WESTMONT, ILL. - Oct. 13, 1998--Silvon Software, Inc. announced today that Woods Industries, Inc., a $220 million manufacturer of retail electrical products, has selected its DataTracker application data mart (ADM) solution for business intelligence. Woods Industries joins Silvon's extensive list of customers in the manufacturing, distribution and retail sectors that have chosen Silvon DataTracker as their solution of choice for enterprise-wide business intelligence applications.
"We decided to replace our previous reporting and business management system with Silvon DataTracker because of the critical role that data warehousing has played to date and the expanded role that we feel it will play in supporting new acquisitions and products," said Tom McLenahan, chief information officer, Woods Industries Inc. "We believe the addition of DataTracker will greatly enhance our ability to do operational reporting and analysis in the day-to-day management of our business."
The Silvon DataTracker business intelligence solution at Woods currently supports 50 internal users and will soon be rolled out to remote users as well. This will enable sales managers and executives on the road and in the office to analyze sales data via the Internet using the Silvon DataTracker Web interface. Woods data warehousing system with Silvon DataTracker is already providing significant savings for programmers by eliminating the time delay for users to receive their reports for analysis.
"Although our previous data warehouse system provided tremendous benefits, it used to take more than a day for us to get our reports -- making it difficult to make timely, accurate decisions. DataTracker will take us to the next level in providing fast, end-user services," said Jill Blesch, DataTracker user at Woods Industries, Inc. "With DataTracker, we have any and all information we need at our fingertips. This improves our turnaround time greatly and, in turn, we believe it will help Woods Industries be a more productive and lucrative business."
The Silvon DataTracker solution has already been implemented in 5 departments and Woods expects DataTracker to be rolled out company-wide by the end of 1998.
Offering both AS/400 and Windows NT-based high volume Supply Chain decision support solutions, Silvon DataTracker is a business intelligence system that provides extensive reporting and analysis capabilities to help managers optimize their businesses.
Silvon Software is a global application data mart (ADM) solutions provider headquartered in the western Chicago suburb of Westmont, Illinois, with international offices in UK and Australia. For the past 10 years, Silvon has been delivering multi-platform business intelligence ADMs for the industrial supply chain segment, including manufacturing (discrete and process), wholesale/distribution and retail. The company's DataTracker suite is currently installed in more than 900 sites worldwide, and supported by a network of OEMs, value-added resellers and independent distributors. Silvon has strategic alliances with industry leaders such as IBM, Microsoft, JDA Software, Acacia (div. Computer Associates), MAPICS, Marcam Corporation and Orcom Systems. More information about Silvon is available by calling 800-874-5866, or via the company's home page on the Internet at: http://www.silvon.com.