Dunn Solutions wins Borland’s ‘Partner Solution of the Year’ award

September 14, 2004

Contrary to what many businesspeople think, creative and cost-effective software still is being written in the United States. For big companies. For aggressive firms that understand the value of serving their customers better and faster. And for organizations that want to work closely and efficiently with their software development partner.

Dunn Solutions Group, a Skokie, Ill.-based information consulting firm, recently was honored by Borland Software Corporation for its expertise – and success – in designing, developing and deploying a global, web-based solution for one of the world’s largest financial services companies. This award, Borland “Partner Solution of the Year,” was presented September 12, 2004, at the BorCon™ Awards at the Borland Conference in San Jose. Calif.

Borland Software Corporation is a recognized leader in the software development industry, and provides the software tools that application developers use to align and organize their teams, technology and processes.

The financial services company is a diversified worldwide travel and financial services company with offices and locations around the world.

The application developed by Dunn Solutions Group gives the financial services company and its partners worldwide an improved online tool for selling pre-paid products, which include travelers checks, travel cards, gift cards and credit cards. The company’s sales locations include banks and financial institutions, exchanges, travel agencies, grocery stores and company-owned offices around the world.

The solution, which had to be integrated with several IT infrastructures and work in 12 languages, was developed to generate additional business and make transactions easier and faster to conduct. And it has. The solution exceeds the capacity and functionality of the previous system, and gives the company the ability to provide benefits that go far beyond its travelers checks program, expand its product offerings and extend its products to more financial institutions and retail organizations.

The solution is now deployed to 10 different countries, and handles tens of thousands of simultaneous users and hundreds of thousands of transactions every day. Today, when customers buy one of the company’s pre-paid products anywhere in the United States and Europe, the transaction is conducted using the solution.

“It’s a tremendous honor to receive Borland Partner Solution of the Year,” says Bill Dunn, president/CEO of Dunn Solutions Group. “It’s gratifying to win it for an application that has helped change the way our client sells its products. And I think it shows that IT does matter, that U.S.-based developers still do great work, and that an intelligent application has the power to transform the way a company does business.”