Stonebridge is an expert provider of business intelligence and data warehouse solutions that not only enable you to have better visibility into your business, but also provide you with actionable information for informed decision making. The following case studies provide you with a view of our approach to solving these challenges.
Energy Company – KPI Executive Dashboard
The company’s executive team needed to get a factual, data-driven view of the company’s health at a given point in time. However, the data required for a “big picture” perspective resided in multiple systems, databases, spreadsheets, and data marts tied to distinct functional groups. Stonebridge developed a solution that consolidates relevant data from all of the various standalone data sources and then presents it in a manner that was visual, intuitive, familiar, and thus easy-to-use for information consumers at all levels of technical skill.
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Global Energy Company – SAP Integration with Microsoft Technology
The marine transportation division was tasked with increasing fleet utilization globally by 6% – a goal that would translate into $40 million in cost savings. Meeting this objective was made even more challenging due to the fact that the division’s information workers did not have an automated reporting system that integrated relevant data so that key metrics such as vessel capacity utilization and demurrage could be proactively monitored. Stonebridge developed an easy-to-understand dashboard solution, built on the Microsoft business intelligence technology stack, which provides quick drill-down capabilities for business performance analysis.
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Oil & Gas Company – Spatial Dashboard
The client’s CEO envisioned a map-based software tool that could aggregate the multiple types of information related to wells and other assets inside a specific geographical area. The tool would serve as a single information source for the CEO, as well as for staff at other levels, to access multiple types of information about assets – rigs, wells, and leases – within a defined operating field. The tool would bring together layers of data from these source systems as well as competitive data purchased from third-party providers such as Tobin and geo-centric data such as geologic formations, points of interest (including roadways, pipelines, waterways, etc.), roads, weather, and topographical imagery. The client’s IT director teamed with Stonebridge’s Oil & Gas Solutions Practice to bring the CEO’s vision of a spatial dashboard to life.
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Consumer Goods Manufacturer – Production Reporting
The company was committed to Lean Six Sigma™ as its approach for improving processes, gaining efficiencies, and increasing productivity across all locations. Central to the company’s process improvement initiative is its ability to establish metrics or key performance indicators (KPIs) that can be used to track the efficiency of core processes. The problem lay in the existing data capture and reporting processes. Data-collection practices were inconsistent from one plant to the next, and the primary data capture mechanism was Microsoft Excel™. The company’s leadership realized that the lack of consistent and accurate measurement and reporting tools was severely undermining the effectiveness of its process improvement effort. Stonebridge consultants standardized data collection methods and created a Web-based dashboard-style reporting capability that provides detailed drill-down analysis of production efficiency by plant, line, product, and shift as well as inventory by location, product, and day.
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Health Care Provider – Advanced Analytics
The long-term health care industry faces external pressures that have led to decreased revenues and increased costs. Faced with these market challenges, the client sought to better manage its overall costs and increase revenues by ensuring better, more informed decision-making by its more than 800 executives, managers, and analysts through timely access to business-critical information. Unfortunately, the client’s existing information systems presented many challenges to analysts and decision-makers in their efforts to get the right information at the right time. Stonebridge first created an enterprise architecture in place and then employed a phased development approach to deliver multiple data marts that address end-user reporting and analysis needs.
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Independent Energy Company – Financial Reporting Solution
The company’s robust acquisition strategy had created redundancy and complexity within its financial reporting function – multiple accounting departments using separate general ledgers and non-integrated accounting systems. The CAO and CFO were challenged at the monthly, quarterly, and yearly business cycle with providing a consolidated view of the performance of its 8,000 wells. Without an integrated solution for financial consolidation and reporting, the only option was to roll up financial data manually into a spreadsheet. The prospect of new acquisitions of large groups of properties to the asset portfolio further complicated an already complex management problem. Stonebridge developed a financial reporting solution that enables the company to monitor the performance of its production assets at the enterprise level and quickly integrate financial data of acquired properties.
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Oil & Gas Company – Data Mart Solution
The company's successful acquisition strategy had produced an unintended management challenge. From a production-reporting perspective, the vast majority of its 20-plus district offices operated as standalone companies, with unique reporting rules and different report formats. Many offices were not yet connected to the corporate intranet. Stonebridge created a Web-enabled solution that provides a rapidly growing independent energy company with a simplified way of gathering, managing, and analyzing production data.
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