for a software development agency and ended up choosing Dept . it offers a great combination of developers and creatives , which is what we desperately needed .”
Brenntag has grown rapidly , organically and through acquisitions during the past few years . “ Against the background of the numerous acquisitions and Brenntag ’ s existing business landscape , especially in EMEA , the company now is putting energy into a single back-end platform ,” Stramrood explains . “ Now , we ’ re trying to standardise this process , which is why Brenntag decided to bring Deloitte on board . They ’ re advising us on how to adopt this more standardised approach , because if we want to accelerate the digitalisation of the entirety of Brenntag , we need to find ways to speed up the process .”
DigiB is working with trusted partners to better build out its core offerings . “ When we start building something , like Brenntag Connect for example , we try to make it as open source as possible . However , if the demands placed upon it become more serious , we always look to embrace more mature , professional offerings ,” explains Stramrood . “ When
“ We ’ re really focused on experiences , on the customer , supplier and employee side of things ”
— Maarten Stramrood , CDO , Brenntag Group , Managing Director , DigiB hub
we discovered our new CMS was going to be a major thing , that ’ s when we decided to go with BloomReach .” The challenges of overcoming intermarket regulation , and varied standards across dozens of countries , also prompted Stramrood to bring Vasco Consulting on board . “ One big thing is the issue of complexity , because we work across multiple countries in parallel , so the programme management itself is very complicated . This is the reason that we started working with Vasco Consulting , because they have done similar types of programmes before : multi-country , multi-backend integration projects .”
Stramrood is excited to see the work done by DigiB gaining traction in the
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