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Introduction to the CIMM2 user’s group.

How did we get here?

From Content to Commerce: A 16-year journey From Content to Commerce: A 16-year journey

Founded in 1998 1998 Bangalore Office opens; Swamy is employee Number 1. Data Entry Processing for Mail Order Catalogs Forms Processing 2001 – Receives ISO 9001:2000 badge Two intrepid explorers set out to discover America

The Early Days

The Early Days

Wholesale Distribution…hmmm…INTERESTING!

On the journey we found customers…

Unilog received much more than we ever imagined...

…and Friends

We found a home…

And a family…

Who joined Unilog…

Do you see the pattern?

Unilog’s Customers, People, Products = Focus!

In case you hadn’t noticed…

We Love Wholesale Distribution!

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The Unilog Content Solutions North American J

• urney J

anuary 2014 – February 9th 2015

J anuary 2014 – February 9th, 2015

How did we get to January?

• IDEA eBiz show September 2013 – Hilton Bonnet Creek, Orlando, FL
• December 2013 – M eeting in Wayne, P

A

• Deeper dive into content
• Deeper dive into CIM M 2 (enterprise eCommerce platform)
• December 30th, 2013 – M eeting in Upper Saddle River, NJ

J anuary 2014 – February 9th, 2015

How will we go to market?

• Direct Sales
• Channel Partners
• Continued to massage the partnerships already created
• Added new channel partners, mostly because of their “position of trust ” within

a specific sector or micro-vertical within distribution.

• Continue to forge relationships with service providers (i.e. design firms)

J anuary 2014 – February 9th, 2015

How did we / will we grow the team?

• Look at current employees via our staffing agency.
• Continue to work with our staffing agency.
• Exploit our personal network .

J anuary 2014 – February 9th, 2015

Team Unilog North America – February 9th, 2015

• Barbara Andrew
• Suchit Bachalli
• Joe Bennett
• Trey Buehler
• Garret Burch
• S

wamy M ahesh

• Subhash Guduru
• Ajai Konda
• S

wamy M ahesh

• M onique M cCall
• Brian M cCarthy
• Elavarasan “Elsan” M uthusamy
• Bill Patton
• Reeve Rodrigues
• Brie Wolf

J anuary 2014 – February 9th, 2015

3 Co-Workers from India are also here at our 1st annual CIM M 2 user’s group meeting.

• Bharath K S
• Shashi Kumar
• Vivek S N

J anuary 2014 – February 9th, 2015

How did we grow the CIM M 2 customer list?

• In January 1st 2014 we had 17 CIM M 2 customers.
• Today there are 36…

Alameda Electrical Distributors Alameda, California Electrical Distribution

Aramsco Paulsboro, NJ Industrial Distribution

Cascade Nut & Bolt Salem, Oregon Industrial Distribution

City Plumbing & Electric Supply Company Gainesville, Georgia Plumbing & Electrical Distribution

Crum Electric Supply Casper, Wyoming Electrical Distribution

Kriz-Davis Company Grand Island, Nebraska Electrical Distribution

The M acomb Group Sterling Heights, M ichigan HVAC Distribution

M arks Supply Kitchener, Ontario Plumbing Distribution

M cNaughton-M cKay Electric Company M adison Heights, M ichigan Electrical Distribution

M illennium Packaging Group New Braunfels, Texas Paper / Packaging

Norco Boise, Idaho Industrial Distribution

Paint Sundries Solutions Kirkland, Washington Paint Sundries

Prospect Fastener Wauconda, Illinois Industrial Distribution

The Reynolds Company Fort Worth, Texas Electrical Distribution

Rogers Supply Company Champaign, Illinois HVAC Distribution

Southern Pipe & Supply M eridian, M ississippi Plumbing Distribution

Todd Pipe & Supply Anaheim, California Plumbing Distribution

Villa Lighting St Louis, M issouri Electrical Distribution

Weingartz Detroit, M ichigan Power Equipment

J anuary 2014 – February 9th, 2015

Why does the Unilog Content Solutions history and the journey of the growth in the US over the last year matter to us?

