DealTaker, based in Plano, Texas, is a bargain hunting website, started in 2004, that lists bargains on the Internet, and contains coupons for online retailers.
DealTaker makes money from referrals. When a user follows a link from the site, the target website is notified and may supply monetary compensation in return.
DealTaker also hosts an active online message board, which is used by a community of over 220,000 users where deals can be found for making purchases on many name brand and also some not as well known items, from clothing, housewares to electronics and computers. Many times items can be purchased for little or even free after rebates. On occasion items can be purchased with rebates greater than the cost, effectively making money to purchase it.
Coupons are a big part of the site as users are able to obtain coupon codes for stores with websites.
DealTaker users actively post advance notice of sales, with specific focus on Black Friday sales (the day after Thanksgiving Day), Cyber Monday (the Monday after Thanksgiving) as well as all major holidays of which US retailers tend to take advantage.
In addition, DealTaker is actively involved in the community and supports various charitable organizations.
It sponsors the: North Texas (2006, 2007, 2008), Dallas (2006, 2007, 2008), Aspen (2007), Northeast Ohio (2007, 2008), Denver (2007, 2008), Austin (2007) Race for the cure events to help promote breast cancer awareness. Likewise, its president, Kevin Strawbridge, fund-raised for and walked in two Avon Walks for Breast Cancer in (Los Angeles in September 2009 and Chicago in June 2010).
* On August 31, 2009, DealTaker released its latest concept: NewatNoon
* In 2008 it was purchased by Media General.
* In 2007 it sponsored Frank Cicci Racing Nascar #34 driven by Jay Sauter.
DealTaker makes money from referrals. When a user follows a link from the site, the target website is notified and may supply monetary compensation in return.
DealTaker also hosts an active online message board, which is used by a community of over 220,000 users where deals can be found for making purchases on many name brand and also some not as well known items, from clothing, housewares to electronics and computers. Many times items can be purchased for little or even free after rebates. On occasion items can be purchased with rebates greater than the cost, effectively making money to purchase it.
Coupons are a big part of the site as users are able to obtain coupon codes for stores with websites.
DealTaker users actively post advance notice of sales, with specific focus on Black Friday sales (the day after Thanksgiving Day), Cyber Monday (the Monday after Thanksgiving) as well as all major holidays of which US retailers tend to take advantage.
In addition, DealTaker is actively involved in the community and supports various charitable organizations.
It sponsors the: North Texas (2006, 2007, 2008), Dallas (2006, 2007, 2008), Aspen (2007), Northeast Ohio (2007, 2008), Denver (2007, 2008), Austin (2007) Race for the cure events to help promote breast cancer awareness. Likewise, its president, Kevin Strawbridge, fund-raised for and walked in two Avon Walks for Breast Cancer in (Los Angeles in September 2009 and Chicago in June 2010).
* On August 31, 2009, DealTaker released its latest concept: NewatNoon
* In 2008 it was purchased by Media General.
* In 2007 it sponsored Frank Cicci Racing Nascar #34 driven by Jay Sauter.
Michelle Bernard (born February 22, 1975) is an American Actress and writer. Modeling in Miami, Fla, Michelle entered into the entertainment world at a very young age. Michelle met people in the fashion industry from Miami to New York. Graduating in 1997 from Florida State University, she had a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing and a minor in Computer Science. Michelle's first feature film was Any Given Sunday under the direction of Oliver Stone, performing opposite Al Pacino and Jim Caviezel. In New York, Michelle studied at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and had private coaching from Michael Imperioli. Michelle worked with Sarah Jessica Parker on Sex in the City and on Law and Order. In 2003, Michelle moved to Los Angeles and worked with Milton Katselas and Allen Barton at Beverly Hills Playhouse.
Servigistics is a privately held software company that specializes in service lifecycle management solutions and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia with offices in Chicago, Illinois; Rochester, New York; Irvine, California; State College, Pennsylvania; Tokyo, Japan, the United Kingdom, and India. The company was founded in 1999.
