GREATER BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES THANKS TO A MORE INTELLIGENT OVERVIEW
Saturated markets demand innovation, skilled workers are scarce as product complexity grows and demand changes constantly. Manufacturers need now more than ever an intelligent view of their business data in order to identify new business opportunities, optimise processes, maximise margins, offer outstanding customer service and create space for genuine innovation.
DATA ANALYSIS FOR MORE SUCCESS IN MANUFACTURING
A software solution from Cubeware for the manufacturing sector will keep you master of your processes. Our Business intelligence and performance management software creates space for a view of what's important: see your customers and products behind your data. Give your teams all the important information they need. Help them to make well-informed decisions. Reduce complexity in daily work. Show your employees opportunities and how they can exploit them efficiently as well as where risks may lie. We ensure that you always have an overview of all your entire manufacturing business – from head office to individual production line. This frees up space for innovative manufacturing concepts!
Monitor your entire supply chain. Identify problems and bottlenecks before they impact core processes. Make decision processes leaner, more intelligent and more efficient. Actively involve your suppliers and business partners in your information process so that they, too, can take action in accordance with the latest data.
Track input and output quality along the entire process including customer data in order to take well-informed decisions that have a positive effect on production quality. Work efficiently with partners in the value chain and shorten product launch times. Lower your costs for product development. Avoid product recalls in the first place.
KATHREIN uses BI software from Cubeware
KATHREIN SE is the world’s oldest and largest manufacturer of antennas and a leading high-tech company in communications technology. Cubeware solutions are used to implement a comprehensive platform for active controlling.
- Standardised platform for all controlling disciplines
- Prompt and targeted business management
- Long-term monitoring and ad hoc analysis
- Entire group of companies connected
Reporting and Planning for all departments
- Flexible BI solution for internal and external reporting
- Consistent platform for all locations and departments
- Optimisation of processes and rentability
Acando GmbH introduced a Cubeware solution to support planning and reporting in a uniform reporting environment. As a consultancy with its own BI competence, Acando chose Cubeware because the standard software allowed company-wide applications to be implemented and extended flexibly when required. With automated reports for its listed parent company and well laid-out dashboards for management, finance, sales, project management and risk management, Acando GmbH was able to save a great deal of effort while optimising internal processes.
“Cubeware enables us to perform high-quality reporting, and ad hoc access to all data ,means that we can provide information at all times.” Daniel Winkler, CFO Germany/Head of Shared Service Center, Acando GmbH
Application: Reporting & analysis, finance and sales controlling, planning, reporting in accordance with IFRS, project controlling, resource management (staffing), risk management
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: IT services
Sales controlling in the beverage industry
- Consistens and at the samge time flexible reporting
- Seamless integration with industry solutions of the beverage industry
- Monthly reporting and daily sales statistics at the touch of a button
Adelholzener Alpenquellen GmbH has developed a sophisticated BI solution for sales controlling using Cubeware Importer and Cubeware Cockpit. The reporting system builds directly on industry-specific source systems and analyses the operational data in explicit detail. The reports and analyses supply valuable decision support for managing the beverage supplier’s complex, multi-level sales organisation.
“The Cubeware solution enabled us to standardise our sales controlling and at the same time make it considerably more flexible thanks to the numerous analytical options.” Michael Hagl, Sales Manager – Back Office at Adelholzener Alpenquellen GmbH
Application: Reporting, industry-specific sales controlling
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Food/beverages
Worldwide and detailed controlling
- International reporting for 19 subsidiaries
- Worldwide and detailed sales planning
- Drill-down from profit and loss till individual receipt
Amoena is a long-established Cubeware customer and has gradually built up a sophisticated reporting environment for its international offices over the years. The Cubeware solution supports standard reporting, ad hoc analysis and detailed sales planning as a central controlling platform. This ensures global consistency and transparency across all reports and indicators at any desired level of granularity. Everyone involved can thus depend on valid and meaningful information for their day-to-day decision-making. Amoena is a long-established Cubeware customer and has gradually built up a sophisticated reporting environment for its international offices over the years. The Cubeware solution supports standard reporting, ad hoc analysis and detailed sales planning as a central controlling platform. This ensures global consistency and transparency across all reports and indicators at any desired level of granularity. Everyone involved can thus depend on valid and meaningful information for their day-to-day decision-making.
