Advent International Selects SunGards Investran for Reporting

New York, NY (PRWEB) September 29, 2011

Advent International, the global private equity firm, has selected SunGards Investran to help improve its financial reporting capabilities and provide greater transparency to investors. Investran is an award-winning solution suite that helps automate front-, middle- and back-office processes for private equity and other alternative investment firms.

Advent International, which focuses on international buyouts, strategic repositioning opportunities, and growth investments, needed a solution that would help it efficiently manage an increasing flow of transactional data to an array of investors. Advent International selected Investran to help it automate accounting workflow and streamline operations onto a single, integrated platform.

Advents tremendous growth and success, the dramatic changes in the private equity industry, and huge advances in Private Equity technology platforms are creating opportunities for Advent to enhance our reporting, said Eileen Sivolella, chief financial officer of Advent International. Investran will help Advent add to the service levels for our investors and scale to accommodate for growth.

SunGards dedicated team brings not only robust systems expertise, but also a deep understanding of current industry topics and trends, added Michael Ristaino, vice president, Fund Administration at Advent International.

Advent International joins a growing number of private equity firms that are looking to streamline their operations, said Lauren Iaslovits, chief operating officer for SunGards Investran business unit. Investran will help Advent International automate processes, increase productivity and improve client service.

About Advent International Corporation

Founded in 1984, Advent International is one of the worlds leading global buyout firms, with offices in 17 countries on four continents. A driving force in international private equity for 27 years, Advent has built an unparalleled global platform of over 170 investment professionals across Western and Central Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia. The firm focuses on international buyouts, strategic repositioning opportunities and growth buyouts in five core sectors, working actively with management teams to drive revenue growth and earnings improvements in portfolio companies. Since inception, Advent has raised $ 26 billion in private equity capital and, through its buyout programs, has completed over 270 transactions valued at approximately $ 60 billion in 35 countries. For more information, visit adventinternational.com.

About SunGard Investran

SunGard Investran is an integrated application suite that automates front-, middle- and back-office processes for private equity and alternative investment firms. Investran helps improve business efficiencies to facilitate collaboration, support deal flow and automate accounting. Firms rely on Investrans integrated capabilities to help meet their needs in the entire investment life-cycle, including relationship management, reporting, monitoring, accounting, fund raising and deal pipeline management. For more information on Investran and SunGards portfolio of alternative investment solutions, visit http://www.sungard.com/investran/learnmore.

About SunGard

SunGard is one of the world's leading software and technology services companies. SunGard has more than 20,000 employees and serves 25,000 customers in 70 countries. SunGard provides software and processing solutions for financial services, higher education and the public sector. SunGard also provides disaster recovery services, managed IT services, information availability consulting services and business continuity management software. With annual revenue of about $ 5 billion, SunGard is ranked 434 on the Fortune 500 and is the largest privately held business software and IT services company. For more information, visit http://www.sungard.com.

Trademark Information: SunGard, the SunGard logo and Investran are trademarks or registered trademarks of SunGard Data Systems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. All other trade names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Selects EBSCO Discovery Service

Ipswich, MA (Vocus) October 6, 2010

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine has selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) from EBSCO Publishing. The decision was made to answer key questions that a researcher faces when using a premium content collection from a library such as: Where to start? What's the best resource? How many unique "silos" of information do I need to search? EBSCO Discovery Service is designed to harvest metadata from both internal (library) and external (database vendors) sources, and creates a pre-indexed service of unprecedented size and speedreducing silos and providing everything the researcher needs in one place.

Executive Director of Library & Educational Information Systems at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Etheldra Templeton, says students and faculty want fast, comprehensive searches that will mine the full range of the librarys licensed resources. With discovery, users get a simple, Google-like search of all our quality electronic and print content. The robust metadata assures targeted, relevant search results and the pre-indexing from discovery assures fast retrieval.

Templeton says EDS allows users to take advantage of its collection and find the valuable content only available in a library collection. The library buys high quality, peer-reviewed and vetted information resourcesfar better than what an open Web search will findbut the sheer numbers of collections, vendors, and interfaces pose a problem for users. With EDS, we are able to provide one search box that exposes our collection to the user.

Another important factor for Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine was the availability of a mobile interface with EBSCO Discovery Service. Having mobile access allows the library to provide its growing number of smart phone users with easy access, helping the college serve its users anywhere, anytime.

The Base Index for EBSCO Discovery Service forms the foundation upon which each EDS subscribing library builds out its custom collection. Beginning with the Base Index, each institution extends the reach of EDS by adding appropriate resources including its catalog, institutional repositories, EBSCOhost and other databases, and additional content sources to which it subscribes. It is this combination that allows a single, comprehensive, custom solution for discovering the value of any librarys collection.

The EDS Base Index is comprised of metadata from the worlds foremost information providers. At present, the EDS Base Index represents content from approximately 20,000 providers in addition to metadata from another 70,000 book publishers. Although constantly growing, today the EDS Base Index provides metadata for nearly 50,000 magazines & journals, approximately 825,000 CDs & DVDs, nearly six million books, more than 100 million newspaper articles, more than 20,000 conference proceedings and hundreds of thousands of additional information sources from various source-types.

EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customized index of an institutions information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search boxsearching made even more powerful because of the quality of metadata and depth and breadth of coverage.

About EBSCO Publishing

EBSCO Publishing is the worlds premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 300 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). The companys product lines include proprietary databases such as Academic Search, Business Source

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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:

University of North Carolina GAA Selects Harris Connect to Launch a Mobile App that Integrates Content and Communications for Alumni, Students and Other Campus Department

Brewster, NY (PRWEB) May 11, 2011

Harris Connect today announces the extension of their partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill General Alumni Association (GAA) with the addition of a custom mobile application that provides an integrated communications and content portal for on-campus and alumni constituents.

UNC GAA has a long-standing relationship with Harris Connect to offer constituents and campus groups powerful tools for connection and engagement, including an online community, email marketing and constituent sites as branded hubs for campus groups. The addition of a mobile app is a natural evolution of the Universitys commitment to meeting the information needs of users campus-wide.

Said Keith King, Associate Editor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill General Alumni Association (GAA), Because of our ongoing relationship with Harris Connect for Web services, we knew they understood what we do. That made it easier to integrate current services into a user-friendly mobile experience, such as our searchable alumni directory. There was a level of comfort and trust with the partnership, as well as economy.

The UNC Mobile App combines high-value content and communications functionality in a single, convenient interface: