Aditya Birla Minacs, a business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions provider, faced increased competition in the outsourcing market. The company needed to deliver on its promise of ‘timely reporting of results at virtually every stage of the customer relationship lifecycle’ for their clients. This required empowering their frontline team with tools that would enable them to make quicker, faster, and informed decisions. The company had deployed multiple systems across regions for its key operations, each with its own reporting mechanism. Consequently, cross-functional analysis was non-existent. The executive team found the process cumbersome, and weren’t sure of the reliability and accuracy of these reports.

ADO Gardinenwerke, a leading manufacturer of drape material and decorative fabric in Germany, was facing challenges with its existing business intelligence tool integrated in the ERP system. The tool was unable to handle the high volume of data that needed to be analyzed for ADO’s sophisticated reporting system. Questions such as sales trends for specific customers, big sellers in various countries or regions, seasonal deviations in sales, and overall sales trend for individual models could not be answered efficiently. The tool required a massive amount of in-house and outside development to create reports and answer new questions. Additionally, data consistency was not always guaranteed and there was insufficient capacity to process mass data, leading to extremely long response times. The system was also inflexible and slow, failing to provide the necessary benchmarks and reports at the level of quality required for optimum data analysis.

Advantage Pharmacy Group, a successful business in the crowded and competitive market, has always believed in the importance of centralized infrastructure and services. The group manages systems like loyalty and marketing services, group ordering and warehousing, and an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to manage financial services. However, they were missing a business discovery solution to ease the task of accessing, reporting, and analyzing data across all systems. They considered Microsoft SQL Reporting Services but found it limited and costly. They needed a solution that would unify the data for analysis, provide services to their franchisees, and bring together many disparate data sources in a single meaningful report.

Ahlers AG, a leading manufacturer of men’s clothing in Europe, faced challenges in managing and controlling production, storage, and sales due to increasing vertical integration and global competitive pressures. The company needed to provide business data quickly and precisely for decision-making. They required real-time answers to various questions related to sales trends, sales planning variations, stock quantity at the point of sale, and strategic planning of the next collection. The company initially started with a traditional OLAP tool, but it presented many shortcomings in managing high volumes of data, flexible analysis with evaluated dimensions, and speed and performance.

TNT's Corporate Audit Services Department was facing a challenge with their monthly reporting process. The department, which is responsible for internal audits worldwide, had three senior managers compiling reports for the head of the department each month. This process was time-consuming and lacked a consistent structure and uniformity, as each manager had their own method of compiling the reports. This complicated the data-merging process and the compilation of one departmental report. Additionally, all the data was manually inputted, which took a lot of time. The department was looking for a solution that would simplify the consolidation of the decentralized data, accelerate the auditing of data reliability, and present their custom-defined KPIs in a flexible and transparent manner.

Aon Asia’s management needed a clearer picture of the company’s revenue streams, starting with the ability to segment revenue by industry and product. The existing situation made it difficult to gain a true view of the company’s income across different offices in the region or to allocate the correct fees and commissions among their regional directors and country segment heads. Before using QlikView, it was all manual reporting – from regional director to country segment head to country finance. Each step in the chain required someone to manually compile the data and check for errors – a time consuming process involving a lot of following up with different parts of the business. It also lead to the possibility of different versions of data coming from more than one source. The search began for a packaged solution that could automate the process and analyze the financial streams.

Aon Groep Nederland bv, a provider of risk management, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, was facing challenges in fulfilling its Aon Client Promise, which is fully focused on creating added value and impact. The company was spending various man-hours on manually handling information requests using Microsoft Excel and predefined wordbooks in Oracle. The reports generated were sometimes lacking in uniformity. The company needed a flexible, interactive and associative BI solution that could be quickly implemented. The solution was also required to cater for the requirements of the current business landscape.

Arbinet-thexchange, Inc., a leading provider of voice and IP solutions for buying and selling telecommunications capacity, was facing a challenge of limited insight into their daily financial and operational performance. They were primarily relying on spreadsheets to calculate revenue month-to-date for decision making and for revenue forecasting. The company could not pinpoint how minutes were used, pricing of various voice services at current transaction levels, where revenue was made and lost, how traders were performing, or market trends. The requirements to gather data, download to spreadsheets and execute macros were manually intensive. While providing more insight into Arbinet’s true performance, the time required for information analysis still delayed response times to business trends.

