Control’s Force at MWUG Fall 2011

Livonia, Michigan – Sep 6, 2011. Control’s Force will be attending MWUG Fall 2011 conference in Fort Wayne, Indiana on September 25-27, 2011. This year Control’s Force will be attending as a QAD Solution Partner.

Monday, September 26, 2011 at 4:00 pm, Vladimir Forfutdinov, CEO of Control’s Force, and Randy Whitehair of Freudenberg-NOK will be presenting “Protect Your System From Money Leaks” – in the financial track. This session will discuss how to detect A/P risks by monitoring a series of complex business transactions initiated through the QAD Purchase Ordering process. Learn how to save money and minimize operational and control cost. Examples from Freudenberg-NOK production deployment will be provided.

Recently, Control’s Force has become a QAD Solution Partner. The combination of Transaction Watchdog™ technology and QAD’s On Demand ERP offering will give you a new level of control in the cloud; identify discrepancies and minimize the risk of error and fraud. This will increase business transparency and eliminate common business leaks such as: duplicate payments, ghost invoice, human data exceptions, over shipments and cooking the books.

Control’s Force will be available for demonstration of the latest version of Transaction Watchdog™ service.

About MWUG

MWUG is the largest independent user group for QAD’s manufacturing management and Enterprise Application software. We represent manufacturing companies in the Midwestern U.S. as well as QAD partners and other product/service providers who support QAD systems. Our mission is to provide a forum for members to share & exchange information through educational conferences, to establish mutual support and peer contacts, and to promote and advance the use of our members’ ERP systems. Additional information can be found at www.midwestusergroup.org

About Freudenberg-NOK

Freudenberg-NOK is the Americas joint venture partnership between Freudenberg & Co. in Germany and NOK Corp. in Japan. Freudenberg-NOK, the leading producer of advanced sealing and vibration control products. Freudenberg-NOK  provides an extensive portfolio of precision molded products to the aerospace, aftermarket, fluid power, oil and gas, marine, healthcare/medical, off-highway equipment, recreational, industrial, chemical processing and semiconductor markets worldwide. www.freudenberg-nok.com

About QAD

QAD is a leading provider of enterprise applications for global manufacturing companies specializing in automotive, consumer products, electronics, food and beverage, industrial and life science products. QAD applications provide critical functionality for managing manufacturing resources and operations within and beyond the enterprise, enabling global manufacturers to collaborate with their customers, suppliers and partners to make and deliver the right product, at the right cost and at the right time. (www.qad.com)

About Control’s Force

Control’s Force is the innovator behind transactional controls, whose products and services are specialized for long-running business transactions. By tracking data as a part of Business deal across distributed IT systems and processes, the company helps organizations extract the maximum value at the lowest cost. Additionally, it protects users’ information from human and systems incompatibility errors, employees’ fraud, and lost data. Information about Control’s Force’s products and services can be found at www.controlsforce.com.

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Livonia, Michigan – March 20, 2011. Control’s Force will attend the CIO summit in New York on the March 24, 2011. This invitation-only summit will include an audience of senior executives, Fortune 500 CIO/CTOs. At the Innovation Gallery show Control’s Force will present its Buying Transaction Watchdog™ solution that focuses on the needs of healthcare and life insurance industries.

The purpose of this show is to examine the readiness of hospitals, medical centers and life insurance companies to reduce their operational and control costs.The show will reveal market’s needs for the innovation technologies that protect against fraud, medical mistakes, overuse of services and other scams.

About Control’s Force
Control’s Force is the innovator behind transactional controls, whose products and services are specialized for long-running business transactions. By tracking data as a part of the transactions across distributed IT systems and processes, the company helps organizations extract the lowest cost and the maximum value. Additionally, it protects users’ information from human and systems incompatibility errors, employees’ fraud, and data lost. Information about Control’s Force’s products and services can be found at www.controlsforce.com.
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Livonia, Michigan—October 4, 2010. Control’s Force today announces plan to acquire NVGroup, a Canadian private company along with its subsidiary NV Group Inc. in Michigan. NVGroup is an IT service provider for small and mid size manufacturers in Southern Ontario and Southwest Michigan. Control’s Force‘s has relied on NV Group’s expertise in dealing with customers using ERP systems of Sage, QAD and MS Dynamics AX.

