Computer Generated Solutions Announces Further Expansion Throughout Europe


New York, NY (PRWEB) June 20, 2012

Computer Generated Solutions (CGS), a leading global provider of technology solutions, announced today the opening of a new sales and delivery office in the United Kingdom to further support their rapidly growing BlueCherry customer base in the European market. The new center will complement CGSs existing facilities in Romania and help to increase sales and expand their market share in the region.

CGSs award-winning BlueCherry Suite software empowers fashion, softgoods, and other consumer products companies to more effectively manage their entire business and supply chain, from concept to consumer.

This opening reflects the significant customer growth that CGS is experiencing, in particular the high demand for BlueCherry across Europe, said Paul Magel, President of the Applications Solutions Group at CGS. We are excited to have the opportunity to expand into the United Kingdom. With the addition of this new sales and delivery team, we look forward to providing innovative, customized solutions to all of Europe and demonstrating our endless commitment to our customers.

An award-winning enterprise apparel software solution, BlueCherry is a comprehensive suite of integrated solutions, including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Supply Chain Management and Collaboration (SCM), Warehouse Management (WMS), Business Intelligence (BI) and EDI.

BlueCherry is designed to meet the needs of the apparel, footwear, and accessories industries. Customers have consistently experienced a rapid return on investment, improved customer service, accelerated time to market, superior management control and reporting, and streamlined EDI processes. BlueCherry also features a robust architecture, a familiar interface (Microsoft Office-like design), and superior management control and reporting. Additionally, the solution is easily scalable, offers a low cost of ownership, and provides an active community for all users.

CGS maintains over 400 BlueCherry customers worldwide.

About CGS

For more than twenty-eight years, CGS has enabled global enterprises, regional companies and government agencies to drive breakthrough performance through technology. Headquartered in New York City, CGS employs over 4,500 professionals in 20 offices in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. With global delivery capabilities, expertise across leading platforms and deep experience in multiple industries, CGS has become the IT partner of choice for thousands of organizations worldwide. CGS delivers a wide array of proprietary and third-party business applications, technology, business services and business process outsourcing solutions, including customer care, technical support and corporate learning & training. For more information please visit http://www.cgsinc.com or follow us on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/cgsinc

About BlueCherry

A fully integrated enterprise solution with the power to manage the entire concept-to-consumer product lifecycle, BlueCherry enables softgoods companies to streamline processes, gain visibility, reduce costs, increase productivity, and enhance competitiveness. Comprehensive BlueCherry capabilities include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Shop Floor Control (SFC), Warehouse Management (WMS), E-Commerce, Salesforce Automation (SFA), Business Intelligence (BI), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and more.

Long considered the most functionally-complete ERP in the soft goods industry, the BlueCherry enterprise solution leverages the latest Microsoft

Ringling College Graduate Eric Prah Wins Bronze 2012 Student Academy Award in Computer Animation from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences


Los Angeles, CA and Sarasota, FL (PRWEB) June 18, 2012

Ringling College of Art and Design Graduate Eric Prah was honored on Saturday, June 9th at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 39th Annual Student Academy Awards with a Bronze Award for Computer Animation. The awards were presented by actors Laura Dern, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Greg Kinnear and Mena Suvari alongside Academy President Tom Sherak at the Academys Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Eric won the Bronze for his senior thesis animation, My Little Friend. Ringling College students have won 9 Student Academy Awards in the past 11 years, as well as the most consecutive Student Academy Awards since the awards began in 1973, with four awards in a row from 2005-2008.

Eric was one of 13 students from around the world who were selected as winners in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 39th Annual Student Academy Awards competition. Erics film, My Little Friend, may be viewed at http://www.oscars.org/awards/saa/winners/Prah.html. The Gold in animation was won by David Wolter for Eyrie and the Silver by Mark Nelson for Jockstrap Raiders. To view photos from the event please go to http://photos.presslist.oscars.org/ and to see the journey of the 2012 Student Academy Award