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Industries

Technology changes by platform.
The difficult problems change by industry.

Sector contextRight route

The same ERP, CRM or data platform behaves very differently depending on how an organisation buys, sells, manufactures, fulfils, serves customers, manages risk or coordinates public services. We bring Microsoft capability together with the operating context around it.

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We distinguish between published customer evidence, delivery experience and developed propositions, so you can see what each industry claim is based on.

The order that matters

  1. The platform provides capability.

  2. The industry creates context.

  3. The operating model creates complexity.

  4. The business problem decides what matters.

In short

Industry experience matters when it changes the questions you ask.

The value is not knowing the terminology. It is recognising where complexity is likely to appear, and being honest about what we can evidence.

  • Industry gives context. It does not preselect the technology.

  • Eight primary industries, each with a published proposition.

  • Start with the operating pressure leadership feels today.

  • Qualify operating complexity before recommending a platform.

  • The current situation decides the commercial route.

  • We state exactly what evidence exists in each sector.

Where we lead

Eight industries where the operating context is part of the work.

Each card states the operating reality, the pressures we qualify, the outcomes leadership may want to improve, the capability areas that could apply and exactly what we can evidence today.

  • Public Sector

    Coordination across organisational boundaries usually matters more than any single system.

    Coordinate services, information and decisions across organisations.

    Common pressures we qualify

    • Requests and referrals can arrive through many channels, which makes a single view of demand harder to hold
    • Partner working often depends on manual handoffs when status is not shared
    • Risk and case information can be fragmented across teams and systems
    • Capacity and demand may only become visible after the pressure has already built

    What leadership often wants to improve

    • Service coordination
    • Case and referral visibility
    • Partner working
    • Administrative effort
    • Reporting and accountability
    Capability areas
    CRM, Power Platform, Purpose-built solutions, Data, Integration
    Routes, where qualified
    TransformOptimiseAssessment

    What we can evidence: Developed industry proposition

    Developed public-service proposition including CRMS for crisis, hardship and community-support coordination. Healthcare & Care provides the canonical route for the separate CMS care-service proposition. These are proposition evidence rather than Public Sector customer-outcome evidence.

    Explore Public Sector

  • Healthcare & Care

    The person experiences one journey. The organisation may coordinate dozens of processes behind it.

    Connect the people, services, information and decisions behind care.

    Common pressures we qualify

    • Referrals can be visible as forms rather than as a journey somebody owns
    • Capacity can be difficult to see across services, teams and locations
    • Partner working may depend on chasing when status is not shared
    • Front-line time can be consumed by administration that a system could carry

    What leadership often wants to improve

    • Coordination across services
    • Referral and case flow
    • Capacity visibility
    • Administrative effort
    • Reporting to commissioners and funders
    Capability areas
    CRM, Purpose-built solutions, Power Platform, Data, Integration
    Routes, where qualified
    TransformAssessmentSupport

    What we can evidence: Developed industry proposition

    Developed clinical-management and care-coordination proposition, alongside Microsoft business-application capability relevant to referral, case, capacity, finance and data requirements. This is proposition evidence, not customer evidence: no customer in our central evidence model is verified as Healthcare & Care. We do not claim EPR or EHR delivery, clinical certification, NHS assurance, safeguarding compliance or healthcare customer outcomes.

    Explore Healthcare & Care

  • Manufacturing

    Demand, materials, capacity and cost have to agree with each other before a plan means anything.

    Connect demand, materials, capacity, production and financial control.

    Common pressures we qualify

    • Production plans can change faster than the system is able to reflect them
    • Materials and capacity may not agree with the demand picture
    • Workarounds can quietly replace system control where the process does not fit
    • True cost can become visible only after the event

    What leadership often wants to improve

    • Planning confidence
    • Material availability
    • Throughput
    • Cost visibility
    • Working capital
    Capability areas
    ERP, Data, Integration, Predictive
    Routes, where qualified
    TransformRecoverOptimise

    What we can evidence: Published customer evidence

    Published manufacturing customer video and approved manufacturing customer logo usage. The published asset describes a Dynamics 365 implementation experience with InteliSense rather than a measured sector outcome.

