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CASE STUDY Aidmatrix Foundation – non-profit provides supply chain management capabilities to some of the largest humanitarian relief organizations worldwide with the help of Telerik

The Aidmatrix Foundation, Inc. supplies some of the largest humanitarian relief organizations around the world with supply chain management (SCM) to enable processing more than $1.5 billion in aid annually. At the same time, the majority of those OVERVIEW using ‘SCM4Good’ are new to the use of enterprise-wide SCM and Aidmatrix needed to ensure that the UI for its solution was clean COUNTRY United States and easy to use.

SECTOR Supply Chain Management, Non-profit

CUSTOMER PROFILE The Aidmatrix Foundation, Inc. is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit headquartered in Irving, TX. More than 40,000 leading business, non- profit and government partners leverage its solutions to mobilize more than $1.5 billion in aid annually. The donated goods, money and services impact the lives of more than 65 million people, worldwide.

BUSINESS SITUATION Since many of its users do not come from technical backgrounds and much of its work is based outside of the US, Aidmatrix wanted to ensure that as new functionality was added to its supply chain management (SCM) system, it did not increase complexity for its user base. www.aidmatrix.org SOLUTION Aidmatrix leveraged Telerik’s DevCraft Ultimate suite to update its SCM platforms with a more modern look and feel with better reporting and advanced filtering and search capabilities.

RESULT • The updated SCM4Good platform was rolled out in less than a year • With simple drag and drop capabilities, its ease of use has made for widespread adoption • Aidmatrix has already begun its migration to Microsoft Azure with minimal disruption, due to the .NET based infrastructure BACKGROUND THE CHALLENGE THE SOLUTION Aidmatrix believes that With potentially thousands Aidmatrix needed a set of by working together, we of users logging on to .NET developer tools that can triumph over the SCM4Good on a daily would work out-of-the-box world’s most challenging basis, the system needed to and would also support its humanitarian crises. Its supply communicate as much data migration to Azure. After chain management (SCM) – without overwhelming the evaluating a handful of technologies make it easy user – as possible. The system solutions, the non-profit and efficient for everyone currently assists users with selected Telerik’s DevCraft from donors to non-profits to all means of SCM lifecycle Ultimate suite. governments to get the right management – field supply “We chose Telerik for its ease aid to people when and where chain activities, 6-12 month of implementation. There they need it most. planning, build models, GAAP were certain functions in its analysis and more. Aidmatrix Aidmatrix does not receive RadControls that we needed needed to free up spacing financial gain from individual and by just making a setting on the main pages, where donations made through or configuration change, we appropriate, adding much the Aidmatrix Network. The were up and running, rather needed white space in order organization helps connect than having to code by hand. to simplify the complex, data- those who have with those-in- Also the Telerik forum and heavy UI and make for a need to: community are very helpful better overall user experience. from the developer point of Accelerate and increase It also wanted to incorporate view and provided us with the capabilities to deliver advanced filtering and better good guidance throughout the humanitarian relief. search capabilities. process,” said Michael Ross, Provide excellent products, The organization decided CIO, Aidmatrix. service and advice in order to update its technology In addition to a superior to make affordable the best but needed to do so in an toolset, Aidmatrix found technology available. economically sound manner. value in the Telerik Being a non-profit, Aidmatrix Keep donor information community, forums and the is focused on cost-recovery confidential. documentation supplied to instead of profitability. them. “We are a small team Be a trustworthy partner. The updated technology working under enormous also needed to cater to a pressure to move quickly and worldwide audience, many keep costs to a minimum. Not of whom had little-to-no having to spend extra time technical background, so ease- and budget on consulting was of-use was a top requirement. huge for us. The community Lastly, it needed to be agile as a whole is extremely helpful to support the growth of the - often times enabling us to community – which has been find answers to our issues growing at a steady clip over quickly and effectively.” the last 18-24 months. THE RESULT THE VERDICT In less than a year the new “Telerik’s DevCraft suite met Moreover, our SCM4Good app was up and exceeded all of our migration to Azure has and running. It now has a expectations. Not only were been seamless as Telerik’s cleaner look and feel with the tools easy-to-use, but the controls are .NET-based, strong reporting capabilities. documentation, support and which makes migration an Aidmatrix is also able to forums available to us were easier experience.” communicate more data, invaluable. We will absolutely pulling more pertinent look to Telerik in the future.” Michael Ross, CIO, information “above the fold”. Aidmatrix. In addition, Aidmatrix has been able to start its migration to Azure and already is well underway. “Thus far, performance has been good and we’re pleased with the overall experience. There is definitely more that we can do and would like to do in the future, given the appropriate time and bandwidth,” said Ross. FIND OUT MORE

ABOUT THE AIDMATRIX FOUNDATION, UI Complete for ASP.NET MVC, plus Priority INC. Support. DevCraft Complete adds: Telerik Reporting, OpenAccess ORM, JustCode, Go to www.telerik.com The Aidmatrix Foundation, Inc. builds and JustTrace, JustDecompile and JustMock. operates powerful technology hubs that support diverse stakeholder groups in their DevCraft Ultimate adds Ultimate Support for Call us +1-888-365-2779 efforts to work together to solve the world’s all the products: free updates for 1-year or most challenging humanitarian crises. Its more, unlimited web portal support, unlimited solutions enhance participation, amplify phone assistance, remote web assistance, Email [email protected] contributions, and accelerate results for issue escalation, and ticket prescreening within humanitarian relief. More than 50,000 leading 4 hours. corporate, nonprofit and government partners The DevCraft bundles, DevCraft Complete leverage its solutions to mobilize more and DevCraft Ultimate replace the former than $1.5 billion in aid annually, worldwide. Telerik Premium and Ultimate Collections, The donated goods, money and services respectively. impact the lives of more than 65 million people. Aidmatrix is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit headquartered in Irving, Texas, USA, with ABOUT TELERIK offices in Wisconsin, Washington D.C., Telerik is a market-leading provider of end- and India.www.aidmatrix.org to-end solutions for application development, Copyright Telerik 2013. All rights reserved. software testing, agile project management, RadControls and DevCraft are registered trademarks ABOUT DEVCRAFT BY TELERIK reporting, and content management. Telerik’s of Telerik AD. All other trademarks are properties The DevCraft suites include all Telerik award-winning software development of their respective owners. All information believed developer tools – from UI components, to products enable enterprises and organizations correct at time of printing. data access, reporting and code improvement. of every size to generate tangible productivity A DevCraft bundle is the perfect companion gains, reduce time-to-market, and stay on in the journey to become a better software time and under budget. craftsman and create powerful web, mobile With tens of thousands of users in more and desktop applications. than 90 countries around the world, Telerik’s DevCraft UI provides all Telerik’s UI controls: customers include numerous Fortune RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, 2000 companies, academic institutions, WPF, WinForms, and Kendo governments, and non-profit organizations. USA

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