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Tuesday September 17

Cook’s Collision Selects Summit for Repair Network Claims, Operations, Communications, and Production Software System

Summit Software Solutions, Inc. and Cook’s Collision, Inc. have announced that they have completed phase one of the implementation of an enterprise-wide repair network claims, operations, production, communications, and information management solution.

Cook’s Collision, Inc., a California based eleven-store collision repair network, is implementing Summit’s enterprise-wide technology to integrate all aspects of their collision repair network via the Internet and a Virtual Private Network. Summit’s solution will provide Cook’s with network-wide communications capabilities; management controls, financial integration, and centralized data warehousing designed to meet the needs of their growing collision repair network.

"Being selected by Cook’s Collision Centers to implement our enterprise-wide claims, operations, and communication solution solidifies our market position as a leading technology solution provider to large, multi-location collision repairers and repair networks," said Summit President, Frank Terlep. "Cooks Collision is the future model of success in the collision industry and our ideal customer. Successful collision repair networks like Cook’s need an enterprise-wide technology solution that makes their personnel more productive, improves individual shop performance, and provides the corporate offices with data, information, and business intelligence when and how they want it. Our Summit enterprise-wide solutions have been designed with these important needs and requirements in mind."

According to Andy Wasserman, Cook’s Collision Chief Financial Officer, "After an extended research, evaluation, and testing period we selected Summit Software Solutions, Inc. as our technology partner based on their technology, experience, and ability to provide our company with a solution we needed and wanted. By implementing Summit’s technology solution throughout our repair network every employee in every location will be more productive, we will improve our abilities to meet and exceed our customers needs, and we will have a complete financial and operational picture of the entire repair network at the click of a mouse."

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