Published on the 25/08/2009 | Written by Newsdesk
Food giant decides the recipe for BI success lies with Cognos 8 BI…
Packaged food brands business Simplot Australia has selected IBM Cognos 8 as its new enterprise business intelligence tool.
Simplot has purchased a 600-user license for the software and will begin development in September 2009. Deployment will occur in conjunction with the deployment of a new enterprise resource planning system.
Initially, IBM Cognos 8 BI will be used to consolidate and enhance Simplot’s financial management reporting, providing a single view of data drawn from the company’s demand management and ERP applications.
Following this the solution will be extended to all areas of the business including manufacturing, sales and operations, human resources and payroll.
“We will be using the ERP system for reporting on the operational and transactional aspects of our business but when it comes to high level decision making or identifying and analysing trends we need BI,” says Martin Nowak-Rowe, Simplot Australia’s CIO, business transformation.
“This long-term project is all about decision making and using information. It’s about people not spending their time collating and formatting data but rather having them analyse information so that they can obtain value from it,” Nowak-Rowe says.
“We expect that IBM Cognos 8 BI will assist us by combining all the different types of data within our business and making it possible for us to identify process and planning efficiencies.”
Simplot Australia is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the US-based JR Simplot Company.
