Arkona and Stoneeagle.com Partner To Provide Integrated Dealer Management Solutions
Arkona Inc. and
StoneEagle.com, Inc. announced July 10 a strategic alliance where both
companies intend to fully integrate their products to provide a complete
financial management solution for franchise and independent automobile
dealers. This new solution will be available to thousands of automobile
dealers needing accounting, F&I, payroll and service contract capabilities.
According to both companies, they are uniquely prepared to provide fully integrated, real-time
service contract calculations, credit insurance calculations, and paperless
data exchange to dealerships and insurance administrators through Arkona's
Application Service Provider (ASP) delivery model. Arkona says it is the
first dealer management offering that will be fully integrated with
StoneEagle.com. With Arkona's new-generation ASP model, dealers now have a
full-featured solution via the Web and
access to numerous value-add partner connections.
According to Bobby Allen, president of StoneEagle.com, "To our knowledge
this project marks the first attempt at bridging the gap between insurance
providers and dealerships. This collaboration will allow for real-time
service contract quotes and paperless data exchange, which will enable
service contract providers to effectively track and service their products.
Arkona is uniquely positioned to affect this type of exchange."
"Arkona and StoneEagle.com provide us with great dealer solutions," said Ken
Bayles, general manager, Elegant Autos of Dallas, Texas. "They have
streamlined our F&I and Accounting departments at a fraction of the cost
that their competitors wanted to charge us."
In addition to integrating products, the two companies will engage in joint
selling and marketing activities under a revenue sharing model that has been
put in place.
"Arkona's alliance with StoneEagle.com is a giant step forward into the
independent automobile marketplace where we intend to be the market leader
with our ASP offering," said Jeff Swain, VP of Sales for Arkona.
"StoneEagle.com offers automobile dealers a powerful link between the Arkona
dealer management solution and secondary providers through StoneEagle.com's
network. By integrating real-time quotes and receiving immediate
confirmations, risk is better managed by the secondary provider, the dealer
is assured of accurate quotations, and the buyer receives the service
contract they expected," concluded Swain.
About StoneEagle.com
StoneEagle.com, a subsidiary of the StoneEagle Group, provides aftermarket
financial services such as Charge-Back Indemnity Administration, F&I
Penetration Reporting, Insurance Data Extraction, and Service Contract
Validation, Quoting and Claim Submission via the Web to automobile dealers,
banks, credit unions and other financial institutions nationwide.
StoneEagle.com is an industry specific software design and development
company. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, StoneEagle personnel have been
involved in providing software applications to the insurance and related
industries since 1967. For more information, visit www.stoneeagle.com.
About Arkona Inc.
Founded in 1996, Arkona is an automotive
management solutions company. Arkona says their Dealer Management Suite also leads the market
in technologically superior e-business solutions for automotive dealers that
fully integrate back office systems with a retail Web presence. In this
market Arkona says they are one of the first premier Application Service Providers
(ASP). For more information visit the Arkona Web site at www.arkona.com.
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