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ACS Athletics Announces the Next Generation of Athletics Management Mobile Solutions

ACS Athletics announces the release of a comprehensive mobile suite of athletics management iPad and smartphone applications for college athletics.

AUSTIN, TX – ACS Athletics announced a series of new product solutions, highlighted by the release of a mobile applications suite for its industry-leading InControl® software. The product launch was announced during a customer event Thursday night at the historic Palace Theatre in Grapevine, Texas. The event coincided with the 2013 NCAA Convention being held at the Gaylord Texan Resort.

Beginning with the release of their first mobile application in 2005, ACS has championed the advancement of mobility in college athletics. Over the years, ACS mobile solutions have expanded to iPhone, Android and Blackberry smartphones. In the fall of 2012, ACS announced the release of its game-changing ACSCoach iPad app and Thursday’s announcement reinforced ACS’ leadership position and commitment to providing the most innovative mobile technology solutions to its customers.

“With the help of our customers, ACS has pioneered the use of mobile technology for the management of athletic department operations,” said Rayan Rutledge, co-founder and Vice-President of ACS Athletics. “ACS is the first company to deliver a suite of mobile applications designed to individually service key stakeholders throughout an athletics department,” says Rutledge.

With Thursday’s announcement and releases, ACS Athletics now has the most comprehensive mobile suite of athletics information management applications for college athletics. The suite includes the following native apps:

•InControl® Mobile – Companion recruiting smartphone application for coaches providing powerful tools for communication with prospects, activity logging and managing recruit information.

•ACSCoach – iPad application for coaches providing easy-to-use tools for communication with prospects and student-athletes, activity logging, recruiting board, social media feeds, mapping features and much more.

•ACSComply – iPad application for compliance administrators providing a dashboard view of system-critical information, athlete profiles, social media feeds, communication tools and more.

•ACSComply+ – Smartphone companion mobile application for compliance administrators operates on the iPhone and Android mobile platforms and provides business intelligence to aid in critical and time-sensitive decision-making.

•ACSEquip – iPad application allows equipment managers to control inventory, issue and retrieve equipment and apparel, track orders, scan items and more.

“This is just another way we give ACS customers a competitive advantage by empowering our coaches, administrators and staff with the industry’s first suite of role specific smartphone and iPad applications,” said Phillip Engle, co-founder and CEO of ACS Athletics. “These new mobile solutions, combined with advancements in our system’s business intelligence and user interface, will revolutionize the way in which our customers communicate, access information and make critical decisions,” says Engle.

“Our customers have spoken, and we have listened,” said Rutledge. “The best news is we are just getting started with more exciting product advancements coming this year.”

ABOUT ACS
ACS Athletics (ACS) is the leading provider of integrated web and mobile solutions for increasing operational performance and reducing risk in collegiate athletics departments. ACS gives customers a competitive advantage by providing an integrated, holistic approach to managing athletic department operations, compliance, student-athlete information and communications on one platform. ACS customers are more efficient, organized and compliant, and are better positioned to communicate and develop relationships that are vital to their success.

ACS proudly services athletic departments in the top conferences including the Atlantic 10 Conference, Atlantic Sun Conference, Big 12 Conference, Big East Conference, Big Sky Conference, Big South Conference, Big Ten Conference, Big West Conference, Capital Athletic Conference, Centennial Conference, Colonial Athletic Association, Conference USA, Empire 8, Ivy Group, Mid-American Conference, Missouri Valley Conference, Mountain West Conference, Northeast Conference, Ohio Athletic Conference, Ohio Valley Conference, Pacific-12 Conference, Southeastern Conference, Southern Conference, Southland Conference, Sun Belt Conference, The Summit League, West Coast Conference, and Western Athletic Conference. ACS Athletics was founded in 1999 and is a privately held company headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Tags: ACS, Android, athletics, compliance, InControl, iPad, iPhone, mobile, recruiting

Collegiate Coaches Utilize Innovative ACS iPad App to Engage Recruits and Manage Team

Powerful, easy-to-use iPad app creates fun interactive experience while delivering value with innovative capabilities for coaches.

