Data platform for advanced analytics and reporting | Carreras Grupo Logístico
Information generated by customers and received from external sources.
Information gathered from service sales and work chain productivity.
These are some examples of big data. When used in digital platforms, they help business transformation in a way that manual processes of the past could not achieve or would take much longer to achieve.
Founded in 1933, Carreras Grupo Logístico (CGL) is a leader in the logistics industry in Spain. For the past 80 years, despite its impressive growth, it has remained a family-owned company. In a desire to modernize and become a technology-driven company, they engaged Plain Concepts to help them with their enterprise-wide data strategy, which places a strong emphasis on corporate intelligence.
Like any global company, CGL had grown and found itself without a well-defined company-wide data strategy. Data was scattered among 11 departments and even with external third parties. Reporting and analysis processes were slow, as each team was responsible for each step, and data was updated overnight, rather than in real time.
Leaders expressed a strong desire for a digital transformation of data and a modern, seamless reporting solution to understand and optimize business decisions.
El proceso
Plain Concepts used Sidra Data Platform: a resilient, high-performance, fully PaaS Azure platform, to accelerate the intake of data from different sources within the enterprise, address governance challenges and simplify data management.
Once the data model was understood and the business requirements were clarified, an advanced analytics application was developed to provide charts and reports for the CGL team.
We then work with CGL’s financial and logistics business units to understand and shape the data. Sidra offers a secure, controlled and cost-driven development environment where workflow is optimized and surprise costs are minimized.
“Thanks to Sidra and Plain Concepts, we have begun our journey into data governance and data management, as well as taken a big leap into the realm of business analytics.”
Javier Ibáñez Zaldívar, CIO of Carreras Grupo Logístico
Results
- CGL’s board of directors has begun to leverage modern information expertise, and can now explore their data faster and in a way never seen before.
- Carreras Grupo Logistico will continue to partner with Plain Concepts and leverage Sidra Data Platform to create applications that are stable, reliable, with unlimited processing power, and easy to maintain.
- Sidra also offers the ability to attribute costs to customer applications and, as such, can help better manage expenses.
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