1. Business Analytics
MAIER Improves decision-making and planning with analytics technologies
The need:
Improve the quality and consistency of information and how it is captured for decision-making purposes. Streamline the budget preparation process and improve the management plan.
The solution:
IBM® Cognos® Planning has enabled MAIER to integrate information from its marketing, MRP and Human Resources systems, and automate the process of data distribution, collection and consolidation. The need to capture data from spreadsheets has been eliminated, and the consolidation process is now automated.
“The results left no room for doubt: none of the solutions that we analyzed offered the possibilities, the power, or the market reputation of the IBM Cognos software.”
— Augusto Araneta, Group Financial Director, MAIER
The benefits:
Consistency of sales and consumption budgeting data.
Creation of a coherent management plan, which has the necessary speed and flexibility to make necessary changes to the model and its variables.
Achievement of corporate-level awareness of systems integration.
Solution components:
IBM Cognos Planning
IBM Business Partner Lantares
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