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Westlake Software Corporate Profile

Westlake Software Corporate Profile

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Corporate Profile

Westlake Customers Achieve Sustainable
Competitive Advantages over their Competitors

Whether your company is looking for a complete wireless supply chain management solution, in need of real-time marketing, sales or inventory analysis or simply requires the automation of paper forms (time cards, expense sheets, sales reports, delivery forms, etc.), Westlake Software, Inc. has the solution.

Westlake leverages breakthrough technology using its own patent pending AirMobility.Net Wireless Middleware™, considered within the wireless industry as one of the most flexible wireless data collection and analysis systems ever designed.

Combine this capability with one of the most experienced integration and wireless data management teams in the industry, you can be sure that your organization will achieve the most optimal workflow scenario possible with your new or existing wireless services; this is Westlake’s commitment to every customer.

Every Westlake customer can expect:

  • A quantifiable increase in productivity
  • A quantifiable decrease in cost of doing business
  • Faster data and information collection, which allows you to make better business decisions
  • The ability to analyze and monitor real-time field force data
  • Sustainable competitive advantages over the competition
  • The ability to drive more profitable behavior with existing customers

Westlake Software Corporate Profile

Management

Alan Gould - President and CEO
Westlake is lead by Alan D. Gould (President and CEO), a wireless data pioneer having started and grew the largest wireless software data firm worldwide prior to being acquired by a US based wireless service provider in 1998. Mr. Gould was solely responsible for creating a market that grew to over 500,000 users and was sold in 36 countries and available in multiple languages. Branded distribution was created for AT&T Wireless, Sprint PCS, Verizon, Cingular, PageNet, Arch Paging, WebLink Wireless, Cantel AT&T, GTE, Excel Communications, and Comcast to name a few.

Mr. Gould has provided wireless consulting services to thousands of organization since 1992 including Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, NEC, Hitachi, Texas Instruments, Nortel, American General, Exxon, United States Secret Service, HealthNet, Nextel, MBNA.

Mr. Gould recently published the feature article for Mission Critical Magazine on Wireless Homeland Security, has been a guest on CNN Financial News for using wireless technology to prevent rolling black outs in California. He is also a highly sought after speaker on the wireless tradeshow circuit.

Mr. Gould started and continues to run the longest running wireless carrier training programs on solution based selling in the wireless industry with over 25,000 in attendance since 1994.

Mark Peter - Chief Technology Officer
Technology at Westlake is headed up by Mark A. Peter. Mr. Peter is one of Southern California’s most sought after JAVA, J2ME, J2EE architects and programmers. He has designed, developed and implemented enterprise JAVA based solutions for organizations such as Edmunds.com, Disney Corporation, United States Secret Service, The State of California, HealthNet Corporate, Shell Oil, Vivendi Universal, Nextel Corporation, VA Hospital, City of Carlsbad police Department to name a few.

 
Customers
Westlake’s flexible architecture allows for easy automation of virtually any business with an outside field force. Westlake has a wide range of customers in virtually every major vertical industry segment. Organizations such as Shell Oil, Nextel Corporation, HealthNet, United States Secret Service, and the VA Hospital utilize Westlake to help maximize their wireless assets.
 
Solutions

Field Data Collection, Management and Analysis
Westlake helps organizations convert paper field forms and manual data entry requirements into highly optimized and automated wireless solutions. We combine instantaneous field form conversion, data aggregation, formatting, routing, back-office integration, monitoring, and analysis into a single reliable wireless workflow tool to assist our customers in achieving significant better returns on their wireless investments.
See: AirMobility.net

Database Query
Westlake’s architecture provides quick and effective wireless database query functionality for customers who need the ability to look up inventory parts, view previous visit records with an existing customer, automate the function of job assignments and do so with the latest wireless devices and services on the market.

Wireless Dispatching
Westlake’s wireless dispatching technology is secure, reliable and proven. Government agencies such as Dayton City Police, City of Carlsbad Police and the United States Secret Service utilize Westlake’s dispatch solution to provide enhanced homeland security.
See: RespondNow.Net

 
Professional Services

Westlake offers cost-effective professional services from assessment, customized architecture development, integration and deployment. See: Consulting

 
Technical Support

Customer support and satisfaction is Westlake’s top priority. Support is available via telephone, email and fax 24-hours, 365 days a year.

