Axapta User Schuck & Sons Construction gets Extreme Business Makeover from Microsoft and Iteration2

Redmond, WA (PRWEB) September 23, 2005 -- Iteration2, Microsoft Gold Certified partner and 2005 US MBS Outstanding Partner of the Year, announced that one of their strategic clients, Schuck & Sons Construction Company was chosen by Microsoft as the recipient of an Extreme Business Makeover video. The video was introduced by Bill Gates and shown at the recent Microsoft Business Summit.

The Business Summit was held at Microsoft headquarters, where over 700 business leaders gathered from 5 countries. Microsoft Senior Vice President Orlando Ayala said there were 255 satellite events taking place simultaneously around the world and that the combined audience for the summit was around 25,000, giving Iteration2 and Schuck & Sons substantial global exposure.

Schuck & Sons Construction Co., a 1,400-employee housing subcontractor, chose Iteration2 to implement their Axapta ERP system, beating out software from Oracle and from SAP. In addition, Shuck & Sons selected Iteration2's Field Force Automation Solution, Commander Series, which is tightly integrated into Axapta. Schuck, on track for $170 million in revenue this year, expects Axapta to improve business performance and deliver hard savings through lower inventory levels and soft benefits by freeing its staff from typing data to transfer it from one of its business systems to another. Still, the purchase was a tough sell to management. "Our CEO and operations staff love to buy delivery trucks and forklifts," VP of finance Mark Sidell says. "To spend money on a computer system, one of their first questions was, 'Why would a growing company like ours need software?'". The answer came firmly from our CEO, "it is because we are growing that we need software".

""A $4 billion company doesn't necessarily do things that are more complex than Schuck, though they may do more of it," says Greg Carter, a VP at Iteration2. "The video gives a great overview of how Microsoft technology is improving their productivity and lowering their costs…and the Extreme Host, Rob Corddry made it fun."

The video can be seen on the Microsoft website at http://www.microsoft.com/midsizebusiness/businesssummit/bizsummit_xvideos.mspx.