Jetbuilt accelerates the sales cycle of the audiovisual technology company Solotech

The project platform for integrators and designers of cloud installations Jetbuilt has been chosen by the multinational audiovisual and entertainment technology company Solotech for your business management.

Founded ago 45 years, Solotech is a benchmark in audiovisual and entertainment technology, which has appeared on several occasions among the ten companies that top the list of Systems Contractor News of the fifty best system integrators, for his experience in markets such as music, sport, business, culture or education and live productions.

With a staff of more than 1.300 employees, It currently has eighteen strategic locations spread across Canada, USA, United Kingdom and China and plans to strengthen its presence in other countries.

Added to this is a portfolio of more than three hundred manufacturers “trusting a single supplier to find everything they need in terms of audio.”, video, lightning, rigging y textiles, as well as the best control and collaboration solutions and services”, they point out from the company.

last year, Solotech acquired Morris Sound & Light, based in nashville (Tennessee – EE.), as part of their growth plans and which brought with them the use of Jetbuilt, a software that ensures a great return on investment (more details in Digital AV).

This is what he points out Alexandre Pecqueux, vp. of innovation and operational excellence of Solotech: “Before acquiring this company we used, like the other integrators, Microsoft Excel to prepare budgets. After purchase, We discovered in Jetbuilt a much faster tool, less cumbersome and more precise for that task”.

In the preliminary phase leading up to the acquisition of Morris Sound & Light, at Solotech there were concerns that Jetbuilt was a cloud-based solution, as well as its ability to cover such a large business.

“We had detected problems in other cloud-based platforms, such as delays or crashes in the system or poor performance - he points out -. We verified that none of that was happening with Jetbuilt. In fact, We have done time and motion studies that show that it reduces, at least half, the time spent preparing budgets and even more in the case of larger and more complex projects. Another enormous advantage is the precision achieved”.

One of the advantages of this software is that it eliminates the so-called 'human factor' that makes errors more likely.. Jetbuilt support worked closely with Solotech to design the launch plan prior to deployment across the group..

“In a project of this size there is always a lot of information and details to process and review.”. Jetbuilt provided us with everything we needed in the planning phase, during the deployment of the solution and after its implementation”, remember this manager.

As he adds Nancy Dugas, Solotech process optimization analyst, “Jetbuilt has been seamlessly integrated into our customer relationship management systems.” (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP). We have eliminated the excess work derived from the need to enter information in various tools. Now, With a single input everything is synchronized and communicated perfectly”.

Another notable aspect of the software is that it allows you to make budgets in other languages, which is translated instantly and at no additional cost to any of the languages ​​entered in the system.

Frederic Senay, Solotech sales director, explains that “several of our clients are multinationals. Budgeting for them means taking into account various suppliers and territories.. Jetbuilt instantly incorporates discounts, and that reduces the workload on special projects by half and ensures maximum precision”.