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Building World-Class Support for a Global Luxury Brand
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Consumer Goods
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Supply Chain Visibility
- Inventory Management
Services
- Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
The Challenge
Viking Range, LLC, a pioneer in bringing commercial-quality technology and design to the residential market, needed an online solution to provide comprehensive product information in one location for both service people and consumers. The documentation includes use and care instructions, installation guides, service manuals and bulletins, and parts books. Viking was also motivated to increase efficiencies in their publishing department. Their previous system relied on an outside vendor to update the content via static PDFs and spreadsheet files. The process of updating a parts book took up to two weeks before it was available online because Viking had to send the change to the external service provider and wait for them to get the content updated on Viking’s online system.
About The Customer
Viking Range, LLC has been making high-end residential ranges and appliances in Greenwood, Mississippi since the late 1980s. A pioneer in bringing commercial-quality technology and design to the residential market, Viking has become one of America’s iconic luxury brands. In 2012, Viking Range was acquired by The Middleby Corporation. Middleby is an industry leader in commercial and residential kitchen products with a portfolio of over 70 quality brands. Viking has continued to develop and introduce new products and innovations since the acquisition, maintaining its reputation as an extremely customer-focused organization.
The Solution
After conducting market research and evaluating a number of competing products, Viking selected the Documoto software platform as the best option for fulfilling its desired criteria. Documoto’s cloud-based relational database system would allow the greatest flexibility in associating media, parts, and appliance models. And it would enable technical publishers to make changes to parts lists and upload new documents instantly, saving time for both the publishing department and service technicians. With a fairly extensive library of legacy documents and data, Viking enlisted Documoto’s Professional Services team to help with conversion and migration of existing content. Documoto was successfully deployed on schedule, approximately 90 days after starting implementation. Technical writers and illustrators immediately began using the application to speed up critical processes.
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