TEXbase Launches Suite Of Hosted Software Tools For Textile Professionals

Bozeman, MT - TEXbase, a software and professional services organization, continues to help leading edge companies develop and market innovative textile products. TEXbase Online is a suite of subscription-based software solutions that helps textile professionals rapidly and effectively manage the processes of developing new raw materials and bringing them to market. What traditionally takes weeks and months to accomplish can be shortened to a matter of days using TEXbase Online.

TEXbase Online is an affordable, easy to use, web-based solution which allows customers to choose and pay for only those features they need. For example, the Textile Marketing Manager solution enables customers to build market share more rapidly. The Lab Data Manager solution automates the process of storing and analyzing vast quantities of performance data, while the Sourcing Manager solution makes it easy for users to source, research and develop new fibers, yarns and fabrics. TEXbase provides substantial time savings to textile professionals who regularly deal with fragmented and geographically dispersed information. Typically, fabric developers do a lot of leg-work to source raw materials: visiting vendors to thumb through swatches, collating and analyzing lab data, sending for samples, building prototypes and managing deadlines - all of which can take months. TEXbase brings all these resources together in one place, letting textile professionals extract data in multiple ways and saving upwards of 50 percent of their time.

"It's powerful, simple, and cost-effective for our customers," says Joe Walkuski, CEO of the Bozeman, Mont.-based TEXbase. Walkuski created the textile management solution ten years ago while he was leading textile R&D for Patagonia, the world-renowned leader in performance outerwear. "Back then, we didn't have anything to help us to manage the process of developing textiles." Part of TEXbase's appeal is that it does not require any installation, is free of maintenance fees, can be accessed globally, and takes only days to get up and running. Perhaps its greatest appeal is that "it saves money by reducing R&D costs and it makes money by bringing better products to market faster," says Walkuski. "For many of our customers, the product pays for itself in weeks or months, not years."

Countless items contain textiles – ranging from tents, backpacks, clothing, and automobile interiors to upholstery and home furnishings– all made of various fibers, yarns and fabrics. "Textile professionals keep track of hundreds, if not thousands, of different types of fibers, yarns, and fabrics, what they are made of, how they are manufactured, how they perform, and what they are best used for," says Walkuski, "Our web-based software is a powerful tool that speeds up and automates this process. It doesn't matter if you're sourcing technical fabrics or supplying the customer, TEXbase works for you wherever you are in the supply chain."

Walkuski has built a fast-growing business around TEXbase, attracting both large and small customers. Examples include NatureWorks, LLC, which is using TEXbase's Textile Marketing Manager to control its global partner network and the Ingeo™ fiber products being produced; Wellman, Inc., a fortune 500 fiber producer, which is using the Lab Data Manager; and the U.S. Army, which is test-driving TEXbase for managing fabric developments for the soldier of the future.

SOURCE: TEXbase