    Explore Manufacturing

  • Distribution & Logistics

    Performance depends on flow: product, information, work, customer commitments and cash.

    Connect inventory, warehouse, fulfilment and delivery.

    Common pressures we qualify

    • Availability promised to customers may not match what the warehouse can actually do
    • Pick paths can require more travel than the order profile needs
    • Backlog can be explained after the event rather than seen early enough to act
    • Working capital can become tied up in the wrong stock

    What leadership often wants to improve

    • Stock availability
    • Warehouse productivity
    • Fulfilment
    • Delivery reliability
    • Working capital
    Capability areas
    ERP, Data, Integration, Predictive
    Routes, where qualified
    TransformOptimiseAssessment

    What we can evidence: Verified customer relationship

    Approved customer logo usage establishing relevant customer relationships. No published distribution customer story is claimed today.

    Explore Distribution & Logistics

  • Retail & eCommerce

    The customer sees one transaction. The business coordinates product, stock, fulfilment and margin behind it.

    Connect customer demand, product, inventory, fulfilment and margin.

    Common pressures we qualify

    • Availability shown to customers may not match the position in the warehouse
    • Customer service can answer order questions without order context
    • Returns can cost more to process than is currently measured
    • Margin by product and channel can take longer to reconcile than the decision allows

    What leadership often wants to improve

    • Order accuracy
    • Stock availability
    • Fulfilment cost
    • Channel margin
    • Customer service effort
    Capability areas
    ERP, CRM, Data, Integration
    Routes, where qualified
    TransformOptimiseSupport

    What we can evidence: Relevant capability

    Order, inventory, warehouse, fulfilment, finance and reporting capability on Microsoft business applications, integrated with the commerce, marketplace and payment platforms the retailer has chosen. We do not build ecommerce storefronts, we publish no POS implementation experience, and no verified Retail & eCommerce customer outcome is claimed today.

    Explore Retail & eCommerce

  • Professional Services

    People, projects and commercials are the same conversation viewed from three directions.

    Connect people, projects, commercials and financial performance.

    Common pressures we qualify

    • Pipeline and resource planning can be managed separately even though they move together
    • Project margin can be understood too late to change the outcome
    • Time, cost and billing may live in systems that do not reconcile easily
    • Forecasting can depend on individual judgement rather than shared data

    What leadership often wants to improve

    • Pipeline
    • Resource utilisation
    • Project margin
    • Billing
    • Forecast confidence
    Capability areas
    ERP, CRM, Data, Power Platform

    What we can evidence: Relevant capability

    Project, resourcing, billing, finance and reporting capability on Microsoft business applications. Requirements vary widely between service businesses, so we do not present a single standard solution or claim sector outcomes.

    Explore Professional Services

  • Not for Profit

    Relationships, services and funding have to stay visible without a large administrative overhead.

    Connect relationships, services, funding and operational visibility.

    Common pressures we qualify

    • Supporters, beneficiaries and partners can sit in records that do not connect
    • Service delivery data can be difficult to report to funders in the form they require
    • Manual administration can consume capacity that is already limited
    • Finance and engagement systems may not reconcile without manual effort

    What leadership often wants to improve

    • Supporter and member engagement
    • Service visibility
    • Funder reporting
    • Administrative effort
    • Finance reconciliation
    Capability areas
    CRM, ERP, Power Platform, Data
    Routes, where qualified
    TransformSupportOptimise

    What we can evidence: Verified customer relationship

    A published customer video from a membership organisation, which evidences membership-organisation delivery rather than charity delivery. Other approved logo usage carries no verified industry, engagement or outcome information in our central evidence model, so no charity sector experience or outcome is claimed.

    Explore Not for Profit

  • Construction

    Commercial, operational and asset information have to agree before a project position means anything.

    Connect projects, procurement, field activity, assets and commercial control.

    Common pressures we qualify

    • The project plan can be only one version of the commitment that has been made
    • Committed cost can become visible at invoice rather than at commitment
    • Variations can move faster than the commercial record behind them
    • Asset information can be incomplete by the time the project hands over

    What leadership often wants to improve

    • Commercial control
    • Committed cost visibility
    • Procurement
    • Field activity
    • Asset handover
    Capability areas
    ERP, CRM, Power Platform, Data, Integration
    Routes, where qualified
    TransformAssessmentOptimise

    What we can evidence: Relevant capability

    Project, procurement, asset, field and financial process capability on Microsoft business applications. Our central evidence model holds no customer verified against construction, so no construction sector experience or outcome is claimed, and none is inferred from approved logo usage. We do not claim specialist construction accounting, BIM, common data environment or certification capability we have not implemented.

