Case Study: Empire Today achieves faster, more accurate in-home sales and simplified tablet management with Microsoft Azure

National Flooring Company Uses Mobile Device Management to Expedite Sales, Boost Efficiency

Empire Today, America’s largest shop‑at‑home seller and installer of flooring and window treatments, needed to modernize a paper‑based in‑home sales process used by about 1,200 independent sales contractors. The company wanted a standardized, easy way to capture measurements and orders, avoid adding contractor accounts to its internal domain, and minimize IT support for device and app management.

Empire deployed Nokia Lumia 2520 tablets running Windows 8.1 RT with a touch‑enabled PrecisionQuote™ app, managed centrally with Windows Intune and System Center Configuration Manager in Microsoft Azure, with development and provisioning help from Magenic and Peters & Associates. The solution automated app deployment and updates, improved quote accuracy and order capture, reduced paper and support costs (avoiding roughly 20 additional hires), and positioned Empire to win more sales and scale management easily in the cloud.

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Steven Creaney

Senior .NET Developer