References and success stories
« Integrated management solutions such as ERPs are not only used in manufacturing, as proven by our CapMedia Systems, which already equips 14 newspaper companies in Denmark and Sweden. The application evolves with our customers, who contribute to its development by expressing new needs in response to the major changes in the mediabusiness. »
Michael Sandstrøm, CapMedia Systems
Caramelo is one of Spain's leading names in fashion. The company has more than 30 years of market experience, with retail presence in 27 countries such as Saudi Arabia, Greece, Chile, the United Arab Emirates, the Philippines, Kuwait, Mexico, Portugal and Russia.
The Aquila Group, Inc. is an international consulting firm specializing in innovative and world-class solutions for premier manufacturing organizations. For the past 15 years, many organizations such as Case New Holland/Fiat International have relied on the Aquila Group to to re-engineer their business processes, procedures, and systems.
«This case study demonstrates that 4D can be used to develop systems that, in the past, required a large project team, a mainframe computer and a multi million pound budget.»
Ed Coxon
Software Developer, Advanced Technology Integration
Christie's are the world's leading art business with global auctions and private sales that totaled £3.3 billion in 2010. Using an adapted version of 4D-powered Matrix CMS by the UK's Matrix Software, users can log into the content management system via a browser from any of Christie's 57 offices.
Chukyo Sansho Corporation (CSC) was founded in 1949 in Nagoya, Japan. They have three main businesses in the fields of high pressure gas and welding, new building products, and electronics. Their 4D-based business systems control sales management, stocks, accounting and more via 4D's client/server and web server capabilities.
Cinéart has distributed all kinds of hand-picked films through various media for about 30 years. They were first established on the Belgian and Luxembourg markets and then expanded into the Netherlands with the birth of their new business in 2008. Their accounting, commercial & schedule management software is developed with 4D.
The City of Dallas, Texas, Water Utilities (DWU) uses XC2 "FOG" Software, built with 4D, to manage their proactive and very successful grease abatement program, "Cease the Grease". "FOG" stands for "Fats, Oil and Grease", materials that can cause sanitary sewer overflows (SSOs). SSOs can result in property damage, strong odors, and environmental, health and safety problems.
The city of Oullins, France, located near Lyon, has over 26,000 inhabitants. Seven of its council services produce or use images for administrative and legal affairs, cleaning, technical services, communications, record-keeping, printing, and parks. 4D-based Ajaris published by Orkis is employed to distribute multimedia content and manage its image archive.
For COME Media AG, C.A.O.S. is their way out of chaos. Since 1988, the specialist for cross-media services has been using an in-house 4D solution called C.A.O.S. which stands for 'Communication Agency Organization Software'. The application's main function is job development and control, connecting its interface to DATEV, the German tax-administration bookkeeping system.