The Right Tool for the Job

“We had a very tight deadline, but the Dell team created a thorough, detailed plan for how they would meet our schedule, and then delivered on that commitment—they never missed a step.”

- Ernie Hughes, network operations manager, Kelly Tractor

An aging, proprietary enterprise resource planning (ERP) system at Kelly Tractor limited the company’s ability to integrate information from separate departments and build new, innovative sales and services tools.

Kelly Tractor worked with Dell to design and deploy pre-production Microsoft^® Dynamics^TM  AX on Dell^TM  PowerEdge^TM  2950 servers running VMware^®  ESX Server and supported by a Dell/EMC CX3-40c storage area network (SAN).

• Get IT Faster: Dell helped complete deployment an estimated 80 percent faster than Kelly Tractor IT staff could have managed alone
• Run IT Better: Moving to Dell servers helped reduce maintenance time and labor, freeing up staff time to focus on business-oriented projects; Virtualization on Dell servers is expected to help reduce disaster downtime from days to hours
• Grow IT Smarter New ERP solution will help Kelly Tractor to better manage its business and improve customer satisfaction