Reynolds Adds OEConnection as a New Participant in the Reynolds Certified Interface Program

OEConnection Joins More than 100 Companies Working through Certified Data Interfaces to Safely and Securely Exchange Dealership Data with a Reynolds DMS

DAYTON, Ohio and RICHFIELD, Ohio

Feb 07, 2011

The Reynolds and Reynolds Company and OEConnection today announced that OEConnection is the latest participant in the Reynolds Certified Interface (RCI) Program. The RCI Program provides a standardized approach to handling dealership data from the Reynolds ERA® dealership management system (DMS) in a safe, secure, and reliable manner. OEConnection offers a number of online technology solutions for automotive dealerships in the U.S. and Canada to help them source and sell original equipment parts. 

“OEConnection technology solutions help our customers put the right part in the right place at the right time,” said Ron Coill, senior vice president, Business Development, and Chief Financial Officer, OEConnection. “A certified interface from Reynolds helps us ensure that we are handling our customers’ DMS data in a safe and secure manner, which is critical for us to achieve our business goals and for our customers to achieve theirs.” 

For a number of years, Reynolds and Reynolds has taken the lead in working visibly with dealerships, OEMs, and other software providers in the automotive industry on the safe, secure, and verifiable exchange of dealership data with a Reynolds DMS. 

Trey Hiers, vice president of Marketing, Reynolds, said, “The addition of OEConnection to the RCI Program is another example of how we continue to work with leading automotive software providers to develop and put in place data interfaces with the appropriate safeguards and verification for handling DMS data.” 

The Reynolds approach to data management provides a number of methods for dealerships to work with the third-party vendor of their choice in a safe, secure, and supported manner in handling dealership data. This includes the RCI Program. Visit the Reynolds Data Management website: http://www.reyrey.ca/data

About Reynolds

Reynolds and Reynolds is the automotive industry's largest and most trusted provider of automobile dealership software, services, and forms to help dealerships improve business results. In Canada, Reynolds is the dealership management system market leader and has operations in Mississauga, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec. The company is headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, with major U.S. operations in Houston and College Station, Texas, and Celina, Ohio. (www.reyrey.ca