ADP Announces New, Enhanced Elite(TM) Dealer Management System Solutions
24 January 2000
ADP Announces New, Enhanced Elite(TM) Dealer Management System Solutions at NADA
Comprehensive Business Solutions Offer Dealers More
Flexibility, More Choices
ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 22 -- NADA '00 - ADP Dealer Services
today announced new additions and enhancements to its popular Elite(TM) dealer
management system.
"We're continuing to enhance our elite DMS," said Mike Martone, president,
ADP Dealer Services. "We've made it more flexible and easier to use so
dealers have the business information and tools they need to make more money.
Elite is the DMS of choice for dealerships ranging from 25 to 2,500 users."
New and enhanced products for the Elite DMS include:
* ElitePlus!(TM) (Service): Provides Windows(R) navigation of the
dealer's Elite service applications for easier access to the appointment,
repair order and service write-up functions. Service personnel will use it to
write more thorough, more profitable service orders.
* Document Storage and Data Archiving (DSDA)(TM): This NT-based system
archives, scans, indexes, searches, views, retrieves, faxes and prints
documents -- including invoices, statements, signed contracts, repair orders
and more. DSDA makes it easy to share more than 1.5 million pages of archived
information and 60,000 scanned documents throughout the dealership from
desktop PC's.
* Enterprise Consolidation Solution (ECS): with ECS, dealers can
consolidate multiple accounting, service history, inventory and customer files
to take advantage of Elite's multi-company features. Service advisors can
access vehicle histories from all stores and service locations in the dealer
group. And the centralized management of accounts receivables, accounts
payables, cash and vehicle inventories eliminates redundant processes and
speeds financial reporting and inter-company transactions.
* Sales Advisor(TM) 2.0: Sales Advisor is now tightly integrated with
Elite to help dealers capture and retain both Internet shoppers and
traditional walk-ins, using four moneymaking modules. Right Relationship(TM)
for managing ongoing relationships with prospects and customers. Right
Deal(TM) to meet customer needs with side-by-side deal comparisons. Right
Vehicle(TM) to help customers select and configure the vehicle of their
choice. F&I Sales Advisor(TM) SA to help dealers create contracts, leases and
balloon deals that match customers' finance needs.
* F&I Advisor (TM) SA: Available as a stand-alone application as well as
a module of ADP Sales Advisor 2.0, this powerful Windows-based F&I tool helps
dealers work up more profitable deals at both front and back ends. It
simplifies trade-ins, eliminates VIN frustrations and recalculates profit at
each change in the deal.
* ElitePlus(TM) Release 2.0: This release adds new standard reports and
enhanced performance features to the popular ElitePlus! Windows(R) interface.
New features include ElitePlus! reporting and data extraction tools to
simplify navigation through Professional integrates Elite with Microsoft
Office(R), Crystal Reports(R), or any ODBC -- capable software.
ADP Dealer Services is the third largest business unit of Automatic Data
Processing, Inc. . ADP, with more than $5 billion in annual
revenues and more than 450,000 clients, is one of the largest independent
computing services firms in the world. ADP and ADP Dealer Services Group are
accessible at http://www.adp.com and http://www.adpdealer.com .
ADP is a registered trademark of ADP of North America, Inc. ElitePlus!,
DSDA, ADP Sales Advisor, ADP F&I Advisor, Right Relationship, Right Deal, and
Right Vehicle are trademarks of ADP, Inc. All other trademarks or registered
trademarks are properties of the respective companies.
CONTACT: Joel Shuflin of ADP, 847-397-1700, ext. 2326,
jshuflin@hoffman.ds.adp.com