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Vention, Inc., a Jackson, Miss.-based e-business development firm, is expected to open a new office in Memphis this month near St. Francis Hospital in the Poplar/Ridgeway area, as the company positions itself to branch out into more productbased offerings like cognitive engineering and usability studies.
Vention president Howard Graham says the company is setting up shop in Memphis because of connections it already has here. Those connections include a mass of clients and prospective clients, new alliance partner dotLogix. and strategic partner Paradigm, the venture capital firm.
The move is good news for Vention clients like Accuship, which started out providing quality checking and payment services for freight companies, and developed into a provider of full package services to handle shipping from start to finish. Accuship is now an applications services provider in the logistics space providing a full enterprise solution, says Steven Beda, the company's chief technology officer.
Beda thinks of his company as the client's IT department. Accuship's strategy, Beda says, is a "star" in the industry: acronym for shipping, tracking, auditing and reporting.
It is that final aspect of the solution, reporting, that means most to clients....