“Cubeware Cockpit gives us a bird’s eye view of our company down to the smallest detail.” Gunnar Herzog, Corporate Controller at Amoena Medizin-Orthopädie-Technik GmbH
Application: Reporting & analysis, international sales planning
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Medical products
Quick reporting for the departments
- Efficient reporting for controlling, sales and finance
- Daily updated sales and gross margin analysis at the touch of a button
- Easy and quick system for all departments
The controlling department at Beurer GmbH has worked with OLAP-based BI systems for some time. In order to upgrade reporting with a fast and stable system, the medium-sized company replaced its existing BI solution with Cubeware. The new, scalable BI platform has largely automated standard reporting and now allows user departments to easily access their latest figures and analysis reports.
“Fast access to up-to-date indicators and the possibility of fast analysis is of great importance for Beurer.” Oliver Neuschl, Head of Controlling at Beurer GmbH
Project: Realised by IDL GmbH Mitte (Cubeware Premium Partner)
Application: Reporting & analysis, financial and sales controlling
Cubeware Products:Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Electrical products/technology manufacturer
Flexible finance and sales analysis with SAP data
- Consistent system for sales and finance reporting
- Fast provisionin of data out of SAP
- Savings of about 2 man-days per month
Following the acquisition of Phoenix Xtra Print GmbH, the division of ContiTech Elastomer-Beschichtungen GmbH developed a standardised reporting system for sales and financial controlling that generates fast reports and flexible analyses using data from SAP R/3. The SAP modules are connected to the BI solution via Cubeware Connectivity for SAP® Solutions. Sales and financial management in particular benefit from improved order and warehouse management and from exact liquidity forecasting.
“The success of a BI system depends entirely on the quality and availability of the source data. Cubeware Importer allowed us to rapidly implement our BI concept and ensure a lasting, high-quality pool of data.” Stefan Krauß, IT Management at ContiTech Elastomer-Beschichtungen
Application: Reporting & analysis, financial and sales controlling, order and warehouse management
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer, Cubeware Connectivity for SAP® Solutions
Industry: Building materials
Wordlwide reporting
- BI platform for a company wide reporting
- Top-Management-Dashboard, benchmarks for whole groups
- Integration of SAP and other source systems
The well-known dairy food producer used Cubeware to implement a reporting solution for the entire group of companies. The integrated BI creates a transparent, standardised world of numbers, enabling the global company to use group-wide benchmarks. Efficient reporting saves considerable time and effort in reporting, increases the quality of work in various specialist departments and supports all levels of the organisation to take faster and better-quality decisions.
“Cubeware convinced us not just with outstanding technology and professional competence but also through the fact that we have been able to grow closer together as a team thanks to the commitment and customer focus of the consultants in the project. The trusting partnership resulted in our requirements being transformed rapidly and straightforwardly into practice-oriented solutions.” Volker Scholz, IT Project Management at Ehrmann AG
Application: Reporting & analysis, financial and sales controlling, product range management
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer, Cubeware Connectivity for SAP® Solutions
Industry: Food
Faster, leaner reporting processes
- Automated standard reporting.
- Single source of group information.
- Five man-days saved each month.
FATH is a fast-growing company in the field of plastics and steel engineering with global business connections. One of the group's success factors is its ability to respond quickly to changing requirements of customers and markets. FATH took a BI solution from Cubeware as the basis for global, dynamic sales and procurement controlling, thus laying the foundations for further growth.
