Dial needed a solution that would: improve sales performance, establish more effective sales promotions and product distribution strategies, reduce IT support and increase agility, and lower costs: new requirements for data were expensive and slow to turn around.

Ace tracked which products retailers ordered, when they were ordered and shipped. However, the company could not track or forecast actual sales. Data used for reporting was up to a one-week old, owing to performance and data cleansing issues. Requirement to integrate wholesale and inventory data with POS data to help drive key business decisions, improve category management, lower inventory costs and optimize pricing. Reliance on custom coding to integrate POS data was excessively resource intensive and led to major performance constraints.

Europcar needed to: implement a holistic enterprise-wide decision support system: integrate data from sources across Europe, and ensure data quality and consistency.

Emerson's old address verification systems couldn't handle language barriers and non-standardized address formats, which proved to be a major obstacle in dealing with international address validation. Emerson needed an address verification system that would cover their expansive list of countries and native character sets, provide superior customer support and be simple and cost-effective to implement and manage.

According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), there are more than half a million homeless people on the streets in the United States on any given night. Community Technology Alliance (CTA) wanted to collect and integrate data from multiple government and nonprofit agencies to match people in need with available housing and human services. They also aimed to help communities comply with the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing (HEARTH) Act of 2009 to retain HUD grant funding.

• Lack of complete visibility into status of individual transactions• Absence of consolidated view to manage operations and optimize use of cash reserves• Reliance on a slow, expensive, and outsourced process to develop, test, and deploy new transaction formats

March Networks had a complex web of integrations between its CRM technology, financial systems, and operations systems, which were difficult to maintain and required custom coding. The company needed to modernize its data processes and applications to align with its growth ambitions.