Evidi helps OBOS build better customer experiences with Dynamics 365 Marketing

To transform its customer experiences, support membership growth, and improve cross-selling opportunities, OBOS decided to implement Dynamics 365 Marketing and Dynamics 365 Customer Insights. OBOS turned to long-time partner Evidi, whose team of experts helped ensure that the Dynamics 365 Marketing implementation aligned with business goals, automated processes to streamline communications, and enabled personalization by business and segment via integration with Customer Insights. The result was a digital data and service platform that enables personalized customer experiences and provides a foundation for future innovation.

With the new solution in production, OBOS has a single data repository for member and prospect data that allows the company to deliver highly targeted, personalized customer journeys. Efforts can now be coordinated across teams, presenting a unified identity to members regardless of what service area it comes from. Integration with Dynamics 365 Sales and Dynamics 365 Customer Service means that sales and customer service representatives can now trigger marketing emails based on their direct interactions with the customer, making marketing actions even more targeted and effective.

Working with OBOS, we’ve been able to decrease the time employees spend manually updating digital solutions, and we reduced the number of digital components that had to be maintained, said Ida Madeleine Aasvistad, Head of Engagement at Evidi. 

This has increased operational efficiency, freeing up more time to focus on marketing goals across the organization.

OBOS is already looking at expanding its usage of Dynamics 365 Marketing by enabling lead scoring functionality to move leads more efficiently through the sales funnel. The housing provider is also exploring how AI capabilities integrated in Dynamics 365 could realize further time savings. 

One reason that the project was so successful is that the OBOS team was very committed to the transformation. They have a strong foundation and are already looking at opportunities to drive further innovation, continued Aasvistad.

While Evidi boasts one of the largest Microsoft customer experience practices in the Nordic region, a big part of the value that the partner brings to customers is as a complete provider of Microsoft Cloud solutions. In fact, Evidi was born out of five separate consultancies with diverse skillsets in Dynamics 365, Azure Data & AI, and Microsoft 365 that merged to offer a one-stop shop for customers looking to drive digital transformation across their entire businesses.

Customers of all sizes have embraced the approach of the new company. With a strong enterprise customer base around customer experience and a large presence in the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market around finance and supply chain management, Evidi sees a huge opportunity for cross-selling solutions to help each of these segments get the most out of their Microsoft investments. The partner also has a products department dedicated to developing new IP solutions that will help accelerate adoption of Microsoft Cloud technologies in different segments or verticals—such as customer experience solutions for SMBs.

While focused on growing its business, which includes recent acquisitions in Denmark and India, Evidi is just as invested in how it achieves that growth. The partner has set a high bar for practices around both sustainability and diversity. 

We’re very proud that our values help us attract and retain the best employees, said Ovedal. - To provide just one example, of the 60 new employees hired since January 2023, 56 percent of them are women.

When it comes to its customer experience practice, Evidi sees a huge opportunity to continue on its fast growth trajectory with Microsoft business applications. One of the top areas of focus is AI, which will have a big impact on how rapidly customer data can be analyzed and segmented, enable automation that previously would have taken months of coding, and even change the very nature of how customers interact with businesses.

However, Evidi also identifies the SMB market and Power Platform as other areas where customers are demanding better customer experience-related solutions. 

We have a whole development team formed around Dataverse and Power Apps because they are essential to deliver the agility and speed to market that organizations need in today’s business environment, said Aasvistad. 

There has never been a more exciting time to be a Microsoft partner.