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Techwave
Success Story
Business Intelligence solution to the luxury goods conglomerate
Business Intelligence solution to the world’s largest luxury goods conglomerate,
Paris.
Industry | CPG
Techwave
The Client The world's largest luxury goods company
owns famous luxury brands, believes in
controlling quality, distribution & creating
brand excitement among customers with
Innovation, which in its view is the
ultimate driver of growth & profitability.
Client Challenges
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Success Story
Business Intelligence solution to the luxury goods conglomerate
Client was using manual methods to collect
information from the different applications,
and putting them together in Microsoft Excel
or other tools, which was labour intensive
and error prone process since client
experience problems in using data warehouse
& BI solution to its full potential.
Data warehouse was limited to the Sales
information of the Retail application, with
issues in performance, maintainability,
robustness & extensibility
Financial information in Sales package
were with lot of information in custom
developed Cubes in applications like
transformer and getting out this
information in cube to build incremental
data for multiple years in flexible &
qualitative way was not possible
Techwave Solution Techwave consulted and deployed IBM
Cognos BI 10.1 Applications using BI
Architecture.
Key Highlights:
Created efficient cubes by integration
from SQL server & used Auto partition
to integrate multiple year data from
source system (SQL server)
Implemented data security for existing
users
From KPI perspective only medium to
high level summarized data is
required, all lowest level transactional
data is gathered in enterprise data
warehouse, prepared it for all future
needs & enabled root cause analysis of
anomalies to the lowest data
1st phase— Techwave implemented
Cognos 8.4 BI at the front end
2nd phase— BI content was migrated
from version 8.4 to 10 using IBM Cognos
Lifecycle Manager
The entire migration program, including
test phase was conducted by one of the
brands successfully in less than 3 working
days.
Techwave 3
Success Story
Techwave Services
Factors for choosing Cognos BI
Business Intelligence solution to the luxury goods conglomerate
Limited Resources
Limited Reports provided by defined
parameters
Time consuming exercise
Cumbersome presentation of
information
IBM Cognos 10.1 BI provides a more
time efficient, concise and clear
method of reporting financial data to
support better, improved and more
efficient decision making.
Planning & Budgeting
Reporting, Analysis & Score carding
BI Architecture
Decision Making
Technology Stack IBM BI Cognos 10.2.1
Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Financial Reporting
Windows
Techwave 4
Success Story
Business Benefits
Business Intelligence solution to the luxury goods conglomerate
Business Outcome
The complete BI front end
environment has been
successfully migrated to
Cognos 10 and is used by
the end users on a daily
basis.
A number of the targeted
benefits have been
achieved by implementing
the financial reporting.
The client has a Performance Management &
Business Intelligence environment that helps them
to monitor the execution of their strategy (and fine-
tuning it where & when required), down to the very
operational level through set of default reports.
Along with this, client have value addition wherein;
Users can create their own analysis scenarios
There was very labour intensive and error
prone process to collect information from the
different applications and putting them
together in Microsoft Excel or other tools, users
now have a set of default reports that can be
used. If new insights need to be collected, users
can create their own analysis scenarios.
All reports are centralised & approved by key
users & developed by the BICC report
development team
There was no overview of what all reports
exists where, and who was creating/using them?
Now all reports reside in a central IBM Cognos
Connection portal. All reports are approved by
key users and developed by the BICC report
development team.
Predictive analysis based on standard business,
calculation rules, definitions defined &
maintained by the BI Competence Centre
There were discussions on figures or business
rules, now decisions can be taken knowing that
the figures shown are according to the business
standard, calculation rules and definitions
defined and maintained by the Business
Intelligence Competence Centre.
PM & BI to monitor the execution of their
strategy to the every operational level
Service Offerings
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Success Story
Techwave established in 2004, is a global end-to-end IT services & solutions company, which
develops long-term relationship with clients by leveraging unique delivery models and expert
frameworks.
The Techwave
Big Data & Analytics Application Development Customer Relationship
Management
Digital
Validation Services Staff Augmentation
Enterprise Information
Management (EIM)
Enterprise Performance
Management (EPM)
Enterprise Resource
Management (ERM) Infrastructure
Management
Global Headquarters – USA
Suite 101, 1 East Uwchlan Ave, EXTON, PA 19341
Ph: 484-872-8707
Fax: 484-872-8716
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Business Intelligence solution to the luxury goods conglomerate