ADP Accelerates Automotive Retail Network

15 December 1999

ADP Accelerates Automotive Retail Network

    HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.--Dec. 15, 1999--ADP(R) Dealer Services announced today that it has deployed networking technology for more than 3,000 automotive dealerships with approximately 50,000 users over the past year. "As dealerships grow, consolidate and move to take advantage of e-business opportunities, more than ever before they need fast and reliable network connections that are easy to administer," said John Gray, Senior Vice President Marketing and e-business for ADP. "Networking will be the key to success in the future for auto dealers," added Paul McDonald, President of Trimac Automotive Advisory Group, Hays, Kansas. "The dealers that are best able to integrate customer data within their own organization as well as with manufacturers and other industry players will be the ones that prosper in the coming decade."
    "There are a number of reasons for our success in the networking area," Gray said. "We have taken a leadership role in supporting automotive manufacturers' dealer communication system initatives. We have developed an industry-leading network design team and established partnerships with US West and Cisco that make it possible to provide nearly any networking solution including frame relay, DSL, ATM, ASP, dial-up connections and voice-over-data technologies. Finally, we have proven our ability to design and implement solutions ranging from 5-user installations to large dealers with networks that span the country such as AutoNation USA."
    From the dealers' standpoint, networking solutions reduce the need to handle on-going computer tasks so they can focus on their core business. ADP Dealer Services can provide hardware, dealer management system software, networking solutions, and technical support on a single source basis. ADP Dealer Services delivers dealer management systems (DMS) as an application service provider so that dealers no longer have to maintain a server at their site.
    ADP Dealer Services Group provides solutions for more than 18,000 auto and truck dealers throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. ADP Dealer Services Group is the third largest business unit of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. ADP, with over $5 billion in annual revenues and more than 450,000 clients, is one of the largest independent computing services firms in the world. More information on ADP and ADP Dealer Services Group is available via the Internet at www.adp.com/.

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For more information contact ADP Dealer Services, 1950 Hassell Road, Hoffman Estates, IL 60195. Phone: 847-397-1700 Fax: 847-781-9820