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How Yulista Slashed Their Budgeting Time from 2 Weeks to 2 Hours
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Data-as-a-Service
- Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
Applicable Industries
- Aerospace
Applicable Functions
- Business Operation
- Human Resources
Use Cases
- Predictive Maintenance
- Supply Chain Visibility
Services
- Data Science Services
- System Integration
The Challenge
Yulista Holding, LLC, an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) performing rapid response aerospace and defense solutions, was heavily reliant on Excel for their reporting needs. They consolidated valuable data regarding revenues, gross margins, incomes, donations, resource management, etc., across their family of nine companies, all of which was aggregated, tracked, and reported on using Excel. However, creating reports was a highly manual and time-consuming task. Accessing those reports was equally as arduous, and deriving meaningful, up-to-date insights was very difficult with the use of Excel. There were also concerns of errors being made due to the manual data entry. As a result, they began looking for a full end-to-end BI solution with greater functionality and automation capabilities than Excel could provide.
About The Customer
Yulista Holding, LLC, headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, is committed to becoming the best-equipped Alaska Native Corporation (ANC) in the world, performing rapid response aerospace and defense solutions for foreign and domestic customers. Yulista offers innovative expertise and services in Engineering & Manufacturing, Maintenance & Modifications, Integrated Logistics & Product Support, Training Systems & Solutions, and Base Operations & Support Services. Since their inception in 2002, Yulista’s established itself as an industry leader in providing a wide range of rapid response support to the US Department of Defense, various Government agencies, and foreign customers.
The Solution
Yulista began looking for an analytics partner that would not only solve their problems but was also priced to scale according to the needs of their users, was capable of creating beautiful dashboards and reports for data analysis and was able to deliver a seamless analytics experience to all users, regardless of their skills. It was important to them that the solution they’d select was flexible and scalable enough to meet the unique requirements of a company-wide deployment. As the search intensified and the list of potential vendors narrowed to three, Yulista ultimately selected Dundas BI due to its immense built-in functionality, adaptive data flows, fully open APIs, and extremely flexible pricing model. These factors allowed them to not compromise on their business intelligence and analytics.
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