About Cilio Technologies
Smart. Simple. Progressive.
Installation service companies in all 50 states have found the answer to their order management challenges with Cilio’s installation management software. They wanted less paperwork, better scheduling tools, mobile order management, and an easier way to capture purchase orders from retail partners, and we delivered.
With Cilio, you’ll get visibility into all your contract information in one place, including job notes, paperwork, photos, measurements, and work schedule. Only Cilio allows you to import and auto-populate your own business forms. We offer scheduling with drag-and-drop ease, comprehensive schedule views, mobile sign-and-send, and integration with QuickBooks as well as Home Depot and Lowe’s IMS portals.
Cilio Technologies is committed to helping manufacturers, fabricators, and home product installers simplify their business processeses, improve communication among their teams, and reduce paperwork. For nearly 20 years, we have supported Lowe’s and Home Depot partners with contract management system software for installers and fabricators.
Our Roots
Cilio Technologies, formerly IT Directions and Strategies (ITDS), was founded in 2001 by Randy Olejnik, who spent his career in information technology for manufacturing and supply chain.
After many years working with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, project management systems, and supply chain systems for the manufacturing sector, Randy noticed an area of the business that was not addressed by these solutions.
He saw that building materials order management was very manual and confusing for installed sales products – products such as countertops, doors, windows, floors, decks, and any other product for homes or businesses that may need to be fabricated and professionally installed.
Riding The Cloud
With the evolution of software as a service (SaaS) and cloud technologies, Randy saw an opportunity to simplify this complicated problem. He built a web-based platform for building materials order management.
Cilio not only simplifies the flow of order information throughout this complex supply chain, but it also helps manufacturers and retailers cut costs, grow their businesses, and manage partner networks.
Ongoing Innovation
As Randy and the Cilio team continue to work with clients on their order distribution and management solutions, they continue to improve and evolve Cilio to meet the new and changing needs of its users. They are constantly looking at the way clients communicate and interact with their partners, and within their organizations, to find new and innovative ways to simplify this business process and help clients improve their bottom line.
Our Clients
Cilio is proud to have served well-known brands of high-end installed products, including:
Lowe’s Companies
Cosentino Group
DuPont
LG Hausys America
Formica
Origin Point Brands
CILIO Values
We work hard for our clients’ success
At Cilio, we stand by the traditional values of hard work, accountability, and fun. To that end, we make it a rule to work well with others. From the way we consult with our clients to get established on the Cilio platform, to the way it integrates with our clients’ existing information technology environments, we make it a point to:
Exceed our clients’ expectations
Do what we say we’ll do
Demonstrate the value of our service through a quantifiable return on investment
Provide an honest and secure environment
Simplify our customers’ business processes
Cilio History
2023
Cilio Automation Factory
Cilio acquired Automation Factory to expand engineering team and improve services side.
2022
Rick Olejnik Appointed CEO
Cilio Technologies appoints Rick Olejnik as President, launching new phase of strategic growth and solution expansion.
2021
Installations Made Easy (IME) Integration
Integrated with Installations Made Easy (IME) to keep IME's "MIC" portal updated automatically.
2019
Costco Integration
Integrated with Costco's portal for service providers.
2018
Lowe’s Integration
Integrated with Lowe’s new IMS portal, FloorSoft and continued expansion.
2017
Always Improving
Cilio deployed 30+ significant updates and reached installers in all 50 states. Cilio is constantly improving and expanding the capabilities of its solutions. To produce the best products possible for its users, Cilio welcomes feedback and suggestions and takes action to implement the changes.
2016
Home Depot Integration
Integrated with Home Depot Service Center to provide a direct portal for all Home Depot Service Providers.
2016
Instant Success
After being designed by installers and fabricators, CiO was released to a pilot group of real businesses. The pilot group tried the new application, rapidly adopted it, and made CiO an instant success.
2015
New Developments
Cilio began to develop a new application for installers from Lowe’s, Home Depot, and other retailers. The application was called CiO “Customer Installations Online” and integrated it with Partners Portal. CiO’s automated order entry, scheduled jobs, tracked jobs in the field, and complete and invoice jobs.
2014
Another Big Partner
Cilio expanded sales channels with new workflows for Caesarstone and IKEA. Cilio partners with IKEA to expand its reach and help the international retail giant streamline installations.
2012
Refresh
ITDS wanted to create a unique name for the solutions it had developed for retailers, manufacturers, fabricators, and installers. Breaking away from ITDS, the new group was named Cilio Technologies.
2007
Lowe’s Integration
Partners Portal was deployed by Lowe’s Corporation. Lowe’s asked all of their countertop vendors to start using Partners Portal. The partners found that it improved their processes, while saving time.
2006
First Solution
Cilio’s first development was an application called Partners Portal. The app used the web to connect partners and manage their orders. Partners Portal was for all of Cilio’s partners, not just Lowe’s.
2001 – 2006
First Challenge
ITDS worked with LG Hausys to solve a problem for Lowe’s Corporation. To manage countertop orders from point of sale through installation, Lowe’s had to connect national partners with their stores.
2001
The Beginning
Cilio Technologies started as a web application development company under the name of IT Directions and Strategies (ITDS). ITDS’ purpose was to use the web to re-engineer common IT processes.
