Prophetline And ASTi Join Forces

Furniture World Magazine

Robert Brown president of ProphetLine, Inc., and Terry Hendrickson president of Applied Systems Technologies, Inc. (ASTI), announced a strategic business alliance between their two companies. ASTi and ProphetLine are both leaders in the field of merchandising and POS (point-of-sale) system software, respectively. Together they offer a total retail management system with seamless integration between the POS, merchandising and fully-featured warehouse management functions, for companies having 1 to 1,000 stores. ASTi's Direct Marketing Management System (DMMS), handles every facet of medium to large-scale companies' catalog, retail, and wholesale requirements. DMMS includes order entry, automated purchasing and replenishment, inventory forecasting and control, and multi-company, multi-warehouse, multi-divisional centralized warehouse operations management. ProphetLine's award-winning POS software is used in hundreds of stores including ten Fortune 500 companies. ProphetLine incorporates easy-to-use graphical user interface technology with keyboard or touchscreen input for specialty retailer high-volume transaction processing in a robust client/server environment.. The two powreful, complementary systems are a natural fit, creating one high performance front-end/back-end platform where data is instantaneously accessible by all functions. The combined systems bring both partners and broader system platform depth that include Microsoft's SQL, Oracle, DB2 and AS/400 architectures. ProphetLine is a national leader in the development and implementation of technology-based systems for retailing management. Its family of award-winning, state-of-the-art scalable systems range from enterprise-level, high-performance, multi-tier, client/server POS over WANs/LANs, supporting thin or thick-client architectures, to stand-alone PCS that serve specialty retailers of all sizes. As a one-stop source, ProphetLine provides a full range of products and services for the retailing industry including: turnkey management systems, project management, operations analysis, custom software development, telecom systems, in-store and headquarters training, installation and implementation, help desk services, and deployment services. ASTi is a national provider of integrated warehouse management systems and advanced inventory and forecasting solutions. For more information, contact ProphetLine headquarters at (800) 875-6592 or point Internet browsers to http://www.prophetline.com.