Con-way Estimates Noetix Software Saved Nine Months Time Building the Integration to Update Its BI Reporting Environment While Saving Upgrade Costs
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NOETIX® HELPS CON-WAY CONSOLIDATE BI REPORTING PLATFORMS AND INSULATE FINANCIAL DATA DURING ORACLE® UPGRADES
Con-way Estimates Noetix Software Saved Nine Months Time Building the Integration to Update Its BI Reporting Environment While Saving Upgrade Costs
Noetix Corp., a world-class provider of business intelligence (BI) software and services for enterprise applications, announced today that Con-way Inc. is using Noetix to consolidate reporting tools and insulate the data within its BI environment from Oracle Applications patches and upgrades.
By implementing the Noetix software, Con-way was able to save significant time and expense in managing its BI solution and keeping the information available to the BI platform, while upgrading Oracle applications. Con-way, a $4.3 billion global freight transportation and logistics company, expects the benefits gained from the Noetix software to more than offset the company's investment within four years.
With a worldwide installation of Oracle E-Business Suite Financials covering four business units and locations in 18 countries, Con-way juggled multiple reporting platforms, custom legacy systems, and multiple data warehouses. All of these business units, systems, and reporting repositories needed data from the central Oracle Financials Application. Con-way also wanted a solution to ensure the BI mappings would not 'break' each time the company patched or upgraded the current application.
"The value proposition for Oracle Financials is completely tarnished if you make it difficult to upgrade," said Chris Welder, manager of Enterprise Financial Applications at Con-way. "We aren't in the business of customizing Oracle applications. We wanted to take advantage of the functionality that comes with new versions and still be able to conduct upgrades without having to re-tool a large number of customizations and integrations."
Con-way's Oracle Applications team determined that Noetix offered the feature set they required. The Noetix solution protects the BI mappings from database structural changes inherent with enterprise application upgrades; ensuring established extracts remain operational through upgrades, and eliminating rework and disruptions by providing metadata consistency across new application releases. Most of the metadata Con-way required was delivered out of the box by installing NoetixViews.
The implementation of a BI metadata layer was expected to take at least one year, but with the deployment of NoetixViews this effort was completed in three months with less than 600 total man-hours.
Welder expects that Noetix will more than pay for itself by reducing the number of reporting applications supported, significantly reducing the cost and time to implement the first year of Con-way's BI strategy, and reducing the cost of future Oracle upgrades.
"Our goal is to obtain the maximum value from our Oracle Applications investment. Noetix helps by allowing us to focus on things other than re-engineering BI mappings due to application patches and upgrades," said Welder. "Oracle Applications is a very expensive environment to customize and Noetix helped us find a way around that for the BI metadata layer."
About Noetix
Noetix provides instant operational reporting and packaged analytics for Oracle Applications. More than 1,400 customers worldwide use Noetix to quickly and cost-effectively access the enterprise application data necessary for critical decision-making. Noetix's proven technology is being used by industry-leading customers including: Cummins, Motorola, Starbucks, Toshiba, Welch's, and Visa. The company is headquartered in Redmond, Wash., with international operations in London and Hyderabad, India.
Noetix is a registered trademark of Noetix Corp. All other product and company names mentioned herein are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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