Sales Management Software

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Flowers Foods Speeds Perishable Baked Goods Through Supply Chain With Highjump Warehouse, Yard And Transportation ...

HighJump Software, a 3M company, a global provider of supply chain execution solutions, recently announced Flowers Foods is generating strong results from its recent implementation of HighJump warehouse, transportation and yard management systems. With $1.9B in 2006 sales, Flowers Foods is a leading producer and marketer of fresh and frozen bakery goods, including top brands like Nature's Own, Cobblestone Mill, Sunbeam, Blue Bird, and Mrs. Freshley's. The company has leveraged its HighJump solutions to increase order fulfillment accuracy to above 99 percent without adding to its labor force.

The company operates under a lean inventory model and utilizes its HighJump warehouse management system (WMS) in its Crossville, Tenn., facility to perform advanced functions like cross docking and high-speed replenishment.

Borland Facing Another Tough Year

Application lifecycle management (ALM) software vendor, Borland Software, saw particularly disappointing results for its second quarter ended June 30, and lowered its expectations for the full year's sales to boot.

The firm posted revenue of $63.4m, down from $76.9m in the same period a year earlier. CEO Tod Nielsen said, "We continue to work through execution issues in EMEA and saw a few important deals slip into future quarters. On the up-side, he said ALM revenue was solid and that ALM "demand is encouraging". .

Biltmore Technologies Deploys MicroStrategy For Pharmaceutical And Biotech Solution

MicroStrategy Incorporated, a provider of business intelligence software, recently announced that Biltmore Technologies has deployed MicroStrategy to provide reporting and analysis capabilities for its hosted data warehouse solution, My Vital Signs Rx. Biltmore Technologies is a leader in pharmaceutical sales and marketing analytics.

My Vital Signs Rx is designed for pharmaceutical and biotech companies that lack the business and technical resources to support their own sales and marketing data warehouse. Anchored by the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform, My Vital Signs Rx helps companies analyze the success of marketing campaigns, determine sales force and targeting effectiveness, and monitor new product introductions, while providing the dashboards and scorecards that senior sales and marketing management need to monitor and improve their business.

ITM Software Raises $4 Million to Accelerate Adoption of it Business Management Software

SANTA CLARA, CA -- 08/07/07 -- ITM Software, the leading provider of IT Business Management solutions designed specifically for the CIO and IT organization, today announced it has secured $4 million in funding. The financing round was led by Red Rock Ventures and InnoCal Venture Capital, and also included Ascend Venture Group, Technology Partners, RBC Technology Ventures and Square 1 Bank, among others.

"Our continued support for ITM Software reflects our belief in the tremendous value the company is delivering to IT organizations, as exhibited by live deployments at large enterprise customers," said Jay Houlihan, Managing Director of Innocal Venture Capital. "We see strong potential for growth, both within existing markets as well as in targeted verticals with new applications."

ITM Software is planning to use the expansion capital to drive sales growth in key vertical markets of financial services, retail, and high technology, as well as to support its marketing initiatives for the company's leading solutions in vendor management, financial management, and IT governance and compliance.

Autodesk software boosts Novato bike maker

A NOVATO BIKE manufacturer has more than doubled its output, attracting new clients across the world, thanks in part to cutting-edge software made by Marin's biggest high-tech company.

Despite the relaxed atmosphere at Marin Bikes, where employees bring dogs to work and practice yoga twice a week, business is booming, with sales up 20 percent since 2004. The bottom line: a profit gain that founder Bob Buckley describes as "from nothing to $1.7 million."

Marin high-tech giant Autodesk helped brighten the profit picture.

For 20 years, Marin Bikes has designed and manufactured mountain and city bike frames - and sold them to bike shops across the United States and in 40 other countries.

Poor business management nearly ran the company into the ground until three years ago, when the firm relocated from Galli Drive to the Grateful Dead's former recording studio in Bel Marin Keys.

Biltmore Technologies Deploys MicroStrategy for Pharmaceutical and Biotech Solution

McLEAN, Va. (Map) - MicroStrategy(R) Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence software, today announced that Biltmore Technologies has deployed MicroStrategy to provide reporting and analysis capabilities for its hosted data warehouse solution, My Vital Signs Rx(TM). Biltmore Technologies is a leader in pharmaceutical sales and marketing analytics.

My Vital Signs Rx is designed for pharmaceutical and biotech companies that lack the business and technical resources to support their own sales and marketing data warehouse. Anchored by the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform(TM), My Vital Signs Rx helps companies analyze the success of marketing campaigns, determine sales force and targeting effectiveness, and monitor new product introductions, while providing the dashboards and scorecards that senior sales and marketing management need to monitor and improve their business.