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Magnum Companies, Ltd. Chooses IntelEvent
 

Monterey, CA, September 7, 2005 IntelEvent, the leading supplier of software in the Event Resource and Supply Industry, announced the signing of one of its newest customers, The MAGNUM Companies, Ltd.

The MAGNUM Companies, Ltd. is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. MAGNUM is a full service lighting and production company, based in Atlanta, Georgia serving primarily the Southeast, but working for clients all over the country. They have five operating divisions: Production which handles social and special events, trade shows and corporate meetings; Design which does permanent lighting and technical systems consulting and design/build for schools, churches and museums; Retail which sells theatrical equipment and supplies; Rental, which rents to a wide range of theater and production customers; and Special Projects which does lighted décor for weddings and events and holiday décor for corporate and commercial facilities.

MAGNUM had been using a construction industry DOS-based program for retail inventory control and rental and retail invoicing, and an Excel data- based application developed for Production and Design for bidding and internal shop order processing. The Excel application was also adapted for “computer-assisted” manual rental inventory tracking.

The company was looking for a more reliable rental and retail inventory management system for tracking the in and out of supplies and gear, as well as a quicker, more consistent means to price projects. They were also looking for a less cumbersome way to share information back and forth between the operating divisions and the business office.

MAGNUM had been looking at various rental software packages off and on for over ten years. They had heard numerous horror stories over that time of how difficult some software providers were to work with and get the systems up and running. (if at all), and that no one seemed to really understand what the entertainment industry needed in this type of software.

Todd Finch, Production division manager, met Andrew Ehler, IntelEvent Sales Manager on the show floor at LDI last year. This was the first show that MAGNUM really made it a point to seek out and find a rental software partner. At previous LDI’s, it had been more for ‘tire kicking’ and basic information gathering purposes.

After a great deal of research, MAGNUM was convinced that IntelEvent’s solution solved the widest range of problem across all the operating divisions. Finch stated “There was no one single thing that drove this decision. In the end, it was a combination of the software, the support and the flexibility of the Intelevent staff that drove our decision. Our business model is all about team work and we want that to be reflected in the relationship with the provider of this critical software”.

“We finally have a means of getting all our inventory data (rental and retail) in one place, available across the board to the entire staff. Streamlining the bidding, purchasing and invoicing processes will give all of us more time with customers and on projects, not stuck back in the office dealing with paperwork” stated Finch.

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