today announced that Twin City Bagels, Inc., the Midwest's largest bagel manufacturer, has purchased its dataSTOR(TM) system. dataSTOR offers small to mid-size manufacturers access to a full-range A Full-range loudspeaker drive unit is defined as a driver which reproduces as much of the audible frequency range as possible, with high-fidelity, within the boundaries imposed by the physical limitations of the specific design. of enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (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. ) applications over the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the , and Twin City Bagels will implement dataSTOR to manage its manufacturing, financial, sales and customer service functions. "In researching systems we looked at large, traditional ERP applications, which ranged in cost from thousands to millions of dollars. Feature for feature, dataSTOR was comparable to the more expensive systems and provides the same level of sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. at a fraction of the cost," said Shimon Harosh, president of Twin Cities Bagels. "We expect dataSTOR to streamline our complex manufacturing process and allow us to increase our yields by 1-2 percent. In our business, that translates to considerable bottom-line bot·tom-line adj. 1. Concerned exclusively with costs and profits: bottom-line issues. 2. Ruthlessly realistic; pragmatic: a bottom-line political strategy. dollars." "With the flexibility of dataSTOR, we were able to create custom modifications to give Twin City Bagels the tools for accurate, real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. evaluation of both their employees and production process. Having outgrown their current accounting system, only a fully-integrated system made sense for them," said David Mastbaum, Datacom's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. About Twin City Bagels Twin City Bagels is an 11-year-old bagel manufacturer, producing 500,000 bagels a day distributed nationally under various brand names. More information about Twin City Bagels is available by calling 651-554-0200 or 800-455-5591. About Datacom International, Inc. Minneapolis-based Datacom develops, deploys and supports Web-based enterprise applications and services that are specifically designed to enable small to mid-size manufacturers to leverage the Internet to most efficiently conduct all aspects of their business. More information about Datacom, its products and services is available at www.datacomintl.com. |
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