Servigistics and Click Commerce's service network solutions division, both acquired by private equity firm Marlin Equity Partners, merged to form a new company; the new company will retain the Servigistics name.
History
Servigistics was founded in 1999 by Mike Landry, to provide integrated solutions that solve real-world service business challenges and deliver material value across the extended service operation. Landry founded the company with a service parts management solution which is the process of planning, forecasting and aligning service parts inventories, resource and processes.
In 2004, Servigistics acquired Profit Science which extended the value of post sales service by offering market-adaptive pricing. The solution combines patented pricing methodologies, advanced optimization techniques and market adaptive business logic to the parts business. In 2005, the former CEO of Profit Science departed Servigistics.
TransDecisions was purchased in 2006 to continue the support of post-sales service adding extensive workforce and fleet management functionality to Servigistics Workforce Management solution.
In 2010 Servigistics acquired Kaidara and Conduit-IT, adding to an extended product line. Kaidara brought with them Knowledge Management, and Conduit-IT provided Content Management.
On March 30, 2011 Servigistics and NextNine (Remote Product Service (RPS) solutions), announced that the two companies have partnered to add NextNine's remote diagnostics and support capabilities to the Servigistics Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) solutions suite.
Products
Servigistics' products focus on strategic service management. The products include:
*Service Parts Management: planning, forecasting and aligning service parts inventories, resource and processes.
*Service Workforce Management: schedules and routes service technicians in real time, including optimal part location that considers part substitution, repair, replenishment, and procurement from third party, in technician inventory and drop shipped to customer locations.
*Service Pricing Management: software to help companies to increase revenue and maximize service profitability through the management and optimization of service parts prices.
*Command Center:allows companies to view the status of all service calls on a single screen.
*Knowledge Management:captures and reuses the know-how within the organization to automate the creation and maintenance of a knowledge repository
*Content Management
*Repair and Returns
*Contract and Warranty Management
*Warehouse Management
*Service Analytics
Partnerships
Servigistics maintains partnerships with independent software vendors (ISV), third party logistics providers (3PL), hosting/ASPs, resellers and systems integrators including: [NextNine, Accenture, Entercoms, EXA, Google Maps, HP, IBM, Impetus, Informatica, Unisys, Oracle Corporation, SAP AG, Sopia, Vericenter.
Customers
60% of Servigistics clients are customers of Oracle Corporation and SAP AG.
Servigistics customers include:
Dell, BMW, Air France, Cargotec
LG, Volkswagen ,Bombardier Recreational Products, Cisco, Coca-Cola RefreshmentsSun Microsystems, General Motors, Volvo,
Embraer(Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica), Air Canada,
PACCAR, NACCO Materials Handling Group, Nissan, Honeywell, Home Shopping Network, Coca-Cola EnterprisesFEI
Servigistics and Click Commerce's service network solutions division, both acquired by private equity firm Marlin Equity Partners, merged to form a new company; the new company will retain the Servigistics name.
History
Servigistics was founded in 1999 by Mike Landry, to provide integrated solutions that solve real-world service business challenges and deliver material value across the extended service operation. Landry founded the company with a service parts management solution which is the process of planning, forecasting and aligning service parts inventories, resource and processes.
In 2004, Servigistics acquired Profit Science which extended the value of post sales service by offering market-adaptive pricing. The solution combines patented pricing methodologies, advanced optimization techniques and market adaptive business logic to the parts business. In 2005, the former CEO of Profit Science departed Servigistics.
TransDecisions was purchased in 2006 to continue the support of post-sales service adding extensive workforce and fleet management functionality to Servigistics Workforce Management solution.
In 2010 Servigistics acquired Kaidara and Conduit-IT, adding to an extended product line. Kaidara brought with them Knowledge Management, and Conduit-IT provided Content Management.
On March 30, 2011 Servigistics and NextNine (Remote Product Service (RPS) solutions), announced that the two companies have partnered to add NextNine's remote diagnostics and support capabilities to the Servigistics Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) solutions suite.
