Now Up-to-Date & Contact Success Story

Category: Real Estate Development
User: Brooklyn Navy Yard

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — (March 25, 2003) — Now Software, makers of the #1 best selling Now Up-to-Date & Contact calendar and contact manager, today announced that the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC), management company for one of New York City’s largest commercial development projects, has purchased Now Up-to-Date & Contact for its 50-person administrative staff.  Using Now Up-to-Date & Contact, the Corporation will be able to significantly improve the operational efficiency of its staff by coordinating meetings, sharing addresses/phone numbers and more, via the software’s common, Internet-accessible interface.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard, decommissioned by the federal government in 1966, has become a major success story for the City of New York.  The 300-acre facility, comprising 40 buildings and 3.8 million square feet under roof, is home to 200 businesses of all sizes that employ roughly 3,500 people.  In addition to manufacturing, arts, shipping, and ship building operations, the Yard will soon be home to the largest motion picture and television studio complex on the east coast—a project now under construction.

“For us, Now Up-to-Date & Contact is the ultimate round peg for a round hole,” said Bernard (Bernie) Dushman, Senior Vice President/Technology and General Counsel for BNYDC.  “Its functionality, reasonable price, and straightforward controls make it ideal for our corporation’s purposes.  Plus it has been around long enough that we know it’s reliable.  Simply, it works.”

Replacement for Microsoft Exchange BNYDC realized some time ago that it was inefficient for its employees to maintain separate, isolated calendars and contact lists.  The non-profit corporation initially purchased licenses for Microsoft Exchange, but soon began looking for another solution.  “We were very impressed with the simplicity and ease-of-use of Now Up-to-Date & Contact,” Dushman noted.  “There isn’t a business today that isn’t watching costs in every area.  Now Up-to-Date & Contact is extremely cost effective, both in its purchase price and its easy deployment.  Very little training is needed to roll out Now Up-to-Date & Contact.”

Increased Collaboration Dushman says the President and the Chief Operating Officer of BNYDC, who were the first on his staff to receive Now Up-to-Date and Contact, are pleased with the product’s efficiency.  “Collaborative tools like this one can transform a company,” Dushman stated.  “Now Up-to-Date & Contact makes people think more about working together.”