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Tinius Olsen : A Testing Machine Manufacturing Company

Tinius Olsen is a Horsham, PA headquartered, leading specialist manufacturer and supplier of static tension and/or compression materials testing machines. You can read more about Tinius Olsen at www.tiniusolsen.com.

Tinius Olsen’s Global Operations Head, David Wheeler, wanted a solution that would :

1.Handle all Finance related requirements through a robust AX platform.

2.Back-up their infrastructure and ensure business continuity even in the case of worst disasters.

3.Provide rich dashboards and KPIs through an Analytics platform leveraging AX and CRM data.

4.A modern Field Service solution for their global Field Service teams.

5.A reliable and deep integration between AX – CRM and Field Services for a ‘complete’ view of the customer across all departments.

Solution Delivered:

The CloudFronts team delivered an Azure hosted AX 2012 R3 platform integrated with Dynamics CRM Online and Dynamics Field Service and analytics on the Microsoft Power BI platform. Azure Cloud gives a reliable and trustworthy environment for Dynamics AX hosting and gives ease of user-experience to organizations.

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About Sonee Sports:

House of Sonee Sports is the largest sporting goods retailer across the Maldives with E-Commerce operations in Singapore catering to a range of sports and fashion oriented customer base. Sonee Sports’ vision has been to focus on customer journey and leverage Dynamics 365 to drive this journey from online to in-store. You can read more about Sonee Sports at www.soneesports.com.

Solution Delivered:

CloudFronts deployed Dynamics 365 business platform across 15 stores across the Maldives and integrated their ‘BigCommerce platform’ with Dynamics 365. Apart from this, the project also included migration from their existing AX 2012 R3 platform to Dynamics 365 Finance, Operations and Retail on the Microsoft cloud for increasing operational efficiency to the highest level.

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About FarmLink:

FarmLink, backed by Agri-focused Swiss fund Pioneering Ventures is India’s first ‘onestop-shop’ back-end partner for industrial off-takers of Fruits & Vegetables in India, focused on modernising and transforming the supply chain across the country. You can read more about FarmLink at www.farmlink.in.

Business Requirement:

1.FarmLink wanted a solution that would –

2.Handle all aspects of their Supply chain operations.

3.Inventory and vendor management.

Provide them reports and easy to use dashboard.

Solution Delivered:

FarmLink deployed NAV 2016 on Azure along with Microsoft Office 365 for managing all aspects of their operations from Inventory to Vendor Management to Customers. This along with robust reports and dashboards is enabling FarmLink to better manage their fast-growing organization. This solution has increased their productivity and efficiency by multiple folds.

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About Magic Bus:

Magic Bus, founded in 1999, is a non-profit organisation working with 400,000 children and 9000 volunteer mentors every week from marginalised communities in India. Their sports and activity-based approaches promote mentoring to the children on a journey from childhood to Livelihood. Their vision is to empower the children and youth socially and economically. You can read more about Magic Bus at www.magicbus.org.

Business Requirement:

Magic Bus Foundation approached CloudFronts with the following requirements

1.Reports from Magic Bus OASYS (SQL Server) and Sixer Class (Email Attachments) Data.

2. Help them receive mobile SSRS Reports.

Solution Delivered:

Having understood and analysed Magic Bus working model, the CloudFronts team first considered the Magic Bus operational processes to get an understanding of the key data points for developing KPIs and dashboards. After sufficient brainstorming, our team then came up with a solution to develop a dashboard on top of Power BI and provide SSRS report. The CloudFronts team developed the reports from Magic Bus OASYS (SQL Server) and Sixer Class (Email Attachments) Data. This data visualization along with deep analytics will provide a critical understanding of their everyday operations across all their hierarchies.

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About Eternity Lifestyles:

Since 1999, Eternity Lifestyles has created a unique space in the industry with the best brands in luxury; premium, fashion and the fast fashion segments. Their In-house signature Sports Eyewear brand ‘Opium’ is a style statement in the Indian Sports Eyewear industry. You can read more about Eternity Lifestyles at www.eternitylifestyles.com.

Business Requirement:

Eternity Lifestyles approached CloudFronts with the following requirements –

1.Office 365 Re-alignment (User and Subscription management, SharePoint Online and Exchange Online).

2. User Training.

3. Security and Compliance.

Solution Delivered:

Having analysed the loopholes in Eternity Lifestyles’ existing setups and mechanisms, the CloudFronts team came up with an appropriate solution.