“Our finance team saves five person-days a month with the BI solution, which can now be used for strategic tasks – better-prepared controlling for management or the introduction of a lean concept.” Viktor Agárdi, Deputy CFO, FATH Group
Application: Reporting & analysis
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Manufacturing: plastics and steel engineering
Project: Realised by DENZHORN Business Intelligence GmbH (Cubeware Certified Partner)
Powerful CPM solution
- Comprehensive CPM solution for reporting, planning and consolidation
- Report desing according to Hichert SUCCESS (IBCS)
- Reporting per web, Rich-Client and mobile
Family-run Gabor Shoes AG has implemented a comprehensive CPM solution for reporting, planning and consolidation. The modular solution was realised in collaboration with consultants consultnetwork as sole implementation partner, which contributed significantly to the fast completion the demanding CPM project. The result is an integrated, best-of-breed solution with Cubeware as powerful BI component. The consistent reporting platform efficiently supports all internal and external reporting processes and provides decision-makers in the company with the right information at all times.
“Our board and our management can call up the clear and comprehensible reports at any time, at any place and with any desired device.” Armin Euler, Head of Controlling, Gabor Shoes AG
Projekt: realised by consultnetwork GmbH (Cubeware Certified Partner)
Application: Reporting, planning, consolidation
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer, Microsoft SQL Server, Consolidation
Industry: Production
Ad-hoc analysis and dashboards for Semiramis data
- Innovative platform for consisten BI processes
- Dashboards for sales controlling
- Drill-Through down to the single document in the java based ERP system
Hera has implemented an innovative platform for universal BI processes. The source data come from Semiramis, the Java-based ERP solution. Cubeware Importer integrates the object-relational database into the OLAP world. Users from all specialist departments can now use Cubeware Cockpit to flexibly analyse their Semiramis data.
“Integration between Cubeware and Semiramis works without a hitch. Cubeware allows us to link our Semiramis data – and data from other business applications – in any way we wish and to perform ad hoc analyses.“ Joachim Windmann, Commercial Director at Hera
Application: Reporting & analysis, dashboards, sales controlling
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Manufacturing: lighting systems
Flexibel Sales Planning
- Group-wide Bi platform for decentralised sales planning
- Integration of operational planning and financial planning
- Rapid system adaptation to new planning structures
HOERBIGER is a global leader in the areas of compressor technology, automation and drive technology. In 2012, its 6,700 employees generated sales in the amount of EUR 1.06 billion. HOERBIGER developed a best-of-breed solution with products from various manufacturers for the international reporting of the company’s compressor technology division. Cubeware supports the Group’s complex planning process on the IT platform.
“The Cubeware solutions simultaneously and consistently provides all group companies with planning data. It supports intercompany coordination and creates an efficient planning process with a high level of information quality and company-wide acceptance.” Peter Wonisch, Senior Vice President, Head of accounting and controlling at HOERBIGER Kompressortechnik Holding GmbH
Project: realised byFWI Information Technology (Cubeware Premium Partner)
Application: Planning, sales and financial planning
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer, Cubeware Connectivity for SAP® Solutions
Industry: Manufacturer of Compressors
Worldwide company reporting
- Complete solution for internal and external reporting.
- Efficient data collection and IC coordination with more than 80 companies.
- Consistent figures for controlling and consolidation.
Together with Cubeware consultants, KAEFER has set up a BI platform that works with an automated loop along the group-wide reporting processes, together with the consolidation system.
„Our reporting benefits from the integrated data flow from the data source to analysis, including automated validation, workflows, rights concept, visualisation and IC coordination. This allows us to take account of special, company-specific features at all times.“ Holger Hermann, CIT Corporate Information Technology at KAEFER Isoliertechnik.
Project: Reporting & analysis, intern und extern reporting, data recording system for the concern consolidation. Reporting, planning and analysis in the context of controlling, to condense regional and group data, and for legal reporting
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer incl. SAP Connectivity, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP and other ERPs via CSV files
Industry: Service Provider, Manufactuerer Isolation technology
Reporting for all business areas
- Complex sales evaluations at the touch of a button
- Fast and easy analysis of mass data
- Reduction of internal efforts for about 100 men days per year
The KANN Group introduces a reporting and analysis system where indicators from core areas of the business are brought together. This saves the controlling, sales and IT departments considerable time and effort for monthly reporting. And all the typical sales-related questions are answered quickly and effectively with analyses that are simple to set up.
