Satelliet

Satelliet is Ready to Elevate Their Business with TRIMIT’s Cloud-based Furniture & Interior Solution

Worklounge filled with Satelliet furniture

After several years with a Microsoft BC and TRIMIT on-premise solution, the Dutch hospitality furniture company Satelliet decided to make a much-needed transition to the latest cloud-based solution from TRIMIT. Now, the conditions are in place for Satelliet to achieve their business goals, starting new projects and expanding their products to the European market.

Since 1971, Satelliet has been a market leader in Holland regarding design and producing hospitality furniture for sectors such as hospitality, office, care, retail, leisure and education. Satelliet are also present on the Belgian, Scandinavian and British markets via business partners, but the Breda-based company is planning to expand into more countries in Europe in the near future.

However, there were quite a few issues with their former Business Central solution that complicated achieving this goal. Edwin Waegemakers, Business Solutions Architect at Satelliet, explains their challenges:

“The old system was beginning to give us problems, making a lot of system errors. Furthermore, we experienced an increase in the amount of customers who want to customize our products, and a regular Business Central solution does not allow customizable features like that. Most importantly, support on the old system was not updated anymore. It was quite frustrating.”

Edwin and his colleagues were already acquainted with TRIMIT, since they used it as an add-on in their old system. Therefore, Satelliet reached out to TRIMIT wishing to upgrade and migrate their former environment to the latest cloud-based Business Central and TRIMIT solution.
Not only because the old system did not allow up-scaling and expansion, but because there were several issues:

  • Mainstream support had ended (no more updates)
  • C-SIDE code language had been replaced by AL
  • Increased security risk
  • No new features were added anymore
  • No adjustment in case of changes in the law and regulations
  • Chance of not functioning (properly)
  • New customization was becoming increasingly difficult to realize.

“We reached out to TRIMIT, and after just a couple of meetings, we had great confidence that they could assist us with the big project of conducting a migration from on-premise environment to a cloud-based system. After all, we are 150 employees with about 80 BC-users. So we moved forward with TRIMIT,” Edwin voices.

Showroom at Satelliet
Since 1971, Satelliet has been a market leader in Holland regarding design and producing hospitality furniture for sectors such as hospitality, office, care, retail, leisure and education. Satelliet are also present on the Belgian, Scandinavian and British markets via business partners.

In-depth technical knowledge secured a successful implementation

Overall, the migration of the environment and the implementation of the latest TRIMIT solution has been very successful, according to Edwin:

The process was very good.
With a clearly defined scope and a comprehensive understanding of the required functionality well in advance, we were able to furnish TRIMIT with input. This enabled them to deliver the system we expected.

EDWIN WAEGEMAKERS

BUSINESS SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT AT SATELLIET

“We had high hopes and confidence in TRIMIT, and they have proven to be exactly what we expected in terms of advice, technical knowledge and suggestions on how to use the system in ways that support our business goals,” Edwin expresses.

Namely, technical knowledge has been an important factor regarding Satelliet’s decision to choose TRIMIT for their partner:

“We have an IT team ourselves, so we do have an understanding of IT. We have also done some coding in the previous system where we created our own extension. But we definitely lack the in-depth knowledge of Business Central and TRIMIT. Therefore, it is very important to us to have a partner possessing profound expertise in both technical aspects and industry insights.”
But what difference has the cloud-based system made for Satelliet so far?

“Functionally, it’s the same system. It just looks different and is more modern. But there is less maintenance on the system from us, and what’s great about the cloud among other is the backup options that we now have. It’s all done automatically,” Edwin explains. “Updates are applied automatically with the option to postpone until everything has been tested.”

Now, Satelliet is ready to realize their ambitious future plans for up-scale and continue their development and position as market leader in the hospitality furniture industry.
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