#goDigital:
European Forum Alpbach x gorelate
What does it take for successful digitalisation? How does event management work with Dynamics 365? And can you actually digitalise the wrong way? A conversation with Christiane Schwaiger from European Forum Alpbach.
For the European Forum Alpbach, gorelate implemented Dynamics 365 Marketing & Sales.
In our podcast, Christiane Schwaiger, Head of Operations at Forum Alpbach, gives insights into the project and talks about digitisation, its challenges and what the future holds.
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The project
- Dynamics 365 Marketing was already in use, as was another event management tool
- Tool was not sufficiently connected to Dynamics 365
- Dynamics 365 Marketing App could not be fully utilised
- Event management: manage sessions & room bookings, manage speakers & sponsors
- Ticketing: setting up a ticket shop, coordinated invitation management, linking payment providers & sending invoices
- Mapping of the complex ticketing structure with different categories, timeslots and topics
- "gorelate already addressed our requirements very specifically, professionally and precisely in the preparation of the offer and impressed as well as convinced with the depth of the queries – and above all proposed solutions on the system", says Christiane Schwaiger from Forum Alpbach.
- Start with February, go-live already with June 2021 (start of ticket sales)
- Until then implementation of Dynamics 365 Marketing & Sales
- Together with long-standing partners FOCUST Management- & IT Consulting and Cookis Webworks, construction of a ticket shop and direct connection to Dynamics 365
- Time pressure & scope of requirements
- Important, then: Flexible and agile approach "on the go"
- Project manager Manuel Schalleck: "We were able to build up an understanding of the ticketing structure very quickly and also remain flexible when, for example, the category structure of the tickets was changed. As a result, the go-live also worked out on time!"
- Organisation of all participants via DevOps project: collection of all tasks, categorisation & prioritisation
- Regular jour fixes for coordination
- Above all, good communication proved to be the key to a jointly successful project
- Individual training of the EFA team, enabling them to implement more and more themselves
Shortly before go-live, Microsoft released a new feature for Dynamics 365 Marketing: Real Time Marketing – Real Time Customer Journey was implemented during the go-live phase
Automation & individualisation of the customer journey - incl. real-time updates & coordinated offers during the event
Integration of payment options directly in the ticket shop, which was seamlessly connected to Dynamics 365 – implementation via the payment service provider Stripe
The interview
„CRM is an attitude, a philosophy, a passion. We support our customers by sharing our know-how, experience and certified experts with them.“
Tina Zembacher,
Operating Manager gorelate GmbH