Impact Industrial Supplies Selects Cutwater Business Intelligence ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. (Business Wire) -- Cutwater, developer of theCutwater BI reporting solution for wholesale distributors,announced today that Impact Industrial Supplies has implementedCutwater BI reporting software. Cutwater BI supports data analysisand performance reporting on data that resides in the wholesaledistributor's transaction system, Prophet 21.
Impact Industrial Supplies delivers high quality industrialproducts from leading manufacturers such as 3M, Loctite, GoJo,Rayovac and Sherwin Williams. The Tampa, FL, wholesale distributoralso provides critical services that go far beyond simply selling aproduct.
"Our job is to help our customers manage the resources theyneed to be successful," remarks John Diaz, president of ImpactIndustrial Supplies. "Cutwater BI gives us the data we need tobe a valued partner for our clients."
Cutwater BI for wholesale distributors provides ad hoc anddistributed reporting capabilities to the Impact IndustrialSupplies operations and sales teams. Cutwater BI is preconfiguredto provide reporting on data resident in Activant Solutions'Prophet 21 and is integrated with Microsoft Excel.
"There are a lot of reporting tools on the market to choosefrom," says Diaz. "Because Cutwater BI is preconfigured,installation was a matter of hours and required no effort on ourpart. I simply opened the software and started reporting on mydata."
Cutwater BI provides out-of-the-box reporting features forpurchasing, sales and inventories. Companies using Prophet 21benefit from a preconfigured set of report categories that comewith Cutwater BI, enabling broad reporting without the installationeffort that sometimes accompanies acquiring new software. Cutwateralso provides a one-month trial for any Prophet 21 customer, withno commitment to license the tool until users have had theopportunity to operate the system in their own environment, withtheir own data.
"Buying software can be a complicated experience," saysJim Heatherington, managing director of Cutwater. "We'rereducing the hurdles involved by standardizing the tool andallowing people to try it before they buy."
About Impact Industrial Supplies
Headquartered in Tampa, FL, Impact Industrial Supplies is asupplier of high quality industrial, production and MRO supplies,helping their clients more efficiently manage procurement. ImpactIndustrial Supplies also offers logistics and distribution servicesthat can drive measurable return to their clients. More on ImpactIndustrial Supplies can be found atwww.impactindustrialsupplies.com.
About Cutwater
Cutwater is a provider of performance reporting and businessanalysis software for wholesale distributors and manufacturers.Cutwater BI for wholesale distributors is preconfigured for theindustry and results in an affordable solution that will not placeadditional burden on either IT resources or business management.More on Cutwater can be found at www.cutwaterbi.com.
Cutwater(R) is a registered trademark of Cutwater, Inc. or itsaffiliates. Activant Solutions(R) and Prophet 21(R) are registeredtrademarks of Activant Solutions, Inc. or its affiliates. ActivantSolutions is not affiliated with Cutwater and no endorsement isimplied.
Cutwater
Michelle Perkins, 919-678-9200
mperkins@dprgroup.com
or
David Wonderling, 301-706-2131
dwonderling@cutwaterbi.com
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