FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 2, 2002
Dean Evans & Associates Wins Educational Technology Award
EMS scheduling and event management software recognized for Administrative Software
excellence
DENVER -- Dean Evans & Associates (www.dea.com)
today announced it has been chosen as a Media & Methods Magazine Awards Portfolio
winner for 2002. The Denver-based company received the prestigious award for its
Event Management System (EMS) Enterprise software in the Administrative Software
and School Management Systems category.
“The Awards Portfolio Judges recognize what many of our education customers already
know,” said Kevin Raasch, executive vice president of Dean Evans & Associates,
“that EMS manages the scheduling of rooms, services and resources and keeps everyone
– including faculty, staff, students and the general public – informed about events
taking place. EMS also features quick installation, versatility, academic data import
utilities and great customer service.”
According to the publication, the award winners represent “cream-of-the-crop education
resource materials recently released for K-12 schools.” A panel of 24 judges makes
product award selections in each category based on comprehensiveness, versatility
for different abilities, ease-of-use, innovativeness, interest, strengths and weaknesses.
Dean Evans & Associates’ EMS series of event management scheduling software
is now used in more than 500 colleges, universities, school districts and educational
institutions in the U.S. and around the world.
The EMS family of products includes EMS Enterprise, EMS Professional and EMS Lite.
These products are ideal for scheduling and managing a variety of facility types,
services such as catering, and resources such as AV equipment. Web-enabled Virtual
EMS modules provide fully interactive, real-time access to event information via
the Internet or an organization's Intranet.
About Dean Evans & Associates
Founded in 1986 and based in Denver, Colo., Dean Evans & Associates develops,
markets and supports a line of sophisticated software products for facility scheduling,
event management and office hoteling. Their Event Management Systems (EMS) family
of software products is ideal for scheduling and managing events, rooms, services
and resources for a wide variety of educational institutions, associations, organizations
and corporations. Thousands of organizations and companies, including four of the
six largest U.S. banks and more than a dozen Fortune 100 companies, rely on EMS
software. Other users include conference and convention centers, cultural venues,
sports facilities, schools and universities, and churches. Online demonstrations
of the software are available at www.dea.com, or
call 1-800-440-3994 and ask to speak with Kevin Raasch. Screen shots of EMS Enterprise
are available at www.dea.com/Ent/Ent.aspx.
About Media & Methods
For more than 35 years, Media & Methods Magazine has maintained its focus on
multimedia education technology for classrooms. The company reaches its target audience
of 72,000 educational decision-makers, who control the purchasing of instructional
materials for entire school districts. The award identifies and highlights exceptional
instructional materials, products and services. The national announcement of the
award is featured in the May/June 2002 issue of Media & Methods. Go to www.media-methods.com/awards.html to see the listing of
other portfolio 2002 winners.