Author: VANCOUVER, B.C., Canada
Date: Oct 09 2008

Progressive Solutions gains >1000 new software users, achieves record sales – again

bisTrack™ leads revenue growth, lumberTrack™ sees steady growth, as
LBM dealers and wood products manufacturers position for upswing

Len Williams, President of Progressive Solutions Inc., of Richmond, BC, Canada, announced today that Progressive Solutions achieved record quarterly North American sales revenue for the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2008. Over 1000 new users of bisTrack, lumberTrack and Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) were added to Progressive Solutions’ growing customer base.

“We have the pleasure of working with an outstanding group of new bisTrack and lumberTrack believers,” says Mr. Williams. “Our customers are the new generation of pioneers, forging beyond outdated software packages to invest in today’s advanced technology so that they can continue to increase market share, efficiency and profitability.

“They’re seeing beyond today’s market conditions, and in fact are taking advantage of the downturn to expand, restructure, re-engineer and streamline their operations, positioning their companies for the next upswing,” Mr. Williams continues.

Progressive Solutions’ bisTrack and lumberTrack software solutions have two key advantages:

1. Powerful Microsoft-based platform that harnesses a world of familiar user interface, easy data access, business intelligence and analytic tools, and limitless integration possibilities
2. Comprehensive industry-specific functionality and reporting to best identify and profit from unique opportunities in today’s competitive wood products and building materials supply chain markets

New customers for bisTrack and lumberTrack in Progressive Solutions’ most recent quarter include:

bisTrack

• Certified Lumber, Brooklyn, NY: 60-user, 2-location bisTrack system to manage its thriving commercial, professional and residential building materials wholesale business
• Concord Lumber, Littleton, MA: 70-user, 5-location bisTrack application to manage the operations of their lumberyards, millwork shops, kitchen design facility, installed sales.
• Cramers Cashway, East Stroudsburg, PA: 70-user, 5-facility bisTrack system serving builders, contractors and homeowners in the Poconos with a large selection of high quality materials
• Gordon Lumber, Fremont, OH: 125-user, 20-facility, multi-division bisTrack application to manage and integrate its extensive, growing building materials products & services business
• Kelseyville Lumber, Kelseyville, CA: 40-user bisTrack application at their new, expanded facility. More...
• Lavalley Lumber, Sanford, ME: 110-user, 6-facility bisTrack application to manage and integrate their growing operation. More...
• Moffatt & Powell, London, ON: 60-user, 6-location bisTrack application to manage its varied building materials supply business and support its expanding installed sales business
• Steve Regan, Salt Lake City, UT: 35-user, 2-facility bisTrack system supporting its farm and home supply business

And last, but definitely not least:

• Taiga Building Products, Burnaby, BC: 300-user, 19-location bisTrack system integrated with a 45-user Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) system at Canada’s largest independent wholesale distributor of building materials that sells a wide variety of products primarily to dealers and industrial manufacturers throughout North America and overseas.

LumberTrack

• Cox Lumber, Orangeburg, SC: 80-user lumberTrack system integrated with Microsoft Dynamics GP to be deployed at 11 production facilities in the Southeast providing lumber treating and remanufacturing for residential and industrial markets
• Hankins Lumber, Grenada, MS: 10-user lumberTrack system integrated with Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) at this Southern Yellow Pine producer
• James Jones, Stirlingshire, UK: One of the largest suppliers of British timber upgrades to a 12-user lumberTrack V8 system
• Stella-Jones, Montreal, QC: Subsequent to its acquisition of long-time lumberTrack customer, Burke-Parsons-Bowlby, this producer of industrial timbers and railway ties agreed to deploy lumberTrack at all six of its US operations, adding 10 new users for a total of 40 users in the US
• Timbmet, Oxford, UK: This large UK distributor of one of the most extensive ranges of wood products and services is integrating a 12-user Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains) with its lumberTrack system
• Tolleson Lumber, Perry, GA: 26-user, 3-facility lumberTrack system upgrade to lumberTrack V8 at one of the largest lumber independent manufacturers in the South, who produces quality southern pine lumber