Montreal Canada – October 13, 2011 – Orion Software, the leader in Microsoft® Windows® based rental management software, announced today that it was selected by Cummins Inc. as a software provider for its North American Distributors. Orion Software will be completing the implementation by year-end 2011.
Cummins Inc, headquartered in Columbus, Indiana, is a diverse, community-minded technical leader in the design, manufacture, sale and service of diesel engines, power generation equipment and related components. With more than $13 billion in sales in 2010, Cummins Distribution Business Unit will be using Orion Software's Sirius Pro to assist in the management of the power generation rental business across its 16 independent distributors throughout North America.
Orion Software is a provider of rental management software for the global rental market. From its inception in 1986, Orion Software has developed and distributed its flagship product Sirius Pro, a full-feature software solution designed to manage the entire range of rental business processes using industry best practices.
Lee Bledsoe, Rental Business Manager North America for Cummins Inc said "After reviewing a range of different rental management solutions, we are pleased with Sirius Pro's set of features and have been extremely happy with Orion Software as a business partner. Sirius Pro is enabling us to respond to customers' needs more quickly, while providing improved visibility to fleet utilization and operating expense performance. The operational data provided by the Sirius Pro software will certainly play an important role as distributors make rental fleet investment decisions in the future."
Patrice Boivin, President and CEO of Orion Software, Inc., stated "Orion Software has a long standing history of providing turnkey solutions for companies like Cummins who offer short and long-term rental contracts. We continue to have great success in deploying and supporting our software solutions to rental companies worldwide. We are extremely pleased about our new relationship with Cummins and are confident they will enjoy the various features of Sirius Pro."