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June 07, 2017 12:47 ET | Source: 3Gtms

SHELTON, Conn., June 07, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 3Gtms, Inc., a global provider of Tier 1 transportation management software, announced that Armstrong & Associates, Inc. (A&A) has released a case study profiling the capabilities and differentiators of the 3Gtms transportation management system (TMS). A&A is a leading provider of supply chain marketing research and management consulting services.

The A&A case study remarks on the intellectual capital that the 3Gtms business model emphasizes. Notably, the leadership teams long and deep tenure in the TMS industry and how the company leverages its industry knowledge to think of the implications of software changes 510 years down the road. The 3Gtms TMS software is noted for simplifying the often-complex area of optimization, its self-configurability and customization capabilities, and its integration and connectivity. In addition, A&A spotlights 3Gtms industry-leading customer retention rate and the customer-centric culture behind it.

3Gtms is a rapidly growing transportation management systems provider with solid customer retention, said Evan Armstrong, president of A&A. With solid transportation planning and optimization capabilities, it is well-positioned to compete with traditional TMS providers such as JDA and Oracle. 3Gtms has grown to be a go-to solution for 3PLs and shippers looking for TMS with top-notch transportation planning functionality.

We appreciate A&As review of our solution and their valuable perspective of its benefits to the industry, said Mitch Weseley, CEO of 3Gtms. The case study aligns with the differentiators that our customers report to us: Our teams solid intellectual capital and long tenure in the TMS industry, the ease of integration that our TMS provides, and the power to self-configure that gives customers more speed and flexibility. We are committed to continually developing our software to respond to the industrys realities.

About Armstrong & Associates, Inc. Armstrong & Associates, Inc. (A&A) was established in 1980 to meet the needs of a newly deregulated domestic transportation market. Since then, through its leading Third-Party Logistics (3PL) market research and history of helping companies outsource logistics functions, A&A has become an internationally recognized key resource for 3PL market information and consulting.

A&As mission is to have leading proprietary supply chain knowledge and market research not available anywhere else. As proof of our continued work in supporting our mission, A&As 3PL market research is frequently cited in media articles, publications, and securities filings by publicly traded 3PLs. In addition, A&As email newsletter currently has over 40,000 subscribers globally.

A&As market research complements its consulting activities by providing continually updated data for analysis. Based upon its unsurpassed knowledge of the 3PL market and the operations of leading 3PLs, A&A has provided strategic planning consulting services to over 30 3PLs, supported 17 closed investment transactions, and provided advice to numerous companies looking to benchmark existing 3PL operations or outsource logistics functions.

About 3Gtms 3Gtms is the fastest growing, Tier-1 transportation management system (TMS) provider. It is dedicated to helping mid-to-large shippers and logistics service providers gain a competitive advantage through technology. Whether you move $5 million or $5 billion in freight, its 3G-TM solution seamlessly manages the full transportation lifecycle, including transportation planning and optimization, execution and settlement, empowering customers to make better shipping decisions while meeting their service goals. 3Gtms is dedicated to delighting its customers and as a result, holds a 100 percent customer satisfaction rate that is unmatched in the industry. For more information, visit: http://www.3gtms.com.

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IndyCar's Will Power looks for another strong start on Texas' new surface Fort Worth Star Telegram Power understands the importance of continuing that trend at Saturday's Rainguard Water Sealers 600. TMS has a new racing surface, and track position will be at a premium when the green flag drops at 7:30 p.m. Qualifying is scheduled for Friday afternoon.

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AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Embarcadero Technologies (a division of IDERA), a leading provider of software solutions for application development, today announced a partnership with TMS Software to offer seamless application integration capabilities with popular cloud services. The open component architecture in Embarcadero Delphi alongside TMS Softwares ready-to-use components allows developers to access cloud services programmatically in a matter of minutes instead of studying service API documentation for hours.