    Explore Construction

Evidence standard

What an industry claim is actually based on.

Four levels, used consistently. A proposition page is not customer evidence, and a logo is not an outcome.

  1. Level 1

    Industry proposition

    A developed view of how the operating model works, what usually goes wrong and what we are prepared to discuss in detail.

    Exists for all eight primary industries.

  2. Level 2

    Verified customer relationship or delivery context

    Approved evidence that we have worked with an organisation in a relevant context.

    Exists where approved logo usage or delivery context has been confirmed.

  3. Level 3

    Published customer story

    The customer describes the engagement in their own words in a published asset.

    Exists today for manufacturing and for a membership organisation.

  4. Level 4

    Verified industry outcome

    A measured or approved outcome attributed to a named organisation in that industry.

    Not published. We will not present a logo or a proposition as an outcome.

Start with the operating problem. Not the Microsoft module.

Every industry conversation here starts on the left, never on the right.

  • Manufacturer

    “Production plans keep changing.”

    Not: Do you need master planning?

  • Distributor

    “Pickers spend too much time travelling.”

    Not: Do you need warehouse management?

  • CFO

    “Cash is tied up in inventory.”

    Not: Do you need another dashboard?

Find your situation

Sector context informs the route. It does not choose it.

The situation decides the commercial route. The operating area and the platform are qualified afterwards, never assumed from an industry or a functional label.

  • Planning something new

    A new platform, a replacement, a rollout or a business case that has not been tested yet.

    Transform and Implementation

  • A project in trouble

    Delivery has stalled, confidence has dropped or the plan no longer reflects reality.

    Recover

  • A live system that should work better

    The platform is in use, but process, adoption, data or performance are holding value back.

    Optimise

  • Ongoing support

    Day to day support, small change and someone accountable for keeping the platform healthy.

    Support

  • Considering changing partner

    The platform stays. The responsibility for it moves in a controlled way.

    Microsoft Partner Transition

  • A clear, bounded requirement

    Scope, readiness and decision velocity may support an accelerated route, subject to qualification.

    RAPID qualification

  • Exploring data and AI

    A decision the organisation wants to improve, before any model or tool is chosen.

    Data & AI

  • Not sure yet

    The pressure is real but the cause has not been established.

    Assessments and How We Help
See how we help

Industry fit

Industry tells us what to look for. Evidence tells us what to recommend.

Four tests, applied in order, before any platform or delivery route is proposed.

  1. Test 1

    Sector relevance

    Does our sector and process experience genuinely relate to the operating problem, or would we be claiming relevance we cannot evidence?

  2. Test 2

    Operating complexity

    Entities, sites, users, warehouse and manufacturing complexity, service model, external parties, data, integration and the governance and control required.

  3. Test 3

    Current platform position

    Is this new capability, improvement of an existing platform, support, a delivery failure, a data problem, an integration problem or a platform-fit problem?

  4. Test 4

    Commercial route

    Transform, Implement, Recover, Optimise, Support, Partner Transition, RAPID qualification, an assessment, further qualification or no action.

Platform fit

Operating complexity decides the platform. Not the industry label.

There is no rule that says manufacturing means one platform and services mean another. Complexity, scale, entities, governance and integration decide it.

  • Business Central

    Where finance and operational complexity fit the capability, extensibility and governance model without unnecessary enterprise complexity.

    Explore Business Central

  • Finance & Supply Chain

    Where requirements include deeper enterprise finance, complex manufacturing, advanced warehousing, planning, multi-entity operating models or higher integration and governance complexity.

    Explore Finance & Supply Chain

  • CRM and customer engagement

    Where sales, service, case, stakeholder, membership or partner processes need to be connected and traceable.

    Explore CRM and customer engagement

  • Power Platform

    Focused applications, automation, Dataverse and external experiences where a targeted capability fits better than a full application footprint.

