Winshuttle Continues Strong Momentum in Q4 2008 as Customers Realize Significant Savings with Winshuttle's SAP Data Management Solutions
Bothell, WA – February 3, 2009 –Winshuttle, the leading provider of data entry and data download tools for SAP® users, today announced a successful finish to the 2008 fiscal year, doubling revenue from 2007 and increasing Q4 total sales by 34 percent from Q3. In Q4, the company completed 215 sales transactions and added 38 new accounts.
Several noteworthy new customers include Deere-Hitachi, Hershey Company, and UNICEF in North America; Centrica Energy, Southwark Council, and StatoilHydro in Europe. To provide sales and technical support to the company's strong European customer base, Winshuttle opened a Paris-based entity in conjunction with the acquisition of ADAR, a leading French distributor of data management tools.
"Our results are very encouraging despite a challenging marketplace, confirming the need for simplified, cost-effective SAP data management solutions," said Lewis Carpenter, CEO of Winshuttle. "We can thank our customers for our fantastic growth and recognize that our future success depends on Winshuttle continuing to exceed our customers' expectations."
Winshuttle's popular data management tools earned the company a customer satisfaction rate of 95 percent, with top marks in eliminating the risk of errors from manual data entry and ease of use in managing data within SAP. Ninety-three percent of the customers surveyed said they would recommend Winshuttle products to their colleagues or other professional acquaintances.
In addition, Winshuttle's newly redesigned website has undergone significant changes to enable customers and prospects to easily search for and access information about the company and its products.
"With Winshuttle, you can import massive amounts of data directly from a spreadsheet, which is a format that employees know and understand. It's changed how we approach all kinds of SAP data” from mass changes to periodic data cleansing."
- Lynn Farrell, SAP HR and Payroll Manager, Southwark Council
"We're a victim of our own success. I'm adding another member to our team because of the sheer volume of data we're handling with transactionSHUTTLE. This solution has completely changed how we approach and manage many of our projects."
- Peter Hebert, manager of HR data management, RBC
"transactionSHUTTLE gives us the ability to do things we weren't able to do before. We have significantly reduced our manual data entry costs, reduced headcount, and minimized the burden on IT."
- Paul Cahill, Director of Information Technology, Hubbell Wiring Systems
"We have saved over $1 Million in avoided programming, reduced data entry workload costs and Service Level Agreement (SLA) costs."
- Chantal Gauvreau, Business Process Manager, SAP Center of Excellence, Canada Post
"Winshuttle offers the complete automation solution. It's easy-to-install, well-documented desktop software, with excellent technical support"
- Erin Stone, SAP FI/CO Senior Analyst, B. Braun
"Data entry is no longer an IT headache. Our users no longer blame our SAP system and instead fully embrace it."
- Rick Davis, Manager, Enterprise Systems
We now use the term "Winshuttling" to refer to any solution that makes our lives easier.
- Steve Walker, Manager of Supply Chain Systems, Under Armour