Based in California, Blue Diamond Growers (BDG) began an enterprise-wide digital transformation initiative to achieve business agility. To this end, Microsoft Gold partner AgreeYa delivered end-to-end digital transformation services to help BDG reach its goals. Services included designing a modern employee intranet to boost collaboration; seamlessly migrating content from multiple systems; building apps and process flows to enhance efficiency; implementing Project Online to improve project management; and delivering Teams training to fast-track adoption.
Customer Challenges
Blue Diamond Growers (BDG)—a California-based fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) agricultural cooperative and leading global supplier of top-quality almond products—wanted to strengthen its digital strategy by transitioning to the cloud and adopting the Microsoft 365 suite of applications. Through its digital transformation initiative, BDG hoped to improve employee collaboration and communication, evolve project management practices, strengthen data security and governance, enable better storage and analysis of business data, automate business processes, and prepare its business for next-generation technologies.
Partner Solution
AgreeYa engaged with BDG first by enabling the FMCG supplier to efficiently migrate from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint Online as part of the Microsoft 365 cloud platform. When this was completed, AgreeYa rebranded BDG sites on SharePoint Online by using custom design and themes, and helped BDG maximize usage of Microsoft 365 features and single sign-on integrations. AgreeYa’s team then trained BDG users in Microsoft Teams to boost collaboration and store business-critical information easily and securely. AgreeYa also enabled the cooperative to reduce costs and harness the power of process automation via Power Platform capabilities.
Customer Benefits
BDG now has the platform and trusted implementation partner it needed to enhance its business operations. Through the digital transformation initiative, BDG was able to address multiple business imperatives—including improving access to information, enhancing ease of use, reducing infrastructure costs, revamping project management and collaboration practices, establishing a data-driven culture, and attaining future scalability.
“This project has helped us take a big leap towards a digital workplace. … New digital implementations have increased information flow, accelerated productivity, enhanced communication between teams, and boosted collaboration. We were able to achieve all this thanks to AgreeYa's unwavering commitment and technology prowess.”
Steven Birgfeld, Vice President, Information Technology & Services, Blue Diamond Growers
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