“Acceptance of Cubeware Cockpits is high: no user wishes to work without the independent analysis of mass data.” Mirko Eberwein, Head of Controlling & IT at the KANN Group
Application: Reporting & analysis, sales controlling, cost accounting
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Manufacturing, services, construction materials
Active controlling
- BI platform for all controlling disciplines
- Dynamic analyses at the press of a button
KATHREIN SE has used Cubeware Importer and Cubeware Cockpit to implement a comprehensive BI platform for its four controlling pillars of cost accounting, sales, investments and technical controlling. The reporting solution permits standardised reporting throughout the company and also allows each separate unit to create fast standard reports and flexible analyses according to the special needs.
“The Cubeware solution enables our controllers to cope with large data volumes. We provide an extensive controlling portfolio and can also provide answers to ad hoc questions in no time at all.” Rainer Schober, Senior Director Controlling at KATHREIN SE
Application: Reporting & analysis, sales controlling, cost accounting, technical controlling, investments controlling
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Manufacturing: antennas
Keller Verlag uses SAP and an industry-specific editorial system to process its operational data. The controlling department partnered with Cubeware Partner vexxus to introduce a reporting system that brings together large data volumes from these two source systems. By linking the source data it is for the first time possible to produce detailed, publisher-specific analysis reports that contribute to systematic sales management.
“Merging different data sources and developing common and independent data structures from these data sources all our business processes to be extensively analysed in a timely manner.” Markus Gantner, Head of Controlling at Keller Verlag
Project: realises by vexxus Gesellschaft für Consulting und Service mbH
Application: Reporting & analysis, financial and sales controlling
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer, Cubeware Connectivity for SAP® Solutions
Industry: Publishing: phone directories
Transparent reporting in the publishing house
- Industry-specific sales analyses
- Clearly arranged reports for senior management and specialist departments
- Integration of SAP and other data sources
Although steeped in tradition, KOSMOS Verlag introduced a Cubeware solution for its reporting. The BI platform brings together data from SAP and other source systems in Cubeware Cockpit V6pro for clearly arranged sales analyses for senior management and department managers. Decision-makers thus have a view of the latest developments in their area at all times and are able to manage sales and the publisher’s catalogue in line with market requirements.
“Cubeware gives us important insights at a glance. Important features for our sales team include ABC analyses and top ten rankings with simple selection of the reporting periods.” Martin Fingerle, Commercial Manager at KOSMOS Verlag
Project: Realised by Star Systems GmbH (Cubeware Premium Partner)
Application: Reporting & analysis, planning, sales controlling
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer, Cubeware Connectivity for SAP® Solutions
Industry: Publishing
Controlling at the pharmaceutical specialist
- Efficient reporting for medium-sized corporate groups
- Consistent from industry-specific details to the group result
- Map analyses for field service control
With the support Cubeware-Partner DENZHORN, the Kyberg Group has replaced its Excel reporting with a modern BI system. The medium-sized pharmaceutical specialist was able to put its Cubeware solution into operation just two months after the start of the project. The automated reporting processes save considerable time and effort, and the seamless reporting system from detailed segment-base analysis to aggregated group results mean that transparent information is available at all times for managing the group.
“Automatic distribution of reports to our sales force and sales partners saves us three days’ work a month.” Martin Bernhardt, Controlling, Kyberg Pharma Vertriebs-GmbH / Kyberg Group
Project: Realised by DENZHORN Business Intelligence GmbH (Cubeware Certified Partner)
Application: Reporting & analysis
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Always trendy
- Detailed sales and financial controlling for fashion suppliers
- Transparent information for sales representatives
- Sales analyses as a basis for customer-oriented production
Lifestyle specialist LERROS has been working with a Cubeware solution for sales and financial controlling for several years, which it has continuous extended and adapted to the dynamic business of the fashion market. Standard reports and flexible analyses of sales figures provide the group, which has subsidiaries throughout Europe, with detailed information that enables agile sales activities and the timely implementation of design and production measures in response to changes in trends.
