VIXY is a Dutch video platform from Hilversum: a SaaS solution to host, manage and stream video - from API and player to analytics - for hundreds of organisations. On top of that a second branch joined: the B2B webcasting and broadcasting of large events. Two business units, each with their own processes, under one roof.
The challenge
VIXY’s project planning ran through Gripp, connected to Exact for the accounting. On paper a logical combination, in practice not smooth: a planning tool next to a bookkeeping package means connecting, reconciling and re-typing. And with a SaaS branch (consumption and monthly fees per customer) plus a project-driven webcasting branch, the processes drifted too far apart to keep clear in loose tools.
The approach
We moved VIXY onto one Odoo environment: project management, CRM and quotations, time tracking, purchasing and sales and a knowledge base on the same data model, with the accounting inside it instead of alongside. In the same move Odoo replaced a number of loose tools, so the planning no longer had to talk to the administration through a connector.
The result
VIXY now runs its two business units from one system: the projects and hours, the commercial side and the administration come together on the same platform. No planning tool that has to be connected to a bookkeeping package, but one overview from customer to project to invoice.
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