Client Wins From July 22

CareTech Extends IT Outsourcing Contract with The Christ Hospital: Troy-based CareTech Solutinos said Wednesday that it had signed a five-year renewal agreement to continue providing The Christ Hospital of Cincinnati, Ohio with IT outsourcing services, continuing a strategic partnership that began in 2007. Under the terms of the agreement, CareTech will provide The Christ Hospital with a full range of IT infrastructure services, and Web products and services aligned with the hospital's current IT needs. Included will be  data center operations, help desk, desktop computing environment, network and Web sites. In addition, CareTech will continue to provide technical resources to support implementation of The Christ Hospital's strategic IT plan. The Christ Hospital is a 555-bed, not-for-profit acute care hospital, offering services in cardiovascular care, spine treatment, women's health, major surgery, cancer, behavioral medicine, orthopedics, emergency care, kidney transplant and others. It is consistently recognized by U.S.News & World Report as one of the nation's top 50 hospitals. For more information about The Christ Hospital, visit www.TheChristHospital.com. CareTech is an IT and Web  products and services provider for hospitals and health systems. CareTech Solutions won a coveted 2008 Best in KLAS award for the IT Outsourcing (Extensive) segment, as ranked by health care executives and professionals in the 2008 Top 20 Best in KLAS Awards report. More at www.caretechsolutions.com.

Summit Sports Uses Awecomm Pay-Per-Click Services to Grow Online Sales:  Summit Sports recently selected Troy-based Awecomm Technologies to provide Internet marketing services for their inline skates division inlineskates.net. While Summit Sports operates four Michigan retail locations, they are also the largest Internet reseller of inline skates in the country. Bloomfield Hills-based Summit Sports and Awecomm Technologies have partnered to provide additional resources to their inline skates, pay-per-click (Google AdWords) online advertising campaign. “This is a really exciting line of products to work with," said Awecomm Account Manager Steve Gravel. "Part of our success can be attributed to going beyond conventional PPC services and including social media marketing -- for example, Facebook ads -- and submissions to multiple shopping cart sites.” Looking toward continued success, Summit has expanded the partnership to include Search Engine Optimization consulting services as well as additional expansion of their PPC campaigns. 
Summit Sports has been in the sporting goods industry since 1990. Their first store was a tiny shop in Keego Harbor. Since that time they have expanded their operations to include a number of top Internet sporting goods sites. More at www.summitonline.com. Awecomm Technologies LLC, is built around four complementary business units: Awecomm Web Hosting, Awecomm Web Strategies, Awecomm Web Development and Awecomm Web Marketing. The company specializes in engineering and hosting advanced online business applications and Internet marketing programs. Its solutions are founded on tested hardware and software products that are hosted in their Tier 3 data center in Troy. More at www.awecomm.com.