Grain & Protein Technologies is a leading global designer, manufacturer, and marketer of reliable, durable, and innovative equipment solutions for grain, seed, poultry, egg, and swine production. Generating $1.1 billion in annual revenue, the Company serves farmers and agribusiness managers in over 100 countries and currently operates 19 manufacturing facilities across 5 continents, employing more 3600 people.
GPT relied on a legacy self-hosted IT system, which incurred high recurring costs and complex upgrade cycles. Their dealer portal for Grain and Protein categories required secure access, seamless reporting, and scalable management. GPT needed a cost-effective, future-ready solution to eliminate infrastructure dependencies.
- Security Concerns: Ensuring data protection and compliance while transitioning from a legacy system.
- Report Migration: Moving critical BIRT reports to a reliable cloud environment.
- Application Shift: Rewriting Angular-based apps into Liferay Client Extensions for seamless integration.
- Upgrade Issues: Frequent upgrades created downtime and operational overhead.
- Cost Burden: Recurring infrastructure and licensing costs strained GPT’s financial resources.
- Seamless Transition: Ensuring minimal disruption while migrating the dealer portal and APIs to SaaS.
- Liferay SaaS Migration – Shifted from self-hosted to SaaS, reducing upgrade challenges.
- Cost Optimization – Eliminated recurring fees with a one-time licensing model.
- Reports Rehosted – Migrated BIRT reports securely to Liferay Cloud
- Client Extensions – Rebuilt Angular apps as Liferay Client Extensions within SaaS ecosystem.
- Seamless Access – Enabled role-based dashboards for Grain, Protein, and hybrid dealers.
- Future-Ready Setup – Prepared system for database migration and long-term scalability.
- The dealer portal, earlier known as OneGSI, has now been rebranded and launched as GPT’s DealerConnect, marking a fresh beginning on Liferay SaaS platform.
- Reduction in IT costs, replacing recurring fees with a one-time licensing model
- Achieved fast portal performance, enhancing dealer experience and productivity.
- Dealers gained seamless role-based dashboards tailored to Grain and Protein needs.
- Improved system uptime 99.99% with automatic upgrades in Liferay SaaS.
- Reports moved securely to Liferay Cloud, ensuring reliable access anytime.
- SaaS environment prepared GPT for scalability and future database migration.
By moving to Liferay SaaS, GPT reduced heavy IT expenses, rebranded its portal as DealerConnect, improved user experience, secured reporting, streamlined application management, and built a flexible ecosystem ready for future digital transformation. They also have more control over the system and a reliable service provider who can provide dedicated support from long term perspective.
