Transforming Data Efficiency: How Zamil Industrial Streamlined Reporting with Incorta
Zamil Industrial is a leading manufacturing industrial and construction group established in 1998 in Saudi Arabia with a diverse portfolio of businesses. Its core divisions include Zamil Steel, a global leader in engineering and manufacturing steel products.
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4
minutes to load 2 years of GL data
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180+
active business users
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50+
dashboards within 8 months
OBJECTIVE
Aligning with Saudi Arabia’s Vision: Zamil Industrial’s Focus on Expansion, Technology, and Sustainability
Zamil Industrial strategic initiatives align with the Saudi Arabian government’s broader industrialization efforts, focusing on expansion, technological advancement, localization, sustainability, and human capital development.
To enhance their business operations, Zamil Industrial aimed to strengthen supply chain management, optimize operational efficiency, measure performance, support financial planning, and build accurate insights.
These goals were critical to improving their overall business operations and decision-making processes.
CHALLENGES
Overcoming Data Management and Efficiency Challenges at Zamil Industrial’s
- Data Silos: Multiple data sources created silos, necessitating the consolidation of all information into a single data hub.
- IT Dependency: Heavy reliance on the IT department for data access and analysis slowed business agility, highlighting the need for a unified platform that could replace in-house applications and streamline reporting.
- Cloud Performance Issues: The team struggled with slow cloud application performance, which was insufficient to support the growing number of business users.
- Complex Architecture: Alternative solutions had complex and difficult-to-maintain architectures, adding operational inefficiencies.
- Manual Data Processes: The need to build data models and ETL processes from scratch further delayed operations, reducing productivity.
- Traditional Platform Limitations: Traditional platforms were limited to daily data loads, addressing less than 50% of business needs, while manual processes introduced delays and errors, impacting overall efficiency.
THE SOLUTION
A Unified Data Solution for Enhanced Decision-Making
To strengthen supply chain management, optimize operational efficiency, measure performance, and support financial planning, Zamil Industrial needed a robust solution for their diverse data sources, which were spread across multiple platforms like Oracle Fusion, Oracle Transportation Management, CPQ, and custom databases. Incorta provided an end-to-end solution for Zamil’s entire data lifecycle, serving as a unified data hub and eliminating the need for traditional ETL processes. This allowed near real-time access to critical information, transforming the way Zamil Industrial operated.
With Incorta’s self-service analytics, business users were empowered to create their own dashboards and drill down into detailed insights, speeding up decision-making. The platform’s ready-made business models and dashboards, combined with its agile handling of business requirements, delivered valuable results in a short time. Incorta’s simple, cloud-based solution, with a flexible subscription model, further streamlined Zamil’s data management, connecting various applications to a secure, scalable platform.
Results
- In just three days, the Zamil Industrial team generated their first report, the “Deviation Request Report,” which delivered immediate business value.
- Previously, traditional platforms required up to 8 months to build a single dashboard. With Incorta, they completed the same complex dashboard in just a couple of days, with frequent data refreshes, not limited to once per day.
- Incorta enabled the creation of complex, data-heavy reports that previously couldn’t be generated due to the need for data from multiple applications.
- Manual reports that once took days to prepare are now generated in seconds with Incorta.
- Incorta’s dashboards allow users to combine multiple reports on a single screen and drill down into data anomalies with ease, significantly enhancing analytical capabilities.
- Incorta’s near real-time reporting also enabled the transition of users with read-only access from other business applications to Incorta, reducing subscription costs without affecting Incorta’s licensing.
These improvements have increased efficiency, saved time, and provided users with quick access to accurate analytics for faster decision-making.
The time saved has boosted team productivity and allowed for quicker corrective actions.
