Drive Technology Group Announces Zoom Business Intelligence

CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 24 // -- Drive Technology Group has announced that it is now taking orders for its much-anticipated business intelligence product to be released under the brand name Zoom(™) this Fall. The Web-based Zoom(™) reporting product comes with a twist that differentiates it from the standard business intelligence tools serving the automotive retail vertical. Zoom not only gives dealership decision-makers up-to-date visibility into the health of the dealership, the next release, expected fourth quarter of this year, will provide employees up-to-date visibility into their job performance.

The motivation for this, according to Drive Technology Group's President, David Boatman, is that "... [Drive] wants to provide dealerships with a powerful and easy-to-use tool that does more than show what happened; we wanted to offer a tool that can positively impact the performance of all profit centers in the dealership. Zoom(™) is that tool."

Zoom(™) allows dealerships to define custom performance goals per employee. Zoom(™) then calculates how the employee is performing by automatically pulling in the relevant data from the dealership's management system (DMS) via Driveway(™), Drive Technology's DMS integration product with real-time capability. Employees are able to log into Zoom(™) to view what their goals are, how they are performing against those goals month-to- date, and what their projected performance will be by month's end based on their current trends. This provides the employees with unprecedented motivational and actionable insight.

Ensuring that the business needs of the dealership are well-served through technology is important to Drive because as Boatman explains, "Drive Technology Group is a company founded by people with manufacturer and auto retail backgrounds who understand technology; our management has years of experience inside the automotive industry. Our mission on the software and professional services side of Drive is to help dealerships navigate the highly technical areas of their business with an approach that works for automotive, Motorcycle and RV vehicle retailers."