Columbia Ultimate Partners with IBM and MITI to Maximize Performance for Their Collection Agency Customers

Columbia Ultimate, a leader in collections management software, MITI (Management Information Tools, Inc.), a developer of the MITS online analytical (OLAP) tool system, and IBM, a marketing partner of MITI, announced a partnership to provide customized tools that help agency management monitor performance in real-time.

?This is great news for our clients. MITS provides expanded reporting capabilities that allow our customers to even better understand how their chosen strategies and tactics are performing,? said Tim Hickey, vice president of product management and marketing for Columbia Ultimate. ?Collection agencies need detailed monitoring of their performance, and this partnership delivers.?

When used in conjunction with Columbia Ultimate?s Collector System, the MITS Hypercube tool will analyze and organize data for increased reporting efficiency utilizing its ?cube? technology, which slices and dices data in real-time. It can provide information as to how efficient and effective a collector is collecting for a particular client or multiple clients, collections for individual products within a client, and the overall performance of an agency?s collection efforts.

?Partnering with Columbia Ultimate lets us jointly provide a more superior product and service for our customers,? said Pat Gilbrough, president, Management Information Tools, Inc. ?Working together with IBM professional services, we customized the MITS Hybercube to organize and analyze data collected specifically by Columbia Ultimate users. There?s nothing else like it on the market.?

About Columbia Ultimate
Columbia Ultimate is the No. 1 provider in the collection agency marketplace. It provides full-service collection systems, including software, support and training for collection agencies, government agencies, utilities, hospitals, banks and other monetary recovery companies. Founded in 1979, Columbia Ultimate is headquartered in Vancouver, Wash. and has offices in Atlanta, Georgia, Utah and the U.K. For more information, visit www.colubs.com.

About Management Information Tools, Inc.
Based in Seattle, Wash., Management Information Tools, Inc., is the developer of the MITS OnLine Analytical Processing/Business Intelligence system. Its system incorporates technology allowing the creation of OLAP hypercubes and a data-warehousing environment on an enterprise’s existing host computer. The system works in a MultiValue environment. For more information, visit www.mitsonline.com.