A large industrial bakery in Puerto Rico came to Altamente over three years ago with many of the classic symptoms of larger companies trying to effectively use the Internet to do business. The company's core competency is baking bread and pastries and distributing them throughout the island. What makes this case especially interesting is the necessity to keep the company's focus on bread baking and not IT infrastructure. IT infrastructure can help them, but it can easily become an expensive distraction.
Similar to a lot of companies, they had invested many hundreds of thousands of dollars in workstations, servers, an accounting system, and an IT staff in disparate geographical locations. As a company with a considerable existing investment, they needed a solution that adapted to their infrastructure not one that required significant purchase or replacement.
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