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the leading edge web-enabled decision support software that corporate
executives, economic developers, and their services providers
use to assess, model, and negotiate capital investment projects.
Our software is used to combine economic and demographic data,
project specifications, and information on alternative business
scenarios and financial
projections. Then, the software screens locations according to
criteria selected by the user, calculates the relative start-up
and operating costs in the candidate locations and transactions
under consideration, compares the bottom line results of different
decision choices, and guides the user through determining and
negotiating the optimal operating environment for a particular
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This
system also allows EDAs to focus on their locations' competitive
strengths and weaknesses as against those of other locations vying
for a corporate project. As a result, DEALS covers both the supply
and demand sides of corporate development, expansion, consolidation,
and location/relocation projects.
DEALS
is available in two ways, depending on a particular client's desires.
First, we make DEALS available by itself on a subscription basis
directly to companies, EDAs, and/or their service providers for their
own individual or collaborative use with each other. Second, if the
client has engaged us to provide our highly regarded strategic management
and project consulting services, then we use DEALS to augment and
deliver our consulting in those engagements. Either way, to craft,
make, and execute well-informed capital investment decisions, DEALTEK
teams with its clients to apply our technology to their capital investment
projects, so that everyone can get to the negotiating table faster
and then to the closing table faster.
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Just
about every business goes through these project decisions at
least once for its operations or facilities. EDAs get involved
in many such projects each
year, as do related service providers. However, too often, because
a good
decision tool hasn't been available, project teams are frustrated
or at least unsure
whether they are making the optimal decisions. As a result, deal making
has been cumbersome, confusing, and expensive. DEALS helps to solve these
problems. Among other benefits, DEALS provides the following:
- Speed. In
the past, these projects took months or even years. But today's
quick pace demands rapid turnarounds. DEALS is fast, easy to
use, and comprehensive.
- Efficiency. Budgets
and resources are tight. The economy is uncertain, so is the
project's viability particularly in its early stages. The project
team can't afford to unnecessarily allocate resources to a project.
DEALS allows project teams to efficiently control early-stage
costs, collect and analyze data, model results, and track negotiations.
- Process. Companies
and EDAs often have no personnel or process to dedicate to the
project, at least not without disrupting the regular course of
business. For a company, DEALS is a battle-tested decision process
to model and manage a strategic yet rare project. For an EDA,
DEALS is a process to see multiple projects from the companies'
perspectives. So, DEALS creates order out of chaos in one or
many projects.
- Flexibility. Projects
are dynamic. The economic and demographic data, market conditions,
and business scenarios certainly will change during the project.
With DEALS, you can readily change decision criteria, model an
infinite number of "what if" scenarios, and optimize
the decision choices as the project evolves from conception through
implementation. DEALS is a flexible, low-risk alternative to
traditionally rigid methods.
- Competitive
Advantage. To survive and hopefully thrive, a company must
gain advantage over its competitors -- whether in workforce,
operating costs, logistics, or market proximity. Similarly,
each EDA faces stiff competition to attract or retain these
projects, and needs to justify that its location is the best
one for a company. With DEALS, companies and EDAs can benchmark
cost structures and other location attributes against those
of their competition. DEALS pinpoints the advantages - and
disadvantages - in alternative business environments.
- Security. DEALS
has state-of-the-art physical, firewall, monitoring, intrusion
detection, filtering, and encryption technology to protect all
authentication, access, hardware, software, database, and data
transmission components.
- Money-Back
Guaranty. We
know from user feedback that DEALS is valuable, useful, and
reliable. However, if a subscriber is ever unsatisfied with
DEALS, then DEALTEK will refund a prorated amount of the subscription
fee based on the time that has elapsed since the subscription
period began.
To subscribe
to DEALS® or for more information, please visit the DEALS® web
site.
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