Belgian construction company Denys has purchased cloud technology from Swedish firm IFS to drive growth and navigate market disruption.

The technology should let Denys eliminate duplication of processes, drive operational efficiencies, and provide knowledge and insights across the organisation, resulting in higher levels of customer satisfaction.

Through IFS Cloud, Denys will benefit from procurement, warehouse and logistic processes. It will also provide a finance option capable of processing and generating financial transactions, reporting, consolidation and forecasting automatically and seamlessly.

Denys found its existing IT applications did not have enough integrated functionality, therefore it became increasingly difficult to gain insight into the performance of its main operational processes. IFS Cloud, by contrast, has innovation embedded and supports best practice processes in bid-to-contract, procurement and material supply, planning and pre-construction, construction and execution, and periodic project review.

Denys also plans to leverage IFS Cloud to help drive employee engagement. It aims to achieve this goal by using it to support its personnel department in the recruitment process, as well as for employer branding and talent development. Additionally, Denys will let its workforce participate in administrative processes, aiding in information sharing through streamlining the organisation’s services. Denys has also purchased IFS Cloud Services, which cover the installation and initialisation and its management and monitoring over time.

The recently launched joint venture between IFS and BearingPoint, Arcwide, will roll this out to 400 users, initially at Denys’ headquarters in Belgium and to its facilities in France, Netherlands, Germany and other European countries.

“Implementing IFS will allow us to gain a better insight into our operations enterprise-wide and enable us to make faster and more informed decisions to support our plans to grow the business, while continuing to digitalise at the same time,” said Bruno Geltmeyer, Denys CEO. “Opting for IFS allows us to do all that without us having to commit to costly development or system integration efforts.”

Looking to the future, Denys wants to invest in a platform that delivers ease of integration with multiple third-party applications and the ability to bring the latest technologies onboard as and when required. IFS Cloud fits the bill with integrated AI-abilities and being capable of integrating AI concepts when required.

“Denys is focused on evolving rapidly across international markets and on building its capability in important functions from logistics to finance in line with that,” said Frank Beerlage, managing director of IFS in Benelux. “IFS is ideally placed to deliver the advanced resource planning and management capabilities that Denys needs to address the complex market challenges it is facing today and to optimise its capabilities to meet the fast-emerging demands of the future.”

Denys is an international construction group employing 1800 people. It has been working on expanding internationally. Today Denys has a foothold in Europe, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa and is exploring markets such as Asia, Central and South America, and Canada.

IFS develops and delivers cloud enterprise software for companies around the world who manufacture and distribute goods, build and maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations. It has a team of 5000 employees supporting more than 10,000 customers.