Hastings Entertainment Names Rimini Street as Vendor of the Year

Rimini Street, Inc., a maintenance and support provider for enterprise software, including Oracle's Siebel, PeopleSoft, and JD Edwards software and SAP AG software, announced its selection as IT vendor of the year by Hastings Entertainment, a multimedia entertainment retailer.

The award recognizes Rimini Street's support of Hastings Entertainment's PeopleSoft applications, including service, extreme dedication to resolution of support requests, support for customizations, and delivery of tax and regulatory updates.

"We rely on Rimini Street as a trusted business partner and this award recognizes the company's vital role in supporting our PeopleSoft Financials and Human Resource Management systems," said John Hintz, Vice President of Information Technologies, Hastings Entertainment. "Rimini Street support engineers are experts in PeopleSoft applications and are incredibly dedicated to providing prompt and accurate resolution of our support requests. Plus, with Rimini Street's support program, we have been able to extend the life of our current PeopleSoft releases, avoiding unnecessary and costly product upgrades."

"We are honored to receive this recognition from Hastings Entertainment," said Seth Ravin, president and CEO, Rimini Street. "Our mission is to deliver exceptional service and value in enterprise software support to our clients, and this award confirms that we are living up to this commitment. While organizations such as Hastings Entertainment first come to Rimini Street for the significant annual cost savings of 50 percent or more and to avoid costly upgrades, clients stay year-after-year with Rimini Street for our ultra-responsive service and commitment to their success."

Hastings Entertainment combines the sale of books, videos, video games, CDs, and trends merchandise with the rental of videos and video games in a superstore format. It currently operates 153 superstores and the gohastings.com e-commerce Web site, the company noted in a release.

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