ODL Door Glass.
"It's exactly what we wanted."
- Scot Harder, ODL VP of Sales
ODL manufactures beautiful door glass for sale to door manufacturers and building products companies. The door glass and doors have thermal and optical ratings that when combined make up the completed doors' Energy Star rating. Together, these numbers determine if a particular door/glass combination has the privilege of displaying the Energy Star compliance sticker.
NFRC is an industry consortium that performs testing of thousands of products for the building products industry. ODL needed a means to automatically access the NFRC data and manage it. Hundreds of man-hours were being consumed downloading and managing this data, then making it available for use.
MSCloudworks designed a custom cloud-based application to:
* download the data at regular intervals
* merge the data and add additional product specific information
* filter out the 90% of data that are irrelevant
* publish the data in a web browser, embedded into ODL's internal product portal web site,
that is simple, intuitive, & complete with drop down filters specifying specific
products and Energy Star compliance.
All without ODL purchasing any software or computer hardware.
Photo:odl.com
Zabitat manufactures and sells door glass and sidelight inserts for the Do It Yourself community. They also work through a network of professional installers. One of their primary marketing efforts is through social media. Zabitat creates before and after pictures for the majority of their installation, which are then made available to customers to post online. The problem they faced was in gathering and controlling the data on installations, along with thousands of before and after pictures.
MSCloudworks designed a custom cloud-based application to:
* store and index thousands of before and after pictures.
* capture data from field installers who use a customized data entry system.
* store the combined and edited before & after pictures.
* interface with social media applications to publish the pictures at a designated time interval in
the appropriate market.
