Global Medical Device Manufacturer Reduces BI Wait Times by 92%
Global medical device manufacturer Smiths Medical uses Incorta to enhance BI reporting, reduce time to insight, enable more agile and data-driven decision making, and bring teams together around a shared view of data.
92%
reduction in BI wait times
BI wait times dropped from 19 hours per report to 1.5 or less
200+
million records now accessible
Accounts receivables are now accessible with full transaction-level detail
100+
hours saved for the IT team
Individuals and teams outside of IT are now empowered to self-service their own BI needs
Accelerating Operational Decision Making with Actionable Insights On Demand
Smiths Medical, the leading global manufacturer of specialty medical devices, needs timely and trustworthy data to live up to its promise of providing innovative medical solutions to over 30 countries and 120 markets worldwide. Finance leaders at Smiths Medical needed a high-powered operational analytics platform that could unify data across business systems, eliminate blind spots, deliver actionable insights on demand, and enable their teams to self-service many of their business intelligence (BI) needs.
“With Incorta, we have the ability to show across other organizations how quickly they can deliver actionable insights."
Chris Bergren
Sr. Finance Systems Manager, Smiths Medical
Challenge
Legacy Data Pipelines and Processes Failed to Deliver Timely, Granular Insight
Smiths Medical wanted greater and more granular visibility into business systems to improve the bottom line and identify new opportunities for growth. But legacy data pipelines and processes made it impossible for IT to deliver timely and actionable insights.
Solution
Incorta’s High-Powered Operational Analytics Platform
Incorta delivers high-powered operational analytics with unlimited data access at speed and scale.
The Incorta platform makes data sources analytics-ready, eliminating the need for data transformation, reshaping, and aggregation steps required by other solutions. This slashes development time for data engineers and architects, and enables analysts, data scientists, and business users to self-service many of their BI needs.
Results
Unmatched Visibility and Time to Insight
With Incorta, Smiths Medical can analyze all usable data with full transactional detail and enjoy unmatched performance even against billions of records.
A Single Source of Truth for Data
Incorta enables Smiths Medical to unify business systems and maintain a single source of truth for all users. This not only empowers individual contributors but also brings disparate teams closer together and enables more productive collaboration.
Teams Empowered by Self-Service BI
Incorta makes true self-service BI possible at Smiths Medical for the first time. The IT team is no longer on the hook to deliver insights into financial and operational data, saving teams hundreds of hours for both IT and business users.
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