How Showdown Displays automated integrations and scaled faster with Alumio

Showdown Displays Europe is a global market leader in promotional displays and signage, providing high-quality visual communication solutions to businesses across various industries, including POS, events and exhibitions, hospitality, office, and digital displays. The company specializes in the production and printing of promotional signs and display systems, offering both standard and customized solutions.

With a centralized production and printing facility in Přestanov, Czech Republic, Showdown Displays Europe ensures streamlined operations, allowing businesses to source hardware and graphics from a single partner. Operating in over 45 European countries and with more than 25 years of experience, Showdown Displays is committed to delivering outstanding quality, service, and competitive pricing.

Showdown Displays Europe evolved from the unification of Promic Display Systems and Jansen Display in 2020, forming a stronger global force alongside its sister company in the United States. This combined expertise allows Showdown to provide one-stop-shop solutions for resellers, enabling efficient and seamless ordering through their Online Reseller Platform.

As Showdown Displays continued to grow, so did the complexity of its integrations with customers and internal systems, leading to a need for a scalable and standardized solution.

As Showdown Displays expanded, the company faced a growing challenge: the increasing number of connections led to integration complexity and inefficiencies and a fragmented system landscape. Each customer required a unique integration, often involving repetitive data exchanges that had to be manually set up one by one.

The manual approach to setting up integrations was becoming unsustainable, leading to inefficiencies and a lack of scalability. Additionally, the company's ERP system, a Czech-based European system, had limited capacity to handle the expanding number of integrations, further emphasizing the need for a middleware solution.

Showdown Displays sought a standardized and scalable integration platform that could eliminate redundant manual work, enhance automation, and provide a centralized hub for managing multiple data connections efficiently. Alumio stood out as the ideal choice to address these challenges by offering a flexible and robust middleware solution.

With Alumio, Showdown Displays was able to standardize their customer integrations by creating reusable templates for customer connections, eliminating the need for one-off integrations. Alumio also provided a structured approach to handling data exchange between Showdown’s ERP system and external applications, ensuring smooth operations despite the ERP’s capacity limitations. By leveraging Alumio’s automation capabilities, Showdown minimized manual intervention, significantly improving operational efficiency and reducing errors. Furthermore, the platform’s proactive monitoring tools allowed Showdown to track integration performance in real time and address potential issues before they escalated.