Indaver Boosts SAP Reporting Capabilities With WebFOCUS

• 分析与建模 - 实时分析
• 应用基础设施与中间件 - 数据交换与集成

• 回收与废物管理

• 商业运营

• 预测性维护
• 实时定位系统 (RTLS)

• 软件设计与工程服务
• 系统集成

Indaver, a leading waste-management specialist in Europe, was facing challenges in creating high-quality, detailed financial reports for management. The company was growing rapidly and had expanded to over 30 companies, making it a major player in the waste-management market. However, as the company grew, its technology requirements evolved. It had implemented SAP R/3 as its enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, but it lacked integrated reporting capabilities among its various offices. The company had outgrown Excel, and SAP reporting was deemed too cumbersome for managers to use for everyday decision support. Indaver needed an integrated Web-based solution that was powerful, yet easy to use. It was also important for the solution to provide a native interface to SAP, largely eliminating the need for a data warehouse.

Indaver is a leading waste-management specialist based in Belgium. The company has grown rapidly and expanded to over 30 companies, making it a major player in the waste-management market. Indaver treats millions of tons of waste material annually, with an 18 percent increase from the previous year due to more companies outsourcing their waste management needs to cope with stricter environmental regulations and a mounting number of administrative requirements from the European Union. The company employs a staff of about 824 who are divided between eight locations in Belgium and Europe. Indaver has several incinerator plants that generate recycled energy and a physical-chemical treatment facility. The company also has locations that handle paper and cardboard processing and composting, as well as others that house the management, administrative, and financial departments.

Indaver implemented Information Builders’ WebFOCUS, an integrated platform for enterprise business intelligence. The system was implemented by Indaver's own IT staff, who attended a three-day WebFOCUS training course at Information Builders. WebFOCUS provides Indaver with a comprehensive Web-based reporting solution. Through an intuitive drag-and-drop development environment, WebFOCUS empowers developers to quickly create and deploy compelling applications. Users can then easily create richly formatted reports from enterprise data in real time using a set of robust reporting tools. Indaver also uses WebFOCUS ReportCaster to control when reports are run, determine how they are distributed, and send out alerts that make it easier to monitor a number of processes. Control over scheduling can be concentrated in the hands of a single administrator or spread among any number of authorized users. The content, timing, frequency, format, and even the method of distributing reports can all be easily managed and customized to meet individual needs.

• WebFOCUS provides Indaver with a comprehensive Web-based reporting solution that enables users to analyze real-time information from its production SAP system quickly and easily.
• WebFOCUS ReportCaster allows Indaver to control when reports are run, determine how they are distributed, and send out alerts that make it easier to monitor a number of processes.
• WebFOCUS’ powerful financial modeling language enables Indaver users to develop a variety of reports in which they can work with formulas using cells instead of rows and columns.

• Saved a minimum of 30 percent in time spent producing reports.
• 80 staff at Indaver use WebFOCUS.