How Inciper helped meet Altis International's specific business needs and supported future growth through our RAPID methodology

Dynamics 365 for Finance was quickly identified as the chosen solution given the rich functionality to support their scope; but importantly confident in the fact that 1,000’s of similar international companies had made a similar choice.

Altis engaged in a local IT company in Texas US to assist in the migration from their legacy ERP to Microsoft D365 Finance Whilst the early phases went well, it became clear Altis had a desire to accelerate the deployment. To help accelerate the process, Altis reached out to Inciper, whom use an agile methodology, proven to help accelerate D365 deployments.

The Inciper team quickly introduced their RAPID Deployment methodology to the Altis team, an approach built around five core tenets:

1. Result Driven

Identifies areas of the business with the potential for the most improvements at least cost, delivering visible, quantifiable change. Inciper focus on the complete solution and have the breadth of skills required to ensure solution adoption and business objectives are met.

2. Adaptable

Instead of a rigid siloed implementation, Inciper take a more Flexible, priority led approach. RAPID is not simply a method for software implementation, but engages the business to support organisational change, delivering continuous improvement through ongoing assessment of their needs.

3. Priorities

Results should come from starting where the biggest impact can be made in the shortest space of time. The Inciper iterative approach focuses on the biggest opportunities for improvement within the business to help achieve the highest value outcome.

4. Incremental

Our Microsoft Dynamics implementation strategy recognises this issue by introducing new functionality in increments through regular releases to production. RAPID delivers instant benefits and demonstrates success before moving onto the next stage based on your new requirements.

5. Dynamic

Old-world waterfall implementation approaches simply aren’t built to respond to the changing needs of modern businesses, nor do they enable companies to maximise the use of technology. Inciper approach uses a fluid, responsive method built for a dynamic age.

The Inciper project team worked closely and directly with Altis defining, configuring and testing their to-be business processes together. This allowed Inciper to ensure a solution that met Altis’ needs today, whilst ensuring it can be extended to support future growth.

This partnering approach made an aggressive timeline achievable. Go Live within 3 months was achieved, and within agreed budget. Further projects are already underway, as part of the Inciper RAPID approach for continuous improvements, including a Data & Analytics platform to support the reporting requirements across the Altis Group and integration between D365 Finance and the Altis expense solution, providing seamless automated process from claim to pay.