ADP Announces Major Contract With BMW China Automotive
- With more than 25,000 dealers in five continents and in 50 countries, ADP is the world's largest global DMS provider, expanding its presence in Europe and Asia -
Doug Towle
ADP Dealer Services
(847) 485-4374
doug_towle@adp.com
http://www.dealersuite.com
HOFFMAN ESTATES, Illinois -- February 5, 2007 -- The Dealer Services Group of Automatic Data Processing Inc. (NYSE: ADP) today announced a major contract with BMW China Automotive to exclusively support its BMW and MINI Chinese dealer networks. ADP's state-of-the-art dealer management system (DMS) will support all of BMW China's sales, after-sales and accounting processes.
This expanded presence in Asia extends ADP's position as a market leader for DMS and IT services worldwide. ADP provides dealers, distributors and manufacturers throughout Europe, Africa, Central America and Asia-Pacific with core DMS products, services and support. This announcement follows agreements with BMW in Korea; DaimlerChrysler in 23 worldwide markets; and contracts with the UK's Sytner Group (UAG); a Mitsubishi importer in Denmark; and numerous other users in Western Europe.
ADP also provides more than 19,000 Western European users with services such as Managed Desktop, server monitoring, hardware and operating software supply and support, IP Convergence (IP Telephony, Data and Video) and print solutions, hosted in data centers based in the UK and Nordic Region.
"This past year brought many changes and opportunities for ADP," said Steve Anenen, president of ADP. "We increased our global presence and continued delivering quality solutions by working closely with our customers to plan, deploy and manage projects that exceed expectations, secure a significant return on investment and support their current and future business needs. This has enabled ADP to retain its place as the leading provider of IT solutions to the automotive industry."
About ADP Dealer Services
ADP Dealer Services provides integrated computing solutions to nearly 25,500 auto, truck, motorcycle, marine and recreational vehicle dealers throughout the United States, Canada, Asia, China, Europe and the Middle East. ADP Dealer Services is a business unit of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (NYSE: ADP). ADP, with nearly $9 billion in revenues and more than 570,000 clients worldwide, is one of the largest providers of a broad range of premier, mission-critical, cost-effective transaction processing and information-based business solutions. More information on ADP Dealer Services is available on the Internet at http://www.dealersuite.com.