Business Intelligence Manufacturing

Industrial manufacturers of every size are feeling the pressures of expanding global competition. The world's emerging economies are increasing demand for raw materials to produce products and for energy to run plants and transport goods to market. The issues of escalating costs, shrinking margins and regulatory compliance are placing an increasing strain on profitability. Using QlikView, manufacturers of mill products and industrial machinery are stepping up their efforts to control soaring operating costs, to identify new revenue streams, and to transform to more agile business processes that enable New Product Innovations and Markets.

Innovative products and processes have become critical competitive differentiators for industrial manufacturers. To boost revenues, manufacturing companies in certain sectors look to create niche markets for new specialty products. Industrial machinery companies increasingly depend on aftersales products and services for new revenue streams. Both types of manufacturers are striving to be more innovative by bundling value-added services at the time of an initial sale to lock in long-term revenue.

Transformation to a New Business Agility

The traditional competitive battleground for such manufacturers of wringing higher productivity and cost efficiencies from operational processes has never been more important. This has led more and more companies to implement Six Sigma, Lean manufacturing and activity-based costing methodologies to improve performance, as well as extending them beyond the manufacturing floor to other enterprise functions. Companies need the capabilities to rapidly identify and respond to opportunities faster, right from demand planning and supply chain synchronization through to production changeovers and distribution into new world markets.

Easing Burdens of Regulator Compliance
In addition to the rising costs of raw materials and energy, few industries pay a higher percentage of revenue for regulatory compliance reporting than industrial manufacturers, whom are subject to numerous financial, environmental, health and safety, transportation and international commerce statutes to compete in world markets. Companies need to be able to quickly and easily satisfy the demands of these regulatory compliance reports.

Why QlikView?

Our Value Proposition is: "Less than 1/4 the Time to deliver at 1/2 the Cost or Less, whilst giving you twice the Value of Previous Generations of Business Intelligence"

Until the emergence of QlikView's patented in-memory associative technology, industrial manufacturers were slow to adopt BI technology due to the costs of the software, training and maintenance, the long implementation and applications development times, the high IT resource demands and the poor end-user acceptance. As a result, companies had to wait weeks for updates from information systems and lacked real-time enterprise visibility. Now QlikView can quickly and affordably enable industrial manufacturers to:

• Improve executive insights into operations, performance drivers, and risk factors.
• Improve sales planning and performance monitoring with real-time visibility into market trends, customer accounts and sales channels.
• Improve business agility for demand-driven products and aftersales offerings with real-time visibility into manufacturing and supply chain processes.
• Improve production yields, changeovers and time to market with analytically intensive performance improvement methodologies.
• Simplify analyses and reporting for all forms of regulatory compliance
• Improve sustainability reporting.

Three reasons to work with Data Technology and QlikView     

Simplicity, Association, Speed of delivery (and therefore time to value)

Traditional Business Intelligence projects take on average 17months to implement with a typical 35% project success rate (Source IDC) versus our experience with QlikView which is 5 to 20 days to implement with a 99%+ success rate.

Why you should be interested in QlikView for your business?

Because we use a single product platform, with patented "in-memory technology" we can design, test and implement solutions on the fly, using multiple data sources. Data Technology can deliver a tangible reduction in the cost of ownership to your business:

• Ad-hoc report generation. QlikView allows reports to be generated and delivered on the fly without external consultants and IT involvement.
• 90% of users require only 1 hour of training.
• No more need for expensive data cubes. QlikView can mean a fraction of the cost of maintaining your current data warehouse. (Case studies show that a 75% cost reduction is typical!)
• Infrastructure costs are reduced through simplification.
• Combines data from disparate systems.
• Ease of extracting data from multiple sources. Qlikview comes with "in the box" ETL functions to extract, transform and load data on to the one product platform from many different data sources, such as ERP systems, Excel, Access, SQL, Flat file, ODBC, Text, XML, etc. There is no need for the development of expensive ad-hoc interfaces.
• Provides a scalable solution across your business. QlikView can handle terabytes of data and billions of rows of information in memory and it's on the fly fucntionality makes this a fully scalable solution for your business (deployed in environments from 1 to 25,000+ users)
• Many examples of Successful customers Across Many Industries!

Put us to the test, after all seeing is believing!
If you can provide us with a business problem to prototype, with the appropriate data, we will arrange to come to your location and produce a working model, on your hardware and with your data, and to present your solution back to you within a business day. Call to arrange your "Seeing is Believing Day" or email us to request further information.

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