CSI Leasing (“CSI”) announced it has gone live in the US and Canada with LeaseWave from Odessa Technologies.

“CSI Leasing continues to expand both its North American and global platforms. LeaseWave will enable us to leverage technology to scale our business, ensure that proper controls over financial and other information are in place while doing so, and continuously improve customer service”, says Steve Hamilton, President and COO of CSI.

“The asset-based design of LeaseWave makes it particularly well suited to large IT lessors like CSI that have portfolios with hundreds of thousands and even millions of assets.” says Julita Nerozzi, Odessa Project Manager. “LeaseWave offers features and functionality to automate some of their most complicated and previously labor intensive tasks, to automate all the calculations needed to properly account for lease schedule changes caused by lessee requests (such as asset moves, returns, buyouts and/or upgrades), and to provide the ability to configure sophisticated rules for automating end of lease activities while ensuring adherence to proper procedures and policies.”

Established in 1972, CSI is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri with more than 35 sales offices located throughout the U.S. CSI is one of the largest independent equipment leasing specialists in the world, with customers in more than 36 countries, $1.4 billion in assets and over 700+ employees. CSI helps its customers implement flexible leasing programs that reduce the cost and risk associated with managing technology assets.

Odessa Technologies is a software company exclusively focused on the leasing industry. The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and employs a staff of 275 people. Odessa is the developer of the LeaseWave suite of products, a fully integrated browser-based lease and loan management solution, providing an end-to-end origination and portfolio management system for equipment leasing and finance, vehicle leasing and fleet management companies. The LeaseWave suite is specifically engineered to be configurable to accommodate even the most complex business model, as evidenced by Odessa's diverse customer base.