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Absolute Logic, Inc. –
Partner of the Year 2006 – Rising Above Katrina |
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Steve Schulz,
President and owner of Absolute Logic, Inc. [currently celebrating their 25th
anniversary], Passport’s Partner of the Year for 2006, shared some of his
experiences and thoughts regarding their success as a Passport Partner
during 2006, and their work to restart their business after Katrina hit...
Brown’s
Yacht Yard, Inc. and Journey Team/Any Business Systems
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"We
were running the classic version (9.1) of Realworld Corporation, I think. Things were running pretty well. Just some
minor glitches, like I used to print reports to disk and then about a week
later I would delete them. Well, the program wouldn’t let me do that
anymore, so for the past 2 years, the reports have just been adding up..."
Control Enterprises, Inc and
Pritchard, Crumal & Schaaf, Inc.
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For many years, CEI had been
running the classic version (8) of Realworld Corporation on an SCO system. The discontinuation of product support
prompted Ken Gosset, co-owner of CEI, to look for software options for his
company. When Ken received a postcard from Passport Software, he had been
trying to make a 5-seat version of QuickBooks work for his company...
Dazor Manufacturing
Corporation
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Located in Maryland Heights, MO, Dazor Manufacturing Corporation
is one of the premier lighting manufacturers in the United States. The
company was founded in 1938 and its reputation for quality is unsurpassed.
Dazor’s Director of Operations, Chuck Bauman, described their transition
from RealWorld and MCS-3 Manufacturing, to Passport’s Financial
and Manufacturing Series...
Passport Software
and Clarity Software Systems
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Long-time Passport
partner Mark Bennett attended the first Passport Business Solutions™
Manufacturing Series™ training program held by Manufacturing
Series Product Manager Ian Creswell in the fall of 2006. After completing
all six training sessions Mark became one of the very first Certified
Manufacturing Sales Consultants...
Forklift and
Bobcat of Savannah and Coastal Computers, Inc.
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Forklift and Bobcat of Savannah had been running RealWorld
(version 8). “It was DOS-based. We liked it but none of the printers would
work. We figured it was time to upgrade so we could use the new Windows
printers. Also it was not compatible with Windows XP..."
John E. Gilmore,
Jr. and Absolute Logic, Inc.
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Engineering Management Systems had been running RealWorld
since version 6. John, in describing their environment, said, “We maintain a
very large inventory and also have a second, remote location. We were
running a Novell server and using a VPN - everything was running on the
workstations. RealWorld will run fine on these new machines, but just
barely..."
Business &
Computer Consultants, LLC
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"One of our customers is located on the west side of
Madison, WI. They have two other locations, one elsewhere in Madison and
another in Milwaukee. They were not using any remote location solution.
They had tried PC Anywhere and Citrix, but using those tools over a VPN
revealed too much information and additional encryption slowed things
down to the speed of crawling..."
Truck & Trailer
Supplies and Cassidy Consulting
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"We had Unix but we needed to switch to Windows. I just
thought everything would get scrambled during the transition so I printed
out every report I could think of. It was the middle of the afternoon when
we started. I was back on the system by midday the next day. I’m totally
amazed! I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop, and to have problems but
there is no other shoe! The new system is wonderful...!"
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