Web Hosting Company NaviSite Showcases DMSi’s Software

NaviSite, Inc. (www.navisite.com), a provider of managed application services and a broad range of outsourced hosting services for middle-market organizations, announced that Distribution Management Systems, Inc. (www.dmsi.com), has expanded its Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery through NaviSite.

"Whether you call it an ASP, Software as a Service, or a hosted model, NaviSite has been enabling Independent Software Vendors to move their applications online for more than five years," said Denis Martin, CTO of NaviSite. Already the leading application package in the multi-billion dollar building materials industry, DMSi's Agility™, is now the first and only market-specific package offered in a hosted or "Software as a Service" environment. Leveraging NaviSite's experience in delivering application and infrastructure services, DMSi customers can now access Agility from the Web to run their entire back-office functions and efficiently manage day-to-day business processes.

This includes everything from order entry, purchasing, inventory control, accounts payable and receivable, general ledger, and management reporting to data warehousing.

Timber Trading, a company that focuses on lumber distribution, runs its entire IT system through the DMSi application that is hosted and managed by NaviSite, and estimates that it has reduced its operating expenses by 30 percent.

"The first time I saw software hosted through the Internet was at a trade show, and its potential was obvious to me," says Dave Zappone, Timber Trading's General Manager "What we have now is immediate access to our data, without delays, without confusion. The ASP program allows everyone in our office to be more mobile, more productive, and offer customers real-time answers when they are out of the office."

NaviSite enables companies like DMSi to offer their Software as a Service, and DMSi joins more than 70 Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) who look to NaviSite's application services expertise for hosting, management and infrastructure to move their software application into a SaaS hosted model.

DMSi's interactive modules provide the core front- and back-office system building product distributors need to manage their day-to-day business efficiently.

DMSi serves more than 300 of North America's top building product distributors, who account for over 800 distributor locations throughout the United States and Canada.

NaviSite, Inc. is a provider of managed application services and a broad range of outsourced hosting services for middle-market organizations, which include mid-sized companies, divisions of large multi-national companies and government agencies.