Equo™ By Runzheimer Honored As Gold Stevie® Award Winner In 2017 American Business Awards(SM)

WATERFORD, Wis., May 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Runzheimer, a business vehicle technology and solutions provider, was named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award for New Product of the Year in the Software – Mobile On-Demand Application Solution category. The award is part of the 15^th Annual American Business Awards, the nation's premier business awards program.

"We're very excited and proud to receive this award for our Equo app," says Andrew Zavattero, vice president of mobile at Runzheimer. "It's a ringing endorsement of our vision to build a best-in-class mobile experience offering ease-of-use and increased productivity for the mobile workforce of today – and into the future."

The gold-winning Equo app effortlessly records business mileage and automates the task of creating an IRS-compliant mileage log, which is required of all businesses that reimburse employees for driving on the job. Through Equo, employees can capture, edit and submit business miles directly from a mobile device. There are even capabilities for automatic or manual trip capture.

With a user-validated design and sophisticated underlying platform, Equo offers customers a personalized experience where engagement is based on preference. Since every company is different, Equo offers the flexibility to support a variety of business vehicle reimbursement programs, including cents-per-mile (CPM), fixed and variable rate (FAVR) and fleet.

More than 3,600 nominations from organizations of all sizes were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of categories. More than 190 professionals worldwide participated in the judging process to select this year's Stevie Award winners.

Judges' comments about Equo included, "Love the integrations and simplicity. Has great consumer feel for a B2B application with clearly strong adoption," and "Great App for business customers! Leveraging latest technology and phone sensors to automatically detect when an employee is driving so as to build a mileage log, is genius. I like the idea of reducing paper work."

For more information about Equo, visit https://www.runzheimer.com/equo.

About Runzheimer

Runzheimer, a business vehicle technology and solutions provider, is the recognized leader in mobile workforce management. We help organizations increase agility, reduce costs, and improve satisfaction through fair, accurate and defensible™ reimbursement programs. Our solutions deliver an effortless experience for employees while providing data, visibility and actionable intelligence for managers and executives. We understand the mobile workforce is driven by data. Our technologies integrate with your big data tools—building on and enhancing the systems you have in place today.

It is our mission to offer mobile technology and solutions that connect people, companies and their vehicles to drive superior productivity and valuable business intelligence. We work with our customers to ensure their needs are always met, and we remain dedicated to surpassing their expectations.

About the Stevie Awards

Stevie Awards are conferred in seven programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 10,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 60 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at http://www.StevieAwards.com.

SOURCE Runzheimer