Business Analytics Strategy

element61 has been involved in the Tessenderlo Group BI program since 2007. After the definition of a Business Intelligence Roadmap, a new SAP Business Warehouse 7 deployment was executed. The current SAP Business Warehouse includes data from multiple SAP source systems and covers functional areas.

The Corporate USG People Data Warehouse is based on multitude data sources (back- and front-office). The decision support system is used by virtually all management levels in the organization in order to get a complementary overview of the performance of the USG Group. USG country management can retrieve financial and operational details on their country performance.

Echo relied on element61 for their Performance Management strategy. element61defined a roadmap that formed the basis for the implementation of a BI and a CPM solution. This project, executed in close collaboration with the Echo team, won the BI Vision Award and the Best Finance Team Award.

Jetair has been building a large data warehouse containing all their operational data to focus on their operational performance. The next step was integrating all the financial data and building a companywide Planning solution to come to a complete closed-loop Performance Management environment.

Over recent years, De Lijn has deployed a large scaled data warehouse environment, currently serving over 300 users. The Business Intelligence environment on top of the data warehouse is used for reporting & analysis on subject areas like personnel behavior (driver productivity, employee sickness behavior, overtime worked, employee scheduling), ticketing information (both for operational and marketing purposes), vehicle operations (GPS data, driven kilometers, maintenance, fuel consumption, vehicle cost per vehicle age), financial data (budgets versus actual, subsidies from the government, money going to subcontracting…) and vehicle road accidents.