BRACH's Confections is recognized as one of the leading manufacturers of candies around the world. Brach’s needed a single information source that would be available to everyone in the field and could provide customized data and report functions.

Brach's InfoNet Sales Portal Challenge: BRACH's sought to empower its field sales force, and recognized the need for increased efficiency of communication as a fundamental tool for building sales and establishing market leadership. BRACH's needed the ability to produce custom reports, and a way to simplify and accelerate the process of disseminating timely sales data, company-wide. Intellinet Solution: Upon understanding their business challenge, BRACH’s turned to Intellinet for its Intelligent Enterprise (i.e.) solution. The i.e. solution maximized BRACH’s technology investment by seamlessly integrating key enterprise systems. It provided BRACH’s with a secure, connected infrastructure enabling direct access to critical business data, improved reporting and information sharing. The solution utilized Microsoft SQL Server 7.0, Internet Information Server 4.0 and Site Server 3.0 to allow BRACH's entire sales organization real-time access to critical data and information, and addressed the demands of a fast changing and competitive marketplace. Known as BRACH's InfoNet, the solution now provides an information "warehouse" with a front-end web reporting solution that enables BRACHs' sales force to easily leverage valuable sales data. Accomplished: The implementation of BRACH's InfoNet has accomplished the company's goal of improved communication among its sales force. In addition, InfoNet offers a variety of sales and marketing tools, including PowerPoint™ sales presentations, and links to key industry sites. All of this information is available via secure, browser-based access from anywhere in the country.

BTG Pulp & Paper Technology (BTG) is made up of three divisions which together offer producers a resource-rich partner in pulp and paper making. BTG’s goal is to improve quality and productivity in the pulp and paper industry.

Executive Financial Analysis Portal Challenge: BTG needed to integrate financial reporting from 19 international legal entities, currently reporting numbers in up to 26 currencies. Each legal entity operates on a different accounting system with no current means of integration. To reach the solution-users (CFO’s and other executive management), the financial solution must be globally available, but remain secure. Intellinet Solution: BTG selected Intellinet’s robust, industry leading Intelligent Enterprise (i.e.) integration solution. Intellinet automated, standardized and secured BTG’s current financial data submission processes. This enabled the compilation of budgets, forecasts and actual performance from each legal entity in a common format for storage in SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition. Intellinet also created a database architecture to support dynamic currency conversions, which permitted the comparison of each legal entity’s finances regardless of the reported currency. The financial data was stored in an OLAP data cube and delivered to users in a digital dashboard portal environment. Custom web parts were built using the ProClarity Analytics Platform. The portal also included company content and reports built in Crystal Reports and Microsoft Excel formats. For security, the solution used Secure Socket Layer (SSL) public key encryption and additional business level security that was applied at the portal and cube levels. Accomplished: Intellinet’s i.e. solution accelerated BTG’s company-wide budget planning effort and provided value in business decisions. Without undergoing a costly ERP implementation or a prolonged enterprise data integration effort, Intellinet provided BTG with analytical reporting of integrated financial data through a secure portal on the internet. In addition, the i.e. selection improved the reliability, performance and flexibility of BTG’s enterprise-wide database environment.

Kobelco America

Kobelco America utilizes state-of-the-art manufacturing processes backed by a wealth of experience in steel casting & forging, machine tools, plant engineering & electronics, and innovative research & development to produce the finest construction equipment in the world. With a parts inventory of $32 million, Kobelco needed a parts ordering system to help accomplish their number one service objective for its clients: “Do whatever it takes to maximize uptime!”

Online B2B Parts Ordering System Challenge: Kobleco supplies parts to its dealers internationally via its parts warehouse and service offices. In an effort to reduce lead time in order fulfillment and to provide dealers with extended account management functionality, Kobelco needed a compelling, easy-to-use parts ordering system. Key requirements for the system were minimal downtime, fast application response time, scalability, extensibility to full integration with dealer business systems, and seamless integration with with Kobelco legacy systems. Intellinet Solution: Intellinet worked rapidly with key users and administrators in critical business units to model their business processes in full. Using object-oriented design techniques combined with proven methodologies, Intellinet transformed these processes into a solution designed to meet each challenge of the Kobelco environment. The solution, based on the Intellinet Application Architecture, leveraged COM components to offer optimal application response time and provide maximum scalability. This XML-based architecture provided a solution that intrinsically supports seamless integration with both internal and external systems alike. Accomplished: Overall, the Intellinet solution results in increased parts ordering efficiencies for the Kobelco enterprise. Dealers now have an always-on, reliable, easy-to-use parts ordering system that allows them to perform many functions that were previously available only through traditional manual processes. Pricing and availability, order placement, order status tracking, order history review, and reporting are all fully automated in an integrated online system, which translates into lower customer service costs, less lead time for order fulfillment, and greater customer satisfaction.