Migration salesforce cloud
- 1. CASE STUDY Migration to the Salesforce Cloud Enables Holistic Customer View and Reduced Costs The client is a network of dedicated professionals across the U.S. and Canada providing homeowners with interior-design guidance, from creative inception to meticulous installation. Desiring an integrated 360-degree view of its customers, but challenged by disparate, isolated business systems, the client looked to Infogain to help them overhaul the existing environment to design an architecture to sustain their future growth and expansion plans. KEY BENEFITS Business and Technical Challenges l Integrated, holistic customer view The client has a 25-year history of serving its customer base with service excellence through its l Consistent data and reporting for network of experienced professionals. However, their underlying systems environment posed a stronger decision-making critical business hurdle for them as they struggled to get a clear picture of its customer base and l Reduced costs of ownership satisfaction levels. l More manageable systems environment l More stringent standards-based On the technical front, the environment was made up of myriad disparate business systems with business processes non-integrated data silos and business processes. In fact, Infogain had been providing Managed Services for a number of these systems. The client was ready to undergo a major overhaul— incorporating a full replacement of all non-integrated business systems, excluding financials. INFOGAIN BUSINESS DIFFERENTIATORS Infogain Approach l leadership IT As the managed services provider for the existing Pivotal CRM and custom Microsoft SQL Server- l CIO-led Salesforce practice team based applications, Infogain first developed a strategic IT plan for the client, which addressed l Proven dual-shore delivery model the limitations of the existing application environment. This then enabled the client to map out l Flexible resource model a proposal to convert its environment to the SFDC cloud—including Salesforce Service Cloud, l Objective insight Salesforce Sales Cloud and Salesforce PRM. l 20+ years of integration experience Solution & Scope of Work Infogain built a mix of standard and custom Salesforce functionality that supports the complex business environment that is central to the client’s core business. l Strategic IT assessment l Comprehensive business process requirements
- 2. CASE STUDY KEY TECHNOLOGIES l Cloud-based Salesforce solutions (standard and custom) l Salesforce Sales Cloud l Heroku-based portals for extended Installer community l Salesforce Service Cloud l Salesforce PRM Key Benefits l Custom Microsoft .NET and SQL In addition to delivering a holistic customer view for the client, which was not possible with its Server-based applications l Heroku-based partner portals existing environment, the new architecture provides a lower-cost, more easily maintainable set of solutions which can meet the future business models CDI envisions. KEY INTEGRATIONS The client’s new systems environment will also require a more rigorous standards-based set of l Epicor financials business processes, providing consistent data and reporting as the basis for more effective execu- l Pivotal CRM (via DBAmp) tive decision-making. l Custom .NET applications (via DBAmp) Why Infogain? l Heroku-hosted Installer Portal Having been its AMS partner, Infogain had established a deep understanding of the existing system infrastructure and developed strong relationships with the client team. This coupled with our extensive experience with Salesforce solutions, including implementation, configuration and administration expertise; APEX and Trigger development; and, Custom Objects development for key business requirements made Infogain the ideal partner to help the client migrate to the cloud. l It leadership experience l 20 years of integration experience l Custom solution to solve custom problems l Package solutions for standard problems l Proven Dual-shore delivery model About Infogain Established in 1990 in Silicon Valley, California, Infogain delivers end-to-end solutions through val- uable strategy development, consulting services and highly skilled engineering execution. With worldwide delivery capabilities in ERP, SOA and Enterprise Integration, SaaS and Cloud Comput- ing, Business Intelligence, Mobility, Portals and CRM, we have developed deep industry expertise through our engagements in Retail, High Tech and Insurance among others. An ISO certified and an SEI-CMM level 5 compliant organization with global delivery centers in New Delhi and Pune in India, Infogain specializes in JAVA, integration and the full Oracle stack, including database, middleware and applications such as Oracle Knowledge, Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel, Oracle Fusion and Oracle Retail. USA: +1-408-355-6000 UK: +44-(0)-162-842 1500 INDIA: +91-120-244 5144 All trademarks, trade names, service marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies www.infogain.com © Copyright Infogain Corporation, 2012. All rights reserved. CS-H1010 09/12