TMS Software offers components that provide easy, object oriented access to popular cloud services such as Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft Live Calendar, PayPal, Flickr, LinkedIn, YouTube and many more. With this partnership, Delphi developers can now integrate cloud services fast without having to worry about keeping track of changes and new versions of APIs introduced by the cloud service. This saves a significant amount of time and money for the initial development as well as for the maintenance of applications integrating cloud service use. The components work with either VCL for Windows or FMX for multi-platform and are available via GetIt.

TMS Softwares commitment to supporting our developers on every platform is a huge asset to the developer community, said Jim McKeeth, chief developer advocate and engineer at Embarcadero. They bring the RAD concept to integration of applications with cloud services, providing the kind of components essential to modern software development projects. TMS Software is a prime example of the kind of technology partner that helps make our developers so incredibly productive with all these ready made components.

TMS cloud components include abstractions for cloud file storage services that now allow Delphi developers to switch an integration from one cloud file storage service to another by simply swapping a component with no code changes required. This enables developers to offer customers more choices of cloud file storage integrations without any additional effort.

Delphi has always helped developers be extremely productive by allowing them to focus on their own business logic instead of the underlying technical complexities of operating system, graphics, database and networking. With this partnership, were now simplifying developer access to REST based cloud services even more, said Bruno Fierens, CTO of TMS Software. Delphi Tokyo, the latest iteration of the language and IDE, elevates these productivity gains and is what our team uses day-in, day-out with joy.

About Embarcadero

Embarcadero tools are built for elite developers who build and maintain the worlds most critical applications. Our customers choose Embarcadero because we are the champion of developers, and our tools help them build more secure and scalable enterprise applications faster than any others on the market. In fact, ninety of the Fortune 100 and an active community of more than three million users worldwide rely on Embarcaderos award-winning products. To learn more, visit http://www.embarcadero.com.

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Texas Motor Speedway and Levy Restaurants have come up with another unique food item that combines the best of two American food classics - the hot dog and BLT sandwich.

TMS and Levy Restaurants Executive Chef Lincoln Engstrom have added a distinctive twist to these two favorites to create a mouth-watering meal that all race fans will want to make sure to check out. (Click here for video of Chef Engstrom showcasing the Hawg Heaven BLT Dawg.)

The Hawg Heaven BLT Dawg is an oversized global mashup of flavors inspired by the classic BLT sandwich. It begins with an East-West Kobe beef frank, crispy thick cut bacon, Italian-inspired double tomato bruschetta, and a Korean fusion smoky bacon kimchee instead of lettuce. It is then topped off with a French-inspired fine herb aioli sauce and served on a poppy seed bun. (Click here to see Verizon IndyCar Series driver Tony Kanaan and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver John Hunter Nemechek take their turn at assembling the Hawg Heaven BLT Dawg.)

"The Verizon IndyCar Series is a global sport so I decided to use flavors from around the world to create the Hawg Heaven BLT Dawg," Engstrom said. "As with the other items, it features plenty of bacon but the ingredients mesh well together and turns this BLT Dawg into a special meal. I'm sure race fans at Texas Motor Speedway during the Rainguard Water Sealers 600 will enjoy eating this version of this popular line of concession items."

This specialty concession item is only available at concession stand 405 inside Gate 4. Priced at $12, it will be on sale during the weekend that features the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series winstaronlinegaming.com 400 on Friday (7 p.m.) and the Rainguard Water Sealers 600 on Saturday (7:30 p.m. CT). The weekend also will feature the SPEED Energy Stadium Super Trucks and the Texas Off-Road Ruckus expo on both days as well.

The Hawg Heaven concession line began in 2013 with Hawg Heaven Bacon Cotton Candy and has featured the Shake 'n Bacon Brew bacon-infused beer milkshake, Bacon Nachos, Queso Wings, Double Barrel Dawg, the Final Rocky Road-eo ice cream sundae honoring Jeff Gordon's final season in 2015, the BBQ Melt, the Ranchero Dawg, the Three Little Pigs and most recently the Burro Grande at April's race weekend.