The Team decided to carry out a realignment of Microsoft Office 365 services. As a part of this overhaul, they first glanced through user’s licenses. The critical issue was that the emails were being deleted by former employees at the time of their leaving and they were not recoverable, while Office 365 has the feature of retaining emails.

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About Momentum India:

Momentum India offers consulting services in emergency response around the globe. Through their affiliates globally, they commit to implement the best available technology, education and knowledge in the field of crisis, disasters and emergency management to safeguard infrastructure. You can read more about Momentum India at www.momentumindia.in.

Business Requirement:

Momentum India approached CloudFronts with the following requirements –

Set up Office 365

Exchange Online

Set up SharePoint Online

Security and Compliance

Deploy Dynamics 365 PSA

Solution Delivered:

Having evaluated the challenges that Momentum India was facing while using multiple webmail services, CloudFronts consulted them to establish an entirely new set up on Office 365. The team carried out Email Migration to Office 365 from other systems. By availing ‘Resource Scheduling Settings’ in Office 365 (Exchange Online), the client can now schedule meetings, appointments and accordingly, dispatch the right sources.

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About TSD:

Technical Sales Development (TSD) is a leading New York based company which offers distinctive solutions regarding Sales Transformation, Training and Services to the companies looking to increase their Sales effectiveness, improve customer satisfaction, improve margins and thereby increase their revenue. TSD helps sales teams (Managers, Sales Reps/AM’s and SE/SC/SA’s) to win more business opportunities by providing process and tools to manage and optimize their sales opportunities. You can read more about TSD at https://technicalsalesdevelopment.com/.

Business Requirement:

TSD wanted a solution that would convert a fully functional SOS (Sales Opportunity Snapshot) Standalone Excel-based application in use for current customers to the D365 environment.

Solution Delivered:

TSD wanted the standalone SOS application integrated with Microsoft Dynamics 365 to help their customers manage and close Sales opportunities. In response to this, the CloudFronts team replicated the SOS Excel functionality into D365 making it extremely visual, easy to use, and covers all aspects of a sales opportunity.

Post Go Live:

SOS for D365 went live on the AppSource on July 9, 2018. Using the SOS methodology and tool, TSD’s customers documented:

16 Point increase in win-rate – from 58% to 74%.

22% increase in bookings in the first two years of implementation.

About Hoover Ferguson:

Since 1911, Hoover Ferguson has been providing the highest quality liquid handling solutions and services to the chemical, petrochemical, food and beverage, and other industries.

The Hoover Ferguson legacy is a company that is built to last and manufactures products that are built to last. It is steeped in a tradition of manufacturing a long lasting, durable, and quality product. You can learn more about them here https://www.hooverferguson.com/

Business Challenges:

Many companies that are using Microsoft Dynamics NAV also benefit from utilizing a CRM system like Salesforce to increase their revenue and provide better customer insight. However, in the presence of Information and data in multiple systems like NAV and Salesforce and lack of synchronization between them made it difficult for the Hoover Ferguson to get better customer insight and thereby take decisions.

Solution Delivered:

The prerequisite for a robust data integration between Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics NAV is to have the right setup.  Integrations can be made in many different ways, and not all of them are equally well-suited to provide a robust data integration platform. Here, the best way to carry out data integrations was using Scribe.

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Titan Laboratories Pvt. Ltd. is a pharmaceutical manufacturing company with a dedicated state of art WHO GMP facility for producing high quality Sustained and Modified Release Pellets, DC Granules & Taste Masked Granules. You can read more about Titan Labs at www.titan-lab.com

Business Requirement:

Titan Labs’ Managing Partner, Piyush Shah, wanted a solution that would –

1.Handle all aspects of their Manufacturing Operations from Production to Inventory Control.

2.Provide critical Regulatory Compliance with Auditing capabilities.

3. Easy to use.

4.Provide robust Business Intelligence with Reports, Dashboards and KPIs.

Provide the Titan Labs’ sales team with a complete Sales Management platform from Opportunity Management to Sales Goals tracking.

Solution Delivered:

The CloudFronts team setup NAV 2016 with Pharmaceutical industry customizations and workflows for the Operations team and CRM Online for the Sales team. Power BI Analytics on top of CRM Online were setup for the Sales team.

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About iD Fresh Food:

Started in 2006 with a desire to put “home-made meals on dining tables across India”, iD Fresh Food is now a well-known “Fresh Foods” brand across India and many international markets. With a mission to make preparation of “home-made meals a pleasure”, the team at iD Fresh Food has a razor-sharp focus on delivering fresh food every single day to grocery stores across all cities where they operate. You can read more about iD Fresh Food at www.idspecial.com.

