NeoSynergy Joins STAR Standards Organization
MCLEAN, Va., Aug 4, 2003 -- NeoSynergy, a developer of a web-based dealership management software service has joined STAR, the IT standards body for the North American retail automotive industry.
STAR (Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail) is a non-profit, auto industry-wide initiative to create voluntary IT standards for the data elements and transmission format used by manufacturers, dealers and retail system providers to communicate with each other. STAR's initiatives will result in a more efficient data exchange between dealers and manufacturers, with lower costs, more accurate and timely data and increased levels of customer satisfaction.
NeoSynergy joined STAR to rapidly add dealer to manufacturer communications capabilities to its dealership management software service. NeoSynergy is interested in all STAR standards and will be giving STAR standards priority in its development timetable based on manufacturer franchises who are STAR compliant or those closest to being so.
Allan Green, Vice President of Product Development and Customer Service, says "NeoSynergy joined STAR for the express purpose of cost-effectively and quickly adding the necessary dealer to manufacturer data communications required to complete its service. Employing STAR's standards allows NeoSynergy to eliminate these traditionally high structural costs from the end-dealers' and manufacturers' charges and hence deliver upon the mission of STAR."
"It is excellent to hear that NeoSynergy is dedicated to implementing STAR standards," says Tom Campisi, STAR Communications Chair.
About STAR (www.starstandard.org ) Source: STAR
The Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail (STAR) organization is the Information Technology (IT) standards organization for the retail automotive industry. The goal of the STAR organization is to use IT standards as a catalyst in fulfilling the business information needs of dealers and manufacturers while reducing the time and effort previously required to support this activity.
Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, STAR is a not-for-profit volunteer organization and its members include Dealers, Manufacturers and Retail System Providers (RSPs). As members, they are interested in developing, promoting, and administering voluntary IT standards in the retail automotive industry and improving the effectiveness, timeliness and competitiveness of the IT solutions needed within the retail automotive industry. STAR membership roster:
Dealer Groups: NADA
Retail System Providers: ADP, AFSA, Arkona, Auto/Mate Inc., Cobalt Group, DealerTrack, EDS Automotive Retail Group, MIC, NAT Inc., PBS Financial Systems Inc., Procede Software, Reynolds & Reynolds, RouteOne, Sun Microsystems, Tibco, UCS
Manufacturers: American Honda Motor Co., Inc., American Isuzu Motors, Inc., American Suzuki Motor Corp., BMW of North America, Inc., DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corp., Hyundai Motor Company, Jaguar Cars, Kia Motors America, Mazda North American Operations, Mitsubishi Motor Sales of America, Inc., Nissan North America, Inc., Porsche Cars North America, Inc., Renault SA, Saab Cars USA, Subaru of America, Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Volkswagen of America, Volvo Cars of North America
About NeoSynergy Source: NeoSynergy
NeoSynergy is a developer of a next-generation, web-based dealership management software service.
NeoSynergy's core modules include accounting, receivables, payables, cash receipts, purchase orders, vehicle inventory, desking, finance & insurance, service and parts. NeoSynergy's system also has a number of significant differentiators: it is multi-lingual (English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and German), multi-currency, enterprising, operates in real-time not a batch mode, has a single relational database, requires no DMS specific hardware, operates in a stateless environment and has embedded expert-based processes.
NeoSynergy's software service should be generally commercially available at the NADA convention in 2004 in Las Vegas through one or more distributors.