BI - Business Intelligence

After delivering the first iteration of a new corporate data warehouse, Univeg selected element61 as the provider of key expertise on BI and data modeling best practices.

The USG People Belgium data warehouse is based on a multitude of data sources (back- and front-office). The decision support system is used by virtually all management levels in the organization, its affiliates and offices.

As the first step in a major new BI initiative, Vanbreda International asked element61 to help them define and shape the overall architecture of their new BI solution.

In parallel to an ERP migration program from Baan to SAP, Soudal decided to implement a new data warehouse. After a BI roadmap exercise by element61, MS SQL Server 2008 was selected as technology platform for the new data warehouse.

The element61 SAP BW Competence Center has been leading an SAP BW 7.0 implementation at Tecteo between 2009 and 2013. The main focus areas of the project are marketing related reporting on top of SAP CRM and financial reporting on top of SAP IS-U.

The users of the Business Intelligence environment at D’Ieteren were complaining about poor report performance. Starting from these specific reports element61 worked its way through the different layers of the Cognos 8 BI environment all the way to the underlying MS SQL Server database.

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.

In 2009, USG People decided to start building out a completely new Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence infrastructure, based on a design that was previously made by element61.

element61 provided some senior BI resources to assist the Telenet BICC (BI Competence Center) in their activities. The role(s) of element61 consisted in Business Analysis and BI project & team management.

Following a Scorecarding and Performance Management roadmap, HDP & Arista decided to extend a Customer oriented data mart with the financial data from an ASW/FIN accounting system.