Automotive Parts Headquarters, Inc. selects WHI Solutions PartsWatch as their Next Generation Store Management Solution

Rye Brook, NY (PRWEB) August 16, 2011

WHI Solutions has announced that an Aftermarket Auto Parts Alliance group member will be replacing its existing POS solution with PartsWatch, the industrys leading On Demand Store Management System, at each of its 73 corporate store locations and is recommending the same for its independent jobbers.

"Having a modern, efficient Store Management system is critical as we scale up our business," said Dennis Gregory, COO/CFO of Automotive Parts Headquarters. "We believe PartsWatch provides opportunities to significantly improve not only our customer service and sales results, but our store operations as well. The solution is comprehensive, easy to use and quick to deploy. Weve worked closely with WHI over the past several months to ensure a successful rollout across our enterprise. The excellent teamwork between APH and WHI has been crucial to the success of this project."

APH is a leader and innovator in the Aftermarket, so this is an exciting opportunity to help increase market share, sales and profitability for one of the prominent independent auto parts sellers in the industry, said Scott Robertson, VP of Sales of WHI Solutions.

PartsWatch Distribution Management is a turnkey solution for a parts business looking to upgrade their system. Complete with GUI Point of Sale, eCatalog, eCommerce, Purchasing, Inventory Management, Order Fulfillment, Pricing, Automated Backups, support, and more. Powerful components, tightly integrated, mean you can run your business in real time and make the right business decisions. PartsWatch is also the only system that can provide you with up to the minute information from each of your suppliers, including availability and pricing; allowing ordering right from your desktop. Single and multi-store locations, buying groups, and corporate stores all benefit from Nexpart's market leading functionality.

About WHI Solutions

WHI Solutions is the leading provider of On Demand eBusiness Solutions to the Automotive and Heavy Truck Industries. Over 1,600 customers benefit from WHIs real-time, multitenant architecture. WHIs eCommerce, eCatalog and Distribution Management applications (http://www.whisolutions.com) have revolutionized the way companies collaborate and communicate with their customers, including:

Evident dental laboratory management software celebrates #1 rank on Google.

(PRWEB) November 11, 2011

The number 1 spot on the Google search is very exciting. We have noticed an increase in the number of demo requests through the site, but the jump in Google ranking has to be attributed to SEO techniques and to our dental lab industry blogs that provide current, useful information to our customers, says Rayne Verity, Evident Marketing and Finance Manager.

Evident joined the NADL in 2011 and sponsors several informative blog-based websites for the dental lab industry to use for reference and collaboration.

Evident is a company that genuinely wants to help dental labs succeed. Our customer support is the best in the industry and our pricing is the most competitive in the market for the features we provide. We are quickly growing in popularity with dental labs of all sizes. Im not surprised Evident moved into the number 1 Google ranking position says Jane Goodfellow, Evident CEO. Prior to starting Evident Inc, Jane shaped another dental lab software product for Henry Schein and had considerable experience helping dental lab staff to optimize lab efficiency. Jane is the driving force behind Evident.

A Google ranking of #1 indicates a high volume of traffic to the site and the relevancy of a search. When dental lab software is typed into a Google search, Evident dental lab software appears in the number 1 unsponsored position. The increase in traffic can been attributed to the surge in interest and popularity of the Evident dental lab software system. Kurt Goodfellow, Evident General Manager elaborated, Evident tracks cases from the dental practice through every production step and back to the practice. It lists the technicians task start and finish dates, even our reporting system can be automated to collect the dental lab data and send it to whoever needs that information without them having to go look for it. Doctors can enter their own cases; this is web utilization at its best.

Because Evident dental lab management software is web based it operates on any computer that has access to the Internet as well as iPads, smart phones etc. This allows lab owners and employees to monitor and track their work from anywhere in the world. Dental lab managers and owners are often married to the lab, but with the Evident system, the dental lab owner has the dental lab is in their pocket.

Evident dental lab exhibits at the LMTs Lab Day in Chicago each year. It gives us a great opportunity to see our customers. We meet so many great people and get to put faces to all the voices we know! says Tristan Goodfellow, Evident Training and Support Manager. LMT Lab Day Chicago is the largest dental lab trade show in North America.

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GoGrid Enhances Partner Exchange Platform With New Image Rights Management Technology

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 03, 2011

GoGrid, a leading cloud infrastructure company, today announced its new Image Rights Management (IRM) technology, now available for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) participating in the companys partner exchange program. Enhancing the value GoGrids Exchange marketplace provides to ISVs, the company's new IRM technology delivers an innovative license protection system that enables partners to safeguard their intellectual property and effectively monetize their existing software solutions using cloud-based subscription models.

Once a partner application is live in the GoGrid Exchange marketplace and available for GoGrid's customers to deploy through value-added subscription plans, the IRM system automatically tracks instances where the application is actually running within the GoGrid cloud. The system then authenticates whether or not the application is operating on a validly deployed cloud server for which GoGrid is collecting the required subscription fees on behalf of the partner. If the proper authentication requirements are not met for an application in use, partners can protect their intellectual property and take appropriate actions such as shutting the application down, delivering a light version of the software, or instructing the customer to purchase a valid license from an external website.

