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Common Issues Solved

All businesses hit point in which the current solutions reach their limit or improvements in process & data require more advanced handling.
This is where the power of Agile Embark shines. We can work with your teams to provide exactly what you need instead of compromising and requiring several 3rd party applications to bridge the gaps.
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How Does Agile Embark Work?

Agile Embark is a comprehensive package combining expert consulting and advanced web-based application development.

Our Approach

We provide a versatile core application that can be tailored to your unique needs. Our iterative process of discovery, development, and implementation ensures that we solve your problems efficiently and effectively.

Why Agile Embark?

By collaborating with you iteratively, we address your priorities as they arise, offering a customizable solution tailored to your specific needs. Whether driven by priority or budget, Agile Embark adapts to your pace, providing flexible and scalable solutions.

Our Process

  1. Identify an Issue or Inefficiency: We start by pinpointing the challenges you face.
  2. Derive and Design the Solution: Our consultants work with you to design the ideal solution.
  3. Develop and Test the Solution: Our development team brings the solution to life, ensuring it meets your needs.
  4. Implement the Solution: We implement the solution seamlessly, minimizing disruption.

Advantages

  • Cost-Effective and Focused: By implementing solutions individually, we keep costs down and focus on the areas that matter most.
  • Reduced Training and Adoption Pains: Solutions are rolled out to the affected teams only, making adoption smoother and more efficient.
  • Continuous Improvement: Our modular process allows for continuous updates and improvements, tailored to your evolving needs.

Rapid and Affordable Custom Solutions

Our internal methods ensure dedicated resources at every step. Our consultants quickly design effective solutions, and our platform enables rapid development. In some cases, we’ve gone from issue identification to production in less than a month.

Convert Spreadsheets into applications

Spreadsheets are powerful and useful—until they aren’t. Limitations in data handling, document management, versioning, security, and other issues often arise.

Agile Embark transforms your spreadsheets into full-fledged applications, opening up endless possibilities for enhancing your current processes. Imagine adding user-based security, proper data integrations, automated reporting, artificial intelligence analysis, real-time data, and more.

Below are a few solutions we’ve provided to overcome spreadsheet challenges.

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Issue: Outdated and Unreliable Report Generation

Background: A company faced significant challenges after the departure of an employee who created and maintained a critical spreadsheet for report generation. The existing spreadsheet had several outdated data sources, and the output lacked usable data for decision-making.

Our Solution with Agile Embark:

  1. Data Integration:

    • Integrated all necessary data sources into a single system.
    • Added additional data sources to provide a more comprehensive reporting system.

  2. Automation:

    • Automated the aggregation of data from various sources.
    • Generated dynamic report dashboards that provided real-time insights.

  3. Notification System:

    • Implemented an automated email notification system to alert users when new reports were ready.
    • Ensured relevant stakeholders were informed promptly, reducing delays in decision-making.

Results:

  • The company now has a robust and reliable reporting system.
  • Enhanced data accuracy and completeness.
  • Streamlined workflow, reducing the manual effort required for report generation.

Spreadsheets: Quoting, Configuration, Proposals

Issue: Inefficient and Insecure Spreadsheet Management

Background: Several companies and sales channels relied on distributed spreadsheets for basic product configuration and output manipulation. They encountered difficulties in distributing updated sheets to a network of estimators and managing security issues when connecting to data sources.

Our Solution with Agile Embark:

Recreating Quote Tools Within Agile Embark:

Best Part of the Solution:

  • Recreated the spreadsheet functionality within the Agile Embark application.
  • Streamlined the product configuration process and enforced configuration rules.
  • Enabled users to upload their branding images and legal content directly into the portal.
  • Simplified the process of tracking, generating, and managing quotes.
  • Provided a finished proposal within the portal, making it easier for estimators to use.

Document Management and Distribution:

  • Utilized Agile Embark’s document management and distribution capabilities.
  • Provided a secured portal for easy access to the latest versions of the spreadsheet.
  • Made it easier to distribute technical documents and marketing materials.

Results:

  • Improved Efficiency and Security: Enhanced the management and distribution of spreadsheets.
  • Streamlined Processes: Simplified the product configuration and proposal generation process.
  • Better Tracking and Data Collection: Enabled manufacturers to gather insights that were previously impossible to obtain.
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How can Agile Embark help
 increase efficiency? reduce costs? bridge gaps? improve communication? automate tasks? innovate? break barriers?

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Aggregate and Display Data how you want

In modern manufacturing, data is king. However, collecting the right data and presenting it in a usable way can be challenging.

Agile Embark excels in this area by giving you complete control over your data needs and its location. Instead of displaying data separately, Agile Embark integrates it directly into your existing systems. Imagine making decisions on inventory and work orders with all the relevant data right in your ordering system. Agile Embark makes this possible!

Complex Work Order Generation

Issue: Managing Complex Work Orders Across Multiple Sales Channels

Background: A client with multiple sales channels in an ecommerce setting struggled with extremely complex work order generation rules. No existing solutions could meet their needs for aggregating and processing data from various sales channels.

Our Solution with Agile Embark:

Automated Aggregation and Work Order Generation:

  • Data Integration:

    • Implemented automated aggregation of historical data from multiple sales channels.
    • Categorized the data relative to the product categories they produced.

  • Work Order Generation Module:

    • Developed a work order generation module that allowed the company to enter large orders across several product categories and SKUs.
    • Built internal work order breakdowns, categorical rules, workflows, and production methods into Agile Embark.

