Given the global alliance announcements between IBM and SugarCRM, we will discuss the possibilities of how supply chain based companies can utilize IBM's Cast Iron and SugarCRM to effectively integrate customer data with other ERP and Supply Chain systems.
Presented by Scott Tabak, Highland Solutions, at SugarCon 2011
8. Cloud Application Use is Exploding Global Public Cloud Market: $55.5B in 2014 27% CAGR Source: IDC
9. And It’s Created a Hybrid World Private Clouds Public Clouds Companies have both Cloud and On Premise Applications Home-grown Applications Packaged Applications
10. Which Demands Integration Private Clouds Public Clouds Integration is Critical in a Hybrid World Packaged Applications Home-grown Applications
11. Needs Getting More and More Complex Integration Maximizes Value of Cloud Investments Home-grown Applications Packaged Applications
12. Existing Solutions are Incomplete Integration Maximizes Value of Cloud Investments People intensive On-Demand Rudimentary Capabilities Cloud is an Afterthought
15. Why Integrate the Sales Cloud? Sales Marketing Shipping Finance What are my hottest leads? ? Where are my orders? ? Has this customer paid? ? I need to do a credit check ? Where are my invoices? ?
16. Integration = Single View of Customers Hottest Leads Sales Invoices Orders Marketing Shipping Finance
17. Why Integrate the Customer Service in the Cloud? Service Finance Shipping RMA Is her warranty valid? ? ? When is her service appointment? Is he a paying customer? ? ? Is that part available? Was he really billed twice? ?
18. Integration = Single View of Customers Service Warranty Invoices Orders Shipping Finance RMA
19. Complete Template Integration Processes Complete Flexibility Cast Iron Cloud2™ Virtual Appliances Physical Appliances Total Connectivity Complete Reusability TIP Exchange TIP Development Kit TIP Community For All Types of Projects UI Mashups Process Integration Data Migration
***For Mark : reuse bottom Enterprise Gif to replace current (with as many Enterprise Apps as will fit)*** OmniCloud logo: that’s why we created it! Speak back to previous “problems” with competitors Amazon Azure Cisco Webex Success Factors Increase Concur size Paypal OneSource Rainmaker
***For Mark : reuse bottom Enterprise Gif to replace current (with as many Enterprise Apps as will fit)*** OmniCloud logo: that’s why we created it! Speak back to previous “problems” with competitors Amazon Azure Cisco Webex Success Factors Increase Concur size Paypal OneSource Rainmaker
The first and arguably most important point is the the Cast Iron Integration platform provides complete functionality to connect all applications in your enterprise. It is the only platform available that provides a complete flexibility in deployment options. In other words, you can build, run and manage an integration between applications such as SFDC and SAP and deploy it using a physical on-premise appliance, a virtual appliance, or completely in our multi-tenant cloud service. It is the only solution that allows for this choice of deployment using the same product and code-base interchangeably. Because of this, it is futureproof, meaning you can start off with one form-factor today, and easily move to another one over-time to scale to your IT strategies. The second advantage the Cast Iron Integration platform offers is total connectivity. This means not just industry leading SaaS and enterprise applications-over 150 to date, but every type of database, custom applications, web services and connectivity protocol. Another important feature is reusability. the Cast Iron Integration platform provides a user-friendly template-based approach via the Template Integration Process or TIP. These are templates of common integration scenarios which can be used as a starting-point for your integration projects. You are not alone in your integration needs and should not have to reinvent the wheel. the Cast Iron Integration platform gives you the benefit of previous success and best-practices available through our community of customers. Finally, this is one platform for all types of integration projects. You can use the Cast Iron Integration platform for data migration, process integration or even for UI mashups for taking relevant data from a backoffice application, such as SAP and displaying it witrhin a commonly used front-office application such as SFDC. Notes: swap with CIIP brand
The third factor that sets the Cast Iron Integration platform apart from competing solutions is that it is proven with thousands of customer integrations and a wide portfolio of customer success cases. So, we can prove by previous success how we can solve your particular integration scenario.
Let me take a moment to highlight this specific example with Siemens, as it is relevant to the current challenges you are facing. Simens Power Transmission and Distribution is a division of their global manufacturing organization. SAP was their ERP system in place, but the sales team was using SFDC, which meant key business information was being isolated in two disparate systems. In other words, the sales team did not have access to invoices, orders and other line-items as the information was not being updated into SFDC on a daily basis. As a result, in their own words, the business processes involving their CRM and ERP were not harmonized. So, they needed their sales team to have access and visibility into key information to aid them in their sales cycle. The challenge was identified, and next they needed to evaluate a solution. They looked at custom coding a connection between SFDC and SAP. But it was quickly assessed that any solution involving custom code would need to involve an unreasonable amount of maintenance and resources given the complexity of their organization. Their IT decided they would much rather designate their resources to more strategic projects than simple maintenance and support of a home-grown solution.
Given the complexity of their challenge, the size of their organization, and the need to scale for future growth, they decided on the Cast Iron Integration Platform. The first project involved bi-directional connectivity between SAP data, such as invoices and order information, and provided real-time visibility to it from the salesforce.com interface. This same project was used as a template for their subsequent projects, involving the synchronization of Customer and Project master data to SFDC. The same platform was used for future projects, as well as other divisions within Siemens, such as Siemens Communications, due to its ease of use and reusable templates. The key value statement hear being that subsequent projects can be rolled-out as quickly and easily as the first, which was completed in just 2 weeks. On the business side, the sales team was able to increase productivity, shorten sales-cycles and gain customer credibility by being able to act upon real-time customer information from within their enhanced SFDC user-interface.
And as we can see, once they were able to successfully integrate the initial systems for their project, they were able to leverage the Cast Iron Integration platform for future integrations. So, while they may have started off using the Cast Iron Integration platform for point-to-point integration, they were able to subsequently use it as a platform for additional projects, given the reusability and template-based architecture we spoke about.
Business Problem: Needed real-time, bi-directional integration between CRM (salesforce.com) and ERP (Oracle EBS )Needed to increase SFDC sales adoption with order and case information Needed to integrate customer and product information Other integration needs included pricing/discounts and forecasting info
Project delivered in days Not coding
Migrating from home-grown CRM to salesforce.comMultiple integration needs: Customer master migration Product master extracts from Oracle ERP Real-time interaction with Avtex IP Telephony
Cast Iron enables salesforce.com integration in real time: Caller info to Service & Support in seconds Product master sync with ERP Customer master sync Single console to track transactions Results Entire project completed in 12 days No single line of code written to complete entire project Superior customer support experience