Bainbridge International, a manufacturer and distributor of specialty products to marine, construction and recreational markets, was looking for ways to gain a competitive advantage over other companies in its industry. The company had previously utilized IT specialists Blue Rock Systems to stabilize and support its 50-user Microsoft DynamicsNAV (Navision) ERP installation. The success of that engagement led Bainbridge to approach Blue Rock Systems again about other ways to enhance its operations. Specifically, Bainbridge required a sales tool that would help the company track and increase customer spend and profit. They needed a 'finger on the pulse' solution that could provide valuable insights into customer behavior and product appeal.

BBS Food B.V., a producer of frozen and chilled convenience chicken and pork meat products, was facing challenges in tracking and tracing its entire business process. The market demanded transparent information on their entire production process, from purchasing to marinating and from cooking to packaging. Customers required insights into the origin of the raw materials used, the core temperature to which each piece of meat has been cooked, and the amount of time the production process has taken. This information was crucial for food safety and was also used for labelling products. BBS was legally required to provide information on the origin, acceptance tests, and shelf life at any given moment. The company was using Microsoft Excel and Word for data collection and reporting, which was a time-consuming and inefficient process.

The Brussels Capital Region, one of three regions in Belgium, was tasked with developing a joint budget for the eight cabinets of the Brussels Regional government and the thirteen semi-public institutes in the area. Previously, all institutes developed their own budgets. This consolidation created the need to find a solution that could simultaneously process a series of extra information flows coming from very diverse data sources. This was particularly challenging as the Cabinet was suffering a shortage of staff at the time. The Cabinet needed a solution that could fit all of the (financial) data from the various data sources, including Excel, Oracle and Access, quickly and easily into one screen.

Blyth HomeScents International (BHI) was facing challenges with its manual approach to reporting and analysis, which was inefficient and hampering the company's growth. The lack of visibility in sales performance was causing significant frustration. Multiple reports were coming from various sources, making it difficult for executives to focus on the numbers themselves. Additionally, by the time actual sales were reported for the previous month, it was too late to make necessary adjustments with suppliers or shift promotional programs. Marketing couldn't gauge the sell-through of product lines, and the company accumulated significant excess-and-obsolete (E/O) inventory. These issues were directly impacting BHI’s bottom line.

CIBER, a global IT services and system integration provider, was looking for a new software application to add to its exclusive stable of preferred software applications. The company was already a Microsoft Gold Partner and the leading Microsoft UK CRM vendor in 2008/09. However, it was looking for a tool that could be deployed at client sites in a matter of days, rather than months or years, and that would allow users to execute complex queries on huge data sets in seconds, without having to involve IT. The company was also looking for a tool that could be integrated with its existing software applications, including Sage, Microsoft Dynamics CRM and Microsoft Dynamics AX.

COPARTS Autoteile GmbH, a distributor of automotive parts and business services catering to repair shops in Germany and Europe, was faced with the challenge of managing its complex network between members, partners, and industry. The company needed a detailed overview of all sales, value-added services, and expenditures to provide members greater transparency of COPARTS services and leverage in negotiations with suppliers and service partners. The aim was to combine sales figures in different formats from industry, partners, and members, and compare them with the information on the different value-added services, their ranking, and expenditures of COPARTS in time-line comparisons. Previously, these figures were processed in Excel, which was time-consuming.

Crédit Agricole CIB's fixed income markets monitoring & control (FIM M&C) business unit faced the challenge of optimizing the use of reports produced by market and credit risk teams. The team needed to deploy tools to help consolidate data from various Crédit Agricole CIB risk teams. Prior to QlikView, the FIM M&C team received Microsoft Excel spreadsheets containing information on different fixed income market product lines by email. Consolidating and analyzing such data volumes was a challenge, but there was the added challenge of all the different file formats. Each product line had its own front-office and back-office system. Terms used, file formats, and information sending frequency were all different. This made it difficult for the FIM M&C because it needed to obtain a transversal and consolidated view of the data. The objective was also to compare historical data, which was difficult with the previous system.

Diakonhjemmet Sykehus, a private, non-profit hospital in Oslo, Norway, was struggling to meet regulatory reporting requirements on quality statistics. Their existing systems could only export data files that had to be manipulated within Microsoft Excel to generate basic analysis. This process was time-consuming and did not provide much visibility into the underlying data. The hospital was also facing issues with employee absenteeism and patient admittance scheduling failures. They needed a solution that could handle the complex needs of a hospital without being too costly or resource-intensive.

