Crimson Tide Regulatory News (TIDE)

18 Feb 2008 07:00

Crimson Tide PLC18 February 2008 Crimson Tide plc Irish Contract Wins AIM listed mobile data solutions provider, Crimson Tide (epic:TIDE), is pleasedto announce that it has won two separate contracts in Ireland to provide theirsolutions systems. The contracts are with Heatons, an Irish department storechain, and Delaney Locke and Thorpe, an accountancy and business practice. At Heatons, Crimson Tide will provide its 'retailprofessional' system which willspeed up stock control and provide 'real time' information to staff at each ofits 45 stores, enabling them to advise customers on the availability of itemsboth on site and in other branches. Utilising retailprofessional's seven functions, staff can now check previoussales quantities for a stock item plus sales levels in other stores on a realtime basis, replacing the inefficient and laborious manual techniques previouslyused. This enables them to give or take advice on how best to position theproduct to maximise marketing effort. It is also enables employees to record thetransfer and receipt of stock from other branches, and receive reassurance thatthe transfer should proceed. Delaney Locke and Thorpe have signed up for auditprofessional, an advancedtracking system which will reduce the time spent searching for files. Theauditprofessional system will allow the Dublin-based company to quickly locatespecific client files, whether they are on storage shelves or staff desks. Inaddition it provides added security during the search process. Using a barcode-based system, a document's last recorded location will bepresented on screen in simple format. It will also remind users of the filescurrently on their desks and prompt them to return such documents. Barrie Whipp, Chairman of Crimson Tide, commented: 'These contracts providefurther evidence of the momentum we are achieving at Crimson Tide, and theversatility of our products. For a complete range of organisations, we have themobile technology and systems to provide real time information and to improveperformance. Our office in Dublin is winning some significant contracts as wellas contributing to our sales efforts in the UK. We have some excitingapplications in the healthcare sector that are currently being field testedwhich prove the quality and innovation that our Dublin-based staff have added." Ends For further information, contact:Crimson Tide plc 01892 542 444Barrie Whipp, Chairman Threadneedle Communications 020 7936 9605Graham Herring/Josh Royston Notes to Editors: About Crimson TideCrimson Tide is a provider of subscription based mobile data solutions. Thecompany, formed in 1996 has underlying competency in sales, service and customerrelationship software, which it has evolved into solutions available on a rangeof handheld computers and smartphones. The company works in partnership with Microsoft, Sage, Palm, Hewlett Packard andMotorola as well as the Mobile Operators Vodafone and O2 in the UK and Irelandin order to be able to offer a complete end to end solution. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange