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Weight Watchers of Philadelphia Prepares for the New Millennium with MIDAS Weight Watchers of Philadelphia, located in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, is a division of Weight Watchers International. The company is a major supplier of healthful weight management involving a comprehensive program that includes a food plan, activity plan and behavior modification provided in an environment of group support. Weight Watchers of Philadelphia is one of the first users of MIDAS, a full-featured enterprise integration software solution for distribution and accounting. MIDAS (MKS Integrated Distribution and Accounting System) was chosen by Weight Watchers of Philadelphia for its existing functionality and the ability to handle the additional customizations necessary to satisfy the unique requirements of the organization. In the past few months, Weight Watchers of Philadelphia completed a hardware upgrade and the implementation of a new release of the MIDAS software. "We selected MIDAS in 1987 as our integrated software solution for distribution and accounting," says John Birnhak, CEO of Weight Watchers Philadelphia. "The new hardware upgrade triples our processing power. Upgrading to the latest release of MIDAS allows us to take advantage of the Internet and e-commerce, enhancing our ability to meet our ever-changing customer requirements well into the next millennium, which is very exciting for us. "In growing numbers, large organizations are implementing new business intelligence and knowledge management solutions designed to derive maximum value from enterprise information," explains Victor E. Hansen, president of MKS, Inc. "MKS was founded with a singular mission, to create state-of-the-art business systems that use sophisticated software engineering and knowledge management. MIDAS is a strategic business solution for our customers who have achieved remarkable growth and profitability in the past decade. MKS is a software products and consulting company that since 1987, specializes in enterprise application integration 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. The MKS software suite is comprised of 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. The combination of V4 and MIDAS enables executives to analyze large amounts of data captured in the robust MIDAS system and in other external data sources, providing a breakthrough level of decision support capability that is simply unrivaled in the marketplace today.
For more information about MIDAS and V4 software or our success with Weight Watchers, contact MKS today at 888-PICK-MKS. |
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