Background

The Client’s number of employees: 1500+

The Client is a world leader in the development, supply, and technical support of formulated film coating systems, modified release technologies, and functional excipients for the pharmaceutical and nutritional industries.

They were looking for a CRM system for their business as a foundational component of an overall digitization program for their global team spanning multiple continents.

The primary objective of this CRM system was to enhance customer service, optimize sales productivity and impact, and facilitate more efficient communication both internally and externally, thereby directing marketing efforts more strategically.

Business Challenges

Inconsistent Customer Service

Inadequate visibility into client historical information and recent interactions hamper the ability to provide consistent and personalized customer service.

Missed Upsell and Cross-Sell Opportunities

The lack of integrated systems and data silos makes it challenging to identify and capitalize on upsell and cross-sell opportunities, resulting in lost revenue.

Disconnected Sales and Marketing

Isolated processes and databases for the Sales and Marketing teams lead to communication gaps and inefficiencies, hindering collaboration and coordinated efforts.

Limited Visibility into Sales Team Performance

Insufficient tools and metrics make it difficult to monitor and assess the performance of the sales team, hindering the ability to optimize strategies and drive results.

Inadequate Customer Interaction Tracking

Poor visibility into customer interactions across various touchpoints makes it challenging to understand customer needs and preferences, leading to missed opportunities for engagement and satisfaction.

Inefficient Business Processes

A lack of visibility into core business processes results in inefficiencies and bottlenecks, preventing the company from streamlining operations and reducing costs.

Ineffective Lead Nurturing

Limited tracking of lead interactions and behavior hinders the company’s ability to nurture leads effectively and convert them into customers.

Lack of Marketing Attribution

Inadequate tracking and attribution of marketing efforts make it challenging to measure the ROI of marketing campaigns and optimize spending.

User Training and Adoption

Introducing the integrated system to users, including training and promoting its adoption, can be a significant challenge to ensure a smooth transition and maximize benefits.

Implementation Complexities

CRM Integration Complexity

Integrating an On-Premises Oracle CRM system with a Cloud-based HubSpot CRM system presents a complex technical challenge, including data synchronization and real-time updates.

Error Handling for Data Integrity

Implementing a robust error-handling mechanism is essential to maintain data integrity during the integration process, ensuring that data inconsistencies or errors are promptly addressed and resolved.

Territory Management and Resource Assignment

Designing and establishing a territory management system with automatic resource assignment in HubSpot involves architecting a process that optimizes sales and marketing efforts based on geographical regions and customer assignments.

Custom Actions for Oracle Integration

Developing custom actions within HubSpot to execute operations on the Oracle CRM system demands tailored solutions to ensure smooth cross-platform functionality and data flow.

Development of Custom Order Placement process and Sync with Oracle ERP

The development of custom order placement in HubSpot with Oracle’s order process requires precise integration to offer a cohesive and streamlined user experience.

The solution

Thorough Business Discovery

Conducted an extensive business discovery process to understand the company’s operations and requirements, leading to the effective transformation of business processes by leveraging HubSpot’s out-of-the-box functionality for marketing automation and sales enablement.

Robust Data Cleaning & Seamless Data Migration

Precise data cleaning, de-duplication, and error correction using SQL scripts along with data transformation ensuring no data loss.

Efficient Data Synchronization

Established a robust bidirectional data synchronization mechanism between the EBS and HubSpot, incorporating both scheduled jobs at regular time intervals and real-time synchronization using WS02.

Quality Assurance

Implemented a comprehensive quality assurance framework to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the integrated data.

Customization & Transformation of Processes

Developed and transformed processes to align the company’s specific business requirements with the capabilities of HubSpot, ensuring a robust and efficient solution that caters to the unique needs of the organization.

User Training and Support

Provided comprehensive user training and ongoing support to ensure the smooth adoption of the integrated system, empowering the team to leverage the full potential of the HubSpot CRM and its functionalities.

The Result

360-Degree Contact Insight

Achieved comprehensive visibility of contacts, companies, deals, and activities within a single platform.

Pipeline Insights from Campaigns

Gained valuable insights on pipeline creation derived from marketing campaigns.

Actionable Tasks for Deal Insights

Enabled call-to-action through task management for valuable insights into deal activities.

Global Marketing Calendar

Implemented a global marketing calendar for coordinated activities.

Smooth Data Transfer for ERP

Bridged gaps between systems to ensure smooth data transfer for the Oracle ERP

Simplified Business Processes

Simplified overall business processes by integrating third-party SaaS applications.

Data Quality and Efficiency

Improved data quality, time efficiency, and error handling.

Applications used

HubSpot CRM

HubSpot CRM played a central role in unifying and streamlining our customer relationship management. It provided a user-friendly interface for sales and marketing teams, offering features like contact management, lead nurturing, and marketing automation.

Dell Boomi Middleware

Data integration bridge ensuring data integrity and real-time error handling.

Oracle EBS (Enterprise Business Suite)

Oracle EBS formed the backbone of our business operations. The successful data migration ensured that Oracle EBS remained a vital part of our operations, and data integrity was maintained.

WSO2

Facilitated real-time data synchronization for up-to-date information across systems.

AWS

To manage mass updates used SQS and Lambda services.

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