We rarely give it much thought, but for us to be able to stop at a gas station, stock up on essentials, and fill our car’s fuel tank—all at reasonable prices—requires tremendous coordination and logistical effort on the part of those businesses. For decades, one of the leading companies providing these services to convenience retailers and petroleum wholesalers has been PDI Software.
The company’s wide range of innovative software solutions—for fuel pricing, logistics, cloud-based marketing, inventory management, and other operations—has become so popular with retailers and wholesalers that PDI’s enterprise management software now powers more than 200,000 customer sites worldwide.
Today, PDI serves more than 1,500 retail and wholesale customers across more than 50 countries, and its software helps enable more than 50 billion gallons of fuel purchases each year.
In recent years, the company has been expanding its industry leadership position by rapidly acquiring businesses—well over a dozen companies in less than five years. With that rate of growth, and the need to integrate hundreds of new global employees into PDI’s corporate IT environment, the company needed a more flexible and agile cloud-communications solution.