In a move
designed to obtain greater visibility and transparency into its
company data and to maximise its business performance, Speedy Hire
has signed an agreement with Business Objects to deliver a suite of
business intelligence (BI) solutions.
Speedy Hire
operates a number of separate lines of business under a single
company umbrella, all of which had their own sales and support
mechanisms. As part of an effort to adopt a more tailored sales
strategy, the company was looking for a
business intelligence solution that could collect information from
across various parts of the business and collate it into a
single repository. The customised business intelligence bought
emerged among a number of leading BI vendors and has helped Speedy
Hire transform its business to a cohesive reporting machine.
Speedy Hire needed
accurate information that could be quickly disseminated across its
network of over 500 branches and the new technology enables the
company to consolidate its sales and support services and adopt a
unified business strategy.
As part of the
agreement, Speedy Hire will be using the BI solutions for query and
analysis and enterprise information management. This tool will
offer interactive, dashboard, viewer as well as manager licences
for Speedy Hire bringing access to many more departments and end
users. These tools will allow Speedy Hire to set up key
performance indicators which will give operations and sales
personnel much greater visibility of customer usage trends.
Furthermore, Business Objects Data Integrator has been implemented
to ensure that all users are working with information that is
timely, accurate and trusted.
“The breadth of
the [BI] toolset, including data integration, data quality,
performance management and its easy-to-use query and reporting
capability, presented a single source, fully integrated,
comprehensive solution that Speedy was looking for,” said Colin
Gresty, Group Technical Services Manager of Speedy Hire Plc.
“We can now
achieve a higher level of granularity when looking at our data,
enabling us to more effectively make decisions that have a positive
impact on our business. We have an efficient way of managing our
supply chain to provide the right products for our customers at the
right time. Business Objects has given us the tools to more
effectively run our business, making a significant impact on our
bottom line.”
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