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TMS, Levy Restaurants Unveiling Hawg Heaven BLT Dawg - Speedway Digest (press release) (blog)

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Parity is prevalent in IndyCar as series races to its TMS weekend Fort Worth Star Telegram Seven races, seven different winners so far in the open-wheel circuit. Parity is even prevalent in the winners, too, with five different countries being represented. A couple Frenchmen, an Aussie, two Americans, a Canadian and now a Japanese driver ...

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Runner-up James Hinchcliffe eyeing Victory Lane visit in Texas this year Fort Worth Star Telegram He doesn't think he could have done anything differently to win the TMS race, and he broadened his fan base by appearing on Dancing with the Stars a decade after fellow IndyCar driver Helio Castroneves won it. [Growing my fan base] was a huge ... and more »

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Runner-up James Hinchcliffe eyeing Victory Lane visit in Texas this year - Fort Worth Star Telegram

ARC Advisory Group conducts an annual analysis of the global transportation management systems (TMS) market. The research process includes the analysis of large amounts of information and interviews with executives from numerous TMS software companies. The process concludes with the publication of ARCs TMS Global Market Research Study, which analyzes the market shares across numerous categories of the leading TMS suppliers. Aside from the market share analysis, the study looks at the trends that are driving and/or inhibiting growth in the TMS market. This years study will be publishing in the next week so I wanted to give a sneak peek at some of the high-level trends around the TMS market.

One of the biggest trends in the TMS market is the rise of cloud and SaaS solutions. While SaaS revenues grew significantly this year, software revenues declined. With more supplier turning to cloud-based solutions, this is a trend that will continue. When companies make the commitment to SaaS, there is a learning curve. Generally, companies see that for every percentage in growth in SaaS revenue, their software revenues to shrink by 3 to 5 percent. Cloud solution providers generally discourage customization, at least within the base code, resulting in faster implementations, which causes a decline in implementation revenues. The lack of customization means maintenance revenues will also decline.

SaaS solutions are becoming increasingly popular in the TMS market, with more small suppliers selling SaaS solutions to Tier 3 customers. For those companies selling software licenses, especially smaller companies, the out-look is not good. Unless a strategy is in place to transition to a cloud solution, these smaller companies likely will not be around for many more years.

Aside from the SaaS megatrend, below are a few regional, industry, and complementary market trends:

Regional Markets

Industry Segments

Complementary Market Trends

If you are interested in the complete report, which analyzes the growth of the TMS market in multiple segments, please contact Conrad Hanf (chanf@arcweb.com). The report includes market share data and a five-year growth forecast of the overall market and specific segments and industries.

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Cloud: The Driving Force for TMS and Other Industry Trends - Logistics Viewpoints (blog)

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The thread connecting the trends driving current TMS expansion is a need for individualization, or a specific model to aid the business in question. Because TMS software typically aims toreduce costs through a vareity of services like better route planning and load optimization,improved transparency, or greater flexibility for delivery changes a single method is unlikely to dominate the market.

For example, a small supplier expecting growth may seek to manage that by optimizing routes and loads, but may not require Big Data capabilities or desire greater transparency. A larger supplier, too, may benefit from such technology but would likely apt to adopt more encompassing systems to meet its greater needs.

Either case highlights the salesman's challenge in the industry: buyers often desire a specific solution for their problems, and vendors must adapt their systems to such needs, at least rhetorically. That's why many TMS providers also offer a consulting or implementation service, to better match needs with software solutions. Or, why application program interfaces integrating various systems are becoming increasingly common.

That's also why terms like visibility, Big Data and sustainability can catch on in the diverse industry vendors must idealize solutions to make them applicable, yet customizable, to all. These supply chain trends will ensure continued growth and adoption in the technology space.