“With this acquisition we are extending our skills to provide direct support for Transaction Watchdog™ solutions to the growing portfolio of our customers”, said Dr. Boris Shapira, Control’s Force president. “Having many years experience of working with ERP systems, NV Group also gives Control’s Force a powerful team to provide consulting and pre-sell services both to our resellers and end users in the MidWest (USA) and Ontario (Canada)”.

NV Group (www.nvgroup.ca) was founded in 2000. Among others it has a staff of Java and SQL developers. NVGroup will be focusing on the following goals:

• Support for direct customers using Transaction Watchdog™ solutions for Buying and Payroll transactions.
• Creation of custom versions of  Alert Resolution Manager-client software for vertical markets
• Development of custom reports suited specifically for different levels of management
• To head the effort of customer and reseller training in both US and Canada

Current NV Group customers will benefit from the new technological tools, preventable money losses and increased efficiency, all made possible when using Transaction Watchdog™ solutions. All existing NV Group services will continue uninterrupted.

About NV Group

NV Group, established 2000, focuses on developing IT solutions for its clients; NV solutions enable increased productivity and offset ineffectual costs.  Continuously embracing emerging technologies, NV Group facilitates enhanced, easy-to-use solutions for small and large business.

About Control’s Force

Control’s Force is the innovator behind transactional controls, whose products and services are specialized for long-running business transactions. By tracking data as a part of the transactions across distributed IT systems and processes, the company helps organizations extract the lowest cost and the maximum value. Additionally, it protects users’ information from human and systems incompatibility errors, employees’ fraud, and data lost. Information about Control’s Force’s products and services can be found at www.controlsforce.com.

Livonia, Michigan—September 26, 2010. Control’s Force announced to that they would be presenting at the Midwest User Group (MWUG). This will be the second time Freudenberg-NOK presented Control’s Force at MWUG conference. This time, Freudenberg-NOK will present the audience with the results of half a year production period and thanked Buying Transaction Watchdog™ for its findings.

Purchase Orders, Invoices and Payments were collected from every Freudenberg-NOK’s site and sent to the Buying Transaction Watchdog™ engine. New approach was used to collect the data from distributed QAD ERP systems using QXtend. The documents were delivered to the engine as they would enter the ERP system.

The real time analysis of these results allowed for the discovery of some important root causes that related to the problems with QAD ERS (evaluated receipt settlement) processing. Duplicate vouchers were entered and detected by Buying Transaction Watchdog™ engine. Another problem that was identified, related to the Blanked Purchase Orders. These orders were open for several years.
“There are many other projects that will benefit from Transaction Watchdog™ technology. We would like to thank Freudenberg-NOK for their contribution, and look forward to work with them again.” says, Vladimir Forfutdinov, CEO of Controls Force.

About MWUG
The Midwest User Group is a fast-growing body of QAD users and Associates (vendors/service providers) who are improving their business practices and manufacturing processes through the use of QAD’s enterprise application and manufacturing management software. (www.MidwestUserGroup.org)

About QAD
QAD is a leading provider of enterprise applications for global manufacturing companies specializing in automotive, consumer products, electronics, food and beverage, industrial and life science products. QAD applications provide critical functionality for managing manufacturing resources and operations within and beyond the enterprise, enabling global manufacturers to collaborate with their customers, suppliers and partners to make and deliver the right product, at the right cost and at the right time. (www.qad.com)

About Freudenberg-NOK
Freudenberg-NOK is the Americas joint venture partnership between Freudenberg & Co. in Germany and NOK Corp. in Japan. Freudenberg-NOK, the leading producer of advanced sealing and vibration control products. Freudenberg-NOK provides an extensive portfolio of precision molded products to the aerospace, aftermarket, fluid power, oil and gas, marine, healthcare/medical, off-highway equipment, recreational, industrial, chemical processing and semiconductor markets worldwide. (www.freudenberg-nok.com)

About Control’s Force
Controls Force is a transactional control innovator, whose products and services are specialized for long-running business transactions. By tracking data as a part of the transactions across distributed IT systems and processes, the company helps organizations extract the maximum value at lowest cost. Additionally, it protects users’ information from human and systems incompatibility errors, employees’ fraud, and data lost. Information about the products and services offered Control’s Force can be found at www.controlsforce.com.

