Customer Profiles: Manufacturing

Manufacturers and distributors are making Dimensional Insight their standard business intelligence solution. Companies use DI's technology to fulfill the information needs of plant management, production supervisiors, IT/IS professionals, finance managers, and corporate executives.

With DI's solution, requests for answers that were previously unavailable or took weeks to generate are now easily obtained by end users in a matter of seconds. Yield analysis, waste control, operator/shift performance, and quality control metrics can all be accessed through one easy-to-use interface.

DI Solution at Altera: A Better Way

"There are lots of DI Solution fans here at Altera," says Rajiv Kumar, MIS manager for the $400M semi-conductor company. Altera recently replaced their previous OLAP tool with Dimensional Insight's DI Solution. Before the switch, Rajiv says, "We'd been using our previous software for about a year and a half. There were two major problems - response time and system maintenance. Simple queries often took many seconds, sometimes minutes. Complex queries would take up to fifteen minutes. Users were frustrated. And making changes was so complicated that we often had to use the vendor's consultants to do the work, making the system very expensive to maintain..."

Spinning Thread into Gold at DuPont's Nylon Business Unit

DuPont's Nylon Business Unit originally became involved with Dimensional Insight in 1994 during a large data warehouse project. The project goal was to provide financial analysts with integrated tools to examine the profitability of product sales in North America. Based on that project's success, the use of DI-Diver quickly spread from the business, marketing and sales functions to use on the manufacturing shop floor at Nylon's plant sites. It's also being used today for downstream product supply chain analysis...

Florida's Natural Growers Reduces Time Spent on Reports by 80% with Dimensional Insight

Established in 1933, Florida's Natural Growers, Inc. manufactures and distributes juice around the world. "Our standard sales reporting system was robust, but we were constantly having to upgrade the HP 9000's as the sales department grew. People were running reports to retrieve just a few numbers at a time. For example, they would create a hard copy report to see what, when, and how many products a broker sold, and then throw out the paper. Now, with DI-Diver, the sales department is able to answer those quick questions online without slowing down the entire system by using the HP 9000's. We quickly recognized that other departments would benefit from the functionality of DI-Diver...

Real World Carpet Supplier Gets Data Analysis Insight

Mohawk Carpet Corp. Industries of Calhoun, Georgia is one of the country's leading manufacturers and suppliers of floor coverings, including carpet and hard floor coverings. As with all successful, growing companies, Mohawk Carpet Corp. faces the problem of transforming large amounts of data into information that can be used by decision-makers to improve overall efficiency within the organization. With a large sales force and diverse data-analysis needs, Mohawk requires information that is timely, customizable, and accurate. These requirements disqualify the purchase of many "canned" data analysis and reporting solutions because they cannot meet the demands that Mohawk Carpet Corp. makes on its data. They also involve report customizatin that is cumbersome, time-consuming, and unnecessarily taxing on valuable human resources. The solution that Mohawk Carpet Corp. ultimately chose to meet its data analysis needs was Dimensional Insight's (DI) DI Solution and DI-WebDiver products...

Timber Company Cuts Reporting Time with Dimensional Insight

Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc. is one of the largest private timberland owners in the United States. They manufacture and distribute raw logs, specialty lumber, proprietary plywood and medium density fiberboard to retail and industrial markets. Plum Creek runs DI Solution on the IBM iSeries server, and users access data Models from Windows NT clients using DI-Diver...