ABB knew they needed to find a highly capable partner with extensive experience integrating software from different sources into a single, unified solution. After surveying the opportunities and challenges, ABB turned to ePartners to seamlessly combine information from a variety of sources into a powerful, customized eIntelligence solution. Following an assessment of ABB s business needs, technology infrastructure and overall objectives, ePartners recommended Paris Technologies PowerOLAP as ABB s new eIntelligence engine. ABB managers now can examine and integrate critical personnel, financial and other resource data, including detailed project information that resides within the company s accounting system. A variety of defined reports are available as soon as labor hours have been posted to the accounting system, eliminating what had been a week or more of lag time between the initial posting of labor hours and the actual running of payroll.
Managers now control projects on a nearly real-time basis.
Report views are even customizable on a per-user basis, enabling different project managers to access, manipulate and view data that exists within the system in a variety of ways. This eliminates the need to call on business analysts and IT professionals, thus expediting the process and reducing the labor required to produce specialized reports that enhance decision-making. Security controls protect the integrity of original accounting data and limit access to specific fields needed to create appropriate reports. These controls, coupled with tailoring standard reports to various managers needs and simplifying one-off report creation, has freed ABB information personnel to tackle other more strategic projects. What once could take two people a week or more to produce now typically can be accomplished in a day.