How can international buyers find the right Slovak suppliers more easily, while an export promotion agency spends less time managing company information?
SCR provided the technology design, development and integration of Find In Slovakia for the Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency (SARIO), based on the agency’s needs and brief. The B2B portal helps international business partners discover Slovak companies and explore what they offer. It also makes company profile management easier and supports the agency’s digital workflows.
The result is a central place to find Slovak suppliers and explore opportunities for cross-border business cooperation.
Slovak companies have products, services and expertise to offer international markets. For potential buyers and business partners to find the right suppliers, they need reliable, up-to-date information about what those companies do and how they can work together.
When company information is spread across different sources, finding a suitable supplier takes more effort. SARIO also needs to manage company profiles, handle cooperation inquiries and coordinate activities related to international business development.
When companies send profile changes by email and staff have to enter the information manually, the process takes time and makes it harder to keep records up to date.
The goal was to build more than an online company directory. The portal needed to make suppliers easier to find, let businesses manage their own information and fit into SARIO’s existing workflows.
SCR developed Find In Slovakia as a central platform where international business partners can search for Slovak companies and find ways to contact them. Company profile management is also connected with the agency’s internal systems.
The B2B directory lets users search for companies by criteria such as industry, location, company size and international certifications.
Each profile brings relevant company information together in one place. Interested business partners can submit a structured cooperation inquiry directly through a profile, helping them initiate contact with a potential supplier.
Slovak companies can maintain and update their information through an online form.
Compared with purely manual edits, this significantly reduces the time needed to update a profile. Companies have a simpler way to keep their information current, while the agency spends less time on routine data administration.
Find In Slovakia exchanges data with SARIO’s internal systems through a REST API. This allows the portal to work with the agency’s existing IT environment without requiring an entirely separate data infrastructure.
The application runs on government cloud infrastructure.
Connecting a portal to the systems an organisation already uses is often what makes the biggest difference. You can see how this works in B2B sales in our Galia Slovakia case study, where the B2B portal is integrated with Helios ERP.
The technical challenge was to build a platform that is easy to use, supports company data management and integrates with the systems already in place.
The platform uses open-source technologies, which can help limit licensing costs and reduce reliance on proprietary solutions. Its long-term flexibility also depends on the architecture, implementation and future development of the system.
Find In Slovakia gives Slovak businesses a place to present their offerings and provides international business partners with a central way to discover potential suppliers.
Find In Slovakia by the numbers – last 12 months
Managing company information has also become simpler. Businesses can submit profile changes through online forms, reducing the need for SARIO staff to transfer updates manually.
The portal brings together company visibility, profile management and support for cross-border business cooperation in one digital platform.
A B2B portal does more than put company information online. Its value also depends on how easily people can find that information, how it is kept up to date and how well the platform fits into existing workflows.
Find In Slovakia brings together three key functions:
The same approach can help other organisations that manage company data, bring different user groups together or provide digital services to businesses, including trade and investment agencies, chambers of commerce and industry associations. We look at this in more detail in our article Building a B2B platform that empowers the public sector.
Does your organisation face a similar challenge? Let’s talk about which processes and systems your platform should connect.
Find In Slovakia highlights an important part of digitalisation: success depends on more than the website itself. The people using the platform, the data they need and the systems behind it all have to work together.
SCR develops digital platforms around an organisation’s actual needs and existing systems. The aim is to make information easier to access and everyday processes easier to manage, rather than simply adding another digital channel.
If you are weighing up the investment, our articles Digital transformation for B2B: Answers to Costs, ROI, and Risks and How Fast Can a B2B Portal Deliver ROI are a good place to start.
Planning a B2B portal or looking to digitise existing business processes? SCR can help you turn your requirements into a solution that fits the way your organisation works. Get in touch.
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