Holmes Murphy & Associates Leverages QlikView Expressor to Govern Data from 1,000+ Complex Sources

• Analytics & Modeling - Data-as-a-Service

• Data Science Services

Holmes Murphy & Associates, a premier independent risk management and insurance brokerage firm, was facing the challenge of managing the complexity of its ever-increasing variety of data sources. The company processes large volumes of diverse data from a wide variety of sources in complex formats. The data consists of everything from fixed format text, to spreadsheets, to web data, and no matter what format it comes in, they have to work with it. The company needed to implement a solution to manage the complexity of its ever increasing variety of data sources. Further, Holmes Murphy needed a means to codify its business rules and ensure consistency in the data by reducing human error.

Holmes Murphy & Associates is a premier independent risk management and insurance brokerage firm. Headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, the company has more than 500 associates in major offices located throughout the Midwest and Southwest. Each of these expert associates aim to consistently deliver top notch services and smart solutions for its clients. Holmes Murphy’s cutting-edge innovations and ideas empower its clients to choose the right solutions for their needs. To edge out the competition, Holmes Murphy has undergone a transition over the last several years shifting its focus on delivering value through specialization as well as becoming a more data driven organization.

Holmes Murphy & Associates deployed QlikView Expressor to the systems analyst team in less than 2 weeks. QlikView Expressor enables business users to consistently capture and manage metadata. At the same time, business communities are empowered to create their own analytic applications with confidence in the data, and security and governance controls in place. In the few months since Holmes Murphy started using QlikView Expressor, they have dramatically sped up the process of preparing data for analytics. There are approximately 70 frequent users of the application, and the company makes heavy use of QlikView Expressor’s Semantic and Repository layers to achieve conformance, immediately detect data quality issues, and collaborate among dataflow developers.

• Sped up the process of preparing data for analytics
• Achieved data conformance
• Raised level of discourse on data provisioning