GlobalWise Releases Case Study on Ricart Automotive Group ...

COLUMBUS, OH?(Marketwire ? March 12, 2012) ? GlobalWise Investments, Inc. (OTCBB: GWIV) (OTCQB: GWIV) (www.GlobalWiseInvestments.com) and its wholly owned subsidiary Intellinetics, Inc., a leading-edge technology company focused on the design, implementation and management of public/private cloud-based Enterprise Content Management (?ECM?) systems for public and private sectors, today provide a case study for one of their clients, Ricart Automotive Group (www.Ricart.com).

Ricart Automotive Group is one of the world?s largest retail auto dealer enterprises. Founded in 1953 in Columbus, Ohio, Ricart has grown from a small car lot into one of the nation?s largest single-site dealer complexes comprised of 66 acres plus a separate financing company (www.coccfinancial.com) with locations in Ohio and Mississippi. Ricart Automotive sells and/or finances a combined 16,000 vehicles annually, which creates an immense amount of paperwork. Ricart realized the traditional paper storage filing cabinet system for managing their many customers was dated, inefficient and in some cases resulted in missing documents.

?We already had a significant amount of space dedicated to the storage of paper files and we needed more. In addition to the physical storage problem, we were also having an issue with the excessive amount of time required to locate files when we needed them. It was obvious that we needed a more efficient solution,? said Rob Caruthers, CFO, Ricart Automotive. ?It was essential to our business that the information be logically indexed and quickly accessible.?

Ricart also required that the ECM solution chosen was compatible with its existing business applications and database. One of the key attributes of the Intellinetics software is its ability to easily and seamlessly integrate with existing software packages that companies rely on to manage their business. Many other ECM solutions do not have the ability to integrate with these dealer management systems, which gives Intellinetics a competitive advantage. The IntellivueTM software package delivered to Ricart was the perfect solution to increase productivity.

?Thanks to the open, flexible nature of the IntellivueTM platform, all of our needs were met and implementation was seamless,? added Mr. Caruthers.

Ricart maximized their return on investment by integrating IntellivueTM into its dealer management platform. The flexibility of the IntellivueTM system allows the Ricart team to function more efficiently, while reducing wait times and increasing customer satisfaction. Across sales, finance, service, human resources and accounting the system saves hours of processing time for the over 75,000 pages of new documents managed per month. Ricart currently has the equivalent of approximately 1,000 four-drawer filing cabinets processed by IntellivueTM. In the past, simple vehicle inventory logging would take up to one and a half weeks, but with the IntellivueTM system, it can now be processed in one and a half days ? an 80% increase in efficiency.

Ricart and Intellinetics continuously collaborate on planned upgrades and expanding IntellivueTM to capture more document types throughout Ricart?s enterprise. ?Employing IntellivueTM has been an excellent experience. The impact it has had on our operations is tremendous. We look forward to continuing our relationship with Intellinetics,? concluded Mr. Caruthers.

Click the following link to see Mr. Caruthers share additional insight on the economic and operational impact IntellivueTM has brought to Ricart Automotive: http://youtu.be/gF9hIbEv4Og

About GlobalWise Investments, Inc.

GlobalWise Investments, Inc., via its wholly owned subsidiary Intellinetics, Inc., is a Columbus, Ohio based Enterprise Content Management (ECM) pioneer with industry-leading software that delivers cloud ECM based solutions on-demand. The Company?s flagship platform, IntellivueTM, represents a new industry benchmark and game-changing solution by enabling clients to access and manage the content of every scanned document, file, spreadsheet, email, photo, audio file or video tape ? virtually anything that can be digitized ? in their enterprise from any PC, laptop, tablet or smartphone from anywhere in the world.

For additional information, please visit the Company?s corporate website: www.GlobalWiseInvestments.com

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Source: http://globalwiseinvestments.com/globalwise-releases-case-study-on-ricart-automotive-group-2

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