Dienst Stadstoezicht, an independent public service in Amsterdam, was facing fierce competition from private companies in the fields of supervision and safety. To maximize its efficiency, it decided to automate as much as possible. It scans the number plates of parked cars and checks them against a database to determine whether the owners have a parking permit. This procedure also generates information about payment patterns in the various neighborhoods. However, the organization had six databases that were not linked, leading to considerable obscurity. They needed a solution to link these databases and transform the data into meaningful information.

2006 年，East Branch Engineering 迅速发展。这家工厂的客户、工作和行政任务都比以前多。多年来，East Branch 一直使用软件平台来管理调度、估算和其他重要功能。然而，随着业务量的增加，工厂发现软件的局限性太大，难以应付。数据无法在模块之间传输，因此需要进行大量数据输入和浪费时间的行政工作。他们很快就决定需要一个新的解决方案。

Eagle Grinding and Plating 是 E2 车间系统的长期用户，他们遇到了这样的情况：一位客户需要快速完成维修。然而，处理订单的人已经去世，他们的记录不完整。客户希望 Eagle Grinding 掌握了这项工作所需的信息。这不是一个孤立的事件，类似的情况已经发生过好几次。

HJ Machine and Pattern 是一家提供复杂问题解决方案的机械车间，需要更新。该公司的电话系统和计算机设计已经有几年没有更新了。当 Gurjinder Jammu 接任总裁兼首席执行官时，他决定对公司的运营进行现代化改造，包括其 ERP 软件。该公司在 2017 年选择 E2 之前考虑了几种 ERP 软件选项。该决定基于 E2 的简单性和其高效的信息流。然而，在 2020 年中期，该公司决定升级到云端的 E2 SHOP。

GUESS 依靠 Adobe Scene7 来管理其在线商店的图片。然而，Scene7 是一款依赖 Flash 的产品，它使工作流程和现代技术更新更具挑战性。随着现代浏览器逐步淘汰 Flash，GUESS 开发人员难以为客户提供高质量的网络体验。GUESS 使用的系统非常不稳定，经常出现瓶颈。图片上传会失败，照片编辑器必须裁剪照片，留出多余的空白，以确保它们在网站上正确显示。有时，图像在网络上呈现后看起来不如原始图像清晰和高保真。这些挑战不仅对开发团队来说是个大问题。它们也让潜在客户感到沮丧。图像越大，页面加载时间越慢，访问者也会不必要地占用带宽。

创意和营销团队在管理跨多个渠道的数字资产时经常面临挑战。标记、编目、调整大小以及下载和重新上传富媒体资产以实现最佳分发的过程可能非常耗时且效率低下。此外，这些团队通常必须在单独的网站上搜索、下载和许可库存资产，然后将选定的资产保存到他们的计算机或云存储解决方案（如 Google Drive、DropBox 和 Box）中。为了让其他团队成员可以在他们的 DAM 系统中使用这些资产，需要单独上传每项资产及其元数据。

James Hardie 澳大利亚公司通过其网络为众多客户提供服务，包括五金店、建筑商、房地产开发商和建筑师等，并直接与消费者联系。因此，该公司拥有庞大而复杂的销售和营销团队网络，致力于满足这些不同受众的各种需求。James Hardie 澳大利亚公司所有合作伙伴和客户都有一个共同点，那就是需要高质量、不断更新的图像和其他营销内容，展示公司的产品及其在建筑项目中的用途。从消费者和品牌的角度来看，公司的在线渠道必须跟上所有最新的室内和室外设计趋势。特别是对于贸易受众来说，引人入胜且创新的产品组合是必不可少的。通常，公司会在不同的地点进行多次拍摄，没有所有图片的中央存储库，也没有任何共享的归档系统或命名约定。营销团队经常需要寻找以某种产品为特色的图片，并花费数小时手动搜索不同的文件夹来找到它们。