“We can track our sales figures in detail at all times and respond quickly to fashion trends.” Alexander Seidemann-Klamant, Controlling, LERROS Moden GmbH
Application: Reporting & analysis, financial and sales controlling, costing, inventory management, production planning
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Textiles and fashion
Flexible project controlling
- Efficient controlling of international large-scale projects
- Precise personnel planning
- Status reports at the press of a button
OHB Technology is a project-oriented company operating in the aerospace industry. The highly specialised group of companies performs large projects with international partners. A reporting solution with Cubeware Cockpit and Cubeware Importer allows efficient project controlling with exact staff planning, flexible project billing and status reports at the press of a button.
“Cubeware is the ideal way of bringing together data from our different source systems. The requirements that a project-oriented company like OHB has for reporting software have been fully satisfied.” Claus Logemann, Finance & Controlling at OHB Technology AG
Application: Reporting & analysis, project controlling, staff planning
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Aerospace technology
Corporate planning and reporting
- Flexible platform for international group reporting
- Project targets, unification, transparency and cost reduction achieved
Electrical engineering group PFISTERER has set up a corporate-wide solution for planning and reporting using Cubeware Cockpit. The reporting structures are mapped in a multilayer data model, which matches the needs not only of the local companies but also of the central controlling department. When organisational changes occur, the specialist department is able to make the necessary modifications to the data model itself at any time.
“Cubeware Cockpit is a reporting tool that enables us to quickly and reliably answer a wide range of controlling questions.” Stefan Moewes, Controlling Department at PFISTERER Kontaktsysteme GmbH & Co KG
Application: Reporting & analysis, planning, group reporting
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit
Industry: Manufacturing: electrical engineering
Broadcasting information in real time
- Automated processes
- Faster, more effective reporting
- 24-7 access
Premiere Radio Networks, the largest radio network provider in the USA, has automated its reporting processes with a Cubeware solution. The web-based solution allows management, sales and accounting to access the latest financial figures and detailed sales reports on the different advertising customers around the clock.
“The best thing about Cubeware is its simple integration. We use the standardised Cubeware platform to bring together information from a CRM system, Access database, Microsoft SQL Server and TM1 and we can evaluate everything together.” Stewart Ellner, Financial Controller at Premiere Radio Networks
Application: Reporting & analysis, financial and sales controlling
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit
Industry: Media: radio stations
Controlling and Consolidation in the Group
- Group controlling with uniform reporting platform
- Consolidated financial statements and reporting for over 40 companies
- Management reporting in real time
- Expandable BI platform for a growing company
The Rohrdorfer Group has developed from a traditional cement manufacturer to a producer of building materials with a comprehensive product range. With the Cubeware Importer and the Cubeware Cockpit, the company, which has also grown in recent years through acquisitions, has built up a flexible BI platform for group controlling and consolidation, which continues to grow with the company. The Cubeware Cockpit forms the group-wide uniform reporting platform into which all reporting areas are integrated step by step.
"With the Cubeware Cockpit V6pro, we can quickly create reports with absolutely reliable key figures. Controlling has thus become very constructive and supports fast, targeted actions in corporate management". Michael Unterreitmeier, Head of Organisation EDP, Group Reporting at the Rohrdorfer Group
Application: Reporting & Analysis, Group Controlling, Consolidation
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit
Industry sector: Manufacturer Building Materials
INTEGRATED CORPORATE PLANNING
- Integrated planning for decentralized company groups
- Flexible platform for individual planning
- Accelerated planning in a high degree of detail
The ROHRDORFER Group stands for a nationally active producer of building materials of distinction. Together with the Cubeware partner HENDRICKS, ROST & CIE. GmbH, the ROHRDORFER Group has now expanded the existing data model in the sense of integrated corporate planning.