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Westlake Making Headlines
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California Saves over $1 Billion
Ancillary Services Coalition and Westlake team to stop rolling black outs
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Mission Critical Magazine
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Expert Sees Value in Targeted Apps
Review of Westlake Seminar at iWireless World in Los Angeles


WESTLAKE SOFTWARE, INC
is a full service software application development firm with special focus on wireless data collection across commercial wireless networks with Motorola phones, blackberry phones Palm and Windows Mobile phones. The organization supports clients that have automated with wireless GPS applications, wireless bar coding applications, many using blackberry devices, wireless photo capture applications, wireless data collection applications, wireless field forms (wireless time cards, wireless inspection forms, wireless expense sheets, wireless order forms, wireless field assessment, wireless sales tracking), wireless supply chain management, wireless field force automation, wireless sales force automation, internet paging software and dispatch and more.

GET HELP FROM WESTLAKE FAST!!

WESTLAKE SOFTWARE, INC and its management have helped thousands of organization of all sizes solve complicated wireless data and deployment needs. Companies like Sprint, Blue Cross, Clear Channel and Shell Oil depend on Westlake services every day.

Click Here for our Needs Assessment Form

We will respond within 24 hours. If we can not help you, we will refer you to someone who can.

We support mobile wireless data collection for Fortune 500 companies as well as companies of any size with most types of wireless devices (blackberry, Motorola, J2ME, Windows Mobile, etc.). Wireless data collection applications has been provided for Sprint Nextel for their national retail division providing wireless data collection for supply chain management, mobile data collection for GPS tracking, wireless data collection for store visit compliance, wireless data for geo-fencing. This is a deployment of more than 500 Blackberry devices.

Another wireless data/mobile collection customer includes Valley Couriers. We support wireless data for employee tracking, wireless data for pick ups, wireless data for drop offs, and other mobile data supported functions. Westlake also supports customers for wireless data for time card applications (wireless job time clock function), wireless data applications for inspection forms, wireless data applications for expense reporting, mobile data for order forms and wireless data for mobile work order forms. This deployment is not with Blackberry phones but with Motorola phones.

Our www.AirMobility.Net platform can be considered a wireless data acquisition network for mobile deployments. Our wireless data acquisition network enables us to help our customers effectively collect data from the field (blackberry phones, Motorola, Windows Mobile phones, Palm phones) and aggregate this data either on our server or migrate this data back behind their firewall to be included in an existing database or third party product. Our wireless data acquisition network can be also used by a full mix if mobile wireless devices such as Blackberry phones, Motorola phones, Palm and Windows Mobile phones as well as a full mix of wireless services providers such as Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint Nextel, Cingular, Rogers, Bell Mobility and others.   

Westlake is a wireless applications solutions provider. We have provided an oil company with multiple wireless solutions and applications to track competitive gas prices using Blackberry devices. We have provided the State of California complete wireless solutions to stop rolling black outs (mix of pagers, blackberry phones, Motorola phones, Windows Mobile devices and more). Wireless solutions (custom and integrated mobile applications) have been implemented to helping insurance carriers to get doctors to take on new insurance services (blackberry implementation). Westlake has implemented wireless solutions in the construction industry implementing mobile phone time card solutions, and wireless field form data collection solutions (largely with Motorola handsets due to being more rugged than a Blackberry phone).

Our technology (wireless solutions, mobile phone applications) will function in virtually any wireless data network. We have many customers using our technology on Sprint Nextel mobile phone network. This includes full support for the Sprint CDMA mobile phone network and the Nextel iDEN mobile phone network nationally and internationally. Sprint Nextel uses Westlake’s AirMobility.Net product as a comprehensive wireless data solution (or solutions) to automation their entire national field force retail division. www.AirMobility.Net (enterprise mobile phone application form manager and wireless data collection system) has been favorably reviewed by Research in Motion and has helped drive our technology into other carriers such as Cingular, Verizon, T-Mobile, Rogers, Bell Mobility and many others. Westlake is a Blackberry Alliance Member. We will function on all Cingular wireless mobile phones that support both J2ME applications and any web browsing technology (including Palm and Windows Mobile – our application in this case would reside server side). Our technology will function on all Verizon wireless mobile phone devices that support web browser functionality (Palm, Blackberry, Windows Mobile) and devices that support J2ME (Motorola, Blackberry, etc.). For carriers like Rogers, Bell Mobility, and Sprint Nextel (sometimes spelled as Nextell), device support is similar to Cingular, Verizon, T-Mobile and others.

