Property Group Leverages Boomi Tech to Beat the Market Downturn
Announcement posted by Boomi 26 Mar 2018
JWH Group has implemented Boomi iPaaS for better client insights amid turbulent conditions in the Western Australian property market
Sydney, Australia – March 26, 2018 – Dell Boomi™ (Boomi) has announced that residential property builder, JWH Group, is using the Boomi platform to enable granular client insights while ensuring the autonomy of and privacy for competing brands.
Operating in Western Australia, JWH Group comprises eight prominent companies in the building sector, with its four major brands – Plunkett Homes, WA Country Builders, Residential Building WA and Oswald Homes – considered competitors.
According to JWH, while the company maintains strong presence in the large state, it faces challenging conditions – the WA property market is currently in decline, with prices having dropped significantly since the end of the mining boom.
To help overcome this downturn and maintain its market share, JWH initiated a five-year IT overhaul under a program of work to rip-and-replace its business-critical administration, construction, and estimating and scheduling systems. The work was comprised of three major projects. Two fundamental components of one of those projects were to provide employees with more detailed insights into their clients, and ensure that data generated by its new solutions would be restricted to the companies that own the data.
Having replaced its lead management system with a modern, best-of-breed solution, JWH introduced Boomi cloud-based integration as mechanism to connect these new applications, and enable data generated by them to synchronise seamlessly.
“We have quite a unique operation in that the four main building companies within JWH compete with one another – this means we need to serve the best interests of every business while preserving the operational boundaries between them,” said Pep Oliveri, IT Manager at JWH Group.
“Once we decided to refresh our software environment, we needed an integration tool to make our new cloud-based apps – namely SugarCRM and Marketo – talk to one another. Importantly, the solution would need to allow duplicates of data at the group level, while restricting it to single instances at the company level, and at the same time prevent client information from one of our competing brands being accessed by another. Having reviewed several options, we found Boomi was the only solution that could tick all these boxes.”
Using Boomi, JWH has been able to connect SugarCRM and Marketo, and consequently streamlined data synchronisation while keeping information segregated. As customer data is automatically integrated across the appropriate applications, JWH has also eliminated significant manual input. This has not only improved employee productivity, but also reduced risk of human error.
The synchronised customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing data has provided JWH’s companies with greater visibility into client activities, allowing employees to boost relationships. For example, when a client downloads a particular plan, the sales representative is notified, and can leverage that information to advise the customer of their best options on purchasing and building a property.
Boomi has also saved significant time and resources for JWH’s IT department, which is no longer required to manually code and manage connectors between its applications. The low-code design of the Boomi iPaaS means integrations can be easily initiated and maintained so that the IT team can focus on qualitative projects to generate value for JWH’s brands and therefore deliver greater value to clients.
“Managing a large organisation while sustaining the operational integrity of multiple companies is challenging, and even more so within a turbulent climate such as the Western Australian property market,” said Michael Evans, Managing Director Asia-Pacific and Japan, Dell Boomi. “By integrating its core customer applications using Boomi, JWH has both improved the efficiency and productivity of its IT team, while providing real time information and better insights to its customer facing staff.”
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Operating in Western Australia, JWH Group comprises eight prominent companies in the building sector, with its four major brands – Plunkett Homes, WA Country Builders, Residential Building WA and Oswald Homes – considered competitors.
According to JWH, while the company maintains strong presence in the large state, it faces challenging conditions – the WA property market is currently in decline, with prices having dropped significantly since the end of the mining boom.
To help overcome this downturn and maintain its market share, JWH initiated a five-year IT overhaul under a program of work to rip-and-replace its business-critical administration, construction, and estimating and scheduling systems. The work was comprised of three major projects. Two fundamental components of one of those projects were to provide employees with more detailed insights into their clients, and ensure that data generated by its new solutions would be restricted to the companies that own the data.
Having replaced its lead management system with a modern, best-of-breed solution, JWH introduced Boomi cloud-based integration as mechanism to connect these new applications, and enable data generated by them to synchronise seamlessly.
“We have quite a unique operation in that the four main building companies within JWH compete with one another – this means we need to serve the best interests of every business while preserving the operational boundaries between them,” said Pep Oliveri, IT Manager at JWH Group.
“Once we decided to refresh our software environment, we needed an integration tool to make our new cloud-based apps – namely SugarCRM and Marketo – talk to one another. Importantly, the solution would need to allow duplicates of data at the group level, while restricting it to single instances at the company level, and at the same time prevent client information from one of our competing brands being accessed by another. Having reviewed several options, we found Boomi was the only solution that could tick all these boxes.”
Using Boomi, JWH has been able to connect SugarCRM and Marketo, and consequently streamlined data synchronisation while keeping information segregated. As customer data is automatically integrated across the appropriate applications, JWH has also eliminated significant manual input. This has not only improved employee productivity, but also reduced risk of human error.
The synchronised customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing data has provided JWH’s companies with greater visibility into client activities, allowing employees to boost relationships. For example, when a client downloads a particular plan, the sales representative is notified, and can leverage that information to advise the customer of their best options on purchasing and building a property.
Boomi has also saved significant time and resources for JWH’s IT department, which is no longer required to manually code and manage connectors between its applications. The low-code design of the Boomi iPaaS means integrations can be easily initiated and maintained so that the IT team can focus on qualitative projects to generate value for JWH’s brands and therefore deliver greater value to clients.
“Managing a large organisation while sustaining the operational integrity of multiple companies is challenging, and even more so within a turbulent climate such as the Western Australian property market,” said Michael Evans, Managing Director Asia-Pacific and Japan, Dell Boomi. “By integrating its core customer applications using Boomi, JWH has both improved the efficiency and productivity of its IT team, while providing real time information and better insights to its customer facing staff.”
About Dell Boomi
Dell Boomi (Boomi), an independent business unit of Dell, is the leading provider of cloud integration and workflow automation software to build The Connected Business. Boomi helps more than 7,000 organisations accelerate business agility by connecting data and applications to run faster and smarter. Visit www.boomi.com for more information.
© 2018 Boomi Inc. Dell, Boomi, and Dell Boomi are trademarks of Dell Inc. or its subsidiaries. Other names or marks may be the trademarks of their respective owners.