Economic development organizations (EDO) fulfill an increasingly critical mission to drive the economic wellbeing of businesses, organizations, and communities. To help EDOs achieve their goals sooner and more easily, Sikich delivers Cloud Nine Economic DevelopmentTM for Dynamics 365 CRM, a powerful solution that can replace legacy and generic software tools and enable EDO team members to be effective anytime and anywhere as they serve constituents.
Check out this infographic to see the top 12 benefits of EDOs adopting the Sikich EDO CRM solution.
Understanding the Sikich Economic Development Accelerator
Delivers complete, EDO-ready functionality on a foundation of Microsoft Dynamics Power Platform technology
Reflects roles and operating conditions in practically any state, local, and municipal government EDO as well as chambers, standalone organizations, and less structured EDO teams
Integrates with Microsoft Outlook and other apps in a consistent, intuitive user environment
For government clients, can take advantage of the advanced security and data protection capabilities of the Microsoft Azure government cloud
Can easily be enhanced with analytics, automations, workflows, dashboards, and custom functionality, using Microsoft cloud resources
What changes for EDOs adopting the Sikich EDO solution?
Makes EDO team members lives easier and saves time by making all information available and discoverable in a single repository
Enables continuous, lifetime engagements with individual stakeholders, businesses, organizations, and communities
Streamlines the delivery and drives adoption of EDO programs, incentives, and services
Allows EDOs to expand their reach, connect with constituents previously unaware of their services, and make proactive recommendations
Ensures the efficient continuity of communications and engagements as staff, stakeholders, businesses, and organizations change
Fuels outcome-driven, transparent management of sites, leases, and development projects
Offers full visibility of constituents’ engagements and their use of EDO services and resources
Provides mobile, cloud-based, anytime access to solution capabilities to enable EDO staff to be productive anywhere
Helps businesses and communities connect with and learn about their EDO and its offerings
Simplifies BRE surveys as well as compliant financial, progress, and other reporting to demonstrate accountability and share the outcomes of EDO programs and services
Tracks opportunities, cases, and donation or investment commitments from inception to successful conclusion
Supports productive collaborations with community partners, service providers, and vendors
Why your EDO should partner with Sikich
Successful record of providing solutions and expertise to help EDOs thrive and transform
Unwavering commitment and practical vision for using technology to fuel EDO success
Collaborative, client-focused practice that uncovers and addresses the challenges and opportunities of individual EDOs
Proven, efficient approach to delivering low-risk, nondisruptive software projects with a short time to benefit
Unified team to deliver solution implementations, integrations, enhancements, training, support, and ongoing consulting services
“The Sikich team really gets what we’re doing. They are great in terms of creativity. They’ve really done a great job using their knowledge and their many, many years of experience to create a powerful solution for us.”– Casey Smith, Strategic Planning Manager, Economic Development Department, City of Austin
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Jordan Gilley is an experienced Account Executive at Sikich and has spent her time working with various Economic Development professionals around the country. After getting her Bachelor’s of Arts in Theatre Arts and Acting at Columbus State University in 2017, she is very passionate about using her communication skills to maintain relationships with both new and existing clients. Aside for our tool built specifically for Economic Developers, Jordan also works across various other enterprise Microsoft tools including Dynamics 365 CRM and ERP applications.
