WALCOM

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has enabled us to provide not only the mechanics but also the nuances, which make the registration processes of such events seamless and painless! Perhaps the most concise means of relating who, what, where, when, and how we do our work is to present the following brief history of our organization. WalCom, Incorporated is essentially a holding company, which has owned and operated a number of other businesses, all in the computer-related industry, with substantial synergies among these entities. About 25+ years ago, Walton Commercial Enterprises, Incorporated (WalCom ’s previous corporate name) was formed to "own" a franchise territory in the Greater Cleveland, Ohio area for PCR-Personal Computer Rentals, a short-term, full-service computer rental national network. The following year, WalCom purchased the Central Ohio franchise territory from the PCR network. Our two rental operations were no longer franchisees of the PCR network but were then identified as "WalCom Computer Rentals of Cleveland, Incorporated & WalCom Computer Rentals of Columbus, Incorporated" These rental companies derive approximately 1/3 of their business from corporate training requirements, 1/3 of their business from special needs and/or peak demand business requirements, and 1/3 of their business from the convention/trade show industry. WalCom in 1996 created a new business, the ultimate in computer based training facilities. The Columbus, Ohio facility had already become the national training site for corporations based as far away as Washington state. Just as our combined 25+ years of experience obtained in operating the Computer Rental entities in the temporary training environment (hotels, convention centers, etc.) had provided the expertise in creating a nationally renowned computer-based training facility; the experience of providing rental services to exhibitors and show management had provided the basis for the Registrations Services division of WalCom, Incorporated In 1999 WalCom, Incorporated divested itself of its computer rental, training facilities, specialty sales and consulting businesses. This has allowed the principals to concentrate on strictly the registration business, which has mushroomed in terms of proportionate activities. In 1986, a group of commercial show managers approached me with the desire that our organization would somehow design, create, and administrate a show registration system for their respective companies. Our previous relationships had been built by providing rental computer equipment for their use during pre- & on-site registration. The myriad of problems which they were encountering were not atypical or unique to the industry. Computerized registration systems had been designed by either: A) computer programmers not thoroughly familiar with the intricacies of the convention/show industry; or by: B) industry personnel not thoroughly familiar with the intricacies of data base programming. This group of show managers were aware of my previous background in high-end "C" language data base programming and our experience in the convention/show industry.

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