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Benchmarking: Top-Tier Transformation

Introduction First Quartile Consulting is a utility focused firm based in North America that offers consulting and benchmarking services to help their clients achieve measurable performance improvements.  A significant basis for their consulting is to compile and maintain a large database of measurements collected from many utility companies related to various aspects of customer service… View Article

Handling Complex Use Cases with Intellimas

Introduction Our Intellimas software is built to handle simple and complex use cases.  Either can have a great impact on organizations.  If you are replacing a spreadsheet process or a simple access database, Intellimas can easily handle this and make the process much more strategic.  But there are times when a business process is more… View Article

What is a Low Code App Platform, and Why do you Need One?

Introduction Our Intellimas software is considered a low code application platform (LCAP).  This means that it can help you deploy web apps in days in order to solve business problems and handle important use cases.  This blog post drills into what an LCAP is and why you need one for your organization. What is an… View Article
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The Case for On-Premise Deployments

Many companies will not even look at on-prem as an alternative because they do not want their IT team to have to manage hardware and software, and for some of the reasons mentioned above related to the cloud option. However, if a software vendor provides both options, it is important that clients apply their due diligence to both.

Better Tracking of Perkins V Compliance

A state university network (SUN) in the U.S. that manages many colleges was looking for a better way to track compliance with the Congressional Act called Perkins V.  Perkins V was signed into law in 2018 and it reauthorized and improved upon the Perkins IV act of 2006.  This act provided $1.3 billion toward career… View Article

Express Yourself!

One of the secrets behind the ultra-flexibility of Intellimas is our scripting engine. When we first built the software, we knew it had a great grid UI (and we have since added form views), but we had to determine how our clients would need to process data. We knew they would need calculation capabilities, but… View Article

Introducing Published Forms

In working with various companies over the years, we have come across the need to enable quick, intermittent input from users in a highly streamlined format. Given that, we have created a comprehensive new feature called ”Published Forms”. Since the name doesn’t necessarily tell you what it does, we can describe it by the end… View Article

Responding to Client Feature Requests

We always strive to make improvements to Intellimas based on what our customers request, and this month is no different. In our latest release, we are introducing three new features. Dropdown fields have always been a useful component of any configuration, and now they are even better. As you may know, when you start to… View Article

Replacing an Access Database Application

Client Description: Global information management and media company that maintains detailed intelligence for various markets, which is used by a variety of businesses and professionals. Business Problem: This organization has maintained detailed data on specific industries over a long period of time. As is typical in many companies, the business team created their own database… View Article

Construction Cost Estimation

Client Description: Large building construction and project development company Business Problem: This client designs and constructs many structures in different regions of the globe. They were looking for an application builder that could handle a variety of use cases. The main one they wanted to automate was a construction cost estimation process. This was being… View Article

Property Investment Management

This client develops, constructs and manages many properties in different regions of the United States. They had a spreadsheet-based process for managing the multitude of investments into the properties. They needed a standardized system that could handle all of their process nuances and reporting requirements.

Intellimas Reviewed and Awarded by FinancesOnline.com

We at Singletree have always valued the opinion of our customers more than anyone else, and the feedback we have gotten to date about our Intellimas® application has been great. However, we also value the judgement of third parties whose job it is to thoroughly review software. This is exactly what took place recently when… View Article

Sales Order Management and Buy Planning

Client Description: Large wholesale apparel company with a wide variety of high end lifestyle brands Business Problem: This client has an old ERP system with lots of manual processes in many areas of the business. In some of their divisions, sales orders were started in spreadsheets and then re-keyed into the ERP system. The redundant… View Article

Capacity Planning

Client Description: Multinational retailer of high quality apparel for young men and women Business Problem: This company has spent the last few years implementing a leading Supply Chain Management (SCM) system which has helped streamline their business process. As in most enterprise system implementations, there were gaps in the business process that were being filled… View Article

Work Order Management

Client Description: Large U.S. manufacturer of T-Shirts and other clothing Business Problem: This company is implementing a PLM system to house all of their product data and to manage the pre-production process.  In the pre-sales process, a gap was identified that was a lynchpin for their production process and was not covered by the PLM… View Article

Why Vendors May Not Benefit from Supply Chain Collaboration as Much as You Think

Long ago, many companies realized they couldn’t handle all aspects of product development and manufacturing. For more than 25 years, vendors across the globe have been assisting western brands in bringing products to market. These days, a vendor’s role in the supply chain is more critical than ever, as they provide either important components or… View Article

Catalog Pricing & Content Management

Client Description: Retailer of high quality performance apparel for dance and gymnastics   Business Problem: Each and every business activity for this retailer is a lead up to building the catalog.  The designers, pattern makers, product developers, costing staff, merchants, and marketing team all contribute to the product content for these very important books that… View Article

Salesman Sample Inventory Management

Client Description: Mid-sized handbag wholesaler.   Business Problem: This company was importing many salesman samples each season. Once they came into their corporate office, the samples would be distributed to salespersons.  They would then lose track of the samples because they had no system to manage them.  These lost samples could have been reused or… View Article

Replacing a PLM Costing Function

Client Description: Large specialty brands retailer that markets to teens   Business Problem: This company recently implemented a leading supply chain management (SCM) system. The system has comprehensive costing and RFQ functionality which can handle the product costing for this company but required the users to input data in a variety of screens in order… View Article

Audit Compliance

Client Description: A $3 billion dollar young men’s and women’s apparel company has been using Intellimas to solve a variety of business problems since 2011.  They started with a popular use for the Intellimas grid, which is to manage requests for quotes to agents and vendors, including detailed costs and product margin evaluation.  They have… View Article