Key Takeaways from Newell Rubbermaid's Remarkable Reporting Transformation
Lauren Bonneau
When it comes to business intelligence (BI) reporting, speed can be just as important as accuracy. Yet, many busy executives and line-of-business managers find themselves waiting around for reports to be generated.
At Newell Rubbermaid, a leading global consumer products company, a vice president who oversees the supply chain for the entire business routinely joked to his colleagues that waiting for his daily sales and inventory report every morning was his opportunity to take an hour-long coffee break.
Newell Rubbermaid has recently overcome its challenges with global analytics and reporting, however. After launching a comprehensive BI transformation initiative, the company is now providing its executives with comprehensive BI reports at lightning speed through a combination of SAP BusinessObjects solutions and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator (SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator), an in-memory analytics solution. After the company began using SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator, the executive remarked, “What used to be a long coffee break is now a short coffee sip.”
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July 01, 2010