Products
Servigistics' products focus on strategic service management. The products include:
*Service Parts Management: planning, forecasting and aligning service parts inventories, resource and processes.
*Service Workforce Management: schedules and routes service technicians in real time, including optimal part location that considers part substitution, repair, replenishment, and procurement from third party, in technician inventory and drop shipped to customer locations.
*Service Pricing Management: software to help companies to increase revenue and maximize service profitability through the management and optimization of service parts prices.
*Command Center:allows companies to view the status of all service calls on a single screen.
*Knowledge Management:captures and reuses the know-how within the organization to automate the creation and maintenance of a knowledge repository
*Content Management
*Repair and Returns
*Contract and Warranty Management
*Warehouse Management
*Service Analytics
Partnerships
Servigistics maintains partnerships with independent software vendors (ISV), third party logistics providers (3PL), hosting/ASPs, resellers and systems integrators including: [NextNine, Accenture, Entercoms, EXA, Google Maps, HP, IBM, Impetus, Informatica, Unisys, Oracle Corporation, SAP AG, Sopia, Vericenter.
Customers
60% of Servigistics clients are customers of Oracle Corporation and SAP AG.
Servigistics customers include:
Dell, BMW, Air France, Cargotec
LG, Volkswagen ,Bombardier Recreational Products, Cisco, Coca-Cola RefreshmentsSun Microsystems, General Motors, Volvo,
Embraer(Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica), Air Canada,
PACCAR, NACCO Materials Handling Group, Nissan, Honeywell, Home Shopping Network, Coca-Cola EnterprisesFEI
The Boardwalk and Marina Casino Dealer School (known as Casino Dealers School, CDS) is a private Casino school in New Jersey.
CDS was founded by Arnold Hasson and Steven Edelblum in 1986. The School, which taught all casino table games, (ie. Craps, Blackjack, Roulette, Baccarat, Poker, Pai Gow, Pai Gow Poker, etc.) with a high concentration in the syllabus to edify the importance of excellent Customer Service and maintaining excellent employee relations. The school was the first private gaming school in New Jersey to become accredited, and the only one, as of 2011.
CDS was an accredited member of the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology (ACCSCT). Casino Dealers School was also Certified by the United States Department of Education and Licensed by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission. CDS..."The School you need to Succeed," was often referred to as the "Harvard" of dealing schools. Over 3,500 graduate students received high paying jobs. In July of 2001 the school elected to close its doors because, at the time, there were only 12 existing casinos and no new casinos were expected to open in the near future, as such, Casino dealing jobs in Atlantic City, became scarce.
The school grew from a 1,500 square foot store front facility, at 2709 Atlantic Avenue, in 1986 to what became one of America's largest private gaming schools, with over 11,000 square feet of casino-like training space, including actual casino games and lab areas.
In 1988, with the help of Edelblum, CDS became the first gaming school to operate in an actual casino. The Casino Control Commission gave unanimous approval for the Casino Dealers School to operate inside a gaming hall for the first time. Under a pilot program Casino Dealers School was allowed to run a gaming school, Monday through Thursday, on the third floor of Elsinore's Atlantis Casino Hotel, for unemployed, underemployed and welfare recipients.
The third level of the casino floor of Elsinore's Atlantis Casino Hotel was redesigned in the early 80's to cater to high rollers. It was an effort that failed, but because of that failure, the plush casino became the site of a casino school. Four days a week, when that casino level was closed to the general public, at various time sessions, 15 area residents met over two craps tables, roulette, and Blackjack tables, to learn a new skill that they hoped would lift them out of poverty and put them on the road to economic independance.(Refer to press of Atlantic City articles dated: 12/09/1988-A DEALERS SCHOOL TO OPEN IN CASINO; and 2/28/1989-THE REAL THING IT'S A CASINO DEALERS' COURSE STUDENTS HOPE WILL LEAD THEM TO ECONOMIC SUCCESS).
