K2 Announces Winners of The Annual K2 EMEA Customer Awards
SourceCode Technology Holdings, Inc., the maker of K2 Software and
a leader in low-code process automation, today announced the
outstanding achievements of K2 customers in EMEA during its annual
Customer Day. The annual K2 EMEA Customer Awards recognize
organisations that have delivered world-class automation solutions
using the K2 platform.
“This year’s winners showcase the mission-critical role
automation plays in nearly every aspect of their businesses,” said
Andrew Murphy, vice president, EMEA at K2. “The process was highly
competitive and made it quite a feat to determine a winner from so
many deserving achievements worthy of recognition. In the end, the
final selections were made based on several factors including
approach, speed of development, functionality, innovation,
complexity and overall business impact.”
The winners were judged by a panel of process automation experts
and K2 executives. K2 customers were recognized in the following
categories:
- Most Innovative Use of the Platform - Ballast Nedam
- Best Benefits Gained - PD Ports and Sarasin & Partners
- Best Implementation of K2 - Euro Caps and Food Standards
Agency
- Best Technical Solution - Geldards LLP and Fidelity
International
Learn more about the K2 Customer Award winners.
Most Innovative Use of the Platform:
Ballast Nedam
Ballast Nedam is a construction and engineering company
headquartered in the Netherlands. Winner of the K2 ‘Most Innovative
Use of K2 Platform’ award based on its ‘Q2Field’ solution, an
Enterprise platform for all quality and safety registrations. K2
prompts employees to undertake inspections and send digital details
to the right person. Employees can, for example, view building
plans, mark locations on plans, open checklists, red-line areas,
classify issues, describe actions required and assign a
subcontractor to fulfill tasks – all while on the construction site
using mobile devices in an offline situation. They built a custom
control for pinpointing on a drawing and a customs broker that
slices PDF (multi-page) files into image sets on different zoom
levels, being the input for the pinpoint control. A special mention
to Indocs for their valuable input and assistance on the build.
Best Business Benefits Gained: PD
Ports
PD Ports is a diverse organisation, covering the whole supply
chain from ship to doorstep. Winner of the K2 ‘Best Business
Benefits Gained’ award with its ‘WMS (Warehouse Management System)
Inbound’ application. PD Ports has developed over 20 different K2
workflows and apps, all of which are helping to save employee time
and significantly improve the efficiency of the business. For
example, one K2-based solution reduces the time required to process
and approve new supplier requests from several weeks to just a
couple of days. The WMS automates the order entry process, making
it easier for staff to check stock, select batches, and allocate
products to customers all within one app.
Best Business Benefits Gained: Sarasin
& Partners
The winner of the K2 ‘Best Business Benefits Gained’ award is
Sarasin & Partners, a London based asset management
organisation. Sarasin & Partners is being recognized for its
‘Operational Incidents’ process, which records and manages
operational errors and incidents, whilst ensuring remediation and
client compensation. This was its first solution on K2, which took
under four months to implement. Sarasin & Partners have already
realised 100 percent ROI using K2. Additionally, the company has
seen a savings of 75 percent which is equivalent to saving one day
per week for a full-time member.
Best Implementation: Euro Caps
The winner of the K2 ‘Best Implementation’ award based on
its ‘Operator Portal’ goes to Euro Caps, the manufacturer of
single-serve coffee capsules for Nespresso© and Dolce Gusto© coffee
machines. The Operator Portal provides employees on the shop floor
with instant access to product manuals and the ability to view and
record grind history for different types of coffee beans and pallet
configurations. Time is no longer wasted looking for information
and duplicating efforts, which improves efficiency in the
production line. Euro Caps is now well on its way to achieving a
company wide goal of becoming a paperless factory.
Best Implementation: Food Standards
Agency (FSA)
The winner of the K2 ‘Best Implementation’ award is the Food
Standards Agency (FSA), a government agency responsible for
protecting public health in relation to food in England, Wales and
Northern Ireland. FSA was looking to transform the way it collects
information recorded by inspectors and vets in abattoirs. The
organisation uses K2 to ensure that all the required data is
collected in a consistent format, at the right time, every time and
consolidated automatically. Over 30 applications were migrated from
on-premise to the K2 Cloud, servicing approximately 1,000 users.
The move to K2 Cloud has freed up resources to work on other
projects, and now that the agency has a stable, secure service in
place it is able to start development on new requirements.
Best Technical Solution: Fidelity
International
The winner of the K2 ‘Best Technical Solution’ award for their
‘New Joiners Portal’ is Fidelity International, a private
investment and pension management company with worldwide
operations. With 8 - 12 global users joining the portal daily, it
now takes less than an hour for a new user to have everything they
need on day one. It takes a manager an average of three minutes to
complete a full request. The solution uses Apex for the user
interface (UI), Oracle as database (using the K2 Oracle broker) and
integrates with Novell IAM to provide user roles and Avaya to
automatically assign phone extensions, alongside a number of other
integrations like ServiceNow and the K2 REST broker.
Best Technical Solution - Geldards LLP
The winner of the K2 ‘Best Technical Solution’ award for its
‘Falcon LPM’ system is Geldards, a multi-disciplinary law firm with
offices in Cardiff, Derby, Nottingham and London. The system is
core to the firm's client and matter management, and legal
processing, and was built to be a front office application as a
central resource for all legal teams, including company, commercial
property, dispute resolution, and private client teams. The Falcon
system involved integrating several other systems into one platform
which created its own set of challenges. Technical integration
points include HotDocs Hub, HotDocs Advance, Postcode address
finding software, practice management software, Evaluate cost
budgeting software, MS Office applications (Outlook, Excel, and
Word), and SSRS, iManage document management system, and Laserforms
court form production software, as well as Companies House and
Court finding APIs.
About K2K2, a leader in low-code process
automation, which enables companies to speed time-to-market and
simplify the creation of modern process applications, automate
workflows and transform their businesses. More than 4 million users
in over 84 countries, including 30 percent of Fortune 100 are using
K2 to take control of their business processes, increase visibility
and improve operational efficiency. Discover what you can
accomplish when you connect your people, processes and data at
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ContactAndrea MochermanK2+1 (425)
883-4200press@k2.com