Discover the latest software purchases and digital transformation initiatives being undertaken by Bestop and its business and technology executives. Each quarter our research team identifies on-prem and cloud applications that are being used by the 500 Bestop employees from the public (Press Releases, Customer References, Testimonials, Case Studies and Success Stories) and proprietary sources.
During our research, we have identified that Bestop has purchased the following applications: OpenText B2B Managed Services for eCommerce in 2015, Autodesk Fusion Lifecycle for Product Lifecycle Management in 2016, Oracle NetSuite ERP for ERP Financial in 2018 and the related IT decision-makers and key stakeholders.
Our database provides customer insight and contextual information on which enterprise applications and software systems Bestop is running and its propensity to invest more and deepen its relationship with OpenText , Autodesk , Oracle or identify new suppliers as part of their overall Digital and IT transformation projects to stay competitive, fend off threats from disruptive forces, or comply with internal mandates to improve overall enterprise efficiency.
We have been analyzing Bestop revenues, which have grown to $90.0 million in 2023, plus its IT budget and roadmap, cloud software purchases, aggregating massive amounts of data points that form the basis of our forecast assumptions for Bestop intention to invest in emerging technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, IoT, Blockchain, Autonomous Database or in cloud-based ERP, HCM, CRM, EPM, Procurement or Treasury applications.
About the Customer
Bestop is located in Louisville, Colorado not far from where it started. With more than 500 employees worldwide, Bestop manufactures a broad line of Soft Tops and Accessories for Jeep CJ and Wrangler, plus an expanding line of Truck Accessories. All Bestop-branded soft tops are designed and manufactured in North America.
Scope and Challenges
“We were using a paper-based PLM process that was slow and cumbersome,” said Rob Dean, Senior Program Manager at Bestop. “As our design cycles were getting faster and faster, we knew we needed to automate tasks and accelerate the entire process.”
With the company's legacy solution it would usually take them from 30 to 60 days to fully circulate and get approval from all relevant parties. The manual process would also often lead to miscommunication. Due to this challenges, they decided to find a more productive and effective way to handle the PLM process.
Outcome and Implications
In 2016 Bestop chose Razorleaf as a partner for the Fusion Lifecycle implementation which has resulted in a dramatic acceleration of the product development process. Bestop was seeing right away a greater response in people performing assigned process tasks. The team can now process 100 ECRs in two months, something that would not have been possible with the manual paper-based system.
As a result of the success of the implementation, Bestop is exploring the possibility of expanding Fusion Lifecycle into supplier management, quality assurance, and purchasing modules.
| Vendor | Old Product | New Product | Category | Market | VAR/SI | When | Live |
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| Rollbar | Legacy Apps | Rollbar Error Tracking Platform | Apps Development | PaaS | n/a | 2010 | 2010 |
| Vendor | Old Product | New Product | Category | Market | VAR/SI | When | Live |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akamai | Legacy Apps | Akamai CDN | Content Delivery Network | IaaS | n/a | 2020 | 2020 |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe | Content Delivery Network | IaaS | Subscribe | 2018 | 2018 |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe | Content Delivery Network | IaaS | Subscribe | 2021 | 2021 |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe | Secure Email Gateways (SEGs) | IaaS | Subscribe | 2021 | 2021 |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe | Application Hosting and Computing Services | IaaS | Subscribe | 2015 | 2015 |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe | Application Hosting and Computing Services | IaaS | Subscribe | 2016 | 2016 |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe | Application Hosting and Computing Services | IaaS | Subscribe | 2020 | 2020 |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Subscribe | Application Hosting and Computing Services | IaaS | Subscribe | 2021 | 2021 |
| Vendor | Old Product | New Product | Category | Market | VAR/SI | When | Live |
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| Zendesk | Legacy Apps | Zendesk Chat | Chatbots and Conversational AI | Artificial Intelligence | n/a | 2018 | 2018 |
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| Subscribe | Subscribe | Corporate Controller | Subscribe | Subscribe |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | COO / CFO | Subscribe | Subscribe |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Sr. Accountant | Subscribe | Subscribe |
| Subscribe | Subscribe | Accounting Assistant | Subscribe | Subscribe |