Pinnacle's Fuel Smart Wins Microsoft RAD Award; Leading Fuel Management Systems Receives Supply Chain Execution Honor.ARLINGTON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 1999-- Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, announced today that The Pinnacle pinnacle (pĭn`ĭkəl), minor architectural motif of vertical tapering shape, usually crowning a pier, buttress, or gable. Although sometimes it appears in Renaissance design, as in the Certosa di Pavia, it is almost exclusively a medieval Corporation's Fuel Smart accounting product has won the 1999 Microsoft(R) Retail Application Developer (RAD (1) (Rapid Application Development) Developing systems incrementally and delivering working pieces every three to four months, rather than waiting until the entire project is programmed before implementing it. ) award in the Supply Chain - Execution category. These awards recognize application developers who make the best use of Microsoft technology to provide business benefits to customers in the retail industry. Fuel Smart is a comprehensive retail and wholesale petroleum accounting system. "This award reinforces the impact Fuel Smart has had on petroleum distribution," said Pinnacle's president Bob Johnson Bob Johnson may refer to:
Fuel Smart is a comprehensive, integrated fuel operations, accounting and management information system that automates fuel buying, storing, sales quoting, dispatching, inventory management, billing, tax reporting, and credit/collections. It is a Windows based (1) (Windows-based; upper case "W") Refers to Microsoft Windows. (2) (windows-based; lower case "w") Having resizable windows. Same as "graphics based" or "GUI based." Graphical user interfaces are all windows based. Contrast with text based. client/server application designed and optimized for the predominant, mainstream local area network operating environments In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. -- Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT or Novell Netware (operating system, networking) Novell NetWare - Novell, Inc.'s proprietary networking operating system for the IBM PC. NetWare uses the IPX/SPX, NetBEUI or TCP/IP network protocols. It supports MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Macintosh and Unix clients. . Fuel Smart has been specifically engineered to handle the complexities and loads associated with large, multi-state, multi-brand, multi-company operations. Fuel Smart is designed for both wholesale and retail operations. The Pinnacle Corporation is a leading supplier of automation technology to the convenience store and petroleum industries. Pinnacle's products are used daily by thousands of convenience store managers to improve their store operations. Pinnacle has solutions to move information from the point of sale of merchandise and fuel to the income statement. Pinnacle develops, markets, and supports comprehensive store automation systems. Their products include Oasis, a Windows-based in-store manager workstation system, Palm, an advanced Windows-based point-of-sale system utilizing touch screen technology, and PCTrain, a Windows interactive computer based training program. Pinnacle's Home Office Suite of products includes Price Book for Windows, a Windows-based price and scan file management system, Fuel Smart, a retail and wholesale petroleum accounting system, and Great Plains Dynamics, the award winning accounting system. More information about Pinnacle and its automation solutions may be found on the Internet at www.pinncorp.com. |
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