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AirClic Marks Breakout Year in Delivering Mobilization Solutions for Extending Core Business Processes
Expanded Product Set, Management Team and Market Opportunity Lead to 300% Sales Growth and Record Customer Acquisition
NEWTOWN, Pa., January 23, 2006—AirClic®, a leading provider of business process mobilization solutions, today announced it has realized more than 300% growth in sales and customer acquisitions during 2005. In addition, the company strengthened its management team and secured numerous industry awards in recognition of outstanding new product capabilities, resulting in the company's most successful year to date.
"Since becoming CEO last March, we achieved a number of milestones, leading to a strong position within our market,” said Tim Bradley, CEO for AirClic. “AirClic provides a low cost, rapidly implemented, flexible solution that allows any size company to mobilize its business-critical processes– staff deployment, inventory consumption and asset movement, for example. Until now, that has been cost prohibitive and a technological challenge for most businesses."
According to Gartner, "Mobile workforce enablement ranks third among the top ten technology priorities for today’s CIOs."1
AirClic’s corporate, product and industry milestones in 2005 include:
- Sales and customer growth of more than 300% from the previous year.
- Secured $2 million in financing from Zon Capital Partners to extend the company’s sales force, product
development and marketing efforts.
- Hired industry veteran Carol Nelson as vice president of product marketing and appointed H. Donald Perkins,
Jr., managing partner and founding member of Zon Capital Partners, to its Board of Directors.
- Introduced AirClic MP – a solution by which companies can immediately enable mobile and remote workers to accurately
capture and transmit events and transactions in real time; streamline operations to achieve a higher level of
accountability and customer service; accelerate the flow of information, people and materials; and optimize their
mobile processes.
- Introduced AirClic MP XPress™ - which offers pre-engineered applications addressing five critical business functions:
inventory tracking, asset tracking, proof-of-delivery, security and time tracking. AirClic MP XPress can be personalized
to the business’ terminology and process in a matter of hours, allowing the customer to realize an immediate return
on investment.
- Introduced and attained exclusive distribution rights for the Motorola AC25 barcode scanner – a scanning attachment
designed specifically for Motorola’s mobile phones for iDEN® networks. When integrated with the AirClic MP™ mobile
workers using Motorola’s mobile phones can accurately capture, transmit and monitor events and transactions to easily,
reliably and cost-effectively automate mobile business processes.
- AirClic’s MP Platform won two Mobile Star Awards™ from MobileVillage in the categories of Enterprise Software for
Supply Chain and Enterprise Software for GPS & Location Based Services. AirClic’s partner Motorola won a Gold Star for
Hardware Accessory: Bar-code Scanner for its Motorola AC25 barcode scanner, developed by and exclusively distributed by
AirClic. The Mobile Star Awards honor and promote the best companies, products, deployments and leaders in mobile and
wireless technology.
- AirClic’s customer, Worldwide Flight Services was chosen from more than 50 ground handling companies as the winner
of the British Airways Innovation Award.
AirClic provides solutions specifically designed for the logistics/transportation, security services, manufacturing,
field services and construction, educational and government markets. Customers include:
- Logistics/Transportation: ADP, CD&L, CMS Network, Centurion Auto Transport, Federal Express, Priority Dispatch,
Royale International, Total Armored Car, Triangle Network and Wessin Transport.
- Security: AT System Security, The Boston Globe and Vanguard Security.
- Manufacturing: Johnson & Johnson, Northrop Grumman, Pella and Silver Line Windows.
- Field Services and Construction: AC Nielsen, Air Chef, AVW Telav, McCall Catering, Océ North America, OmniSource,
Service Master by Armstrong, Waste Management and Worldwide Flight Services.
- Education: Allen Schools, Boston Public Schools, Dallas Independent School District, Oakland After School and
Spring Independent School District.
- Government: Argonne, Harris County, Ohio Task Force and Raytheon (St. Louis).
AirClic MP™ is the market’s first comprehensive, on-demand platform for accelerating and streamlining remote and mobile processes. The flagship product, AirClic MP, combines sophisticated application design tools; simple and inexpensive data-capture technology; and powerful back-end software for data aggregation, migration, reporting and analysis. Using AirClic MP, companies can immediately:
- Enable mobile and remote workers to accurately capture and transmit events and transactions via a cell phone, PDA
or Blackberry® in real time.
- Streamline operations to achieve a higher level of accountability and customer service.
- Accelerate the flow of information, people and materials.
- Optimize their mobile processes.
1 Source: Gartner presentation: “Business Intelligence Market Dynamics” by C. Graham at the Gartner BI Summit, March 2005
About AirClic®
Headquartered in Newtown, Pa., AirClic is a leading provider of mobile process automation solutions that enable companies to quickly, easily, and cost-effectively deploy mobile applications based on their business processes. With AirClic, organizations have fast, inexpensive visibility to see the “who, what, where, when, and why” of their field operations and drive new levels of accountability and customer service without the high costs and risks of custom implementations. For more information, visit: www.airclic.com
AirClic is a registered trademark and AirClic MP is a trademark of AirClic, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective holders.
For more information, contact:
AirClic
Matt Matsui
651-222-9791
matt.matsui@airclic.com
Lois Paul & Partners
Jolene Hajj
781-782-5849
jolene_hajj@lpp.com
