Asia Motor Works : 1KEY Business Intelligence

The business intelligent software helped in making decisions faster and more efficiently

Monday, June 01, 2009

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The need to have right reports, and that too ones that are linked to multiple data sets is becoming the demand of top management for enterprises. Asia Motor Works, the firm that manufactures trucks and auto components has built BI solution with1KEY business intelligence suite. The earlier solution couldn't provide ellaborate and customized reports, hence making decision was a difficuilt task for senior management. For example, they couldn't compare between two different horizon within the same dataset and also link between two data set in a single report.

The major technical challenges that they faced during the process was consolidation of data in a meaningful way and defining a clear and concise model of user information need. Apart from these, there were some non-technical challenges also, such as getting the top management engaged on the subject of BI. Still, after seeing the possible benifits, the top management got directly involved in designing the report format and layout. They have given their valued inputs which helped in generating value added reports. Reports from BI are directly delivered to the company's executives and top management for an eagle eye view of the enterprise.

After implementation of the project, the productivity has increased. The vendor performance report which tooks days earlier and used to be prepared manually can now be automatically generated within minutes. Now AMW is able to track inventory changes or movement by region and category. Now they can also analyze product performance by vendor which enables them to more effectively manage vendors toward profitability.

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