XcelleNet Inc. has announced that Mac Tools has selected its mobile management solution to manage 500 laptops for field distributors in all 50 states.

The implementation of XcelleNet enables each Mac Tools sales truck to have secure, reliable access to up-to-date sales support information and keeps each field representative connected to headquarters.
Founded in 1938, Mac Tools is a leader in the automotive tool and equipment industry with a product line in excess of 8,000 items. The company relies on the direct sales approach, using a mobile sales force of distributors who sell its products directly to the customer from trucks stocked with products.
Since these representatives seldom, if ever, go to the company headquarters in Ohio, Mac Tools needed a way to link their laptops to headquarters' information systems, ensuring accurate reporting of sales and inventory data. Mac Tools turned to XcelleNet to provide the crucial link it needed to keep its business connected.
Using XcelleNet, Mac Tools collects and sends point-of-sale (POS) data, sends anti-virus and software updates, and delivers important company information, such has an employee newsletter, to 500 trucks across the U.S.
Before implementing XcelleNet, Mac Tools used a tool built in-house that was slow and often crashed during transmission, losing data in the process, forcing distributors to start again. The result was a slow, expensive and unreliable communications process. Since deploying XcelleNet, Mac Tools' distributors have been able to reduce transmit time from 15 minutes to three minutes, a substantial savings in telephone costs. And most importantly, the data is never lost.
XcelleNet, Inc. provides the software that makes enterprise mobility possible. As the leading provider of Mobile Infrastructure solutions and expertise, XcelleNet helps companies manage large numbers of laptops and handheld devices, and gives them the power to manage their businesses from anywhere. For more information, visit www.xcellenet.com.