"The flexible Cubeware solution supports all the individual requirements of our plants and business units in a uniform planning environment". Michael Unterreitmeier, Managing Director SPZ Service GmbH / ROHRDORFER Group
Application: Reporting & Analysis, Group Controlling, Consolidation
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, IBM Planning Analytics TM1, Microsoft SQL Server
Industry sector: Manufacturer Building Materials
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Freshness makes the difference
- Store controlling with accurate hourly sales analyses
- Precise assortment control
- Implementation in just a few days
Stadtbäckerei Junge has implemented Cubeware Cockpit as the BI front end for its data warehouse. The reporting platform provides specialist users and decision-makers with exact, up-to-the-minute sales data. This allows the bakery and snack business to manage its range and production in line with customer demand and to offer a sufficient quantity of freshly baked goods in its branches.
“We deploy Cubeware Cockpit successfully for standard reporting and ad hoc analysis in the areas of product line management and detailed item sales. CubeCon GmbH is a competent and dependable partner in all this.” Thomas Worczinski, Head of IT/Controlling at Stadtbäckerei Junge / Hansebäcker Junge
Project: Realised by CubeCon GmbH (Cubeware Certified Partner)
Application: Reporting & analysis, store controlling, sales controlling, product line management
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Baked goods chain
sales reports at hourly intervals
- Quick Reports with data from Microsoft Dynamicy NAV
- Open technology for individual expansions
- Implementation within four weeks
Swyx Solutions AG developed a reporting solution completely integrated into the Dynamics NAV source system using the NAV Cube from syscon together with Cubeware in a very short space of time. The BI system easily adapts to the dynamic company’s individual business structures. The reporting solution delivers flexible, up-to-date sales and financial information at the press of a button.
“The predefined content from the NAV Cube meant that we could start working with the system practically straight away and achieve initial success very rapidly.” Sascha Bald, Head of Controlling at Swyx Solutions AG
Project: Realised by syscon Unternehmensberatungsges. mbH
Application: Reporting & analysis, sales controlling, materials management
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Manufacturing: ITC solutions
International sales management
- Worldwide BI platform for sales and financial controlling
- Current reports for different user groups
- Innovative sales analyses like geo analyses
Telegärtner is a highly specialised all-round provider of connection and transmission technology. The agile company introduced an Internet-based Cubeware solution to manage its global sales activities. The modern BI platform provides all report recipients at headquarters or in the offices abroad with the sales and financial information they need to perform their work, assisting fast and transparent decision-making at all levels.
“We use the web-based Cubeware solution to supply our globally distributed decision-makers with targeted, secure and up-to-date information, from the board to every single sales rep.“ Stefan Stahl, Head of Controlling, Telegärtner Karl Gärtner GmbH
Project: Realised by Raber+Märcker (Cubeware Certified Partner)
Application: Reporting & analysis, sales controlling, financial controlling, geo-analysis
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Manufacturing: electrical engineering
Effective financial reporting
- Efficient, consolidated monthly reporting
- Transparent liquidity forecast
- One day per month is saved for report generation
TITAL has implemented a technically sophisticated solution for monthly reporting, consolidation and liquidity planning using Cubeware. The source system for reporting is SAP. The Cubeware solution, which is used and supported by the accounting department, evaluates SAP data flexibly and efficiently in standard reports and ad hoc analyses. TITAL achieves considerable time savings in reporting, while obtaining meaningful information for a proactive business and finance strategy.
“Cubeware enables us to generate reports directly out of SAP and to consolidate our posting activities. This saves us a huge amount of time.” Carsten Hellwig, Commercial Manager at TITAL GmbH
Project: Realised by IDL GmbH Mitte (Cubeware Premium Partner)
Application: Reporting & analysis, financial controlling, liquidity planning
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer, Cubeware Connectivity for SAP® Solutions
Industry: Manufacturing: precision cast products
Reporting for sales and advertising
- Industry-specific standard reports and analyses
- 2 days per month saved for reporting
- Remote access with all end devices for 300 users
Bonn-based Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG has realised a reporting solution for financial and sales controlling with Cubeware. The system automates standard reporting, allowing product managers and department managers to analyse their key numbers. In addition to classic financial analysis, the technically elaborate reporting system supplies sector-specific analyses with KPIs on sales and advertising channels.