Results:

  • Up-to-Date and Relevant Data:

    • Provided real-time data for informed decision-making on ordering.
    • Ensured accurate work order generation.

  • Enhanced Efficiency:

    • Streamlined production and organization, keeping inventory efficient.
    • Reduced costs, time, and energy required to maintain the process by half.

Important Core Items

Accessibility

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Agile Embark can be used with several accessibility structures. Web-based, private network, or individual work stations 

Real-Time Capabilities

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Agile Embark is built on a foundation of real-time technology.

This means notifications, real-time tracking, chats, collaborative views are all at your fingertips.

Rapid deployment

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Agile Embark works in a packaged environment. This means that solution development can run concurrently with production systems. 

Imagine being able to see every step of the solution being built so you can perfect the solution you receive.

Connectivity

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The flexibility of Agile Embark is unmatched. If it can be accessed, Agile Embark can use it.

In several cases Agile Embark is used to replace those external systems in order to gain even better insight and control over your data.

Complete Control

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With Agile Embark you and your teams have complete control over Agile Embark. Anything from incormporating artificial intelligence to analyze aggregated data to generate advanced reporting all the way down to what color you want a button to be.

Every aspect can be configured to meet your needs.

Uncompromising

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Agile Embark’s mission is to take the chains off of your processes. 

Boxed solutions often create problems or fail to achieve your goals because they try to provide a set of one-size fits all tools. 

Agile Embark builds exact to your needs tools. In most cases for less than half the price of the boxed solutions.

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Why Agile Embark is a Superior Solution?

Tailored Solutions, Not Restrictive Boxes

Agile Embark stands out by providing exact solutions tailored to your unique needs, unlike restrictive boxed solutions. Here’s why it’s the better choice:

  • No Seat or Per User Costs:

    • Avoid unnecessary expenses with flexible pricing models. Pay only for what you need without per-user or seat costs.

  • No Unnecessary Features:

    • Don’t waste money on application parts you don’t need. Agile Embark lets you build the exact solution you want.

  • Seamless Integration:

    • Eliminate the hassle of buying additional applications to make your current ones work. Agile Embark integrates everything you need into one cohesive platform.

Custom Solutions When You Want Them

  • Flexibility and Control:

    • You decide what the application does and how it works. Agile Embark adapts to your requirements, not the other way around.

  • Modular Development:

    • Our modular approach ensures that each part of your system is developed and implemented to meet your specific needs. This makes it easy to update and expand your system as your business grows.

Iterative Practices for Continuous Improvement

  • Perpetual Growth:

    • Agile Embark’s iterative practices create an environment that fosters continuous growth and forward movement. Each iteration brings improvements and new capabilities, keeping your business at the cutting edge.

  • Cost-Effective Experimentation:

    • Our platform is cost-effective enough to allow for experimentation. Test and implement new ideas without breaking the bank.

Real-World Testing and Prototyping

  • Prototyping for Success:
    • Being able to test and use a prototype system is much more effective than theorizing. Agile Embark allows you to build and test prototypes quickly, ensuring that your solutions are practical and effective.

What Agile Embark Can Do for You

  • Advanced Data Integration:

    • Seamlessly integrate data from multiple sources to provide comprehensive insights and drive informed decision-making.

  • Automated Processes:

    • Automate routine tasks and workflows to increase efficiency and reduce manual effort.

  • Customizable Dashboards:

    • Create custom dashboards that provide real-time insights into your business operations.

  • Enhanced Security:

    • Implement robust security measures to protect your data and ensure compliance with industry standards.

  • AI-Powered Insights:

    • Utilize AI and machine learning capabilities to gain deeper insights and predict trends.

  • Scalable Solutions:

    • Build a scalable platform that grows with your business, allowing you to add new features and capabilities as needed.

Conclusion

Agile Embark delivers what you want, when you want it. Its modular development and iterative practices ensure continuous growth and improvement, making it a cost-effective and flexible solution. With Agile Embark, you have the power to create a system that perfectly aligns with your business needs, driving efficiency and innovation every step of the way.

Frequently Asked Questions

How does Agile Embark work?

It is a suite of consulting, project management, and custom development based on the Agile Embark platform.

Iterative identification, solution design, development, and implementation strategies are used.

What are the benefits of iterative implementation?

By focusing on individual initiatives it allows you to focus on project in more detail. 

This also facilitates more accurate budget control and reduces implementation pains like training and upsetting non-related processes.

How does Agile Embark reduce costs?

Agile Embark does not have seat charges or recurring charges. You pay for your solutions to be developed and that's it. 

The only recurring fees potentially associated could be hosting (which you are directly billed) or any needed 3rd party API or application charges.

What can Agile Embark do?

Virtually anything you can think of. It can act as a standalone single application or it can act as a full ERP system. 
Anytime you are using a spreadsheet, looking at new software, or have a problem that others can't seem to solve, Agile Embark can do it. Sky is the limit.

Is Agile Embark Secure?

Yes! Agile Embark uses scaling levels of security. This can range from simple user authentication to using military grade encryption.

What kind of support does Agile Embark offer?

Agile's team includes dedicated consultants, project managers, and developers. With direct communication lines and strategic points of contact, the right people are always available for the proper channels.

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Discover the power of a platform that is as adaptive as your business needs.

With Agile Embark, embrace the potential of a system that offers everything from simple solutions to full-scale ERP integrations, all while presenting the face of your brand.

Join us and transform your business operations with technology that is powerful, adaptable, and uniquely yours.

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