作为数字优先的生活方式品牌，MADE.COM 的客户旅程始于线上，也终于线上。虽然购物者可以访问 MADE 在英国和欧洲大陆的七个展厅之一，亲自体验其家具和家居用品，但他们仍然需要通过该品牌的网站进行最终购买。通过强大的生活方式摄影以时尚的方式展示产品是 MADE 的优势之一。然而，随着公司的发展，一些关于如何定位和调整图像大小的原始决定已经过时。由于像素化，产品列表页面无法显示高分辨率图像。上传多种尺寸的资产变得困难。MADE 团队决定在 2020 年 3 月解决这些问题，并确保网站的移动版本（作为获取渠道的重要性迅速上升）得到充分优化：至关重要，因为移动设备现在占所有 MADE 流量的一半以上。

Deluxe Entertainment Services Group 是全球数字媒体和娱乐行业领先的先进服务和技术提供商，它面临着多项挑战。该公司在全球范围内对访问和共享高分辨率后期制作工作流内容的需求日益增长。巨大的存储需求和快速增长导致大数据激增。该公司传统的基于磁带的存档不足以满足快速周转和高性能吞吐量的期望。Deluxe Creative Services 寻求一种改进的架构基础，以便在全球范围内有选择地复制数据，以便远程用户轻松快速地访问。该公司传统的本地 SAN 存储模式无法扩展到全球范围。使用 NAS 存储将内容从纽约移动到伦敦也太慢了，导致性能瓶颈。

韩国安阳市政府推出了一项重大举措，旨在打击城市街头犯罪、缓解交通拥堵并增强城市灾害应对能力。第一步是将城市的犯罪预防和灾害管理系统整合到一个基础设施中，并在该市全新的综合行动简报室中进行部署和管理。挑战在于在安阳整个 23 平方英里的大都市地区部署一个庞大的智能视频监控系统，数百台高清数字摄像机连接到数十台运行网络视频录制软件和复杂模式识别分析的服务器。该系统将所有摄像机连接到安阳警察局总部综合行动简报室的视频管理基础设施，补充和增强该市的警力和快速反应能力。安阳市政府使用相同的监控基础设施进行交通管理和森林防火。

Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE) 希望创建一个中央媒体存储库来存储和归档其所有数字广播工作流程，从制作和采集到编辑、后期制作和播出。存储系统需要支持各种设备和软件包，包括采集设备、运行 Apple Final Cut Pro 和 Avid 的编辑站以及 Harris 的播出服务器。该解决方案还需要与将在项目第二阶段实施的数字资产管理 (DAM) 解决方案集成。该解决方案不仅需要实现异构系统之间的完全连接和内容共享，还允许它们全速同时工作，不会丢帧或造成延迟。

Nice Shoes 是一家提供全方位服务、以艺术家为主导的设计、动画、视觉效果和调色工作室，由于分辨率、文件大小和性能要求的激增，该公司面临着挑战。该公司面临着紧迫的期限、复杂的工作流程和多个利益相关者。他们之前的存储系统效率低下，导致创作时间浪费、性能不可预测，以及管理多个系统的高成本和复杂性。该公司还面临着向多个设备提供多种格式内容的日益增长的需求，而传统的存储系统无法有效处理这些需求。

Fox Network 的工程和运营团队的任务是为 SPEED 设计一个基于文件的工作流程解决方案，具体解决整个过程中从 SD 内容转移到 HD 内容的要求，将内容直接导入存储区域网络 (SAN)，创建低分辨率副本以便于编辑、制作和高级编辑，支持 Dalet 与视频服务器之间的传输 - 同时允许 75 个并发 Dalet 用户执行日常任务，从记录内容到准备节目单。该团队很快开始利用他们在其他类似项目中的经验，并将高性能 DDN® 存储和 Dalet 作为关键工作流程组件。最大的挑战是时间安排 - 在签署采购订单仅几周后，整个系统就必须在一个全新的、专门建造的 55,000 平方英尺的设施中播出。

WRN Broadcast 是一家国际广播管理服务公司，其业务年增长率为 30%。然而，其存储能力不足，运行速度比许多访问它的系统慢，这影响了生产力。他们需要用更灵活、可扩展且更安全的基础设施替换现有的存储解决方案。仅在过去两年中，该公司的年增长率就达到 30%，其服务的电视频道数量增加了一倍多。为了促进如此快速的增长，并为未来的扩张做好规划，WRN Broadcast 需要用更灵活、可扩展且绝对安全的存储解决方案替换现有的存储解决方案，并增加一个重要的附加标准，即成为其领域的领导者，以符合 WRN Broadcast 自身的卓越标准。