• Our past forms who we are…

I want you to hear who we are… because I want to you hear and continue to help form / frame our culture.

J anuary 2014 – February 9th, 2015

Organization Culture:

• is the behavior of humans within an organization and the meaning that people

attach to those behaviors. Organizational culture represents the collective values, beliefs and principles of organizational members and is a product of such factors as history, product, market, technology, and strategy, type of employees, management style, etc.

J anuary 2014 – February 9th, 2015

Our Culture:

• Integrity without compromise.
• The three stakeholders of our business:
• The Customer, The Co-Worker, The Shareholder
• “ There is nothing you can say that will offend me” – starting an implementation.
• Speak of the phrase “Calling their kid ugly”

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A brief presentation of the “new” CIM M 2

New Landing Page - Configurable

New CMS – Edit What You See. Touch Enabled

New PIM – Single Screen View

• Item Screen
• Taxonomy tree on the left
• Filter by category any level
• Once filtered by category attribute filtering available
• Go to edit taxonomy easily, change to a different taxonomy for viewing
• r filtering easily.
• Adding new workbook
• Deleting a workbook
• Adding items to a workbook
• Adding multi-page items to a workbook
• Linking a blog to item detail

New PIM – Single Screen View

New PIM – Single Screen View

Get New Content or Monitor Content

Get New Content or Monitor Content

Get New Content or Monitor Content

Print Catalog

New WorkFlow Engine

New Rules Engine

CIMM2 Mobile App

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Introduction to the CIM M 2 User’s Group

CIM M2 User’s Group

CIM M2 User’s Group

What’s the CIM M 2 User group’s story?

• The Five Ws are questions whose answers are considered basic in information-
• gathering. They constitute a formula for getting the complete story on a subject.
• These questions are:
• Who is it about?
• What happened?
• When did it take place?
• Where did it take place?
• Why did it happen?

CIM M2 User’s Group - Who

Who is it about?

• The CIM M 2 user’s group is about YOU, the SM B distributor that uses the

CIM M 2 enterprise ecommerce platform to power your omni-channel.

• It is about YOUR CUS

TOM ER, the B2B (or B2C) consumer that uses your omni- channel.

CIM M2 User’s Group - What

What happened?

• 36 Distributors have invested in an e-commerce platform called CIM M 2. The CIM M 2

platform powers these distributor’s website and their native mobile application.

CIM M2 User’s Group - When

When did it take place?

• The journey started with Shamrock Supply (P21 ERP)
• The journey includes all of you in the room and for you started on your contract date.
• The journey is continuing with our newest customer, The M acomb Group (in this

room) who joined the CIM M 2 family on 01/ 30/ 2015

• The 1st annual CIM M 2 user’s group meeting (as you know) is taking place 02/ 08/ 15 –

02/ 10/ 15 at the Wyndham Grand Bonnet Creek, Orlando, FL.

CIM M2 User’s Group – Where

Where did it take place?

• It has happened in California, etc.
• The 1st annual CIM M 2 user’s group meeting (as you know) is taking place 02/ 08/ 15 –

02/ 10/ 15 at the Wyndham Grand Bonnet Creek, Orlando, FL.

CIM M2 User’s Group - Why

Why did it happen?

• To have a forum for CIM M 2 customers to communicate to us about needs in the

software and to form a tighter, more mutually benefitting relationship.

• To have communities of people within the CIM M 2 user base that have similar:
• ERP
• M icro-vertical
• CIM M 2 Role
• To have these communities help each other and help us serve your customer.

CIM M2 User’s Group

CIM M2 User’s Group

Call to Action:

• Name the CIM M 2 user’s group
• Define our communities
• Define point(s) of contact or leader(s) within each community
• Community member
• Unilog team member
• Define the goals of the organization