Headquartered in New York, NY, Glacier Communications provides telecommunications consulting and outsourcing services to businesses throughout the nation. A key focus for Glacier is to provide expert management in the implementation of telecommunications solutions for their clients. Early in Glacier's business growth they found some roadblocks in tracking the business processes required to effectively deliver this service. As is often the case in organizations, the tracking was accomplished through manual efforts and the use of excel spreadsheets. While this helped Glacier deliver their services, the solution was cumbersome, missing a centralized database of information, and made collaboration very difficult. It also required a great deal of management to make sure steps were taking place in a timely fashion.
In April of 2005, Glacier implemented RPM Telco. While RPM is very well known for its successful commission engine, Glacier's implementation focused on the process management functionality as the most critical first step. Utilizing RPM, Glacier was able to customize the software to most effectively model the processes for their particular business. This customization was all done without programmers and has been modified over time as new issues come to light and new aspects are required.
RPM has allowed Glacier to track activities and milestones in one centralized database. As RPM is accessed via the Internet there have been no additional IT requirements and collaboration of tasks can be accomplished from anywhere there is Internet access. Workflow has been encompassed and actions are automatically assigned and tracked to completion.
"RPM helped our telecommunication consulting firm leap to the next level by creating specific order flow processes that increased our sales order capabilities. RPM is a must have for any growing business," states Mark Kiliski, Co-Founder of Glacier Communications.
Glacier is moving into the Energy market over the next few months and will utilize RPM to manage all of the quoting, orders, and commission processing for this exciting new endeavor. Further, they are excited to start providing their customers with access to RPM when the customer logon functionality is released in June. This will allow their customers to view order statuses, track inventories, and view telecom expenses.