Sharing data to improve results
Customer Company Size
SME
Country
- Australia
Product
- Agworld
Tech Stack
- Data Sharing
- Real-time Data
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Customer Satisfaction
Technology Category
- Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Data Management Platforms
Applicable Industries
- Agriculture
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Farm Monitoring & Precision Farming
- Supply Chain Visibility
Services
- Data Science Services
About The Customer
Rural Management Strategies (RMS) is an agricultural consultancy firm with offices in Cootamundra and Wagga Wagga, NSW. They provide production planning and business management advice to farm businesses throughout southern New South Wales. They were looking to improve their efficiencies and have a system where they could share data more rapidly, and where the client could see and update the plan to actuals in real-time. They wanted a system that would allow them to follow exactly what was happening in the field.
The Challenge
Rural Management Strategies (RMS), an agricultural consultancy firm, was using a legacy system that was not delivering the efficiency and real-time data sharing they required. They wanted a system where they could share data rapidly and where their clients could see and update the plan to actuals in real-time. This would allow the RMS advisor to follow exactly what was happening in the field. The challenge was to find a system that would allow for efficient data management, especially from plans to actuals.
The Solution
In 2017, RMS adopted Agworld, a platform that allowed them to share data more rapidly and where their clients could see and update the plan to actuals in real-time. They reached out to the agricultural resellers in the area that service mutual clients and who were already using Agworld so they could collaborate. RMS collaborated with the growers as well as their agricultural retailers to ensure that everyone works on the exact same set of data and that data gets shared seamlessly between the grower, RMS advisor and reseller agronomist.
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