当一场大风暴宣布时，零售商，尤其是杂货连锁店，将面临重大挑战。他们必须确保货架上的库存充足，以满足社区的防备需求，同时确保他们能够在风暴后迅速重新开放。 Food Lion 是一家杂货连锁店，计划在风暴影响后 24 小时内重新开业。 Retail Business Services 是一家为美国东海岸六大杂货品牌（包括 Food Lion）提供服务的公司，必须制定一项计划来实现这一 24 小时目标。面临的挑战是拥有清晰的天气情报和积极主动的应急计划。该计划需要包括哪些商店可能需要发电机，以及影响区域周围区域的哪些员工可以被要求帮助重新开放商店。

随着保加利亚建筑业的持续增长，陶瓷厂 - 博特夫格勒最近经历了增长。该公司需要可视化涉及其熔炉的制造过程以及所生产砖块的运输线。该工厂还寻求一个额外的报告模块，以帮助管理层减少停机问题并提高生产力。该公司意识到，随着业务的增长，它将需要优质、强大的解决方案来满足其可视化、控制和报告需求。

The Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act became U.S. law in 2004 so banks could process more checks electronically. Before this act, banks had to physically transport paper checks from where they were deposited to the bank that paid them. Now, instead, banks can process checks faster and more efficiently using digital images. BOK Financial saw this as a business opportunity to gain efficiency. However, the process of integrating the digital check processing system was complex due to the numerous back-end operational systems involved in depositing, validating, and handling errors and closed accounts.

The Department of the Treasury of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has three main applications for the collection and management of taxes: ARBITRIOS for the calculation of taxes, PRITAS for the management of corporate taxes and REFO for processing individual taxes. The challenge is to provide a single view of the taxpayer through a Web portal that integrates data from all three main systems. The Treasury Department was looking for the tools to carry out an application integration, which would allow the agency to have a single view of the taxpayer through a Web portal. This new integration platform was also needed to provide higher efficiency in managing department records. The solution would have to maintain and improve existing investments, re-using the Natural and COBOL application code. The solution also would need to support a technological evolution—rather than a revolution that would completely alter existing IT assets.

To keep ahead in the fast-moving fashion industry, Bossini wanted to have better visibility into its business and operational processes by synchronizing real-time data across multiple orders, shipments and stock-keeping units (SKUs). However, the data resided in a number of systems, from point-of-sale (POS) solutions to Bossini’s warehouse management inventory. In order to achieve its goals, Bossini had to integrate a series of platforms including the old and new versions of its Oracle application and the company’s legacy platform. During the transition from legacy system to SOA, the company’s different platforms had to be integrated. Other applications like the company’s new POS system had to be connected not only to its new Warehouse Management System (WMS), but also to the old POS because the company was still in the midst of systems migration.

Water leaks, poor metering, and tampering of water supplies are leading to wastage and shortages worldwide. In Australia, one of the world’s driest countries, every drop matters even more. The Goldfields pipeline, a 600-kilometer pipeline that sends water from Perth to 100,000 people around Western Australia, is suffering from endemic leaks and burst pipelines. The World Bank estimates that more than 126 million cubic meters of water is lost each year globally—at a cost of over $40 billion. As a utility, if you cannot rein in leaks and control the flow, quality and reliability of your supplies, you are at risk of penalties, fines and—even worse—reputational damage leading to loss of business.

Zillow Group, the owner and operator of the largest online real-estate and home-related brands, was struggling to provide timely and accurate home valuations, known as Zestimates, for all new homes. The company's in-house machine-learning framework, which ran on-premise to process vertically scaling workloads, was unable to scale fast enough to meet the growing amount of data and the increasing complexity of machine-learning models for accurate Zestimates. The company specifically sought a distributed platform, which would enable the fast creation and execution of massively parallel machine-learning jobs. The existing technology was taking too long to compute Zestimates, sometimes more than a day, which meant that customers weren’t getting updated information fast enough.