In 1990 the school added the former 6,000 square foot Jules men's clothing store (on Atlantic Ave.,in Atlantic City, directly in front of Caesar's casino) as a branch facility. In 1991 after Edelblum left the company, William (Bill) Petillo took over as Director and the school moved both locations from Atlantic Avenue to the career and education complex building, formally the CSI building, adjacent to the Atlantic City Convention Center, at: 1923 Bacharach Boulevard, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Additionally, when it became evident that there was also becoming a shortage of office professionals in the Atlantic City area, the school added Computer and Office Technology training to its syllabus in 1998.
Sources:
Press of Atlantic City, The : BUSINESS BRIEFS
Press of Atlantic City, The - NewsBank - Jan 29, 1989
Press of Atlantic City, The : PEOPLE IN BUSINESS
Press of Atlantic City, The - NewsBank - Nov 12, 1989
CDS was founded by Arnold Hasson and Steven Edelblum in 1986. The School, which taught all casino table games, (ie. Craps, Blackjack, Roulette, Baccarat, Poker, Pai Gow, Pai Gow Poker, etc.) with a high concentration in the syllabus to edify the importance of excellent Customer Service and maintaining excellent employee relations. The school was the first private gaming school in New Jersey to become accredited, and the only one, as of 2011.
CDS was an accredited member of the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology (ACCSCT). Casino Dealers School was also Certified by the United States Department of Education and Licensed by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission. CDS..."The School you need to Succeed," was often referred to as the "Harvard" of dealing schools. Over 3,500 graduate students received high paying jobs. In July of 2001 the school elected to close its doors because, at the time, there were only 12 existing casinos and no new casinos were expected to open in the near future, as such, Casino dealing jobs in Atlantic City, became scarce.
The school grew from a 1,500 square foot store front facility, at 2709 Atlantic Avenue, in 1986 to what became one of America's largest private gaming schools, with over 11,000 square feet of casino-like training space, including actual casino games and lab areas.
In 1988, with the help of Edelblum, CDS became the first gaming school to operate in an actual casino. The Casino Control Commission gave unanimous approval for the Casino Dealers School to operate inside a gaming hall for the first time. Under a pilot program Casino Dealers School was allowed to run a gaming school, Monday through Thursday, on the third floor of Elsinore's Atlantis Casino Hotel, for unemployed, underemployed and welfare recipients.
The third level of the casino floor of Elsinore's Atlantis Casino Hotel was redesigned in the early 80's to cater to high rollers. It was an effort that failed, but because of that failure, the plush casino became the site of a casino school. Four days a week, when that casino level was closed to the general public, at various time sessions, 15 area residents met over two craps tables, roulette, and Blackjack tables, to learn a new skill that they hoped would lift them out of poverty and put them on the road to economic independance.(Refer to press of Atlantic City articles dated: 12/09/1988-A DEALERS SCHOOL TO OPEN IN CASINO; and 2/28/1989-THE REAL THING IT'S A CASINO DEALERS' COURSE STUDENTS HOPE WILL LEAD THEM TO ECONOMIC SUCCESS).
In 1990 the school added the former 6,000 square foot Jules men's clothing store (on Atlantic Ave.,in Atlantic City, directly in front of Caesar's casino) as a branch facility. In 1991 after Edelblum left the company, William (Bill) Petillo took over as Director and the school moved both locations from Atlantic Avenue to the career and education complex building, formally the CSI building, adjacent to the Atlantic City Convention Center, at: 1923 Bacharach Boulevard, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Additionally, when it became evident that there was also becoming a shortage of office professionals in the Atlantic City area, the school added Computer and Office Technology training to its syllabus in 1998.
Sources:
Press of Atlantic City, The : BUSINESS BRIEFS
Press of Atlantic City, The - NewsBank - Jan 29, 1989
Press of Atlantic City, The : PEOPLE IN BUSINESS
Press of Atlantic City, The - NewsBank - Nov 12, 1989