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  Meet the winners of CDW's innovative Tech Twister Program. Designed to demonstrate the real business benefits that small businesses can achieve through timely technology upgrades, Tech Twister awarded five makeovers valued at up to $75,000 each. We're proud to share winners' stories of how CDW — with the help of industry leaders Intel, Lenovo and Linksys — successfully implemented custom solutions designed to address real business needs.
 
Tech Twister
More than 1,300 companies completed applications, vying for the chance to be chosen for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Just five lucky winners were chosen.

•  E.L. Johnson Investigations
•  Flow Dynamics
•  Laughing Seed Cafι and Brewery
•  Numoda Corp.
•  Blanton & Associates, Inc.

And, the makeovers don't end with the initial solution. Each makeover recipient will continue to be supported by a dedicated CDW account manager and a team of CDW technology experts in areas such as storage, networking and security. They stand ready to respond to the makeover winners’ evolving IT needs.

Let's take a closer look at how Tech Twister has transformed our winners — making them more productive, competitive and responsive to their customers.

 
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E.L. Johnson - Chicago, IL
E.L. Johnson Investigations is a small detective agency that’s focused on process service and skip tracing – “We locate people,” is how founder Ernie Johnson sums it up. Sometimes, they will serve up to 2,000 people a week, so business was good – but they found themselves limited by their outdated technology, which was taking a toll on employees' productivity and business profitability.

Featured Solutions:
•ThinkPad T42 Notebooks with Intel Centrino Mobile Technology
•ThinkCentre A50 Tower Desktops with Intel Pentium 4 Processors with HT Technology
•IBM x226 Server with Intel Xeon Processor
•Linksys SD and SRW Series Switches
•Linksys EFG250 NAS
•Linksys WAP54G Wireless Access Points



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Flow Dynamics - Phoenix, AZ
A state of the art liquid and gas flowmeter calibration laboratory, Flow Dynamics offers some of the highest capacity liquid and gas flow calibrators in the world. But while their calibration laboratory was state of the art, the rest of their technology infrastructure wasn’t: “we had a $12 part controlling a million-dollar machine,” jokes Sean Olivier, sales manager at Flow. Their computing technology, which once fueled business growth, was now in danger of holding them back from their primary business goal: double their revenue (to $12 million) in two years.

Featured Solutions:
•ThinkPad T42 Notebooks with Intel Centrino mobile technology
•ThinkCentre A50 Ultra-small Form Factor and Tower Desktops with Intel Pentium 4 Processor with HT Technology
•IBM xSeries 226 Server with Intel Xeon Processors
•Linksys EFG250 Network Attached Storage
•Linksys RV082 8-port Firewall/Router/VPN Device
•Linksys SRW2024 24-port 10/100/1000 Switches
•Linksys WAP54G Wireless Access Points
 



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Laughing Seed Café - Asheville, NC
Laughing Seed Café is a vegetarian restaurant that has been in business for twelve years, and is a big part of the revitalization of downtown Ashville. About eight years ago they added an Irish pub downstairs, followed a few years later by a brewery located a few blocks away. However, with all this growth, an office environment originally set to manage one business now found itself managing three. They needed to beef up their network, with a clear focus on improving communication.

Featured Solutions:
• Linksys RV082 8-port VPN Routers
• Linksys Switches
• EFG250 250GB Network Attached Storage
• Lenovo T42 ThinkPad Notebooks with Intel® Centrino® mobile technology
• Lenovo ThinkCentre S50 Desktop PCs with Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology ThinkCentre
• Lenovo ThinkCentre A50 Desktop PCs with Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology
• HP OfficeJet 6210 all-in-one
• HP LJ1320n LaserJet
• HP DeskJet 5740
 



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Numoda Corporation - Philadelphia, PA
Numoda helps drug companies and medical device companies gather and assimilate and manage data for clinical traits. Efficient and secure data management are critical to providing the best service they can. However, as with many small businesses, they faced a technology infrastructure ripe with aging operating systems, software that didn't run properly and PCs that simply didn't work. Find out how they changed all that, and improved their ability to bring clients to market in a timely manner.

Featured Solutions:
• ThinkPad T43 Notebooks with Intel® Centrino® mobile technology
• ThinkCentre A50 Tower Desktops with Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with HT Technology
• IBM xSeries 226 Server with Intel® Xeon® Processors
• Linksys SD and SRW Series Switches
• Linksys WAP54G Wireless Access Points
• Linksys SRW2024 24-port 10/100/1000 Switches
• Linksys WAP54G Wireless Access Points
 



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Blanton & Associates, Inc. - Austin, TX
Blanton & Associates is an environmental consulting firm serving private and state clients, as well as some national clients. They're a very data-intensive company, with biologists bringing in data directly from the field and 350MB+ printouts being common. The work involved in managing that much data, keeping it secure and avoiding bottlenecks directly impacts both employee productivity and client service - so they knew they needed to take action.

Featured Solutions:
• ThinkPad T43 Notebooks with Intel® Centrino® mobile technology
• ThinkCentre A50 Ultra-small Form Factor and Tower Desktops with Intel Pentium 4 Processor with HT Technology
• IBM x226 Server with Intel® Xeon® Processors
• Linksys RV082 8-port Firewall/Router/VPN
• Linksys SRW2024 24-port 10/100/1000 (Gigabit) network switches
• Linksys WAP54G Wireless Access Point
• Linksys EFG250 Network Attached Storage (NAS) device