CASE STUDY: Brocade Mobilizes Purchase Approvals, Reducing Cycle Times by 90% The Challenge! ! Global networking leader Brocade has a complex supply chain to deliver parts for its various switches, routers, blades and other hardware products. As part of their $500M procurement budget, employees must submit a purchase request for every order over $10K. The average approval time was 10 days, as managers had to navigate a complex workflow in Oracle EBusiness Suite (EBS) from their laptops. ! ! To mobilize and simplify the approval process, Brocade initially considered developing a mobile app in-house but quickly concluded that the process was going to be too resourceintensive and expensive.! ! Why Capriza! ! Company: ! Brocade! Objective: ! Reduce time and cost associated with manager approvals out of Oracle EBS! Capriza Benefits:! Time To ROI! After 2 weeks they were able to successfully launch an approvals Zapp using Capriza! Capriza enabled Brocade to quickly and easily mobilize the approval process from Oracle EBS.! ! Increased Efficiency! Brocade reduced their approval cycle from 10 days to 1 day! Simplify Approval Process! With Capriza, Brocade’s internal team can create mobile apps with zero coding, zero APIs, and zero infrastructure investments. Complex, hard-to-use business applications are transformed into intuitive, easy-to-use apps that run on any device and platform. ! ! Capriza not only extended the Oracle approvals to mobile but also simplified the complex workflows! Unify All Applications! Capriza can mobilize all business applications that Brocade uses “You are going to make a mobile investment one way or another, either from the inside or outside,” said Gale England, SVP of Global Operations. “Going outside to Capriza increased our profitability and allowed us to manage our dayto-day activities.” The New Face of Enterprise Software. www.capriza.com (650) 600-3661 The Results! ! Within a month, Brocade reduced the average approval time by a factor of 90% - from 10 days to 1 day. ! ! In less than 2 weeks, Brocade’s internal team created a fully functional Zapp for the manager approvals worklist out of their Oracle EBS application.! ! With Capriza, Brocade not only mobilized the approval process but also simplified the complex workflow by automating through unnecessary steps and displaying only relevant information.! ! The company’s 300+ managers can now approve purchase orders anytime, anywhere, from any device. Managers can immediately view all pending approvals and then approve, reject, or request more information with just one tap.! “Capriza was an opportunity to implement mobility quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively,” ! Gale England SVP Global Operations Brocade ! What’s Next for Brocade! ! Mobilizing purchase order approvals is just the beginning: “We’re going to expand to the field so we can have quoting, ordering, customer information and service,” England said.! ! Brocade has already identified specific use cases for mobilization, beginning next with mobilizing expense report submissions and approvals from iExpenses Pro. The New Face of Enterprise Software. www.capriza.com (650) 600-3661