From Boards to Business Apps: Inside Seder Group's Digital Transformation with Workiom

See how Seder Group, a Saudi trading and contracting leader with 28,000 employees, chose Workiom to unify Finance, Projects, Recruitment, and operations on one governed platform.

Meet Seder Group!

Seder Group is a leading Saudi family-owned company established in 1981, headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The group specializes in integrated facility management solutions, operations and maintenance (O&M) services, city cleaning, electromechanical works, and information technology for both public and private sector clients. Over time, the group has expanded into additional sectors, including environmental services and recycling.

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Country

Saudi Arabia

Employees

+28,000

Use-case

Finance, Business Development, Project Management, Recruitment, Task Management, and day-to-day operations

Industry

Trading and Contracting

The challenge

A group that digitized early... and everywhere

Seder Group is a leading Saudi trading and contracting organization with a workforce of 28,000, operating across some of the most demanding project environments in the Kingdom. Long before "digital transformation" became a boardroom mandate, Seder's teams were already living it in practice. Over five years, departments across the group (finance, business development, project management, recruitment, and operations) built their own digital workflows on board-based work management tools, translating everything from invoices and approvals to checklists and project tasks into shared digital spaces.

That grassroots energy produced something valuable: an organization where digital ways of working were not imposed from above but embraced from within. Hundreds of boards, built by the people who used them, capturing half a decade of institutional activity.

The strategic question that comes with scale

For an enterprise of Seder Group's size, that success naturally raised a bigger question. Each department had digitized its own corner of the business brilliantly, but the group's leadership was looking further ahead. What would it take to see the entire organization in one view? To give every process a single, coherent home rather than a constellation of boards? To make knowledge belong to the institution (to teams and roles) so it would keep compounding as people grew into new positions? And to do all of it on a foundation engineered to scale with the group's ambitions?

This was not a problem to patch. It was an architecture to design. Seder Group made the decision accordingly: rather than adding another tool to the landscape, the group selected Workiom as the single platform for its enterprise-wide digital transformation, adopted across departments.

Building the group's digital operating layer

Working with Seder Group, Workiom is converting five years of accumulated board data into a governed ecosystem of business applications, structured around how the organization actually operates, and migrated with the full historical record intact. The architecture rests on four pillars.

1. Purpose-built applications instead of standalone boards.

Related boards are merged into unified apps with consistent, standardized structures. A business process (an invoice cycle, a recruitment pipeline, a project plan) now lives in one cohesive application rather than being distributed across separate boards, giving every team a shared, reliable foundation.

2. Ownership that belongs to the organization.

Through Workiom's teams and permissions model, data ownership is tied to roles and teams rather than to individual builders. Institutional knowledge stays institutional: handovers are seamless, accountability is clear, and continuity is guaranteed no matter how the organization evolves.

3. Governance at the center, flexibility at the edges.

App structures are managed centrally, so processes stay consistent and protected as the group grows, while teams retain the day-to-day freedom that made their digital adoption so successful in the first place.

4. One source of truth for the whole group.

All process data flows into unified dashboards and reports. Leadership gains real-time, organization-wide visibility drawn directly from live operational data, 360° reporting from a single source, available on demand.

Five years preserved, decades prepared for

What makes this transformation distinctive is what it keeps. Nothing built over the past five years is left behind: the migration carries Seder Group's complete historical data into the new architecture. The boards that once stood alone become dynamic, enterprise-grade business applications, and the platform is designed to keep evolving with the group, so today's structure is a starting point rather than a ceiling.

With more than 300 users already working across Finance, Business Development, Project Management, Recruitment, and daily operations, Seder Group has done what few enterprises at this scale manage: honoring the digital culture its teams created while giving it the enterprise architecture it deserves.

Design your organization's next chapter

Seder Group's story shows what a digital transformation looks like when it is chosen, not forced, a deliberate architectural decision that turns years of digital momentum into a governed, scalable foundation for the future. For any enterprise whose teams have outgrown standalone boards, the path forward doesn't mean starting over. It means building on everything you've already achieved.

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