Westlake Software, Inc.

About Westlake

Westlake is composed of a group of seasoned wireless data pioneers with specific focus of helping mid to large organizations deploy complicated or challenging wireless dispatch and/or data collection systems.

It is rare to find a CRM, sales force or dispatch system that will take full advantage of the functions and capabilities found within the wireless industry today. Due to the ever changing landscape of devices, protocols, operating systems and carriers, you will often find substantial limitations when wanting to go paperless. When a wireless solution is an afterthought to a larger back office system, effective deployments can be challenging.

Westlake has built AIRmobility®  to bridge the gap between existing back office systems, 3rd party applications or home grown custom applications to the fast changing wireless world. Our SaaS (Software as a Service) model is often instantly adoptable to a wide mix of devices, operating systems capabilities and carriers with specific focus on creating the most optimal workflow scenario possible for our customers.

"We were able to customize ourselves a full GPS supported, bar code and photo capture integrated field survey for our entire national operations field force within minutes; and with cross carrier and device support."

What takes most vendors weeks and expensive custom development time and resources, Westlake is often able to accomplish the same solution with the AIRmobility® platform on-the-fly. What this does:

• Decrease in costs - time spent on proposals, evaluation of multiple vendors, testing new handset software on an existing field force, time to market, etc.
• Increases productivity – management can often see instantaneous results that can be measured versus attempting to guess.
• Flexibility – Our customers can select from a variety of devices, operating systems and carriers for an evaluation period.

“We found Westlake’s AIRmobility® online and converted over 30 internal paper based forms (OSHA forms) in about a day. These forms were deployed on over 200 Blackberry devices for our field force to evaluate literally one day later. Fastest automation project I have ever been involved with.

We combine our existing software and service capabilities with consulting, architecture and design, custom software development, testing, deployment and ongoing services as needed having generated some of the most dynamic Fortune 500 field force automation solutions used today.

Organizations such as Sprint, HealthNet, United States Secret Service, VA Hospital, Shell Oil, Blue Cross, MGM Hotel and Casinos, State of California, and The Tribune Company, to name a few, have deployed enterprise level solutions across carriers, devices, operating systems and offices and often with back office integration support.

Combine this capability with arguably of the most experienced integration and wireless data management teams in the industry, you can be sure that your organization will achieve the most optimal workflow scenario possible with your new or existing wireless services; this is Westlake’s commitment to every customer.

• A quantifiable increase in productivity
• A quantifiable decrease in cost of doing business
• Faster data and information collection, which allows you to make better business decisions
• The ability to analyze and monitor real-time field force data
• Sustainable competitive advantages over the competition
• The ability to drive more profitable behavior with existing customers

Our Management

Alan Gould - President and CEO

Westlake is lead by Alan D. Gould (President and CEO), a wireless data pioneer having started and grew the largest wireless software data firm worldwide, Silverlake Communications, Inc., prior to being acquired by a US based wireless service provider in 1998. Silverlake remains today as one of the very few software company acquisitions ever made by a wireless service provider.

Mr. Gould was solely responsible for creating a text messaging user base of over 500,000 users sending messages to over 20 Million wireless devices. Silverlake served as the foundation of what two-way text messaging is today.

Products were distributed in 36 countries and available in multiple languages. The company served branded distribution for companies such as AT&T Wireless, Sprint, MCI, Verizon, Cingular, PageNet, Arch Paging, WebLink Wireless, Cantel AT&T, GTE, Excel Communications, and Comcast to name a few.
Mr. Gould has provided wireless consulting services to thousands of organization since 1992 including Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, NEC, Hitachi, Texas Instruments, Nortel, American General, Exxon, United States Secret Service, HealthNet, Nextel, MBNA and many more. Mr. Gould started and continues to run the longest running wireless carrier training programs on solution based selling in the wireless industry with over 40,000 in attendance since 1994.

Mr. Gould recently published a feature article for Mission Critical Magazine on Wireless Homeland Security, has been a guest on CNN Financial News for using wireless technology to prevent rolling black outs in California. He is also a highly sought after speaker on the wireless tradeshow circuit.

Mr. Gould is an advisory board member to The Corum Group, a mergers and acquisitions firm focused on technology based companies and is Faculty for a the World Financial Symposiums ongoing seminar series.

Mark Peter - Chief Technology Officer

Mr. Peter is the senior architect of the AIRmobility® software and service platform. He is currently one of Southern California's most sought after JAVA, J2ME, J2EE architects and programmers. He has designed, developed and implemented enterprise JAVA and Windows based solutions for organizations such as Edmunds.com, Disney Corporation, United States Secret Service, The State of California, HealthNet Corporate, Shell Oil, Vivendi Universal, Nextel Corporation, VA Hospital, and Sprint to name a few.

If you are in the market for implementing a wireless field force automation solution, Contact Us today or Complete our Needs Assessment form for a free consultation