“Cubeware turns data into information. Data from a range of different areas and systems are presented centrally to profit centre managers in Cubeware Cockpit,where they provide transparency at any desired level of detail.” Karsten Krug, Controlling & Planning at Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG
Project: Realised by Flatten IT Consulting (Cubeware Certified Partner)
Application: Reporting & analyse, financial controlling, sector-specific sales controlling
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Publishing
Group controlling in the regional operating network
- Group-wide BI platform
- Web portal for sales and financial controlling
- Coherent key figures for the entire corporate group
Voigt & Schweitzer Markenverbund-Holding manages a nationwide network of galvanising plants and powder-coating facilities. The group worked with systems vendor Raber+Märcker to implement a Cubeware solution for group and sales controlling. The reports generated by the solution are intended to assist the company's management.
“With Cubeware Cockpit we can access reliable and up-to-date indicator analyses from every on of our sites, giving company management greater certainty in business management.” Marcel Halser, Director Accounting, Taxes and Controlling, Management Board of Voigt & Schweitzer Markenverbund-Holding GmbH & Co. KG
Project: Realised by Raber+Märcker (Cubeware Certified Partner)
Application: Reporting & analysis, group controlling, sales controlling
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Manufacturing: surface protection
Daily Group Reporting in the Paper Industry
- Aggregated financial and production figures at the push of a button
- Integration of heterogeneous systems from the European locations
- Saves several hours a day for report generation
Supported by Cubeware Partner KUMAvision, WEPA Papierfabrik developed a sophisticated BI solution for sale controlling. Each day, the Cubeware solution processes financial and production figures from a wide range of ERP systems located in the European plants, providing detailed and up-to-date reports for managing the group of companies in the highly competitive paper market.
“Cubeware Importer transfers and harmonises large volumes of source data from our European plants on a daily basis. We can now create our daily reports with absolutely reliable figures at the press of a button.” Daniel Hirschberg, Controlling, WEPA Group
Project: Realised by KUMAvision AG (Cubeware Certified Partner)
Application: Reporting & analysis, sales controlling, financial controlling, production management
Cubeware Products: Cubeware Cockpit, Cubeware Importer
Industry: Manufacturing: hygiene paper products
consultnetwork has been dealing with the topic of corporate management for years. Our trainers and consultants can draw on experience from over 100 introductory controlling projects in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Slovenia. We combine controlling consulting with high-quality software solutions for controlling and support you in personnel development in the field of controlling.
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CubeCon GmbH offers innovative solutions for SMEs in the area of business intelligence. Fields of application extend over the entire spectrum of business analysis, for example finance and accounting, controlling, marketing, sales ... – and take in cross-sector projects. Its portfolio includes provision of an OLAP-based analytical system, project planning, project realisation, implementation, training, support as well as business consulting.
Core sectors: automotive, industry, logistics
Since 1994, DENZHORN Geschäftsführungs-Systeme GmbH has developed into a leading specialist in software systems for integrated corporate planning, corporate consolidation, business intelligence and strategic corporate management for medium-sized and large companies. It currently supports over 2,100 customers from a number of offices.
Its core business competence is the implementation of and advice on business planning software BPS-ONE® with its integrated income statement, cashflow, balance sheet and liquidity planning features together with extensive reporting functions. Forecasts, simulations, business unit earnings statements and consolidation round off the portfolio. Cubeware Cockpit is used in BPS-BI to visualise earnings and financial data in management dashboards and reports.
An additional focus of activity is DENZHORN-BI: the planning, implementation of and continuous support for corporate-wide BI projects using Cubeware solutions. DENZHORN uses Cubeware Importer, Teamserver, Cockpit and SAP connectivity to realise sector-independent, customer-specific BI solutions from all source systems. This process merges sales, production, logistics and personnel data into highly efficient, consistent analysis and information systems.
DENZHORN BI consultants always attach great importance to their customers’ specialist departments becoming familiar with the corporate BI solutions so that they can configure and develop them largely independently.
