Founded in 1993, Automation Centre LLC is a privately held independent software vendor

Independent software vendor

Independent software vendor is a business term for companies specializing in making or selling software, designed for mass marketing or for niche markets...

 located in Tucson, Arizona

Arizona

Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...

, in the United States of America.

Their first product, Tracker Suite, was released in 1994. Tracker Suite is a groupware solution for the Lotus Notes

Lotus Notes

Lotus Notes is the client of a collaborative platform originally created by Lotus Development Corp. in 1989. In 1995 Lotus was acquired by IBM and became known as the Lotus Development division of IBM and is now part of the IBM Software Group...

/Domino

IBM Lotus Domino

Lotus Domino is an IBM server product that provides enterprise-grade e-mail, collaboration capabilities, and a custom application platform. Domino began life as Lotus Notes Server, the server component of Lotus Development Corporation's client-server messaging technology. It can be used as an...

 messaging platform. The first release of Tracker Suite provided functions for time reporting.

As development continued, new components were incorporated into Tracker Suite, including modules for project management, HR, help desk services and others. In 2001, Automation Centre released a similar groupware product for the Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft, available both as a separate application as well as a part of the Microsoft Office suite...

 / Exchange

Microsoft Exchange Server

Microsoft Exchange Server is the server side of a client–server, collaborative application product developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Servers line of server products and is used by enterprises using Microsoft infrastructure products...

 messaging platform, called TrackerOffice. In 2006, Automation Centre released TrackerSuite.Net, a purely Web based suite of integrated business applications similar to Tracker Suite, but with Cloud Computing

Cloud computing

Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....

 capabilities.

Automation Centre collectively brands these solution sets as Tracker

Tracker (business software)

Tracker is a family of business software products, developed by Automation Centre. Each product includes applications for various business processes. While these products share a similar process framework, they differ in platform deployment.-Products:...

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Articles

• Penington, A. (2002, August). Building Character: Art Imitates Business Life for this Entrepreneur. Entrepreneur. Retrieved March 16, 2011 from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DTI/is_8_30/ai_96631042/
• Sodoma, B. (1998). Automation Centre: Founder Trades Tennis Nets for Internet. Inside Tucson Business. p. 6.

External links

• www.Acentre.com (Automation Centre corporate site)