Ann Arbor, MICH—October 23, 2006—Online Technologies Corporation announces today that it has devised and completed an Internet Strategy Plan for MiCTA Service Corporation (MSC). MiCTA Service Corporation is a buying consortium—a “market-maker”—between national vendors and private and public institutions. MiCTA contracts pre-negotiated terms through a professional, clearly independent, non-biased RFP process with vendors for a series of services. It then allows MiCTA member buyers to purchase from those national providers under those contract terms. The vendors gain access to MiCTA’s member consortium and the members gain access to discounts generally only available to larger buyers. “We realized that in order to compete in our business domain, we needed to be on the Internet. We soon realized that it was easy to get on the Net, but once we were on the Net we were just one of millions,” said Kim Ellertson, CEO of MiCTA Service Corporation. “We did not want to be one of the many; we wanted to be strategic and gain a competitive advantage. We turned to OTC to align our business strategy with advantages of the Internet and separate us from being just another needle in the haystack.” “MSC is another growing service organization taking advantage of the Internet’s power. With our industry expertise and established process framework we have enabled MSC’s management to uniquely benefit from the Internet in their domain,” said Ty Myers, vice president of sales at OTC. “They now have a much more powerful foundation for their customers. We will remain their partner long-term by providing them with a secure, reliable, scalable, Internet infrastructure.” Online Technologies Corporation (www.onlinetech.com) is Michigan’s Fort Knox for computing and data. Our secure, highly reliable data centers provide the infrastructure to ensure our clients’ computers are always on; their data is always safe, and they are always connected to the Internet. |