Flatten IT-Consulting GmbH is a solution provider with highly experienced consultants who have many years of project experience and, above all, expertise in solving specialist challenges.
Our experts have worked as management consultants for many years, meaning that their portfolio of services covers not only planning and analysis tasks but also the development of KPIs and convincing control systems. One special area of expertise is the application of multivariate statistical methods (business analytics) to complex tasks in everyday practice
such as customer and product segmentation, batch or error analysis and supply chain optimisation.
Core sectors: production, logistics, finance
HENDRICKS, ROST & CIE. GmbH improves the decision-making capacity of its customers over the long term and thus sustainably increases their business success. Decisively better. Decide better.
Core sectors: pharmaceuticals, wholesale and retail trade, services
IDL supplies specialist solutions for holistic business performance management – planning, consolidation, reporting, analysis and mobile BI.
Reference customers include corporations and businesses in all sectors together with local authorities and public institutions: Wanzl, Commerz Real, Hellweg, District of Unna, Hermes Arzneimittel, Wüstenrot, Jura, Dräxlmaier etc.
Konica Minolta IT Solutions GmbH is one of the largest providers of IT services in southern Germany. We have access to the expertise and practical experience of over 300 employees within our network spread over the whole of Germany. We support our customers in optimising their processes with advanced software, efficient infrastructure solutions, market-leading partners as well as printing and copying solutions from Konica Minolta. With modern business intelligence solutions from Cubeware for analysis, planning, reporting and dashboarding, we offer medium-sized companies maximum investment security and certainty for the future. We optimise their business processes and help them to achieve significant competitive advantage through the central provision of decision-relevant business indicators. We not only implement complete and highly integrated business intelligence solutions for our customers, we also provide all-round support in the form of professional managed services for the daily operation of their ERP systems, business intelligence, ECM systems, HR solutions, database and SharePoint services, IT infrastructure and output management. We have been a member of the Konica Minolta Group since 1 January 2013.
Core sectors: production, wholesale and retails trade, public sector
KUMAVISION AG specialises in industry-specific ERP systems based on Microsoft Dynamics NAV and is one of Microsoft’s major partners in this field. Thanks to our international project experience, we deliver success for any ERP implementation, whatever the size. In addition, we are also at home with related topics such as customer management (Microsoft Dynamics CRM) and document management (DMS with ELO, DMS with Saperion). With 14 locations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, KUMAVISION has a close-knit service network that ensures we are never far from our customers.
Core sectors: healthcare, industry, wholesale and retail trade
Star Systems GmbH is a part of the Star Cooperation Group, which was founded as a wholly owned subsidiary of Daimler AG in 1997. Today, the Star Group is an independent, international company with more than 650 employees. Our principal areas of focus are business intelligence, SAP, requirements engineering and e-commerce.
Our solutions play an active role in shaping our customers’ success since we implement business intelligence in virtually all areas of a business. We assume responsibility for conceptual planning, process analysis, implementation and rollout as well as for training and coaching. Our customers appreciate the experience we have in complex corporate structures that we can contribute to the pragmatic requirements of SMEs. This results in transparent projects with clear added value.
Core sectors: services, publishing, wholesale and retail trade
syscon is your interdisciplinary partner when it comes to the holistic optimisation of processes, organisational structures and information systems. We combine business and technical competence in equal measure in our consulting fields of process management, ERP and business performance management. syscon is Germany's leading specialist in business performance in combination with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and AX as well as IFS. More than 300 extremely satisfied customers in Germany and internationally over the last 16 years provide impressive confirmation of this. As a product developer for Microsoft and cooperation partner for leading business intelligence vendors, syscon can fully exploit its strengths, in particular in combination with Cubeware products. It is here that our customers benefit from our in-depth ERP and process knowledge, which offers a solid foundation for developing a business intelligence strategy that is closely aligned with their corporate goals. BI solutions based on this enable our customers to translate even heterogeneous information into appropriate decision-making building blocks. Distributed and redundant data pools can be amalgamated, cleaned and standardised in one database.
Core sectors: pharmaceuticals, publishing, sciences
