Cilio Technologies Announces New Cilio Partners Portal

Brookfield, Wisconsin (PRWEB) March 07, 2012

Cilio Technologies, LLC, the leading specialist in automated order distribution and management of installed sales for the building materials industry, today announced the Cilio Partners Portal, a web-based platform for retail home improvement stores and manufacturers. The Cilio Partners Portal transforms the way manufacturers and retailers distribute and manage their orders for installed sales among complex trading partner networks. The software as a service (SaaS) solution gives all trading partners real-time visibility and insight into orders and the sales channel.

Installed sales programs account for nearly 20 percent of the $ 155 billion home improvement retail business. These programs offer attractive sales margins and added revenue from installation fees, but they also include a multi-faceted network of vendors and a complex ordering process. Managing installed sales programs can quickly become overwhelming, time-consuming and expensive.

Today, most orders for counter tops, cabinets, windows, doors, flooring and other installed products are managed by a manual, paper-based system. A customer goes to a retailer or dealer and places an order where it is kicked out to a complex network of manufacturers, distributors, fabricators and installers with little or no ability to know where an order is in the process, stated Randy Olejnik, president of Cilio Technologies. Hours are wasted manually tracking order status and critical information is easily lost.

In addition to the information and employee time lost through the manual process, retailers and manufacturers also miss opportunities to view and track orders electronically and capture the whole trading partner network in a single environment. With better network visibility, they can gain control over pricing, leverage national relationships, and quickly open new sales channels.

Customers on the Cilio Partners Portal are saving money and building multi-million dollar sales channels by bringing together orders and trading partners in a single environment, continued Olejnik. Considering the $ 31 billion installed sales market for home improvement retailers and manufacturers, first movers who better manage their orders and trading partner networks stand at a great competitive and financial advantage.

The Cilio Partners Portal order logging and tracking system processed nearly $ 1 billion in installed sales and related purchase orders in 2011. The portal captures orders electronically via a single, consistent process and distributes those orders automatically to the proper partners within the channel making the order available for viewing any time, from any computer or mobile device. Additionally, the Cilio Partners Portal can be up and running within as little as 30-days, allowing companies to avoid expensive investments in hardware, software or custom development.

Benefits of the Cilio Partners Portal include:

Simplified order distribution and management process
Improved management of partner networks
Standard and custom reporting on a complete history of orders
Ability to monitor and measure performance of partners, products, campaigns, and incentive programs

The Cilio Partners Portal also includes a new mobile app another first for the building materials industry. The app gives access to all of the Cilio Partners Portal features from users mobile devices. For example, when a fabricator is bidding materials for a job, the portal automatically routes product questions or requests through the chain of command to give that partner instant access to negotiating manufacturer pricing and quantities. In addition, more than 1,000 fabricators and dealers have provided feedback to the Cilio team for new order entry interface enhancements that are being piloted with select customers. The new features and enhancements make the interface more intuitive and allows users to view more data in a single page.

For more information and to download Cilios free white paper Rethinking the Logistics of Order Distribution and Management. please visit http://www.ciliotech.com/category/library.

About Cilio

Cilio Technologies, LLC offers a secure, web-based platform to automate distribution and management of installed sales and associated purchase orders for retail home improvement stores and manufacturers. The Cilio Partners Portal brings together trading partners and orders in a single environment, enabling better communication and total visibility into each and every sales order from creation through completion. Companies gain insights that help reduce the time and cost of order distribution and management, manage trading partner networks, build new sales channels, and increase revenues. Customers include Lowes Companies, Cosentino Group, Sage Surfaces, Origin Point Brands, and LG Hausys America. Formed in 2001, Cilio Technologies is at the forefront of the software as a service (SaaS) revolution in the installed sales space. Learn more about Cilio Technologies at http://www.ciliotech.com.

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Cilio Technologies Announces New Cilio Partners Portal

Redesigned Copyright Enforcement Group (CEG) Settlement Portal, copyrightsettlements.com, Launched

Beverly Hills, CA (PRWEB) April 13, 2012

Copyright Enforcement Group (CEG) today announced their new and improved settlement portal, copyrightsettlements.com.

Copyrightsettlements.com provides a secure, trusted, convenient, and easy way to those who have infringed on content owners copyrighted material to settle online. Copyrightsettlements.com has the advanced ability to offer multiple settlements of the content owners choosing.

At the election of the content owner, various settlement options are available and include monetary, goods (such as DVDs or products), services, subscriptions, as well as any other option the content owner may choose. Using settlement options other than monetary settlements alone give the content owner the opportunity to turn infringers into paying customers who legally consume copyrighted content.

Copyrightsettlements.com also has an educational component. Site visitors can read and watch videos on how to secure their routers and wireless networks, find links to the manuals of specific routers, read information on network monitoring software, see links to piracy education advocates, as well as links to sites that contain detailed information on the governance of intellectual property rights.

Copyrightsettlements.com works hand-in-hand with CEGs anti-piracy solutions, which are developed to suit the specific needs of all content creators of audio, video, image, text, video games and software. CEG’s fully automated process continuously monitors valuable features, detects and validates infringements and responds immediately to minimize loss. CEG’s proprietary system provides multiple anti-piracy solutions including a fully customizable Monetization service solution that is available at no cost to the content owner.

Infringement Monetization: CEG’s premier Monetization service protects and monetizes content across multiple Peer-to-Peer protocols and websites.

Content Tracking: CEG’s Data Services identify infringements and provide an invaluable flow of raw data.

Content Takedown: CEG’s proprietary Takedown Notice service provides perpetual global monitoring and managed takedown notifications for creative content across multiple Peer-to-Peer protocols and websites.

