South Australian company deploys time-saving business intelligence platform

Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 24 March 2009 18:04

Inside Info, a business intelligence application vendor, says deployment of its QlikView BI platform by a South Australian manufacturer and distributor for the building and construction industry, has reduced by 500 hours – or the equivalent of one working month a year – the time spent by the company’s IT team producing reports.

Announcing the deployment, Inside Info said that Bianco Construction Supplies had chosen QlikView business intelligence for sales and logistics analysis of Lawson M3 data, to increase management responsiveness to trends, customer demands and generate new sales opportunities.

Bianco makes around 800 customer deliveries every week in Australia, and Inside Info says QlikView was rolled out in 30 days.

According to IT project manager, Peter Crescitelli, Bianco had a limited view of sales and customer data, and disseminating and sharing this information across the business in a timely manner was a challenge.
 
Crescitelli says Bianco’s IT department needed to reduce the time and manpower required to respond to adhoc report requests while accelerating the availability of up to the minute sales, delivery and customer information.
 
After reviewing traditional ‘cube’-based business intelligence approaches, Crescitelli says Bianco chose QlikView as its business intelligence platform to build a firm base for quick decision-making.
 
The speed and ease of deployment, depth of multidimensional information analysis and the proven Lawson M3 application templates were decisive factors in Bianco’s choice of Inside Info Inside and QlikView.
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