RollStreamNews & Events
Social Media Tools Also help Improve Supply Chain Efficiencies
August 28, 2010
“We see great opportunities in using social networking to advance B2B integration and are deploying tools to enable Human-Centric B2B. Our partnership with RollStream is an example of this...”
RollStream: Winning Supplier Information Management Deals By Selling Something Else (Part 2)
August 24, 2010
“RollStream and other competitive solutions like it, do more than just provide collaboration and community...”
RollStream: Winning Supplier Information Management Deals By Selling Something Else (Part 1)
August 18, 2010
“By learning how RollStream has been successful positioning around the compliance issue, I think procurement organizations will be able to easily garner interest, support and budget for investing in an area that benefits so many different interests in the business.”
RollStream and Natural Insight Partner for New Supply Chain Management and Execution Capabilities
MCLEAN and STERLING, VA.- July 13, 2010 - RollStream Inc., the leader in enterprise community management and Natural Insight, the leading web-based platform for task management and workforce optimization, today announced a channel partnership to help large enterprises optimize their supply chain operations by improving execution management processes and boosting trading partner compliance and performance. The joint offering brings together RollStream’s community management platform with Natural Insight’s workforce platform to accelerate task plan creation, enhance in-store project execution and improve overall trading partner collaboration and compliance to drive new supply chain efficiencies.
RollStream’s collaboration platform paired with Natural Insight’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) workforce management platform delivers complete project lifecycle execution intelligence including project status, issue management resolution and effort analysis.
“By combining Natural Insight’s solution with RollStream’s collaboration platform, retailers now can behave like a Consumer Packaged Goods company without all of the risk,” said Nick Parnaby, COO and Founder of RollStream. “Together the two platforms deliver substantial gains in business efficiencies and allow companies to better focus on rapidly expanding their business with new product offerings.”
“At Natural Insight, we are always on the lookout for methods to extend our platform capabilities and providing enhanced trading partner information through RollStream is a win for everyone,” said Stefan Midford, President and CEO of Natural Insight. “We are now able to extend management intelligence from the initial partner relationship all the way to actual field execution, which will provide our clients with a competitive edge.”
The combined solution provides retailers looking to expand product selection or private label brands to establish new trading partner relationships, manage compliance initiatives and improve product quality while managing rollout execution across hundreds to thousands of store locations. Retail partners are now able to turn intelligence and communication from the RollStream community into actions in the store with performance management feedback loops and status tracking.
Both the collaboration and workforce management platforms are available as annual software license under the SaaS model offered and managed by Natural Insight. Companies looking to grow their markets with a cost-effective technology can quickly launch the joint solution with little or no IT investment and minimal setup effort.
About RollStream
RollStream Inc. is the leader in enterprise community management. The company’s SaaS product optimizes supplier relationships through a powerful collaboration platform that includes master data management, robust communication tools, and process applications Industry leaders such as CVS, Ahold USA and Ethicon/Johnson & Johnson use RollStream to realize the full potential of their extended supplier community through activities such as supplier registration, compliance and risk management, and dispute resolution. Learn more at http://www.rollstream.com or http://www.twitter.com/rollstream.
About Natural Insight
RNatural Insight, a web-based platform that improves an organization’s ability to make superior business decisions, provides real-time task management capabilities with extensive tools for workforce communication and remote data collection. The company’s solution enables Execution Intelligence that can dramatically reduce costs, accelerate speed-to-market and maximize performance. Natural Insight customers experience rapid work verification, improved accountability and increased accuracy that empowers managers to coordinate the activities of a larger number of workers with significantly less effort. Visit www.naturalinsight.com.
ROLLSTREAM CONTACT:
Leah Wilkinson
(703) 907-0010
NATURAL INSIGHT CONTACT:
Suzie Linville
703.437.8018 x 232
Enterprise 2.0 Emperor Has Nice Looking Threads …
July 8, 2010
“Before you go buying an Enterprise 2.0 solution (like those offered by Hiperos, Rollstream, etc.), make sure you have your processes and culture in order. Otherwise, you’ll never realize the benefits that these systems have to offer”
Steamrolling Your Compliance Problems into Submission
June 28, 2010
“Considering that this type of solution can reduce the average resolution time from weeks to days in your average large company (as there’s no paperwork to lose and everyone gets promptly notified—through the system and e-mail—when they have to respond to a dispute or take an action), a supplier could see considerably more invoices paid on time..”
