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Perspectives 2011 held September 12-14 in Columbus, Ohio was the largest TDCI Customer Forum ever, with over twice as many attendees as last year's conference. Including users of TDCI's BuyDesign and MAC-PAC XE™ software and others, the conference attracted nearly 200 people from 70 companies.
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“I especially liked the BuyDesign user panel sessions and networking opportunities where we were able to hear what other BuyDesign users are doing with the product.”
Greg Frye, IT Director
Basco Manufacturing Company
"The 'Day in the Life of MAC-PAC' session series was really great – it gave people a broader perspective and stimulated a lot of valuable discussion."
Jeff Wenning, Master Scheduler
Minster Machine Company
“As a company just starting implementation of BuyDesign, it was great for us to have access to so many TDCI people in one place to help us get answers to all our questions.”
Nicole Kaufman, General Manager
Tex Visions |
Conference attendees gathered from across the United States, Canada, and as far away as Australia, and included representatives from companies that manufacture and sell a wide range of industrial equipment, building products, boats and yachts, packaging, signage, technology products, and more.
In addition to companies using TDCI’s MAC-PAC XE ERP system, companies attending use BuyDesign with a wide range of ERP and CRM systems including Microsoft Dynamics AX, NAV, GP, and CRM; Infor10 ERP SyteLine, XA, and SXe; Oracle; Friedman Frontier; JD Edwards, Agility; and others.
 Agenda highlights included:
- TDCI’s vision and industry recognition presented by Rhonda DeMuth, TDCI CEO
- A keynote “fireside chat” with Bob Irwin, successful entrepreneur, CEO of MaxID, and former CEO of Sterling Commerce
- An exciting BuyDesign product direction update, including a live prototype demo of BuyDesign on the iPad 2 delivered by Dinesh Dhamija
- A comprehensive “Day in the Life of MAC-PAC XE” program that illustrated the inter-relationships of all a company’s activities from order to delivery and accounting.
- Concurrent BuyDesign Business and Technical tracks, including presentations, user panels, and interactive input sessions
- A large Solution Center featuring third party solution providers as well as BuyDesign and MAC-PAC XE “meet the expert” stations
- A welcome reception, dinner event, extended lunches and other networking activities designed to foster extensive attendee interaction
 Thank you to all of the companies with representatives participating in user panels, including: Atrium Companies, Draper Industries, Eggers Industries, Fluid Components, Great Plains Manufacturing, Lippert Industries, Quaker Windows & Doors, SELUX, Seneca, and VT Industries.
On behalf of the entire TDCI staff, we want to thank you for attending Perspectives 2011.
We hope your time with us was both productive and fun. We especially hope that you were able to Network and Learn; and that you picked up new ideas that will help you and your company better Succeed over the coming year. |
