Allied Consultants, established in 2001, specializes in B2B e-commerce solutions, focusing on business intelligence, application integration, and web development, with a strong presence in Canada and the Indian subcontinent. The company emphasizes rapid growth in the mid-sized market and offers services including invoice management, ERP integrations, and supply chain optimizations. Their e-commerce enablement solutions aim to reduce operational costs, enhance collaboration, and provide advanced technical capabilities through a skilled team and diverse technological partnerships.

1. B2B
E-Commerce
Accelerating solutions for e-commerce
©2012 Allied Consultants - all rights reserved

2. B2B E-Commerce Accelerating solutions for
e-commerce enablement
About Allied
• Consulting since 2001
• Focused on Business Intelligence, Application Integration, Mobile and
Web development
• Offices in Alberta, Canada and Indian Subcontinent
• 25+ architects with a broad partner network of specialists based around
the world
• 10 years of experience in the Mid-sized market
• Industry Agnostic
Company
Clients
Channel
Partners

3. B2B E-Commerce Accelerating solutions for
History
• Over 2 decades of consulting experience
• Diversified into Legal Education Consulting
• Diversified into IT in 2001
• Growing at over 100% a year since 2007
• Comprehensive partner network of over 50 local
companies for expertise not available in-house
• Core values remained the same through the years:
– Small. Smart. Fair.
e-commerce enablement

4. B2B E-Commerce Accelerating solutions for
IT - Practice Areas
• Enterprise Application Integration
• Business Intelligence
• Web and Portals
• Mobile Development
Predominantly Microsoft Focused
e-commerce enablement

5. B2B E-Commerce Accelerating solutions for
What is e-commerce
• Connecting to your business partners
electronically
• Integrated Supply chain
• Supplier
• Customers
• Warehouses
• Banks
• Logistics and Shipment
e-commerce enablement

6. B2B E-Commerce Accelerating solutions for
e-commerce enablement

7. B2B E-Commerce Accelerating solutions for
e-commerce enablement
Standards
• Rosettanet
• Chemical Industry Data Exchange (CIDX)
• PIDX (Petroleum industry data exchange)
• HL7 , HIPAA
• SWIFT
• X12
• EDIFACT
• ebXML
• OAGIS
• Odette, EDIFICE, STAR, EIDX
• AS2
• FTPS, SFTP
• UDDI, XML, WSDL, SOAP, W3C
• IBM TLOG

8. B2B E-Commerce Accelerating solutions for
Systems Experience
• ERPs , xRMs
e-commerce enablement
• EPICOR, ADP Taxware, Dynamics, SAP, Sage
X3, Oracle EBS, Sales force, SugarCRM,
AccountMate, PeachTree, Quickbooks
• IBM
• DB2, Mainframe CICS, MQ Series
• Cloud
• Cortex, ADP, Elemica, LinkedIn, Facebook, ADP,
Basware
• Banking
• MiSys Equation, TCS BANCS, BankTrade

9. B2B E-Commerce Accelerating solutions for
Advantages
• Faster Order cycle time
• Reduced Inventory
• Faster Collection
• Reduce Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)
• Elimination of Paper Invoicing and Storage Costs
• Increased Process Control
• Speed up Dispute Resolution
• “Transactions will allow you to automate that chain, leading
to estimated cost savings of EUR 10 to EUR 40 per invoice
annually adding up to nearly EUR 240 billion within the EU
area alone!”
• Go Green
• Electronic Archiving
• Web-Based Invoice Approval Workflow
• Invoice Handling Time Reduced from app. 3.9 minutes to
less than 10 seconds
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10. B2B E-Commerce Accelerating solutions for
B2B value proposition
• Reduce cost of operations
• Seamlessly Scale business growth
• Customer differentiation
• Tighter collaboration with partners for increased
product innovation
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e-commerce enablement
Accounts Payable Integration
• Receive messages in your vendor’s format. These could be
• Industry standard formats like EDI, Rosetta net, PIDX, CIDX
etc…
• XML files
• Excel or flat file sources
• Supports Credit and Debit Invoices
• Display invoices in your format (InfoPath)
• Easy, user editable solution
• Customize your workflows
• Editable workflow format
• Editable business rules
• Integration with ERPs
• Web services (basic)
• Any system (enterprise)
• Integrated document management
• Role based security
• Search (content and metadata based search)
• Archiving policy

12. B2B E-Commerce Accelerating solutions for
Invoicing
e-commerce enablement
• Retrieve Invoices/SOs/Pre-paid Orders from your ERP
• Databases (basic)
• Any system (enterprise)
• Customizable workflows
• Approval workflows
• AR, Sales, Field officers, Warehouse Integration
• Integrated document management
• Role based security
• Search (content and metadata based search)
• Archiving policy

13. B2B E-Commerce Accelerating solutions for
Editions
• Two versions
• Standard:
• Common requirements
• Low price (~$10k)
• Enterprise:
e-commerce enablement
• Any source/destination system
• Policy based document management, search and
archiving
• Support for industry standards (Rosettanet, EDI,
PIDX, CIDX..)
• Connectivity to gateways (ADP, Cortex,
• Priced to customer’s specific requirements
• Optional Reporting
• Role based security

14. B2B E-Commerce Accelerating solutions for
Technical Capabilities
e-commerce enablement
• Microsoft BizTalk Server
• Microsoft WCF, WWF
• Microsoft Host Integration Server
• IBM WebSphere ESB
• IBM Data Stage
• SharePoint Server 2010

15. B2B E-Commerce Accelerating solutions for
Differentiators
e-commerce enablement
• Experienced consultants who understand the business
problem, not just the technology
• Average developer has about 8 years of experience
• Vast partner network for best-in-class delivery

16. B2B E-Commerce Accelerating solutions for
e-commerce enablement
Alberta Pipes
• 2 year long project building an integrated supply chain
with partners and customers
• PIDX Implementations with 13 customers on the
Cortex and ADP cloud gateways
• Warehouse Integration with Pelican flat files
• Reduced processing times from a week to a few hour

17. B2B E-Commerce Accelerating solutions for
e-commerce enablement
AceLynk
• Integrated a custom product with the US Custom’s
department mainframe (CBP ACE)
• Legacy EDI messages delivered over secure MSMQ
• Integration and transformation to various transactions
in the CBP Inteface
• Enabled AceLynk/Commerce Generation to become
one of only 18 vendors able to connect to CBP
electronically

18. B2B E-Commerce Accelerating solutions for
e-commerce enablement
Canadian Tire Company - Marks
• Connected IBM Websphere commerce server with a custom
fulfillment system
• Connected with IBM WS ESB over an enterprise service bus to
CTC
• Product Metadata Integration using IBM Data stage

19. B2B E-Commerce Accelerating solutions for
Other Competencies
• Enterprise Application Integration
– B2B – Connecting Business Partners
Electronically
– EAI – Connecting applications within
the organization
• Business Intelligence
– Data Warehouse Design
– Data Quality Assessment
– Dashboards
• Mobile Development
e-commerce enablement

20. B2B E-Commerce Accelerating solutions for
Engagement Models
e-commerce enablement
• Fixed cost : You get a fixed quote for an application
– Lowest Risk, Lowest Hassle
• Time and Material: Charging by the hour. Best
suited for projects where the scope is not clear or an
iterative SDLC is preferred.
– Flexible, More control
• Team Incubation : Customer can chose to host a
team at Allied, managing them directly and paying
local rate salaries
– Lowest Cost, Maximum Control

21. Call to Action
• Talk is Cheap
• We’ll give you 2 weeks of free services to try
us out
• If you don’t like what we can do, you don’t
pay