It relies on Fort Point's Fortified Process methodology for developing and supporting online business applications. Fort Point also included reporting capabilities so that administrators can generate ad hoc, as well as scheduled, reports on students and their progress through the technical training program. Since the new technology implementation, the schools put enrollment information directly online, and the system moves the application onto a dealership sponsor form and a tools request form, according to Lester. An application can only proceed from one step to the next in a particular order. Lester won't disclose how much the program costs, but he sees a number of potential benefits.
Time is money.
But it will allow me to not spend nearly as many dollars each year on auditing of data and making sure information is clean. For their part, the dealerships continue to get highly trained specialists fresh out of school to fill the 2,000 or so additonal technician positions that Toyota expects to need in the next few years. And for that, Toyota gets high grades. Teri Robinson is a New York based technology freelance writer.