FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 26, 2005
Record-Setting Sales for EMS in December 2004
Dean Evans & Associates' Event Management System line of facility and resource
scheduling solutions has its strongest month ever
DENVER -- Dean Evans & Associates (www.dea.com)
today announced that sales of its EMS (event management system) product line for
December were higher than any month in the company’s 18-year history. More than
50,000 user licenses, comprising nearly four dozen copies of the company’s EMS Lite,
EMS Professional and EMS Enterprise products, were purchased in a month shortened
for most businesses by holidays and vacations. For the year, the company’s sales
were up 11 percent.
“We had a strong December and fourth quarter not only because we added a number
of new clients, but also because many of our existing customers upgraded their EMS
systems,” says Sean Mulvey, director of sales for Dean Evans & Associates. “We feel
fortunate to have a client base that is very loyal and a product that is powerful
and flexible enough to serve their widely varying needs.”
EMS systems are used to manage the many tasks required to host meetings and events,
including the recording of a customer’s initial inquiry and contact information,
the booking of space, resources and services, the posting of event information to
the Internet, and the generation and tracking of invoices. The flexibility of the
many versions of EMS allows it to be used in virtually any type of facility, large
or small.
“The ironic thing about our good results for December and for the entire year is
that we actually decreased our marketing budget slightly from 2003 to 2004,” says
Kevin Raasch, executive vice president of Dean Evans & Associates. “We think that
that points to hard work by our sales staff and to satisfied customers who spread
the word about EMS to their colleagues in the scheduling industry.”
The company hopes to build on its strong finish in 2004 with the shipping of major
new releases of all of its scheduling and calendaring products in the first or second
quarter of 2005. “The coming months look very promising from a sales perspective,”
says Mulvey. “Our development team has done an excellent job of listening to our
customers as they’ve crafted the new releases. I think EMS users and prospective
customers will be very pleased with the enhanced functionality in all of our products.”
About Dean Evans & Associates
Founded in 1986 and based in Denver, Dean Evans & Associates develops, markets and
supports a line of sophisticated software products for facility scheduling, event
management and calendaring. Their Event Management Systems (EMS) family of products
is ideal for scheduling and managing the rooms, services and resources needed for
events as well as for maintaining a web-based Master Calendar of events. Thousands
of organizations, including four of the six largest U.S. banks, more than a dozen
Fortune 100 companies and hundreds of higher education institutions, religious organizations,
hospitals, conference centers, cultural venues and sports facilities rely on EMS
software. Online demonstrations, screen shots and detailed product information are
available at www.dea.com. Or contact the company
at 800-440-3994 ext. 863, or sales@dea.com.
Media Contact:
Tom Schek
303-740-4830
tom@dea.com