Poste Italiane operates across many lines of business, including postal, banking, insurance and financial services. As a result, this diverse enterprise is subject to many different laws and regulations. The company is also widespread with 154,000 employees in 14,000 offices and 16 subsidiaries. This is why a traditional audit approach based on simple testing for each subsidiary or location simply wouldn’t work. As a diverse enterprise, Poste Italiane has to comply with a wide range of laws and regulations issued by the European Union, the Italian Parliament and other authorities. Because of these different regulations— combined with the company’s dispersed structure—Poste Italiane was unable to use a traditional audit procedure based on testing. Instead, Poste Italiane opted for an integrated and methodical approach focused on control design and system reliability.

Baker Hughes, a top-tier oilfield service company, wanted to optimize its Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process to improve invoice accuracy, minimize delivery delays, and reduce late payments. The company needed a world-class Business Process Management (BPM) solution to increase process agility, visibility, and control. The company was looking for a solution that could provide real-time metrics and alerts for process abnormalities, reduce invoice errors and payment delinquency rates, and save costs on every invoice.

Nestlé Waters, the world leader in bottled water, operates a factory in Vergèze, France, where it manufactures its iconic Perrier brand. The factory has 13 production lines and an installation comprising several hundred meters of pipes. To ensure the high quality of Perrier water, Nestlé Waters needed a clean-in-place (CIP) process that meets best-in-class standards. Traditional cleaning performed during a period of machine shutdown represented 20% of the working time of the facility and impacted operational efficiency. Nestlé Waters was looking for a solution that would help them win back some time for production while maintaining product quality and compliance with food safety regulations.

Yunzhibao Foodstuff Co., Ltd., a candy producer in China, was facing challenges due to the manual nature of its production and management processes. The company's operations lacked transparency, and data credibility was compromised due to the handover process between shifts. The company also heavily relied on individual workers, and the inability to capture and accumulate their knowledge and experience was a vulnerable point in Yunzhibao’s operations. The company needed to automate these processes, improve their standardization, and ensure product quality. They also needed to eliminate the 'black box' state of their operations and production, and make all product-related process knowledge transferable.

In today’s manufacturing facilities, there is a large mix of heterogeneous machines and control types, where signals must be collected, aggregated and evaluated. The solution to this common problem is a centralized system, which can seamlessly “plug and play” with any type of machine CNC controller or PLC. However, machine connection and integration capabilities are key differentiators when selecting the right MES technology provider. The experience level and readiness of the technology provider determines the time and costs required to successfully connect any machine. Standardized interfaces to all common machine controls, via direct plug-ins, must be created, otherwise the time required for connecting the machines, is unmanageable. In a pilot project initiated by an MES provider, a major German tool manufacturer determined that connections to some of their machines were very time-consuming, costly and in some cases not possible. Even after months of work, some challenging machine controls types remained unconnected. The MES provider lacked expertise and the necessary plug-ins.

Manufacturing processes in aerospace machine shops can be complicated and complex to plan. Finding out how much capacity is really needed for a part to be produced, and accurately planning the total throughput time for a range of components can be a headache for many manufacturers. Often, it can be difficult to do accurate part costing, as many cost centres are involved, and blended rates are used as there are is no exact data on machines and work stations in a process. Many aerospace companies have vast untapped potential for reducing costs by improving processes, reducing WIP and faster throughput times, but in most cases they have no tangible data to base cost saving improvements on. UK aerospace companies are notorious for their excellent technical knowledge and high quality products. But the manufacturing process itself is often far from efficient. The orders are there, the requirements are clear, but capacities are limited and many battle with considerable overload on the shop floor.

2B Living 是一家位于加利福尼亚州圣卡洛斯的物业管理公司，由于快速增长和员工分散，在管理和扩展业务方面面临着挑战。该公司管理着湾区 200 多个多户型房产和约 1,300 个单元的多元化投资组合。在实施 AppFolio Property Manager PLUS 之前，团队严重依赖传统的数据管理方法（例如纸张和电子表格）以及手动输入信息。这一过程不仅耗时，而且容易出错，导致董事们难以有效管理业务。

