MIDAS Plays Prominent Role in Y2K Compliance for Southern Wine & Spirits of Pennsylvania

Wayne, PA, September 22, 2011 &endash; MKS Inc., a leading provider of cross enterprise integration software solutions and consulting services, today announced Southern Wine & Spirits of PA (Southern) completed their Y2K compliance testing using MKS' full service consulting and MIDAS. MIDAS is the MKS enterprise integration distribution and accounting system.

Southern previously selected MIDAS software in 1995 to handle the diverse processing requirements associated with their wine and spirits distribution. In order to meet Y2K compliance standards, the firm needed to upgrade their system network and hardware configuration. Southern chose to use MKS' consulting services.

"We combine industry-specific experience and our innovative software tools to deliver true business intelligence and knowledge management across the enterprise to our clients," says Victor Hansen, president, MKS. "MIDAS is reliable, flexible, and cost effective, and with its object oriented functionality, MIDAS enables users to upgrade easily, ensuring an uninterrupted workflow that optimizes productivity and profitability."

"We selected MKS because of our complete satisfaction with the MIDAS product and the ongoing consulting help that we received from their support representatives," explains Chris Cowan, MIS Manager at Southern. "The new network hardware upgrade completes Y2K compliance and along with the MIDAS software, prepares us to meet our future business objectives." Southern is a user of V4, the enterprise application integration solution for strategic data analysis and forecasting.

Southern, located in King of Prussia, PA, is a major supplier of wine and spirits to the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board and various retail suppliers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

MKS is a software products and consulting company that specializes in cross enterprise integration software product solutions and consulting services. The company recognizes that corporations, faced with shifting market conditions and mounting competitive pressures, are changing the way they use data. MKS offers MIDAS; a full featured integrated distribution and accounting system, and V4, a strategic data analysis and forecasting tool that operates independent of platforms, operating systems, databases and other data sources.

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