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Apollo Vredestein Applies BI From the Executive Office to the Factory Floor

Company Size

1,000+

Region

Europe

Country

Netherlands

Product

WebFOCUS

Tech Stack

Business Intelligence
Data Integration

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Cost Savings
Productivity Improvements

Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Applicable Industries

Automotive

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing
Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Manufacturing System Automation
Predictive Quality Analytics

Services

Data Science Services

About The Customer

Apollo Vredestein B.V., a division of Apollo Tires Ltd, is a multinational company with offices and production locations in India, South Africa, and the Netherlands. Headquartered in Enschede, the Netherlands, the company designs, produces, and sells high-value tires under the Apollo and Vredestein brand names via an extensive international network throughout Europe and North America. The Vredestein brand is more than 100 years old and has achieved premium status in the automotive, agricultural, and industrial sectors, as well as for its popular bicycle tires. Its main factory in Enschede produces almost six million tires per year. To maximize operational agility in a competitive and dynamic market, the company takes a best-of-breed approach to IT, using a combination of packaged and homegrown systems to meet its business needs.

The Challenge

Apollo Vredestein, a Dutch tire producer, was facing the challenge of producing a consolidated reporting system that could convey data from a multitude of sources in a consistent way. This was to simplify reporting, analytics, and information delivery throughout the enterprise. The company had a best-of-breed IT strategy, using a combination of packaged and homegrown systems to meet its business needs. However, this made it difficult to achieve a single, consolidated view of critical information for decision-making purposes. The company needed a solution that could address this challenge and provide a comprehensive business intelligence platform for reporting, analyzing, and presenting business information.

The Solution

To address this challenge, Apollo Vredestein acquired Information Builders WebFOCUS, a comprehensive business intelligence (BI) platform for reporting, analyzing, and presenting business information. The ease of use and inherent scalability of WebFOCUS made everyone in the organization an informed decision-maker. The company created the Vredestein Information Portal (VIP), a centralized system where authorized users could access reports and analyze information. The robust WebFOCUS security architecture ensured that each user could only view information relevant to his or her department, role, and level within the organization. The implementation of WebFOCUS went very smoothly and its performance exceeded expectations. Now, employees throughout the enterprise access VIP to obtain rich, interactive information. WebFOCUS provides one enterprise BI platform for all data-access and delivery needs.

Operational Impact

WebFOCUS reduces errors, minimizes costs, and helps the company take advantage of new revenue opportunities.
Employees can gain insight into how their contributions impact the organization.
The implementation of WebFOCUS went very smoothly and its performance exceeded expectations.
Now, employees throughout the enterprise access VIP to obtain rich, interactive information.
WebFOCUS provides one enterprise BI platform for all data-access and delivery needs.