"Architecting cloud computing infrastructure involves a variety of different technology solutions and our customers need a simple process to access, adopt and implement industry-leading applications for critical functions such as internet security, backup, monitoring, load balancing and compliance," said Jeff Samuels, chief marketing officer, GoGrid. "The GoGrid Exchange featuring our IRM system brings new opportunities for software providers to expand their reach by connecting with our customer community in the GoGrid cloud. Enabling independent solutions providers to easily share and offer their existing software with licensing models that support the elasticity of a cloud environment is an important factor in driving cloud adoption and fueling industry innovation."

The GoGrid Exchange A Cloud Solution Ecosystem

The GoGrid Exchange is a multi-dimensional marketplace of cloud solutions where Partner-created "golden server images" are sold, bought or shared across the GoGrid community. In the Exchange, solutions partners can sell or share GoGrid server images that are preinstalled and preconfigured with their software and documentation. In turn, GoGrid customers provision virtual machines based on any selected golden server image. These include GoGrid Server Images (GSIs), Partner GoGrid Server Images (PGSIs that partners have built) or Community GoGrid Server Images (CGSIs that community members have built). Customers purchase monthly subscriptions or simply use server images that are free. Customers can also share personalized GoGrid Server Images (MyGSIs) they create themselves for their own specific cloud usage.

Featuring its new IRM system, the GoGrid Exchange provides ISVs with a simple process for cloud-enabling their existing software applications while also protecting their intellectual property. With the GoGrid Exchange, customized Partner GSIs are listed in a catalog located on the GoGrid portal that customers can browse and select the value-added server images they want to include when provisioning their virtual machines. Because Partner GSIs can be provisioned in minutes, customers can drastically reduce the time it takes to get new applications and solutions up and running in the cloud. As a partner's server image is deployed, the IRM system tracks where the application is running and authenticates whether or not it is operating on a valid server. If proper license authentication is not confirmed, the application can take appropriate actions such as shutting itself down as well as notify the vendor. GoGrid manages the Exchange payment process and provides customers with one monthly bill that includes GoGrid's infrastructure fees and any additional Partner GSI fees. The collected value-added fees are then reimbursed to the partner on a quarterly basis.

In GoGrid's environment, customers can also contribute their cloud expertise to the broader community. GoGrid encourages collaboration throughout the ecosystem and offers a new feature that allows customers to quickly and easily share the customized GoGrid Server Images they create. Customers simply customize a GoGrid Server Image with the applications, settings and tools they need and then access the sharing feature to make their images publicly available to the entire GoGrid community by one click of a button. Customers can use this feature, knows as Community GSIs, to quickly transfer images from one account to another, share unique images with office locations in other regions, increase adoption of open source code, save time by leveraging the work of other community members and stay on top of cutting edge applications and trends.

CloudPassage, Gazzang, Zeus Adopt GoGrid IRM

GoGrid today announced that three of its Exchange partners, CloudPassage, Gazzang and Zeus Technology, have adopted the GoGrid IRM system to authenticate the licensing rights for their cloud solutions available in the GoGrid Exchange.

CloudPassage is now offering its software-as-a-service security as a Partner GSI within the GoGrid cloud. With CloudPassage, GoGrid's public and hybrid IaaS customers can manage their own cloud security by leveraging a single solution that is purpose-built for the cloud and delivers multiple layers of defense for cloud servers. CloudPassage and GoGrid joint customers benefit from greatly reduced attack surfaces, lower risk of compromise and improved compliance.

"As a SaaS provider, CloudPassage views the Image Rights Management technology as critical enabler of the cloud ecosystem. GoGrid recognized our need to protect licensed VMs and innovated around that need," said Carson Sweet, co-founder and CEO of CloudPassage. "This has made it much faster and easier for us to pursue an even broader set of SaaS distribution and delivery channels."

Gazzang is making its transparent data encryption solution for MySQL databases available on GoGrid as a Partner GSI. Gazzang ezNcrypt encrypts and protects data a rest for MySQL databases using industry-standard encryption algorithms and patent-pending advanced encryption key management. By joining the GoGrid Exchange, Gazzang helps GoGrid's customers secure their data at rest to meet internal and regulated data security requirements. The solution is available as a GoGrid Partner GSI on Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS and Debian Linux distributions. Now GoGrid customers can select and launch Gazzang ezNcrypt server images with ease using the GoGrid console and within minutes have a MySQL server with encrypted databases using strong encryption and secure key management.

"Gazzang's ezNcrypt as a GoGrid Server Image combines the security of data encryption at rest and key management with the ease of use of GoGrid to deliver a cost-effective security software as a service," said Eddie Garcia, vice president of development. "Our GoGrid pre-configured images make it easy for anyone to deploy secured servers running transparent database encryption for MySQL. With GoGrid's partner GSI and IRM technology, Gazzang will continue to expand its product line of GoGrid-enabled solutions."

Also available on GoGrid, Zeus Technology has released its application traffic management software as a Partner GSI. With its participation in the GoGrid Exchange, Zeus provides GoGrid's customers with access to its affordable and easily deployed load balancing technology, enabling them to deliver fast, secure and available web applications. The combination of Zeus and GoGrid allows customers to easily apply business rules to the behavior of their online applications within the GoGrid cloud. The Zeus software solution deploys with ju