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Customer Stories: Paul Davril, Inc.
| Customer: | Paul Davril | | Industry: | Wholesale & Distribution | | | | | | Overview | | Company: | Paul Davril Inc., headquartered in Los Angeles, is a full-service supplier of retail and apparel classifications. PDI owns the license rights (USA) to Kenneth Cole sportswear, Eckored womenswear and maintains a robust private label business as well. | | Business Need: | Paul Davril's underlying process inefficiencies were preventing it from providing employees with convenient access to critical information. PDI also wanted to increase communication with employees in disparate office locations. | | Solution: | Implemented IBM WebSphere Portal Server Extend on Intel based IBM BladeCenter Servers | | Benefits: | Simplified systems; common data and knowledge store; reduced costs; enhanced ability to collaborate on shared projects | | | | Details | | Solution: | Paul Davril is deploying Websphere Portal as part of an initiative to put day-to-day business activities online. Combining best practices, company strategy and news on competitors, the portal empowers PDI to meet performance expectations, reduce information delivery and training costs, and focus employees on company brand and strategy. In addition, as the company's virtual desktop, PDI's corporate portal provides a comprehensive Web experience for the company's executives, managers, and associates who for the first time have a single desktop destination for e-mail, calendar, news on competitors, product lines and procurement. | | Benefits: | creates single point of access to all Paul Davril systems drives growth, delivering sales and marketing tools to the desktop empowers project teams to collaborate with other functional groups, keeping projects on-time broadens audience for existing systems, increasing return-on-investment increases employee productivity, speeding searches for information | | Key Components: | industry news sales reports Lotus Notes e-mail and calendar collaboration and imstant messaging employee directory corporate announcements package tracking through UPS | | |
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