Westlake’s management started in 1992 developing paging software (alpha paging software, internet paging software, text paging software, desktop paging software – early mobile phone applications). The alphanumeric paging software brand sold more than 500,000 copies by the time the company was acquired in 1998. The internet paging software was branded as AT&T Message flash paging software, PageNet paging software, Airsource internet paging software and was a popular text paging software both nationally and internationally. Westlake currently supports a single internet enterprise level paging software product called www.respondnow.net. This is an internet paging software product used by many public safety organizations in and around the United States. The internet paging software application www.respondnow.net can be installed locally or can be a hosted solution by Westlake. The customers that use our enterprise internet paging software application with phones and pagers opt to host internally or have Westlake host for them about evenly. You can evaluate our internet paging software application at no cost by going to www.respondnow.net and setting up your own trial account. This internet paging software is used by police departments, fire departments, hospitals and other government agencies. There is virtually no limitation on the number of wireless carriers in which the program can support (Sprint, Nextel, Verizon, T-Mobile, Cingular, Rogers, Bell Mobility, etc.), and virtually any wireless mobile phones or mobile pagers that support an email address (Blackberry, Motorola phones and pagers, Windows Mobile devices, Palm devices, etc.) that you can use.  

Westlake is a full GPS tracking system provider. This includes GPS and maps, GPS mapping applications, GPS tracking devices (both phones and hard mounted equipment), GPS tracking systems, mobile GPS, support for Nextel GPS, and GPS tracking. For Sprint Nextel, our GPS tracking program is used to GPS track their entire national retail field force using their own Nextel GPS network. This mobile GPS tracking system enables Sprint Nextel to monitor the location in which a store visit was made and geo-fence the field rep to ensure they were actually at the store when the visit was made (Blackberry mobile phone -  7520). Other customers of Westlake like Clear Channel Outdoor have implemented a full wireless mobile GPS tracking system with Westlake as well using Nextel GPS (Motorola i580 devices per their rugged exterior versus the Blackberry on this deployment). This wireless mobile application phone system can be used to ensure the safety of their largely distributed field force in case they are in trouble on the job to ensuring job compliance throughout the day.

Cumulatively between wireless solutions (mobile applications), our wireless data acquisition network, GPS tracking, wireless mobile application field forms and wireless sales and field force automation, creates a unique set of wireless software capabilities than enables Westlake to lead the wireless data industry with innovation. Our experience in wireless software spans more than 14 years including the development of the best selling wireless software products worldwide. Wireless mobile application software used to mean paging software in the 1990’s. Wireless mobile application software today can take many forms including wireless software for consumers to manage their address books to mobile application wireless software in which can provide real time monitoring and GPS tracking. Westlake’s wireless software includes:

  1. Wireless software for GPS (Motorola. Blackberry, etc.)
  2. Mobile application software for data collection solutions (Blackberry, Motorola, etc.)
  3. Wireless software for bar coding (Blackberry and Motorola via Bluetooth)
  4. Mobile application software for RFID and wireless data collection (Bluetooth with www.baracoda.com
  5. Wireless software for the Blackberry (GPS, blue tooth bar coding, RFID,. Etc.)
  6. Palm and Windows Mobile support

WESTLAKE SOFTWARE, INC. can assist you in building a custom wireless mobile application software program for your specific needs from the ground up, or take advantage of several of our turn key solutions which include:

  • www.AirMobility.Net Time Cards (wireless data collection system)
  • AirMobility.Net Mobile application inspection forms (wireless data collection and migration)
  • AirMobility.Net Blackberry software applications (wireless data collection and migration)
  • AirMobility.Net Motorola software applications (photo capture, bar coding, RFID, GPS)
  • AirMobility.Net wireless mobile application order forms (data collection, migration, integration)
  • And more

GET HELP FROM WESTLAKE FAST!!

WESTLAKE SOFTWARE, INC and its management have helped thousands of organization of all sizes solve complicated wireless data and deployment needs. Companies like Sprint, Blue Cross, Clear Channel and Shell Oil depend on Westlake services every day.

Click Here for our Needs Assessment Form

We will respond within 24 hours. If we can not help you, we will refer you to someone who can.