Avantium is using Tibco Spotfire DXP as an enterprise business intelligence (BI) platform, to deliver real-time performance reporting and analysis across the entire company.
David Jim, group controller at Avantium, said: "Back in early 2007 we decided that we needed a BI to help us better manage our business, not only in finance, but also HR, sales and operations, as well as at an executive management level.
"Up until then we had been relying on monthly or quarterly reports printed out from our ERP system or exporting data to Excel, but these were historic documents and did not help our management on a daily or hourly basis when key decisions need to be made".
Avantium was already using Tibco Spotfire DecisionSite in its day-to-day research processes, and wanted to ensure that Spotfire DXP could fit company requirements for enterprise BI.
To do this, the company set up a trial pilot project for a number of BI possible solutions, including Spotfire DXP, so it could compare results and delivery.
"Spotfire DXP was up and running in just half a day and delivering the results we had stipulated in our pilot project requirements, which was well ahead of the other suppliers.
"Spotfire DXP also provided the best results and flexibility.
"So we decided to extend our use of Spotfire rather than purchase from a different vendor," said Erik Bergman, ICT team leader at Avantium.
Spotfire went live in December 2007 and was rolled out to management and project leaders in finance, sales, HR and operations, as well as the executive team.
Following internal consultations, Avantium set-out pre-defined reporting templates and allowed the users to modify according to their specific needs.
This implementation provided the right information at the right time and in the right format, including those for more data intensive groups that needed access to data from a variety of different departments and business areas.