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Report: TMS market will grow to $30 billion by 2025 - Supply Chain Dive

The EBITDA Yield for EDAP TMS S.A. (NasdaqGM:EDAP) is 2.12%.This number is calculated by dividing a companys earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization by the companys enterprise value. Enterprise Value is calculated by taking the market capitalization plus debt, minority interest and preferred shares, minus total cash and cash equivalents. The EBITDA Yield is a great way to determine a companys profitability.

Another useful indicator to assist in detmining rank is the ERP5 Rank. This is an investment tool that analysts use to discover undervalued companies.

The ERP5 looks at the Price to Book ratio, Earnings Yield, ROIC and 5 year average ROIC. The ERP5 of EDAP TMS S.A. (NasdaqGM:EDAP) is 12100. The lower the ERP5 rank, the more undervalued a company is thought to be.

Looking further, the MF Rank (aka the Magic Formula) is a formula that pinpoints a valuable company trading at a good price. The formula is calculated by looking at companies that have a high earnings yield as well as a high return on invested capital.

The MF Rank of EDAP TMS S.A. (NasdaqGM:EDAP) is 10027. A company with a low rank is considered a good company to invest in. The Magic Formula was introduced in a book written by Joel Greenblatt, entitled, The Little Book that Beats the Market.

Piotroski F-Score

The Piotroski F-Score is a scoring system between 1-9 that determines a firms financial strength. The score helps determine if a companys stock is valuable or not. The Piotroski F-Score of EDAP TMS S.A. (NasdaqGM:EDAP) is 6. A score of nine indicates a high value stock, while a score of one indicates a low value stock. The score is calculated by the return on assets (ROA), Cash flow return on assets (CFROA), change in return of assets, and quality of earnings. It is also calculated by a change in gearing or leverage, liquidity, and change in shares in issue. The score is also determined by change in gross margin and change in asset turnover.

The Gross Margin Score is calculated by looking at the Gross Margin and the overall stability of the company over the course of 8 years. The score is a number between one and one hundred (1 being best and 100 being the worst). The Gross Margin Score of EDAP TMS S.A. (NasdaqGM:EDAP) is 11. The more stable the company, the lower the score. If a company is less stable over the course of time, they will have a higher score.

The Price Index is a ratio that indicates the return of a share price over a past period. The price index of EDAP TMS S.A. (NasdaqGM:EDAP) for last month was 1.08108. This is calculated by taking the current share price and dividing by the share price one month ago. If the ratio is greater than 1, then that means there has been an increase in price over the month.

If the ratio is less than 1, then we can determine that there has been a decrease in price. Similarly, investors look up the share price over 12 month periods. The Price Index 12m for EDAP TMS S.A. (NasdaqGM:EDAP) is 0.85366.

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A total of 64 students of Tanapag Middle School were promoted to high school last Wednesday at the schools campus.

Valedictorian Redz Nissi Rivera, who is looking forward to a high school life at Marianas High School, said in her valedictory address that her stay at TMS made her strive to be a better person everyday.

I wouldnt be where I am today without all of you, she said.

Salutatorian Maria Jessica Cruz, who expects to attend Kagman High School, said that struggles should not hinder students from reaching for better opportunities.

Once we step into high school there would be more challenges and struggles and we should be ready for, she said.

Gerard van Gils, the 2017 State Teacher of the Year and TMS special guest speaker, urged the Class of 2017 to finish what you start.

Be very careful with what you start. You want to make wise choices in choosing your endeavors, he said.

Madison Dueas was presented with the school leadership award.

There was a five-way tie for the math subject award among Cruz, Stephenny Patrice Pangelinan, Aika Watanabe, Trinity Cruz, and Rinto Takahashi.

The science award went to Watanabe while the English language arts award went to Trinity Cruz.

Rivera and Cruz both received multiple awards during the promotion ceremony. Rivera was awarded the social studies subject award as well as a tie with Cruz for the Chamorro Carolinian language and heritage studies award.

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TMS students head for high school - Saipan Tribune