    Explore Power Platform

  • InteliSense purpose-built solutions

    CRMS and CMS, where their qualified scope matches the operating requirement rather than as a default answer.

    Explore InteliSense purpose-built solutions

These are InteliSense qualification patterns, not Microsoft rules. Platform fit is assessed against the future operating model rather than the current system estate.

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Industry and data

Useful AI and predictive opportunities start with a decision the organisation needs to improve.

Prediction becomes useful when somebody can still act on it, in the operating rhythm they already work to.

  • Example: Manufacturing

    Will materials or capacity constrain production?

  • Example: Warehouse

    Where might backlog form later today?

  • Example: Sales

    Which opportunities need attention now?

  • Example: Care

    Where is capacity under pressure?

  • Example: Public services

    Where is service demand increasing?

  • Example: Finance

    Where is working capital exposure emerging?

These questions illustrate decision-first design. They are not pre-packaged industry AI models.

Explore Data & AIExplore Predictive Intelligence

After go-live

Industry context remains useful once the platform is live.

It helps distinguish a generic system issue from an operating-model problem worth improving.

Detail

The layer beneath the sector view.

Open only what you need. Nothing here is required to understand the position above.

Operating contexts outside the published portfolio

Customer evidence

Hear customers describe their Dynamics experience with InteliSense.

Published customer material, drawn from the same evidence model used across the site. Each story evidences that engagement, not a sector outcome.

  • Customer video

    Hill & Smith

    We transformed our business practices in just 5 months

    Hill & Smith describe their Dynamics 365 implementation with InteliSense in their own words.

    Verified industry
    Manufacturing
    Verified platform
    Dynamics 365
    • Transform
    • ERP

    What it does not prove: Does not establish Recovery, RAPID, Optimise, Support classification. No measured outcome is published with this evidence.

  • Customer video

    British Society of Lifestyle Medicine

    Implementing D365 for the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine

    A membership organisation describes implementing Dynamics 365 with InteliSense.

    Verified industry
    Membership organisation
    Verified platform
    Dynamics 365
    • Transform
    • CRM

    What it does not prove: Does not establish Recovery, RAPID, Optimise, Support classification. No measured outcome is published with this evidence.

  • Customer video

    InteliSense customers

    Hear our customers talk about InteliSense

    Several customers describe working with InteliSense, in their own words.

    Verified platform
    Dynamics 365
    • Transform
    • ERP
    • CRM

    What it does not prove: Does not establish Recovery, RAPID, Optimise, Support classification. No verified industry classification. No measured outcome is published with this evidence.

Organisations we work with

Approved logo usage evidences a customer relationship. Our central evidence model does not yet hold verified industry metadata for these organisations, so we do not present them as proof of capability in any particular sector.

  • Attwater Group
  • Bladder Health UK
  • Eland Cables
  • Elliotts
  • Engage
  • Escape
  • Harrison Spinks
  • Hill and Smith
  • igus
  • Inivos
  • IPG
  • Marshalls
  • Mole Valley Farmers
  • Nanopore
  • Oxfam
  • Pro:Direct
  • Viridian Solar
Explore customer stories

Relevant guidance

Material worth reading before the sector conversation.

Selected because each one helps answer platform fit, transformation readiness, operating complexity, decision quality or public-sector context.

Explore insights and resources

Orientation

Four questions before the first conversation.

Industry, situation, operating area and platform. The result is a likely starting point rather than a recommendation, and we do not decide platform fit from a form.

1. Which industry are you in?
2. What best describes your current situation?

This is what decides the commercial route. Everything else refines it.

3. Where does the pressure sit today?
4. What platform is involved, if any?

Indicative signal

Answer the questions and we will show a likely starting point. This is orientation rather than a recommendation, and we do not decide platform fit from a form.

Your answers are carried through, so you will not be asked to repeat them. Final qualification is always a conversation.

Industry fit

Questions buyers ask about industry fit.

Your industry is the context

Start with how your organisation actually operates.

Tell us where the pressure sits today: finance, supply chain, manufacturing, warehouse, customer service, projects, public services, coordination or data. We will establish which Microsoft capability and which delivery route fit the operating model, before recommending either.

Explore customer stories

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