4D success stories showcase the different ways in which developers and end users have used the 4D family of tools. Whether you're looking for advice on how to handle a data management challenge, or would like to show a colleague what can be done with 4D products, these stories can help you accomplish your goals.
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CHICK Workholding Solutions relies on 4D software to manage business operations.
At Husqvarna Forest & Garden, Co., thinking big has been a priority for over 300 years. As a provider of a wide range of forestry, lawn, and garden products, this Sweden-based company has served a number of important clients across the globe. In addition to serving a customer base of approximately 6,000 in just the U.S. and Canada, the North American branch of Husqvarna is also the official Forest, Lawn, and Garden Equipment of NASCAR. Moreover, after the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Husqvarna was there to donate both funds and equipment to the recovery efforts, including power cutters, work gloves, safety glasses, and more. With large scale projects such as these, as well as a feature-rich Web site that helps customers immediately locate dealers on the Web, Husqvarna North America required a comprehensive solution, one that would give them the technology they needed to effectively handle numerous customers and data from different systems in a variety of ways.
"The multiprocessing ability of the 4th Dimension development environment is key for our solution, since it allows us to automate and schedule various tasks that need to be done regularly."
Husqvarna needed a tool that would enable them to create a technology solution for both internal and external personnel, as well as for their customers on the Web. More specifically, the Husqvarna team required a data management system that would improve the flow of information between numerous employees, while simultaneously enabling them to better serve the large number of requests to locate dealers on the Web. According to Darwin Caverly, Senior Analyst of Husqvarna, having accurate and up-to-date information on customers would help in-house staff and Husqvarna’s external field sales force, not to mention improve internal workflow processes across the board. "We needed to track more information on our customers than just orders and sales," explains Caverly. "We wanted to improve the information flow between our dealers, our outside people, and our inside people, while reducing the need for manually tracking certain information. We also needed to eliminate the re-keying of information into separate systems, and ideally, keep ourselves from outsourcing the dealer locator service in order to keep it as up-to-date and self-maintaining as possible." Essentially, Caverly and the entire North American Husqvarna team required a solution that could handle serving the needs of their Dealer Locator on the Web while providing the company itself with a reliable client/server network application.
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