In any IT business, every CIO, VP, Director, Manager – even down to your frontline workers that are carrying PCs and deploying them – needs to know that IT is a lever for the business and that we don't exist without the business. So how do we leverage IT to serve the business? The best way to do that is by learning the business and then trusting the people who are out there delivering the business to let you know what they need.

The Business Challenge: Managing Data Across Multiple Systems

The biggest challenge for Brock right now is focused on our multiple ERPs. When you grow from acquisition rapidly, you don't necessarily always get the opportunity to go back and transition everyone onto one system. Each different entity almost has its own way of running the business.

Aligning Brock’s business needs focused on integrating that data from multiple ERP systems.Brock can then focus on pulling that data right into a central location and start sharing data across different business units.

The Turning Point: AmaliTech’s Impact on Data Fabric Adoption

What AmaliTech has really helped us do is focus our data into our Microsoft Fabric and align it in a way in which our user community now consumes data. Last year, in 2024, we had about 33,000 views of our dashboards. Year to date already (August), it's over 50,000. So not only are our dashboards being looked at more, but we’re also now going back to see how they're being used in the business to draw results. My expectation is that the amount of report views year over year will basically double. That says a lot about the value of the reports, the communication on how we're getting the report structured, as well as AmaliTech and Brock's IT working directly with the business to create these dashboards and action plans.

Next Steps: Revolutionizing Recruitment with IT and AmaliTech

AmaliTech has helped us greatly in looking at our data and figuring out how we can best use it. As a next step, we have just kicked off what we think will be a game changer for Brock and that's in a way that we do recruiting. AmaliTech came out to Houston and visited our site. During the visit,

AmaliTech engaged with every aspect of our business. Brock has physical locations for recruiting centers to bring in new talent to work on our projects. The team from AmaliTech went through the life of applying for a new Brock job and walked through that whole process. There's a lot of technology that we can use to drastically reduce the recruitment cycle. So, the project that we're running right now is one that pulls all of this data together into one page for our recruiters. In addition, it will allow our recruiters to see different qualifications and different training that each individual has received, so we can place them in jobs without having to let them go and rehire them. It's something that we believe – and when I say we, it's a 3-legged stool: It's the AmaliTech team, the HR team, and IT – is going to drive down the amount of time it takes us to put employees into the job which will create an increase in revenue for Brock.

When you get AmaliTech, you're getting a group of people that have already succeeded, and this is something that they're doing to give back. The relationship is extremely strong and the one thing that I would say is that AmaliTech focuses on the entirety of the Brock business, not just the areas where AmaliTech is focused. We were having problems recruiting talent, right? AmaliTech jumped right in with previous experience on how they solved that in some of the other areas, in previous roles, and now Brock is set up to build a pipeline for developing talent in Houston for our jobs specifically. And that's just something that's above and beyond.