Industry
Transportation
Region: United States of America
Summary
Team SFA provided the project management, delivery and post-production implementation support on business intelligence (BI) reporting modernization in financials, cashflow, operational key performance measurements, position, revenue and operating/capital budget-forecast-expense actionable insights using Oracle, Microsoft and Adobe business intelligence technologies.
Objectives and Challenges
- Objectives: Modernize business intelligence reporting on enterprise key performance indicators and provide operating and capital performance insights replacing legacy and home-grown disparate reporting systems
- Challenges: Lack of documentation and technology support on legacy and home-grown disparate reporting systems; Complex reporting integration requirements and sources; Large volume leading to performance barriers; Multiple reporting rollup structure and convoluted data level security
Results
- Modern business intelligence reporting using Oracle, Microsoft and Adobe technologies on operational KPI insights
- Successful rollout on capital and operating budget and forecast metrics and measurements including variance and reconciliation reporting
- Enabled configurable multiple data sources and dimensions through repeatable and reusable reporting architecture for ad-hoc, daily and other periodic data integrations leading to pristine dataset
- Dashboards and Metrics with drilldown capabilities with source transaction summary/details with data level security
Benefits
- Centralized modernized BI reporting with reusable, configurable, and repeatable reporting framework for operational insights
- Improvements in decision support through rich visuals for accelerated decision-making process
- Cost and Time savings with dashboards and scorecards with supporting data and associated drilldown to source details
- Streamlined encrypted integrations with multiple data sources
- Optimized data collection, transformation, analysis, and dissemination
Products and Technology
- Oracle BI/OAS
- Microsoft BI and Office Products
- Adobe
- OCI
- Hyperion
- Batch Scripts
- Cronjobs
- FDMEE/ODI
- PeopleSoft
- Oracle Exadata
- EPM
- Corporate Data Warehouse
- Market Data