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No Bill - not you.  The vendor should have turned it off just to save money.  That's where my usage of "incompetent" "dumbassery" are coming from.  It is very possible they did and you're just viewing a remnant of their name there.  They may not be pulling any data at all.




Authenticom provides a pull capability on many different DMS systems.  For us vendors, they make it easier and more cost-effective by being our interface to the DMS.  It saves us development time for doing DMS pulls by standardizing the data from each DMS.  We don't have to build entirely different things for CDK, Reynolds, Dealertrack, AutoSoft, DealerBuilt, UCS, the independents' version of CDK, some other old DMS CDK bought, that DMS the owner's grandson built in the garage, and the 60 other systems that are out there. 


If there is a need to push data to the DMS then a "certified" integration directly to each DMs company is needed.  This has significant costs in development time + direct fees to the DMS company.


As an aside, [USER=4107]@jon.berna[/USER] can explain the amazingness of what they built to interface with so many different systems.  Driven Data goes far beyond the DMS.