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Farm Equipment Dealer Improves Customer Service and Employee Productivity

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Overview In the rapidly consolidating retail implement market, Barker seeks to use technology to gain competitive advantage through superior customer service. Barker salespeople need to provide a variety of data, including quotes, marketing communications, spreadsheet analyses, and pictures of equipment. Another challenge of growth is increased employee mobility. Heartland Technology Solutions, a long-term partner of Barker Implement, understood the challenges posed by mountains of data. In April 2005, Heartland President Arlin Sorensen suggested that Barker deploy a prerelease version of the Windows Vista operating system on about 12 of the company's 125 client computers.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	WORD
Date Published	July 2006
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Windows Vista

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IBM

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