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Leverage forecasting services

Lokad offers IT Service Providers an attractive product that is easily integrated in their portfolio, allowing them to increase functionality, differentiation, revenues and client satisfaction.

Benefits for your customers: The pain point

Less cost. Imagine the money your customers can save if they know more accurately how much and when they will sell. Less inventory, less stock obsolescence, better capacity utilization.

More revenue. Imagine how much more revenue your customers can generate if they know better how much they could sell. No ruptures, no loss of loyalty, higher service level.

Less time invested but increased forecast accuracy. Imagine how much of your customers’ time is saved when the forecasting is done in your application. As frequently as need it, fully automatic.

Benefits for you: Enrich your product portfolio

Increase client satisfaction. Forecasting is a highly complementary and beneficial functionality for many applications that will appeal to your customers. ERP, Accounting and eCommerce for example are management and planning tools where the user is constantly spending time and effort on making assumptions about the future.

Differentiate. Due to its complex nature and very specific skills needed, forecasting is currently not available in most applications where it would be highly beneficial. You could be offering this feature soon to your clients – at no cost for you

Increase revenue. Integrating Lokad into your clients business applications allows you to develop a new source of revenue if you wish. We offer coupon, revenue sharing and special agreements that make you money – while we do the work

Become part of the Lokad partner network. You will be listed on the Lokad partner sites as a “preferred partner” together with a link and short description of your business

Partnering with Lokad: Easy and hassle-free

We make you part of our partner network. We expect you to be competent with one or several supported 3rd party applications and the integration of Lokad, and would like to be listed in the relevant section of your website.

You integrate Lokad in client applications. Lokad is designed for being integrated in 3rd party applications, currently we support over 20 applications already. It is therefore easy and fast to implement.

We give you support. We are constantly working with partners, therefore we can offer an extensive documentation, open source code and technical support if needed -your success is our success!

Part or full integration: What works best?

Add-ons allow the integration of our forecasting service into your clients’ application to make it a “one click” forecasting solution. The add-on, once installed and connected to the application retrieves the sales data automatically and calculates the forecast on Lokad servers.

Full integration of Lokad into your clients’ application makes forecasting an integral feature of the product.

Technical implementation

Add-on development: Lokad can provide technical assistance for the development of the add-on. Lokad provides an extensive documentation on PHP and dot.net development and all existing add-ons are available as open source. We can also handle entirely the integration development depending on the situation.

Full integration development: Lokad provides extensive documentation and existing add-ons as open source to make the full integration into your application straightforward and fast.

Current IT Services Provider partners

For a complete overview of our partners please see our partner listing

Want to know more?

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