Business Requirement:

iD Fresh Food approach CloudFronts with the following requirements –

1.Develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Dashboards on the Power BI platform by integrating data from various systems to enable business insights and quick decision making backed up by “data”.

2.Provide a single source of truth for the entire organization based on Power BI reports and dashboards.

3.Equip everyone from the CEO to the Regional Manager with analytics at their finger-tips with access anytime, anywhere and across any device.

Solution Delivered:

The CloudFronts team first understood the iD Fresh Food business model to get an understanding of the key data points for developing KPIs and dashboards. The CloudFronts team then developed the Sales dashboard on top of Power BI using a custom built ‘DialGauge’ visual.

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About Oakton:

Oakton is a well-recognized Australia based Microsoft Partner focused on delivering solutions for corporate and government clients across a range of industries. You can read more about Okaton at www.oakton.com.au

Business Requirement:

Oakton approached CloudFronts with the following requirements –

1.Resolve all technical issues for their AX – CRM integration using Scribe Insight.

2.Work with the Oakton global teams to provide advanced AX technical support.

3. Assist with Go Live and Post Go Live issues.

Solution Delivered:

The CloudFronts AX and Integration teams worked closely with the Oakton teams from Australia and India to document issues followed by issue resolution and testing. Oakton and CloudFronts team worked together round the clock to ensure a successful Go Live for the client.

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About WUA!:

WUA! is a worldwide leader in ‘digital experience bench marking’. Simply speaking, WUA helps organizations optimize their website for a great customer experience. You can read more about WUA at http://www.wuaglobal.com.

Business Requirement:
WUA approached CloudFronts with the following requirements –

1.Implement their Sales and Marketing processes on the Dynamics CRM Online platform.
2.Help select the right Marketing Automation platform.
3.Implement Power BI Dashboards for Sales and Marketing data analytics.
4.Provide high level Contract and Project management within CRM.

Solution Delivered:

The CloudFronts team documented and implemented the Sales and Marketing processes at WUA, after discussions with their teams. Through our expertise on Marketing automation, we implemented ClickDimensions for WUA. CloudFronts also developed a custom Contract entity and a custom Projects entity to track high level Contract and Project details like budgets, tasks and start and end dates. Reports and Dashboards built on top of Power BI (WUA implemented Power BI while it was still in preview) ensured that WUA’s team had critical business data and KPIs at their fingertips.

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About Gerstein Fisher:

Gerstein Fisher is an investment management and advisor firm based out of New York. Per their website, “We take an integrated, quantitative, research-based approach to investment management on behalf of individuals, families and institutions.” You can read more about Gerstein Fisher at www.gersteinfisher.com.

Business Requirement:

Gerstein Fisher approached CloudFronts with the following requirements –

1. Migrate from their existing CRM solution to Dynamics CRM Online.

2. Develop Key financial reports on top of CRM Online.

3. Integrate Dynamics CRM with their Portfolio Accounting system for complete access to customer data within Dynamics CRM.

Solution Delivered:

Gerstein Fisher wanted to migrate from an existing CRM solution to Dynamics CRM Online, customized for their Financial Services business. The CloudFronts team worked closely with the Gerstein Fisher project team to migrate all customer data and delivered a CRM Online solution with rich customizations as per Gerstein Fisher’s unique business processes. Key financial reports developed by our team ensured that Gerstein Fisher team had a complete understanding of their customers. Finally, the CRM solution was also integrated with the Portfolio Accounting platform using Scribe Insight to provide access to all customer data from within Dynamics CRM.

About BPM Certified Public Accounting Firm:

BPM is one of the largest California-based public accounting and advisory firms. Ranking amongst the 50 major firms in the US, they have offices across Oregon, Hong Kong and the Cayman Islands. They serve a range of sectors from financial services, technology, life science and consumer business to real estate, non-profits, wine and craft beverages. You can read more about BPM at https://www.bpmcpa.com/.

Business Requirement:

BPM wanted a solution that would –

Streamline their sales processes.

Make customization and enhancements in their existing D365 for PSA for greater capability.

Solution Delivered:

CloudFronts commenced its professional journey with BPMC in the December 2017 and continue to work with them. CloudFronts Team helps them every single day to cater to their existing Dynamics 365 for Project Service Automation capabilities. The team rectify and modify their reports, along with adding functionality to their existing PSA implementation.

Further, the team had a review of the critical entities within the Sales module of Dynamics 365 and customized them as per the client requirements and specific business needs. Till date, the CloudFronts team is working with them to upgrade their D365 environments from v8.2 to v9.

