• Since implementing Activant Prelude in 2000, Benco Dental has seen a 39 percent increase in sales while holding operational cost increases to a mere 19 percent. Says CIO Rick Cohen, "That?s a pretty impressive story."
• "We wanted to go to that next level of technology," says Wayne Becker, IT Director at Berry Companies Inc., a light and heavy construction sales, service, parts, and rental distributor based in Wichita, KS. "Prelude has us really trusting the ordering process, which has helped us buy smarter and drive down our inventory interest costs."
• "I had a really good feeling about Prelude right from the start," says Jack Van Sledright, director of finance for Commerce Corporation. Since implementing Activant Prelude, the Great Lakes branch of the company has driven a 150 percent increase in sales while gaining better access to crucial business data.
• "In the past six years, we've doubled the size of our business. Guess what we want to do in the next six." Ric Serafin, President and CEO of Dawson Company, talks about the growth his company has seen since implementing Prelude.
• According to Steve Evenson, MIS manager for McCann Industries, when the company wasn't integrated on a single solution, it was an ordeal to pull simple sales reports. Now that the Illinois-based distributor is on Activant Prelude, they're seeing timelier reporting, better information, and improved efficiencies.
• "The new forecasting formulas allowed us to narrow our trend analysis and more accurately predict inventory requirements," says Wayne Dawson, purchasing supervisor for NTP Distribution. Since implementing Activant Prelude, the company has reduced stock-outs by 39 percent.
• Ross Barna, director of business development for RAB Lighting, Inc., couldn't believe how easy it was. Two months after going live with Prelude, the Northvale, New Jersey lighting manufacturer and distributor added Prelude's VIA (Virtual Information Access) module - and 30 days later, their e-commerce site was online, taking orders. Says Barna: "We went from goals to strategy to features to implementation to success, just about that fast."
• According to Executive Vice President Stuart Weiss, when it came time for Techni-Tool, Inc., to upgrade from their legacy software, they looked "for something more open, progressive, and comprehensive." They chose Activant Prelude and increased inventory turns by 33 percent.
• Using a laundry list of required functionality as a guide to finding the right technology, Henry Smith, president of Pumping Services, discovered only one solution that could handle his company's diverse needs: Activant Prelude. Says Smith, "Prelude was the only package that had everything - from rental tracking to lot billing to light manufacturing - and we were impressed by the integration of its modules."
• "Prelude's purchasing functionality is the best I've seen," says Ross Barna, director at RAB Lighting. The employees at RAB use Activant Prelude's purchasing functionality to forecast long lead times, reduce inventory, and increase turns.
• Before Ken Tacony, CEO of Tacony Corporation, decided to implement Activant Prelude, his company's annual sales were around $40 million; now, 18 years later and seven acquisitions later, they've grown to $200 million. Says Tacony, "Our implementation of the Prelude solution has been the cornerstone."

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