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Photo 1: Goos Van Brakel with Audev (far right) demonstrates Car IT DMS, running on BBj, to Automechanika attendees.
During the second quarter of 2002, BASIS CEO George Hight attended Automechanika, one of Europe's premier auto shows,
in Frankfurt, Germany. At Automechanika, Audev International and Schleupen AG, two of BASIS's partners, formally
launched their latest auto dealer management solution (DMS) for the German market. For those unfamiliar with these
partners, Audev offers complete DMS and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions for auto dealers, and
Schleupen has a highly regarded German financial package. By integrating these two applications, this new joint venture
is positioned to provide the German auto dealer market with a solution based on the latest technology from BASIS. Both
packages are currently available in Visual PRO/5®.
Audev recently migrated its Car IT DMS application to BBj® and demonstrated it at Automechanika. BBj enables the Car IT
DMS solution to run in a web browser or a thin client. Audev is targeting the first quarter of 2003 to begin
installation of a BBj-based version Car IT for those Customers who require the extensibility of Java. Prospective
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Photo 2: Gerard Siebes with Audev (far left) and Ronald Van Der Vlist with Aucon (far right) meet with prospective Customers at Automechanika.
Customers were very receptive to Audev and Schleupen's demonstrations. General consensus was that the functionality of
the two companies' products, combined with BASIS technology, met or exceeded the competition's products and offered a
clear and progressive technology path. Both Audev General Manager Jos Schrier and Schleupen Sales Manager Klaus
Hastreiter, who also attended Automechanika, were excited about the reception their products received at the show.
BASIS looks forward to building on this excitement as we move forward with helping them launch the first BBj-based auto
dealer solution in Germany.
This past August, BASIS introduced its new streamlined product license. This simplified model allows our Customers to
run BBj®, PRO/5®, PRO/5 Data Server® and Visual PRO/5® with a single license. With this license, users
need only purchase one license, install and register one license and keep track of just one serial number. There is no
need to track which license is the most current, as there are no longer separate license files for the BASIS products.
The user license can float to any user and to any BASIS product. For more information on the new product license and
the benefits it offers, please visit our web site at
 Mark your calendars and make your plans now to attend BASIS TechCon2003! TechCon, BASIS International's premier
technical conference, will be held May 5 and 6 in Albuquerque, NM. This event promises to be our biggest and most
exciting TechCon yet. Watch the BASIS web site for updates about TechCon2003.
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