Author: T. Lavigne
Date: Feb 11 2010

Vancouver, BC (Feb. 11, 2010) - When Stella-Jones Corporation, a leading North American producer and marketer of industrial pressure treated wood products, acquired Burke-Parson-Bowlby (BPB) in April 2008, they gained more than just a great fencing and railroad tie and timber operation. BPB was using lumberTrack™, one of the most popular and effective software solutions in the LBM industry.

“When we then added lumberTrack to our original facility in Bangor, WI, our people said it’s the best system they’ve ever had,” says Scott Anderson, IT Manager of Stella-Jones’ US Operations. “As a result, when we were experiencing additional growth in 2009, we turned to PSI to handle our growing IT needs. PSI’s secureHosting was exactly what we needed.”

secureHosting™ is PSI’s scalable off-site service that provides companies with bisTrack™, lumberTrack and GP Dynamics® (Great Plains), without the headaches of IT implementation, maintenance, security and upgrades. secureHosting can also look after Microsoft Office and Exchange servers, and provides the industry’s most powerful 24/7 data backup, security and recovery systems. Operating from a world-class Data Center and using enterprise-level equipment, the service allows a customer’s business growth to be accommodated without any impact to a company’s operations or costs. 

“With secureHosting’s world-class Data Center, addressing our changing IT needs was easy, whereas with our own hardware it would have been problematic,” says Anderson. “With our entire US Tie Division now using lumberTrack in PSI’s secureHosting environment, we noticed improvements in overall performance across the board. Just as importantly, our set-up with PSI’s Data Center satisfies all of our internal audit requirements.”

According to Anderson, PSI’s knowledgeable and experienced technical staff played a key role in ensuring Stella-Jones had, and continues to have a great secureHosting experience.

“PSI’s technical people were great to work with and very helpful in our cut-over. Their implementation and support teams empowered us to manage our own software, and as a result, we haven’t made a support call to them in months.”