Business Intelligence: CEG’s Business Intelligence service provides the data analysis content owners need to accurately interpret data and make key business decisions.
CEG understands the extensive lengths, sacrifices, and risks creative content owners take to reach audiences worldwide. CEG’s in-house team of technology, intellectual property, and legal experts work together to ensure that owners’ valuable creative works are protected from digital piracy.

To learn more about copyrightsettlements.com or CEG’s services, please visit http://www.ceg-intl.com, call 877 5 COPYRIGHT (877 526 7974) ext 175 or email salesteam(at)ceg-intl(dot)com.

About Copyright Enforcement Group

Copyright Enforcement Group (CEG) provides first-in-class copyright protection, offering comprehensive anti-piracy solutions and in-depth business intelligence to copyright owners worldwide. Cutting edge technology enables CEG to track, monetize, and analyze all forms of copyrighted content – audio, video, image, text, video games and software – across multiple Peer-to-Peer protocols (P2P) and websites. To learn more about CEG’s services, please visit http://www.ceg-intl.com

Redesigned Copyright Enforcement Group (CEG) Settlement Portal, copyrightsettlements.com, Launched

New Mobile Features for Cilio Partners Portal Allow for Better Speed and More Control Over Installed Sales

(PRWEB) July 17, 2012

Cilio Technologies, LLC, the leading specialist in automated order distribution and management of installed sales for the building materials industry, today announced new and sophisticated mobile features for the Cilio Partners Portal, a web-based platform for retail home improvement stores and manufacturers.

The Cilio Partners Portal is the first SaaS (software as a service) offering for home and building materials manufacturers and retailers that allows them to distribute and manage their orders for installed sales products (such as counter tops, cabinets, windows, doors, flooring and others) across complex vendor networks. The new features for the Cilio Partners Portal allow viewing and searching projects and orders, adding field notes, approving project line items and releasing orders for payment all from a mobile device.

According to Forrester Research, between 2008 and 2011 the percentage of daily mobile Internet users increased to 26 percent from 4 percent, far outpacing the growth of internet access from a desktop. At this pace, mobile was the next obvious phase for the Cilio Partners Portal, especially for an industry that requires most of its people to be off site and in the field.

The benefits are numerous, but the most important is the capacity for manufacturers, installers, fabricators and retail partners to better communicate throughout the installed sales process leading to faster and smoother project completion and improved margins on product sales and installation. For example, an installer can now template, schedule and monitor installations and product deliveries while at the job site from a mobile device.

The ability to arm mobile devices with the industry-leading features of the Cilio Partners Portal is an exciting and necessary benefit to our customers, stated Randy Olejnik, president of Cilio Technologies. Our customers spend much of their time in the field and away from a desk. It was critical for us to meet their mobile needs in the most advanced way possible. Now they can manage most of the installed sales project and order process from their handheld device.

Improved mobile features for the Cilio Partners Portal include:

Viewing orders and projects
Searching orders and projects
Viewing and adding order notes
Releasing orders for payment
Customizing the login page
Approving and denying project line items

For more information and to download Cilios free white paper Rethinking the Logistics of Order Distribution and Management. please visit http://www.ciliotech.com/category/library.

About Cilio

Cilio Technologies, LLC offers a secure, web-based platform to automate distribution and management of installed sales and associated purchase orders for retail home improvement stores and manufacturers. The Cilio Partners Portal brings together trading partners and orders in a single environment, enabling better communication and total visibility into each and every sales order from creation through completion. Companies gain insights that help reduce the time and cost of order distribution and management, manage trading partner networks, build new sales channels, and increase revenues. Customers include Lowes Companies, Cosentino Group, Sage Surfaces, Origin Point Brands, and LG Hausys America. Formed in 2001, Cilio Technologies is at the forefront of the software as a service (SaaS) revolution in the installed sales space. Learn more about Cilio Technologies at http://www.ciliotech.com.

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New Mobile Features for Cilio Partners Portal Allow for Better Speed and More Control Over Installed Sales

Cost Effective Technologies Partners with Identity Management Leader OneLogin to Deliver Secure Cloud Application Portal

Lincoln, Neb. (PRWEB) October 16, 2012

Cost Effective Technologies (CET), a subsidiary of Nelnet and the provider of Floor99 cloud applications for businesses, has partnered with OneLogin, the innovator in enterprise identity management, to deliver a secure, customized single sign-on solution for both private and public cloud applications. By leveraging OneLogin, CET is able to deliver a secure, single sign-on application portal that comes pre-integrated with thousands of applications.

The partnership with OneLogin enables us to provide secure access to virtually any third-party application, as well as the thousands of in-house applications that we maintain inside of Nelnets Data Centers, said Tom Nielsen, chief executive officer of Cost Effective Technologies. Were pleased to now offer the security and flexibility of a private cloud solution delivered through a unified and secure app portal that works seamlessly across desktops, laptops and iPads..

Our cloud platform gives large service providers like CET the ability to offer their customers immediate access to thousands of cloud applications, automate user registration and provisioning, and decrease the risk of unauthorized access, added Thomas Pedersen, chief executive officer of OneLogin.

CET works with clients all over the country to help them leverage the cloud and integrate their current IT systems. Endorsed by the Nebraska Bankers Association, Google, Human Services Federation and the Nebraska Council of School Administrators, CET empowers organizations nationwide to reduce their annual IT costs by up to 60%.

Small to mid-sized businesses from one to 500 users are a perfect fit for Floor99 and can choose from among three options:

Cost Effective Technologies Partners with Identity Management Leader OneLogin to Deliver Secure Cloud Application Portal