| Company |
Description |
Length |
| Bromford Iron and Steel |
A rare example of an OLAP application
being used to analyze detailed production data in a small steel
manufacturer, to improve efficiency, reduce energy consumption,
refine product strategy and improve financial performance |
4015 words |
| Multinational retailer |
An unusual combination of products from four suppliers (relational
database, OLAP database and two competing client tools) is used
for complex retail marketing and financial analysis |
2785 words |
| Barclays Bank |
A sophisticated OLAP application allows risk on loans to
be managed for maximum profit |
4171 words |
| GAB Robins |
This
specialized loss adjuster now has hundreds of OLAP users, both
inside and outside the company, who use it for proactive business
decisions |
5211
words |
| Kvaerner |
A
second case study on how this $7.5bn engineering and construction
construction group has improved its financial reporting |
2823
words |
| Time Warner |
Time
Warner supports users in three continents with a strategic market
planning and analysis system using an OLAP database server |
3924
words |
| The World Bank |
The
World Bank uses OLAP tools to perform complex statistical analyses
on a mass of worldwide econometric data |
3224
words |
| British Airways |
Reduced
processing costs and better analysis using OLAP databases in
conjunction with a new general ledger |
3037
words |
| Consumer goods company |
A
range of different OLAP tools have been providing management
reporting, forecasting and budgeting within different parts
of the organization for a number of years |
2007
words |
| Deluxe Corporation |
Planning
and analysis applications have saved $10m and provided more
accurate forecasting capabilities for the world's number one
check printer |
2632
words |
| Dun & Bradstreet |
OLAP
technology was used to provide a vital link between the result
of analysis of customers' corporate data and the underlying
detailed information, an essential ingredient of selling business
information |
2485
words |
| Hewlett-Packard |
Hundreds
of users in various departments get speedy operational reports
using a desktop OLAP deployed over a corporate intranet |
3361
words |
| Kvaerner |
This
$10bn plus Anglo-Norwegian multinational had the unusual experience
of coping both with its own and its OLAP supplier's mergers.
Also see the replacement case study above |
2823
words |
| La Caixa Group |
This
updated case study tracks the bank's successes and challenges
with a ROLAP tool front-ending a large data warehouse |
4136
words |
| Oddbins |
This
Seagrams wine merchant subsidiary implemented a new retail sales
data mart in less than a month, from the arrival of the AS/400
server to live running |
1954
words |
| SmithKline Beecham |
OLAP
databases are used for international financial reporting from
a mainframe consolidation system |
2984
words |
| Subaru of America |
An
OLAP tool has helped to make more effective allocation of inventory
to franchised dealers in order to minimize inventory holdings
while maximizing sales and customer service |
2835
words |
| Sun Microsystems |
Practicing
what it preaches about network-centric computing, Sun has used
a networked OLAP tool to implement a new business planning application
that is entirely Web-based and uses agents to create business
intelligence |
3061
words |
| Thomas Cook |
Thomas
Cook has used a desktop OLAP to provide end users with direct
access to the data they need, freeing up IT resources for the
Year 2000 issue and introduction of the euro |
2983
words. |
