Enabling the Aftermarket to Use Electronic Special Ordering Scott Tompkins Activant Solutions Inc. October 2007
© 2007 Activant Solutions Inc. All Rights Reserved Corporate Overview & History Founded in 1972 Today $475M annual revenue 3,000 employees worldwide 54,000 customer locations One of Top 10 ERP companies worldwide – Software Magazine Financially stable and growing Owned by Hellman & Friedman, Thoma Cressey, and JMI
© 2007 Activant Solutions Inc. All Rights Reserved Wholesale Trade and Distribution Automotive Parts and Service Hardware & Home Center Lumber & Building Materials Corporate Overview & History Leading technology provider in four vertical markets
© 2007 Activant Solutions Inc. All Rights Reserved Customer Support & Product Development Customer Support 75+ Technical, Data and Data Center Support staff Product Development Activant invests over $12M annually in the ongoing development and maintenance of products for the Automotive Aftermarket
© 2007 Activant Solutions Inc. All Rights Reserved Vision Eagle Prism Vista AConneX AConneX DX Eagle Prism Vista AConneX Service Estimator ServiceWriter™ Business Partners ShopCat™ AConneX JOBBER SERVICE DEALER W.D. / 2-STEP MANUFACTURER Vista AceMapper AConneX® DX Products for the Automotive Aftermarket PartExpert® VIN Lookup LaborExpert® Tire-by-Size™ BuyerAssist™ Cover-to-Cover™ LaserCat® Active Updates Service Intervals All Lines™ AConneX® Business Advisor® BarcodeExpert™ Document Imaging InterChange® Web Access
© 2007 Activant Solutions Inc. All Rights Reserved Providing Connectivity For Over 30 Years Dial-up (Since the mid 70’s) Special Order Centralized Services EDI Internet Special Order Centralized Services EDI
© 2007 Activant Solutions Inc. All Rights Reserved Connectivity Solutions AConneX Provides secure & reliable Internet connectivity between business systems of all types Connects Consumer, Service Dealer, Jobber, Warehouse, Manufacturer System to System Web to System System to Web Web to Web Real-time and Asynchronous 200,000+ established trading relationships
© 2007 Activant Solutions Inc. All Rights Reserved Connecting the Supply Chain with AConneX Internet Orders, Inquiries, Central service AConneX eStores – 3 rd Party Internet-based Parts Ordering Services Independent Garages & Service Chains 3 rd Party eCommerce Gateways Orders & Inquiries Orders & Inquiries, Support Access Independent Stores & Retail Chains (& Program Groups) Program Groups 3 rd Party eCommerce Gateways Support Access 3 rd Party Value Added Networks P.O., ASN & Invoices Aftermarket & OE Manufacturers Orders & Inquiries
© 2007 Activant Solutions Inc. All Rights Reserved Gateway to Gateway Special Ordering Solutions Internet 3 rd Party Gateway or Private Network IPO Activant SDK Non-Activant Inquiry & Order Activant Inquiry & Order AConneX AConneX “Open” Implementation Options Proprietary
© 2007 Activant Solutions Inc. All Rights Reserved AConneX IPO Rollout IPO Ready December 2007 Thousands of AConneX enabled Distributors will be able to immediately connect with IPO ready Manufacturers IPO 2.0 Actively involved in AAIA IPO subcommittee
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