LIVONIA, MICHIGAN – September 17, 2010

Control’s Force today announced the availability of Buying Transaction Watchdog™ version 2.0. This product line is aimed to protect ERP customers from system errors, human data entry errors, employee fraud schemes and transactional data discrepancies.

The new version comes packaged as a VM Ware virtual image. It consists of turn-key solution deployment and 4 adaptors: QAD (QXtend/XML), Progress (XML/DB), SAP Business One (DB) and Microsoft Dynamics AX (DB) adaptor. The later option also allows for cloud deployment of the Buying Transaction Watchdog™ (see product architecture for more details). Additionally, improvement to the Alert Resolution Manager will now allow the user to work in a more efficient manner. There also have been significant additions made to the ARM Client and ARM Server.

Buying Transaction Watchdog™ continuously monitors each buying deal with the supplier, through multiplicity of business processes like, Purchase Order Account Payable, Account Receivable (when ordered items are returned), Inventory and Shipping. It detects and provides purchase, finance and line-managers with real time alerts to duplicate invoice/voucher/payment that can contain:

• Discrepancy in item price (under, over) vs. purchase order, item quantity, vendor name
• Ghost invoice and ghost item
• Employee fraud like, “cooking the books” and purchasing for personal gain
• Segregation of duties in the scope of individual and long running buying transaction

“With the help of our customers we constantly improve the user interface and features of the ARM Client”, says Vladimir Forfutdinov, CEO of Control’s Force. “As a result, the product can now help to detect the root cause of the losses more efficiently”.

About VM Ware
VMware (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, delivers customer-proven solutions that significantly reduce IT complexity and enable more flexible, agile service delivery. VMware accelerates an organization’s transition to cloud computing, while preserving existing IT investments and enabling more efficient, agile service delivery without compromising control. With more than 190,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware helps organizations of all sizes lower costs, preserve freedom of choice and energize business through IT while saving energy—financial, human and the Earth’s. (www.vmware.com)

About Progress
Progress products and technology are used by nearly 140,000 organizations in more than 180 countries, including 70% of the Fortune 100. Progress technology provides the infrastructure for applications as diverse as ERP and financial trading, across industries as diverse as retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, financial services, and government.
Progress Software provides innovative technologies that deliver flexible application infrastructures, extended visibility, real-time integrated data access and high-speed event processing. (www.progress.com)

About QAD
QAD is a leading provider of enterprise applications for global manufacturing companies specializing in automotive, consumer products, electronics, food and beverage, industrial and life science products. QAD applications provide critical functionality for managing manufacturing resources and operations within and beyond the enterprise, enabling global manufacturers to collaborate with their customers, suppliers and partners to make and deliver the right product, at the right cost and at the right time. (www.qad.com)

About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. (www.microsoft.com)

About SAP
SAP is the world’s leading provider of business software(*), offering applications and services that enable companies of all sizes and in more than 25 industries to become best-run businesses. With more than 102,500 customers in over 120 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE, under the symbol “SAP.” (www.sap.com)

About Control’s Force
Control’s Force is the innovator behind transactional controls, whose products and services are specialized for long-running business transactions. By tracking data as a part of the transactions across distributed IT systems and processes, the company helps organizations extract the lowest cost and the maximum value. Additionally, it protects users’ information from human and systems incompatibility errors, employees’ fraud, and data lost. Information about Control’s Force’s products and services can be found at www.controlsforce.com.

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