Manufacturing Industry
The right BI tool can lower ERP license fees.(DATA MANAGEMENT)
Manufacturing Business Technology, June, 2005
When Warn Industries, Clackamas, Ore., purchased its first business intelligence (BI) tool, it got an unexpected benefit. It found it no longer needed nearly 50 licenses for its ERP system--a discovery that led to an immediate $150,000 savings. Those licenses had been allocated to engineers and production workers who used them primarily for looking up information such as part numbers, bills of material, and customer orders--things they could now do on the new QlikView BI tool from a company called QlikTech.
"They essentially were using the ERP system as a query tool; they weren't conducting any transactions," says Travis Pierce, IT operations manager at Warn Industries, which makes tools and accessories for off-road vehicles. Dave Mountain, a...
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