SSRS report was developed by CloudFronts Team for Managers to view the availability of Team and their allocations on different Projects.

About the client:

The client is the fastest growing seating brand in the United States. The client corporation designs, manufactures, and distributes seating solutions for business, healthcare, government, and education markets. It offers task/work chairs, conference chairs, multipurpose chairs, cafe/task stools, and several kind of chairs. The company serves customers through commercial furniture distributors.

Solution Delivered:

CloudFronts came up with a straight and simple solution to resolve the challenges.

The team leveraged the potential of Azure Web API, Scribe Online and Connectors. There are two types of Connectors used for this purpose. First is the Messaging Framework, which acts as the bridge between the external (distributor) system and Scribe Online and second is the AX connector, which uses AX AIF service to perform CRUD (create, read, update and delete) operations on sales orders.

The above built AX connector also processes the XML from Messaging Framework and maps the fields to proxy class fields from the AIF Service.

The below visual will give you a brief idea about high-level architecture of Data Flow.

About Fast Track Mobility:

Fast Track Mobility is fleet management & specialty finance company serving the for-hire-vehicle market in New York City. Fast Track’s fleet management activities include: acquiring the vehicles, licensing and registration with the TLC & DMV, Telematics and GPS tracking, Maintenance, Insurance, and end-of-lifecycle disposition. Fast Track has a strategic relationship with Uber Technologies, Inc. as one of Uber’s select Vehicle Solution Providers in New York City. You can read more about Fast Track at https://www.fasttrackleasingllc.com/.

Solution Delivered:

To address the challenges that Fast Track was facing, CloudFronts team decided to deploy an innovative and customized solution built on top of the Microsoft Dynamics platform. Fast Track was using a shared excel sheet to record and manage their data processes and this resulted in too many errors besides being time-consuming. CloudFronts team leveraged different functionalities of Dynamics CRM and NAV and deployed an integrated solution using Scribe Online as the integration platform. Finally, we built rich analytics on top of Power BI to utilize data from CRM and NAV to get actionable insights and drive business making.

About Hong Lam Marine:

Hong Lam Marine (HLM), incorporated in Singapore in 1981, is one of the most established and leading bunker craft operators in Singapore. According to the Maritime Port Authority of Singapore, Singapore is the number one bunkering port in the world since 1988 (in terms of volume of bunker fuel sold). You can read more about Hong Lam Marine at https://www.honglam.com.sg/.

Business Requirement:

HLM was looking out for a Disaster recovery solution as their existing backup solution was unable to achieve the RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective).

HLM wanted a solution that would –

Secure HLM workload with minimum downtime in the event of a disaster.

Protect all physical, virtual, hybrid, and cloud-based workloads with one disaster recovery solution.

Single Sign-on (SSO) experience for all their application.

Solution Delivered:

CloudFronts implemented Azure Site Recovery (ASR), as a part of BCDR (Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery) strategy, for reducing application downtime during IT interruptions to enhance compliance. In this, the team replicated workloads running on physical and virtual machines (VMs) from a primary site to a secondary location. In case, if an outage occurs at the primary site, you switch over to secondary location safely and access apps from there. Once the primary location is restored, HLM can resume using it again.

About Demand Works:

Founded in 2003, Demand Works provides forecasting, inventory optimization, and finite capacity planning solutions that deliver large-scale improvements in manufacturing and distribution efficiency and preparedness. Their customers include manufacturers and distributors of many household brands as well as countless industrial and other manufactured goods. You can read more about Demand Works at www.demandworks.com.

Business Requirement:

Demand Works approached CloudFronts with the following requirement –

Bidirectional data integration between Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and the Demand Works Cloud Smoothie® solution.

Solution Delivered:

Demand Works had developed a robust analytics platform called as Smoothie to provide analytical insights. To extract and collate the data for this purpose, they were using a NAV database backend. But when NAV received an upgrade to ‘Business Central’, Microsoft discontinued the backend access to the database. Hence, the CloudFronts team developed a custom API using AL Coding to integrate data from Business Central with Smoothie.

A subsequent Training session provided by CloudFronts helped the client’s team to deploy this complete solution on their client’s side.

About Airavat Imports:

Established in the year 1987 in Mumbai, Airavat Imports is the leading distributor, dealer and exporter of auto spare parts across 15 countries. They represent several leading vendor companies and OEM suppliers in the auto spares market. You can read more about Airavat Imports at www.airavatautospares.com.