Artcraft Management是一家成立于1993年的物业管理公司，自2014年以来经历了快速增长，从2,000个单位扩展到6,000多个单位。该公司管理着多元化的物业组合，包括高级住宅、社区协会、高端豪华住宅、经济适用住宅和其他住宅单元，主要位于弗吉尼亚州。然而，使用他们之前的软件解决方案 Yardi，他们感觉自己只是另一个客户，没有得到优先考虑。他们必须为每一项额外的服务或功能付费，这不利于他们的快速增长。他们还面临工作流程效率低下的问题，必须管理 Google 云端硬盘上的多个日历和日程安排，而且员工必须记住多个密码和登录信息。

Atrium Management Company 是佛罗里达州中部单户和多户房产的物业管理组织，在过去几年中经历了快速增长。这一增长是通过收购多家物业管理公司实现的，每家物业管理公司都有自己的物业管理系统。这给 Atrium 带来了挑战，因为他们必须应对多个不同且过于复杂的物业管理系统。该公司需要一个解决方案来帮助他们为团队成员、居民和业主提供卓越的体验，即使他们正在呈指数级增长。我们面临的挑战是找到一个能够集中运营并随着业务增长而扩展的平台。

Bear Property Management 是一家管理着 1,800 多个单户、多户住宅、商业和社区协会单位的公司，在管理每天收到的大量潜在客户方面面临着重大挑战。租赁代理商的工作时间更长，尤其是在租赁季节，并且不堪重负的行政任务。该公司很难及时回复潜在客户，这影响了他们的客户服务和整体效率。他们之前使用的解决方案 Jenark 无法有效简化这些任务并减轻租赁代理的工作量。

Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Parks & Weisberg, Realtors 是一家管理多元化房地产投资组合的家族企业，一直在努力克服现有物业管理系统的局限性。该公司必须使用多个系统和工具来管理其投资组合中的不同财产类型。这些解决方案不仅功能有限，而且用户也不友好。这导致效率低下、时间浪费和沟通障碍。该公司迫切需要一个更强大的集成系统来简化运营并提高效率。

BK Management 是一家为普渡大学周边学生住宿提供服务的物业管理公司，最初在两个独立的平台上运行企业会计和物业管理会计。该公司使用 QuickBooks 进行企业会计，使用 AppFolio 进行物业管理会计。这种缺乏集成导致效率低下和解决方法，因为他们必须从两个平台运行单独的报告，然后尝试合并数据。该过程既笨重又耗时，阻碍了公司实现最佳运营效率。

Blue Key Property Management 是一家位于阿肯色州小石城的快速发展的物业管理公司，其之前的软件解决方案 Buildium 面临着挑战。该团队因流程效率低下和数据不一致而陷入困境，随着组织的发展，这些问题似乎只会变得更糟。会计系统问题尤其严重，导致团队及其会计师混乱且效率低下。该公司需要一种更加用户友好、高效且可靠的软件解决方案，帮助他们管理不断增长的单户和多户房产组合、简化运营并释放团队带宽以开展更多高价值工作。

Byers & Harvey 是一家位于田纳西州克拉克斯维尔的蓬勃发展的物业管理公司，但它正面临着重大挑战。他们现有的软件解决方案并没有推动他们前进，反而阻碍了他们充分发挥潜力。该公司需要一款易于使用的现代化物业管理软件，以推动效率和单位数量的增长。该软件必须适合移动设备，因为物业管理在现场和在办公室一样频繁。该公司还需要一种软件解决方案，使他们能够更灵活、更高效地工作，并提供可靠的客户支持。

Centana Property Management 是一家总部位于蒙大拿州的公司，管理多元化的多户公寓大楼、单户住宅和商业地产组合。该公司以能够快速响应并关注客户的需求而自豪。然而，管理不同地点的各种财产面临着一些挑战。其中包括与业主和租户保持清晰一致的沟通，有效处理维护请求，以及向潜在租户有效营销其房产。此外，该公司热衷于给潜在客户留下持久的第一印象，并提供租户和业主期望的现代体验。该公司还面临着对新员工进行物业管理软件培训的挑战，这对于其运营的顺利运行至关重要。