Austin, Texas, October 25, 2012 — Collegiate coaches are now going mobile using their iPads to interactively engage recruiting prospects and manage current student-athlete information with the new ACS Athletics application.  Available in the App Store, the ACSCoach iPad application is the perfect mobile companion product to InControl®, ACS’s industry leading student-athlete information management system.

“More coaches are going mobile using iPads for game preparation, video and scouting, but until ACS, there have been no apps that have taken an integrated approach to improve communication and efficiency in key areas like recruiting, operations and compliance,” said Rayan Rutledge, Vice President of Operations at ACS Athletics.  “While coaches are already using InControl’s existing web-based recruiting and communication capabilities, the ACSCoach iPad app provides a powerful new way to connect with recruits and athletes on the go, as well as effectively manage and share information that’s essential to their program” Rutledge said.

Mobility, integration, communication and monitoring are the functional cornerstones of the ACS Athletics product portfolio.  Founded in 1999, ACS Athletics was the first company in the industry to offer a holistic approach to managing athletic operations on one platform, including web-based and native smartphone and tablet applications for users.  ACS mobile applications primarily assist with facilitating and managing recruiting and compliance related activities.

“After hearing from coaches about how they wanted to use their iPads to better engage recruits and their athletes, giving them a cool, intuitive app was the next step for our company given the success our customers are having with our smartphone applications,” said Jason Gutcher, Director of IT at ACS Athletics. “We want to make sure our coaches can easily manage their activities and engage recruits quickly so more of their conversations translate to wins in recruiting and on the field of play,” Gutcher said.

The ACSCoach iPad app is available in the App Store by searching ACS or ACSCoach.

Tags: ACS Athletics, InControl, iPad, mobile technology, recruiting, recruiting mobile application

ACS Athletics and West Shore Technologies Partner to Improve the Scouting and Assessment Processes for College Coaches

March 26, 2012

(Austin, Texas) – ACS Athletics, the leading provider of integrated web and mobile solutions for increasing staff and operational performance and reducing risk in collegiate athletics departments, and West Shore Technologies, an enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS) company, today announced a partnership to integrate West Shore’s SportsBoard iPad application with InControl™, ACS Athletics industry leading recruiting, compliance and student-athlete information management system.  ACS Athletics will offer the SportsBoard application to customers looking to streamline scouting.

ACS Athletics helped to pioneer mobility in collegiate athletics beginning in 2005 with the first release of native recruiting and compliance mobile applications for coaches.  ACS Athletics currently offers a variety of web and native mobile applications for smartphones and tablet PCs that help to facilitate athletics operations, data management and communications at over 100 institutions across the country.

“Mobility is essential to our customers, especially our college coaches that are constantly on the road recruiting or competing,” says Phillip Engle, CEO and President, ACS Athletics. “The SportsBoard iPad scouting application is a nice complement to our growing portfolio of mobile offerings and we look forward to working with West Shore to promote the product’s capabilities to our customers.”

SportsBoard is a patent-pending software solution based on the iPad and cloud technology that automates scouting/assessment processes for coaches at the collegiate, professional, high school and club levels of a variety of team sports.

About ACS Athletics:

ACS Athletics (ACS) is the leading provider of integrated web and mobile solutions for increasing operational performance and reducing risk in collegiate athletics departments.  ACS gives customers a competitive advantage by providing an integrated, holistic approach to managing athletic department operational, compliance, student-athlete information and communications on one platform.  ACS customers are more efficient, organized and compliant, and are better positioned to communicate and develop relationships that are vital to their success.  ACS proudly services athletic departments in the top conferences including the Atlantic 10 Conference, Atlantic Sun Conference, Big 12 Conference, Big East Conference, Big Sky Conference, Big South Conference, Big Ten Conference, Big West Conference, Capital Athletic Conference, Centennial Conference, Colonial Athletic Association, Conference USA, Empire 8, Ivy Group, Mid-American Conference, Missouri Valley Conference, Mountain West Conference, Northeast Conference, Ohio Athletic Conference, Ohio Valley Conference, Pacific-12 Conference, Southeastern Conference, Southern Conference, Southland Conference, Sun Belt Conference, The Summit League, West Coast Conference, and Western Athletic Conference.  ACS Athletics was founded in 1999 and is a privately held company headquartered in Austin, Texas.

 

 

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