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Clarion in general: Companies using Clarion
2003-04-02 -- Rocky Phelps
 
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This is from my own KB, Roberto. It is probably the one you are referring
to.

Rocky
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FedEx, UPS to name a few.

I believe Harley Davidson uses Clarion.

You have a tremendous opportunity here. Although I wouldn't have told
him I didn't know VB, I'd have said "I know VB and that's why I refuse
to write in it." VB is excellent for writing large dinosaur
applications that talk with other MS applications. I suspect that is
not the type of thing you are being asked to write here.

One of the bigger banks here in SA uses Clarion "ABSA". This may not help
you there. but a least its Clarion is represented across the world. rgs.
Nigel

Trane Company, Div of American Standard.
Petsmart.
Heard from a contact at SV that the equivalent of the Department of Motor
Vehicles for Canada has a system nearly developed for use by all of the
provinces

Cinemark USA, Inc.
One of the largest motion picture exhibitors in North America, with 2,942
screens in 33 States and internationally in Argentina, Brazil, Canada,
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua,
Mexico and Peru

We used Clarion to create the premier point of sale system to sell movie
tickets and concessions at our theatres. Thanks to our use of Clarion,
Cinemark was also the first major theatre chain to sell movie tickets online
and we invented print-at-home ticketing with Clarion software.

How about Chevron? Their program for accounting, personnel, vehicle
tracking, etc. is all in Clarion for Windows.
It was just ported over from .tps to MSSQL format.

Nationwide Advertising Service also uses Clarion. Now. That
name might not mean anything to you. But... until last year they were the
largest independent recruitment ad agency in the US with 38 offices in the
US and 3 in Canada. I said until last year because they were bought out last
by McAnn-Erickson Worldwide.

You can add Sylvan Learning Centers, Direct TV and the BC Gov'n Liquor
Distribution Branch to your list.

Also, since Prometric was bought out by Thomson Learning early last year,
add

Prometric - Thomson Learning to your list.

You can add an european company, Airbus industry ( If you have never heard
about it, Boeing has....), and a big french oil company, Total.

OfficeDepot is also using a Clarion POS program

Victoria's Secret (I recently heard)

Pervasive Software (yup, Btrieve)

IBM made it one of only seven recommended tools

About 6-700 college and university placement offices

Pilot Oil Company

Sonoco Paper Products (fortune 250)

Image Arts, Etc. (A franchise system started by the Mail Boxes Etc
people)

They arent using it internally, they are using our app:)
Mark Riffey
Granite Bear Development

Hoffman Laroche
ortho pharmaceuticals (sub of j&j not chevron)

DirectTV

Federal Express (risk management)

There are numerous television stations (mainly PBS), but foreign
operations as well) running station operation software written in
windows versions of Clarion.

Landau Uniforms. We are one of the
largest medical apparel manufacturing/distribution companies in the world.
Ask any medical professional who wears uniforms and they know Landau.

ComQuest has been in Clarion since day 1 (DOS in 1994, Windows
since '98)... While it doesn't do traffic / billing, etc. it's used by
100+ stations around the world for callout music/perceptual research...

Let's not forget DSS and WinDSS, point of sale/cash register and back office
software by JDA Software Group (www.jda.com). Probably the most $successful
Clarion applications in existence. Client short list includes Petco,
Universal Studios, BBQ's Galore, Beauty Brands and FootStar Inc (FootAction
and Just for Feet). If you need a larger client list drop me an email, as
it will take time to compile.

You can also add
JDA (One of the larger ERP Firms)
Courts
Ernst & Young (I think)
The US State dept
And last but not least The Kremlin

Bob Butler's "Time Matters" program (law office case
management software -- #1 in its niche, I think.

Accutrac www.accutrac.com Records Managment
LoneWolf www.lonewolfsoftware.com Time and Attendance
POSitive software www.gopositive.com POS software

Trojan Professional Services http://www.trojanonline.com practice support
services for dental professionals
LabCorp. www.labcorp.com (lcm product) laboratory testing

www.enercalc.com
Structural Engineering software used in over 4,000 architectural/engineering
firms for the design of buildings.

I write Horse Racing software...
http://www.horsestreet.com/

Match-IT, Award Winning Manufacturing Software, UK.
www.match-it.com

www.base2.com
EDI and release management software
We started the conversion to Windows using VB in 1996. When we
discovered two-year old uncorrected bugs in the ODBC driver for Access
which caused our software to GPF (and spent 2 weeks trying to find out
what WE did wrong), we dumped VB and three months of work. We have never
regretted it..

ACES (ACcounting Enhanced Software)
CARP (Cost Analysis of Resources and Projects)
PREM (Projects and Resources Management)
CFAS (Consolidated Fixed ASsets)

All these applications are made in Clarion and are marketed in Luxembourg
and Belgium.



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