TMW Systems announced that in 2009 the company invested more than 250,000 hours in software development across TMW’s product families.
“With the acquisition of Innovative Computing Corporation last December, TMW Systems now has 45 percent of its employees engaged in software development activities,” says David W. Wangler, president and chief executive officer of TMW Systems. “Despite the challenging economic environment of 2009, we continued to invest in R&D across all of our product lines and we are proud of the significant number of new enhancements brought to market for our customers in the past year.”
In June, TMW released TruckMate 2009, a milestone representing the product’s move to a rolling release process and a dramatically enhanced multi-company capability. Additional market-driven features included a new data capture solution for handheld mobile devices, enhancements to reporting and Command Center KPI dashboards, streamlined intermodal workflows and improved integrations to TMT Fleet Maintenance, IDSC ExpertFuel and Carrier 411; along with multiple freight boards and mobile communications devices.
TMW also worked with IBM to perform a series of benchmarking tests that simulated up to 2,000 concurrent users.
TMW’s Optimization group launched IDSC MatchAdvice 6.0 last year, which includes an ad-hoc optimizer for user-selected sets and a shift scheduling optimizer appropriate for private fleets and petroleum haulers. The group also introduced an entirely new offering, TMW Freight Analyst.
“Freight Analyst is yield optimization made simple. At a glance, you can see what lanes and customers are the best contributors to your profitability, and which lanes demand attention,” said Mike August, VP and GM for TMW Optimization software.
For the IBM i platform, TMW says it is creating applications that work across multiple products, including TL2000, Innovative IES and TMT Fleet Maintenance for IBM i. The DAWG for IBM i, an RPG native version of TMW’s popular exception alerting program, was released in 2009 for TL2000 and TMT products and will be available for Innovative in 2010.
