With a stuttering Global economy, many companies need to both accelerate and brake. Efforts to promote sales and growth are crucial, while cost cutting and introducing operational efficiencies have become part of everyday business life. An important success factor in this context is the ability to establish streamlined work and information flows.
The transport and logistics company Alpi Sweden has chosen Blue Integrator’s technology to enable it to integrate its IT systems with suppliers and haulage companies. The deployment of Blue Integrator will provide significant time savings while eliminating the risk of errors caused by manual handling.
The Nordics' leading wallpaper manufacturer is continuing its digitization journey. With a new CRM system and e-commerce platform, the company has established an appropriate business environment for further technical advancements. While system changes can easily become complex and resource-intensive, Boråstapeter has greatly benefitted from its existing integration engine, Blue Integrator.
A smart integration solution can make a big difference to a company’s operational performance, regardless of how the economy is fluctuating. When industry wheels are rolling and business is thriving, growth needs to be managed. Especially in terms of customers, suppliers, orders, deliveries, and transactions. In contrast, during a slowdown, efficiencies might be required.
Tranemo is a leading European supplier of advanced workwear. To contribute to a sustainable way of working and to continue its expansion, Tranemo has invested in an automation solution at its logistics centre, AutoStore. With an expected increase in picking efficiency of 30% to 40%, Blue Integrator, the existing integration engine, will now play a central role in the new logistics centre as well.
When cyber security is on the agenda, it frequently relates to protecting against ransomware, DDoS-attacks and phishing. The answer to these threats is usually a combination of various technical solutions and increased user knowledge. Another component, that is often overlooked, is how secure is your integration engine – by deploying a modern solution security is instantly enhanced.
IT projects tend to grow in scope. In many cases, work becomes more complicated and costly than initially expected. Integration projects are no exception to the rule and many times problems increase as the project progresses. Henrik Aronsson lists three common mistakes that take place during an integration project and how to avoid them.
Fleet 360 offers an innovative and powerful solution for the effective management of vehicles, machines, and tools. Using Fleet 360's technology and Blue Integrator, it is possible to collect all vehicle-related data from many different sources onto a single platform. By doing this, everyday business activities such as financing, use, service, and fuel costs are simplified and automated.
Since 2010, TriPartum has been using Blue Integrator to handle the transportation of its clients’ source data files into its managed service platform and the resultant output files back to its clients and third party providers, such as print partners.
By using Blue Integrator, BM Catalysts can efficiently deal with various file formats and systems available to the company's customers and suppliers. Instead of numerous direct integrations between BM Catalysts different subsystems, the deployment of Blue Integrator has resulted in one coherent flow of information. In addition, the integration solution has provided significant time savings.
Golvabia produces and sells different types of flooring to retailers and consumers. It´s a business where stock balance, as well as large volumes of product data and material specifications, must be available and updated 24/7. Quotation requests, orders and invoicing also need to be managed in an organised and coherent manner. To handle these demands Golvabia is using an integration engine.
In the past many companies have been hesitant about setting up an online shop, however as technology has improved there are now great opportunities to quickly reach a global market. At the same time, as the whole world has become an online trading place, greater demands are placed on keeping together and updating large amounts of information in a logical and streamlined manner.
The Swedish electrical installations market has a total turnover of approximately 8 billion Euro. Of this, a large part includes materials and logistics. However, the industry has traditionally lagged behind other sectors in terms of streamlining inventory and purchasing processes.
Every month, Vidinge sells 600 tonnes of washed, pre-cut, and fresh vegetables to several of the Nordic region's largest wholesalers and grocery chains. When Vidinge needed a new solution to communicate with customers via Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), they chose to implement Blue Integrator, one of the world’s leading integration engines.
The new version of the Blue Integrator integration engine includes a number of updates that enables organisations to manage even larger data volumes. The improvements make Blue Integrator an even more powerful and cost-effective integration solution for companies in e-commerce, manufacturing industry, retail, and logistics.
Lideco supplies world-leading brands and tool components from its production line to numerous customers and suppliers. Working with consultants from Connect Companies and by deploying a modern integration engine - Blue Integrator - Lideco has digitized and automated a vast amount of its processes relating to quotation requests and order management.
Boråstapeter is Sweden's most well-known premium wallpaper. In order to maintain its position on the international stage, very high standards are placed on production quality and efficiency and delivery reliability. To uphold its reputation as market leader, Boråstapeter has invested in a modern integration solution which has reduced manual work and achieved higher levels of automation.
A modern integration solution provides shorter lead times, less manual work, increased quality and more flexibility if you need to incorporate change. When working with the public sector, it is crucial that you have the ability to handle new procurements, rules and standards as they evolve over time. Blue Integrator provides real value in Staples Nordic's ongoing work with the public sector.
When talking about digital transformation, it is always a case of weighing up the pros and cons to the business. How does this make us better, more profitable and efficient? What´s the ROI? Every company is different and needs to make its own assessment, but an area where the benefits are often clear, both in the short and the long-term, is smart integration.
As customers' habits change, business models evolve and innovation become a crucial success factor. During this digital transformation information must become an asset - not a problem. Previously only accessible to larger companies, there are now smart and cost-effective integration solutions that keep information together and free up time for innovation in small to medium-sized companies.
Blue Integrator is an integration engine which enables businesses globally to manage the complexities of new real-time information systems. In order to compete in the digital economy and cope with new market challenges, traditional businesses in industries such as logistics and manufacturing along with online focussed organizations use Blue Integrator to offer a cost-effective, efficient and flexible customer experience. This includes being able to provide access to information about prices, stock balances and delivery times in real-time, regardless of the time of day or the volume of web traffic.
By deploying Blue Integrator and establishing a cohesive flow of information, companies in all sectors can transform their business and gain access to a smart integration engine that can be used for any type of integration. The user only needs to register information once from the company's various platforms and subsystems; Blue Integrator then ensures that information is automatically kept up-to-date in, for example, logistics, warehouse and ERP systems. The solution can handle several hundred messages per second and is easily integrated into both internal and external IT systems.
Simplicity is at the core of the Blue Integrator offering, it is extremely easy to install and manage, enabling a large number of integrations including Dynamic 365 in Azure. Blue Integrator is owned by Connect Companies, a consultancy with over 20 years of integration experience, and is currently used by over 200 companies worldwide for increasing automation, simplifying operations and streamlining processes.
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