Solution Delivered:

CloudFronts team introduced Airavat Imports with Office 365 Subscription plans and guided them to select a suitable one according to their needs. With such a wide range of applications, Office 365 gives organizations an easy way to standardize business tools.

Firstly, all the emails of the users were migrated to Office 365. Post that, all the services and applications were deployed on the system.

A company intranet was created for document management with the help of SharePoint Online to store all the business documents which were previously on network drives. This not only stored documents but also ‘secured’ them as well.

None of the platforms work well without appropriate end-user training. Therefore, training was conducted demonstrating the use of Office 365 applications and services like MS Teams, OneDrive, Exchange Online. This also included insights into the ways to access the documents in SharePoint Online.

About Equality Asset Management:

Equality Asset Management is a private equity firm founded by Thomas S. Roberts whose mission is to help build exceptional companies for the long term while offering investors innovative fee structures.For more info, visit www.equalityassetmanagement.com

Solution Delivered:

The CloudFronts Team addressed the business challenges by first streamlining the process of document management.

The Equality team was already using classic Dynamics 365 CRM interface. This interface was quite complex and needed a more intuitive user experience. There was a need to revamp the existing platform to remove unnecessary UI elements and to improve the ease of performing and tracking key activities. First, the CloudFronts Team moved Equality to the Unified Interface which enabled its compatibility across all devices, including iPads and mobile phones. During the whole process from company identification to closing a deal, the relevant files will noweasily bestored and organizedsecurely in SharePoint. The above solution streamlined and re-organized the process of document management & avoided manual work and lack of standardization associated with manually managing documents and creating folders for each prospective company.

About Bold Feedback:

Bold Feedback is a reputed market research company which helps its clients access genuine feedback for their products and services. They have been providing the services of customer insights for over 20 years and have guided some of the most recognizable brands in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Business Requirement:

Bold Feedback has expertise in assisting its clients to capture important customer insights as well as to listen to their customers with ease. To get effective insights, Bold Feedback uses Power BI as a data analysis tool because of its rich visualization and interaction.

Although Power BI has many OOB PBI visuals, sometimes there can be certain requirements that these visuals cannot fulfill. For such requirements, a Custom Power BI Visual can be developed that can encompass every requirement and also look exactly how you’d want it to look like.

Solution Delivered:

In this case, Bold Feedback required a custom visual which could replace their manual task of visual creation. They used Adobe InDesign to create visual design and subsequently, produce the results manually and submit it to their clients on demand. This manual update of the custom visual in every single report file represented an inefficient use of the client’s time. However, this changed drastically once the Custom Visual was developed.

Plumbing Supply Now is a diverse wholesale distributor of plumbing supplies, heating supplies, pipes, valves, fittings, waterworks, thermostats, drainage, faucets, fixtures, tools and other 50,000 items from 200 brands in the US and Canada.

You can learn more about them here http://www.plumbingsupplynow.com.

Solution Delivered:

Since the client site is built on magento ecommerce platform, the CloudFronts team developed a smart integration platform which can seamlessly connect Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Magento. With this, any new customer entering or registering on plumbingsupplynow.com will be synced back to MS Dynamics CRM as a contact or a lead. All the details of the web customer including billing address and shopping address will be available within the CRM system.

Today, Plumbing Supply Now team is receiving a 360 Degree view of the customer post-integration. This is helping them understand customer’s needs, buying patterns, order history, account info, and preferences, thereby enabling better insight to build a lasting relationship with customers. All customer details will be stored in the single CRM platform; therefore, the same data will be visible to every department and can be used for further process and planning. The email marketing process is streamlined in such a manner that it reaches the target audience and new prospects on a real-time basis without any manual updates.

About Third Coast Commodities:

Third Coast Commodities was formed in 2013 with a vision to start a new physical merchant with the combined goals of bringing transparency to the world of physical derivative commodities and reducing risks.

They specialize in physical commodity trading within the Biodiesel Industry and currently operate with over 200 companies across the nation to coordinate the purchasing, transporting, and selling of by-products of the agricultural sector. As a trading company, their goal is to not only bring maximum cash value but an understanding of where the prices are heading in a constantly evolving environment.

Since their inception, they have added full-time traders which service over 200 companies nationally and internationally in the broader Fats Oils and Grease (FOG) industry: commercial crush, biofuels, restaurant recycling, oleochemical, animal feed, and heating oil markets. Above all else, we aim to give our clients insight and certainty in trading their industry by-products while ensuring ease of transaction. You can explore more about them here https://thirdcoastcommodities.com/

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