-Transtar companies consist of a group of rail and water carriers that grew up over the years to meet the transportation needs of the steel making facilities that were the predecessors of today's United States Steel Corporation

-Needed a system that automated the labor-intensive crew calling and time keeping functions that eliminate the manual processes of advertising, bidding and awarding of jobs

-Developed a highly parameterized mainframe application that accounts for all hours of service work performed and the incumbents who perform that work

-Application was deployed on ten railroads, two docking facilities, and the Great Lakes fleet with minimal effort to track the hours of service work for more than 40,000 employees

-Founded in 1850 and with 2002 earnings of $1.3 billion, Matthews is a designer, manufacturer and marketer principally of memorialization products and custom made products which are used to identify people, places, products, and events

-Needed a data entry application that produced technical drawings for planning, designing and manufacturing

-TDS developed an extensible 3 tier client/server application that doubled productivity within 12 months of production

-Matthews now processes more orders and manufactures them at a lower cost than ever before.