ConsensYs Property Management 是一家在投资物业和社区协会管理方面拥有 50 多年经验的公司，其运营面临着重大挑战。他们的主要问题是缺乏易于实施和使用的软件解决方案。该公司花费了大量的时间和资源来跟踪房主信息并手动输入报告数据。这种低效的流程不仅耗时，而且占用资源，阻碍了公司专注于战略增长和客户服务的能力。缺乏可靠且用户友好的软件解决方案是他们提高运营效率和增长的重大障碍。

切尔西·布斯纳多 (Chelsea Busnardo) 是 Do Good Property Management 的所有者和创始人，随着她的房地产投资组合和家庭的壮大，她面临着重大挑战。除了管理财产之外，管理全职工作也变得越来越困难。她想创办自己的物业管理公司，以便有更多的灵活性和自由来追求自己的激情，包括花更多的时间陪伴孩子并回馈社区。然而，她知道她的公司很快就会无法管理少数几个部门。她需要一个可扩展的解决方案，不仅可以帮助她管理不断增长的投资组合，还可以让她专注于更有意义的工作。

Duckworth-Morris Real Estate 是一家位于阿拉巴马州塔斯卡卢萨的公司，在房地产开发以及房地产和社区协会管理方面拥有一个多世纪的经验，该公司面临着重大挑战。该公司正在努力管理不断增长的管理账户数量，这导致了员工招聘的增加。该公司迫切需要一种解决方案，使他们能够在无需增加员工的情况下扩展业务运营。我们面临的挑战是找到一种解决方案，能够简化运营、提高效率并支持其增长轨迹，同时又不会增加运营成本。

Elevation Real Estate and Management 是一个小团队，管理西北地区 800 多个不同类型房产的单位，在有效处理维护请求方面面临着重大挑战。该团队无法同时出现在所有地点，而且居民的请求数量巨大。该团队需要一个强大的维护解决方案，无论何时都能及时响应居民的问题。现有系统效率低下，需要技术人员到现场排除故障，导致下班后接到大量电话。

Enclave Property Management 是一家垂直整合的开发、建筑和物业管理公司，面临着管理多个地点的 4,500 多个单位的挑战。该公司在管理新物业的同时需要满足并超越投资者的期望。该过程涉及开发、建设和物业管理，需要高效的流程和积极进取的团队。该公司总裁唐娜·史密斯 (Donna Smith) 一直在寻找提高运营效率并实现其目的和目标的方法。该公司还面临着管理不同资产的拖欠水平并改善其收款同时减少坏账的挑战。

Hanes Properties 是一家成立于 1969 年的家族物业管理公司，其租金收取流程面临着重大挑战。他们使用的是物业管理软件 Yardi，但他们所有六个物业地点的租金周仍然很混乱。租金是手工收取的，每个房产都是单独处理的，导致房产之间缺乏透明度。这导致了数小时的额外工作和重大的组织问题。管理层必须花费大量时间来处理逾期租金检查和其他相关问题。纸质租金支票必须手动收集并输入系统，然后传回公司办公室。平均每月有 7 至 12 份逾期租金通知。

Hela Management 是一家成立于 2012 年的物业管理公司，在底特律都会区和密歇根州东南部管理着 800 多个单户和多户单元。该公司的目标是在未来 3-5 年内将规模扩大四倍。然而，他们面临的重大挑战之一是最大限度地利用员工的时间。由于投资组合分布在不同的地区，他们的租赁团队很难跟上入境需求。该团队的时间大量消耗在安排、预订和确认其房产的放映上，导致错过潜在客户并对他们的利润产生负面影响。他们之前的解决方案 Buildium 无法满足其快速增长的业务的需求。

HOA Assist 是一家为房主协会 (HOA) 提供金融服务的公司，由 Daniel Stedman 和 Mitch Gassen 创立，旨在填补自我管理社区协会的市场空白。他们的目标是为这些协会提供金融服务和教育，赋予它们权力并培养联系感。然而，他们现有的软件面临着重大挑战。它难以使用、缺乏足够的支持且效率低下，使他们更难以满足客户的需求并实现其业务目标。该软件不是基于云的，限制了其可访问性和功能。客户门户也存在问题，客户的反馈表明它很难使用。当他们寻求支持时，往往几周后才收到回复，这导致他们感到沮丧并迫切需要改变。