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| For Immediate Release
Contact: Frank M. Terlep Date: November 25, 2002 Summit Software Solutions, Inc. and See Progress Inc. Announce Strategic Product IntegrationIntegration Creates Complete Claims, Operations, Production, Customer Service and Marketing Solution for Collision Repairers Summit Software Solutions, Inc. and See Progress, Inc. announced today that they have completed seamless integration between the Summit C.O.P.S.™ and Ascent™ claims, operations, and production software and the Internet based See Progress, Inc. AutoWatch™ customer service and marketing solution. This newly announced technology integration called NetProgress™ provides a Summit/See Progress customer the ability to import customer, vehicle, insurance, and other estimating data from any estimating system, combine it with digital images, vehicle status, and other pertinent claims process information and have it automatically uploaded to the customer's website so it can be viewed by the consumer, insurer, agent, or rental car company. The newly announced integration will also provide the collision repairer the ability to send automatic vehicle status and target date change e-mails to consumers, insurers, agents, and rental car companies. According to Frank Terlep, President of Summit and Dave Henderson, President of See Progress, "Our companies and our customers are extremely excited about the tremendous possibilities that have been created by NetProgress™." Terlep and Henderson continue, "By seamlessly integrating our technology solutions we will increase our customers' productivity and at the same time provide dramatic improvements in customer communications, service, and referrals. This will also improve our customers' external marketing and communications activities with consumers, insurers, and rental car companies." Chris Diroff of Jack Demmer Collision Center, a See Progress and Summit user, states; "I see this as a marriage of the two best technology solutions we have ever used in our collision repair facility." Diroff continues, "This integration will streamline our operation by eliminating double data entry, improving photo and data file transfers, and increasing our efficiency with the use of a digital camera that stores more images on a CD." About See Progress Inc. See Progress, Inc. is the recognized pioneer of Internet customer
vehicle tracking and is based in Brighton, Michigan. Additional
information can be found at www.seeprogress.com.
The AutoWatch™ system is a unique customer service and marketing tool
for the collision repair industry. The system allows vehicle owners to
view digital photos of their vehicle throughout the repair process
through a fully custom and extensive Body Shop web site. AutoWatch™ is
a trademark of See Progress, Inc. Patent Pending. Summit Software Solutions, Inc. is a business-to-business information
technology provider that delivers information and communication
management solutions to collision, mechanical, and truck repair
businesses. Summit's solutions enable companies to utilize software and
Internet based technologies to improve internal operations,
productivity, profitability, and supply chain connectivity with vendors,
suppliers, and customers. The management team has more then fifty years
of software development experience. Between them they have helped create
information management systems that are in use in more than 3000 repair
facilities around the world. For more information about Summit Software
Solutions, Inc. contact Frank Terlep at 858-547-8697 or visit the Summit
Web site at http://www.summitsoftwaresolutions.com |
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