From The CEO
Dear Customers and Partners,
The holiday season is rapidly approaching. Now is the time of year businesses may experience an increase in customer flow and sales. While you are busy handling the extra customers and orders, DiCentral will take care of all your EDI needs. We can handle the extra data transaction flow; we can even go beyond. With the increase in orders, you may need a tool to analyze current sales for accurate reordering decisions. You may need a way to track inventory through multiple sales channels or verify warehouse order packing for optimal order fulfillment.
Within our portfolio of advanced solutions, DiCentral offers all of these tools plus more…
DiCentral’s scalable solutions provide full view of all EDI activity and are equipped with metrics, analytics and management reporting functions that enable you to view, to analyze, and to generate reports. We also provide in-depth tools to monitor inventory
and order accuracy.
Our analytics tool, DiAnalyst, is featured in this month’s newsletter. It is a forecasting and replenishment solution that can
automatically deliver results and enable quick decision making.
Call us to find out how we can energize your operation during the holiday season and help you stay one step ahead...
Thuy Mai, CEO
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November 2008 Newsletter
Business Intelligence for More Informed Decision Making
DiAnalyst delivers a powerful analytical solution that leverages your sales data to gain a competitive edge with your buyers. Whether you have 50 trading partners or just one, meaningful reports and data analysis help your organization make more informed and profitable decisions in the areas of sales, logistics, finance and production. Sharing Point Of Sale data is no longer a challenge with the DiAnalyst web-hosted solution. Sales analysis and reports can help enhance your entire product sales life cycle by allowing quicker and more effective reaction to market changes.
Features of DiAnalyst
- Product Performance Reporting:
Provides meaningful reports through a consistent method of analysis with high level summaries of product activity into different segments of business (i.e. region, store, style, and UPCs).- Effortless Trading Partner Setup:
Simple setup for suppliers with easy implementation and deployment.- Supports Multiple Communication Methods:
Streamline method of sharing data between you and your buyers.- Customized Delivery Scheduler:
Distribute certain reports to specific representatives within your business.
Strengthen your relationship with buyers, and empower every facet of your organization with substantiated facts to make more informed and profitable decisions. Contact DiCentral today to learn more at 281.480.1121 or email sales@dicentral.com.
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DiCentral Announces Alliance with Pipeline Software Inc.
DiCentral is proud to announce its alliance with Pipeline Software Inc., a provider of enterprise-class information systems solutions.
Pipeline Software Inc., the SAP Integration Experts™, provides global companies with a better way to connect non-SAP applications with SAP. Focused exclusively on SAP connectivity and cross-system integration, Pipeline Software offers a suite of software tools, products and services that make integration quicker, easier and more effective for SAP customers with everything from R/3 to the latest ECC version.
According to Eric Braswell, senior director of global channels for DiCentral, “A key component of DiCentral’s growth strategy is to partner with innovative and quality software solution companies. We are pleased to welcome Pipeline Software to our channels program. Their commitment to the SAP user community is a great complement to DiCentral’s scalable EDI offerings.”
Alliances such as this one benefit our customers with precise and reliable solution packages. Our combined applications will form a highly functional team of integration solutions services, and ultimately bring value to global supply chains.
For more information on this alliance, contact Don Quatacker at 281-235-9317 or email partners@dicentral.com.
Dr. Tichenor Achieves Integration with DiCentral
The Dr. G.H. Tichenor Antiseptic Company has a long history having been founded in New Orleans in 1905, and encouraged by adoption of Dr. Tichenor’s germ-killing formula and pioneering antiseptic surgery techniques developed during the Civil War. The company received a devastating blow from Hurricane Katrina: they lost a large percentage of their employees as well as key customers and contracts.
Today, the company is successfully recovering and has received new large contracts. It is focused on streamlining costs, processing times, and overall production processes. Dr. Tichenor Company is one of DiCentral’s long time customers, which has achieved significant cost savings and supply chain efficiencies by adopting our fully hosted EDI solution, DiWeb, to connect with the large network of retailers and distributors for their products. The company also takes advantage of other Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions like Yahoo! Stores to rapidly deploy online shopping capability without having a large IT staff.
The Challenge: Missing Integration Links
Most SaaS solutions on the market today are point solutions that fill a specific application need for E-commerce, CRM, accounting, etc. In order to fully operate, companies need integration between SaaS solutions into their existing enterprise applications that are installed in-house, or hosted elsewhere.
However, integration is often a complex task that requires significant IT staff and capabilities in terms of security, networks, reliability, etc. Most companies choose not to do integration in-house, and instead, rely on data entry/accounting clerks to print out reports from one system and manually re-key them into another. This is a slow and error-prone process that requires extra head-count just to move data.
In Dr. Tichenor Company’s case, online orders from Yahoo! Store have to be manually downloaded and entered into the local Sage MAS 90 accounting system. From there, the credit card processing and fulfillment processes take place.
Our Solution: Hosted Integration of SaaS Applications
Dr. Tichenor asked DiCentral in May 2008 to assess the situation and recommend solutions. Since DiCentral already provides a proven hosted EDI integration solution for Dr. Tichenor, the obvious answer was to extend our product to provide a general hosted integration for SaaS applications through standards other than EDI, such as XML, flat files, etc.
The DiCentral team rapidly implemented an XML-based integration with Yahoo! Stores that allows Dr. Tichenor to integrate their E-commerce application with internal accounting applications. Our solution leverages as much as possible existing EDI infrastructure, which significantly lowers IT investment, and reduces disruptions in business operations.
Results:
The solution from DiCentral eliminated the manual process of downloading and re-entering orders. This allowed Dr. Tichenor’s company to streamline processes so that they can redeploy their staff to higher value activities. At the same time, our solution leverages existing EDI integration infrastructure so that Dr. Tichenor’s company can continue to take advantage of low cost SaaS applications without having to invest additional IT integration resources.
