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Salto Systems Chooses QlikView For Balanced Scorecard
Technology Category
- Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
Applicable Functions
- Sales & Marketing
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Predictive Quality Analytics
Services
- Data Science Services
The Challenge
Salto Systems, a global manufacturing company specializing in electronic access control systems, was in need of a balanced scorecard in a single tool. The company wanted to deploy this tool across its sales, accounts, quality control, and aftersales returns business units. The company's managers were looking for a technology that could provide all the capabilities that used to require a complete package of products. The company began the deployment of the business intelligence (BI) application in September 2009 and completed it in April 2010.
About The Customer
Salto Systems is a manufacturing company founded in 2001 in Spain. The company has a global reputation for excellence in the research, design, development, manufacture, and sale of electronic access control systems. Its access control systems are fitted to 700,000 doors in more than 70 countries. Customers include universities in Australia, hotels in Mexico, hospitals in the U.S., parliaments in Europe, airports in the United Kingdom, research centres in France, and modern office blocks in Spain. The company’s new facilities are equipped with the latest technologies and just in time (JIT) manufacturing. Continuous investment in research and development (R&D) keeps the company at the forefront in terms of design, mechanics, electronics, and software development. Salto Systems has its Spanish head office at the Lanbarren Industrial Estate, Oiartzu, in the province of Guipuzcoa, with a workforce of 95 people.
The Solution
Salto Systems decided to deploy QlikView, a business intelligence (BI) application, across its sales, accounts, quality control, and aftersales returns business units. The implementation of QlikView at Salto Systems helps the company to monitor financial and sales indicators with extraordinary speed. The BI application integrates information from different SQL Server 2005 data sources. At present, six users in senior management are working with QlikView, together with one developer and almost the whole global sales team of Salto Systems. The volume of data consolidated with the BI tool amounts to a total of 5,000,000 records, used with amazing ease on a daily basis.
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