The FINANCIAL — Illustrating the power of business analytics to transform the way companies operate, SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) on January 31 offered a view into the remarkable results customers are achieving with business intelligence (BI) and enterprise information management (EIM) solutions from the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio.
Across the globe, companies such as Albemarle, Connexions Cheshire & Warrington, DigitalGlobe, InterCall and Takasago Europe are using these solutions to gain insights from the ever-increasing amounts of corporate data to help ensure the ongoing success and growth of their businesses. The announcement was made at the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit, being held January 31–February 1, 2011, in London.
Albemarle Creates Winning Formula for Powering Business Decisions
Headquartered in Louisiana and with locations spanning the globe, Albemarle provides innovative development, manufacturing and marketing of specialty chemicals that benefit the world in which we live. Recently, the company sought to give decision-makers better access to current information, and aimed to integrate consistency and transparency of data into its overall business processes. Albemarle combined the ad-hoc analysis of SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence software with the stunning visualization capabilities of SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards software, and used SAP BusinessObjects Data Integrator software to help increase the accuracy of and simplify access to its data. As a result the company has better managed its working capital and cash flows, and several different types of users all now have the critical information they need, right at their fingertips with a single set of solutions.
“SAP BusinessObjects solutions have allowed us to cater to several different user types with a single tool and a single skill set,” said Rodney Nijoka, team lead, corporate performance management, Albemarle. “We’ve been able to give managers and decision-makers access to many sources of accurate data they have never had before, and now everyone in our organization is hungry for this type of information. SAP has been a great partner in this process, and we continue to look to them to help us with best practices for implementing new technologies.”
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