Released on: November 26, 2007, 8:06 am

Press Release Author: Technology Evaluation Centers Inc.

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: Case Study: Kelly-Moore Paints leverages TEC selection
methodology to help select ERP system

Press Release Body: Montreal, QC -- Kelly-Moore Paints, the largest employee-owned
paint company in the US, recently engaged the services of software evaluation firm
Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC) to help it select an enterprise resource
planning (ERP) system to meet its growing needs.

With over 2,000 employees, three major manufacturing facilities, and 164 retail
stores, Kelly-Moore Paints decided that it was time to move from multiple, disparate
software systems to one integrated ERP system. With a tight deadline of only 10
months to complete the project, from requirements-gathering to evaluation,
selection, and implementation, Kelly-Moore was looking for help in navigating the
complex software systems selection process.

While in the research phase, Kelly-Moore\'s project team learned about TEC, and
discovered that TEC\'s decision support engine and methodology could help it better
navigate the complex decision-making process. TEC offers support for software
selection and implementation projects from business process modeling (detailed
requirement-gathering) through the research evaluation and selection stage,
concluding with the planning, implementation, and post-implementation activities.

Kelly-Moore began with TEC\'s request for information (RFI) templates for mixed-mode
(process and discrete) ERP to identify feature and function gaps that might have
otherwise been missed, and created a custom RFI specifically designed for its
environment.

Starting out with approximately 20 vendors that fit their basic requirements, TEC\'s
eBestMatch(TM) decision support engine and research portal allowed Kelly-Moore to
compare multiple vendors simultaneously, eliminating those solutions that did not
integrate with its existing financial platform, and reducing the number of
shortlisted vendors from 20 to 2 in significantly less time than would have been
possible using more traditional evaluation methods.

Carl Sweetland, chief information officer for Kelly-Moore Paints, explains \"TEC
saved us time and worry; it simplified the process for us greatly. We were able to
focus on evaluating the shortlisted results while feeling secure about the
methodology behind it because the findings could be demonstrated with our own
customized reports and graphs.\"

To learn more about how TEC helps organizations stay on track to successful software
evaluations, selections, and implementations -- at the lowest total cost of
ownership (TCO) -- please visit
http://www.technologyevaluation.com/services/tec-solutions/, read the related case
study, or call Leona Patlik, Project Sales Coordinator. E-mail:
projectsales@tec-centers.com Phone : 514-954-3665, ext. 244

About Technology Evaluation Centers Inc. (TEC) -- Since 1993, Technology Evaluation
Centers (www.technologyevaluation.com) has been the world\'s leading online provider
of resources to help organizations select software solutions best suited to their
particular business models and special requirements. TEC currently maintains over 20
software evaluation resource centers containing specialized software evaluation
tools, as well as thousands of detailed criteria on over 800 software solutions,
ranging from enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management
(CRM), and supply chain management (SCM), to business intelligence (BI) and
enterprise asset management (EAM).

Web Site: http://www.technologyevaluation.com

Contact Details: Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC)
1-514-954-3665
740 St. Maurice, 4th floor
Montreal, Quebec, H3C 1L5, Canada
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