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Business Intelligence Moves at HighSpeed for Adif

Company Size

1,000+

Region

Europe

Country

Spain

Product

WebFOCUS
iWay Software

Tech Stack

Oracle
DB2
J2EE
Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)

Implementation Scale

Enterprise-wide Deployment

Impact Metrics

Digital Expertise
Productivity Improvements

Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Exchange & Integration

Applicable Industries

Railway & Metro

Applicable Functions

Discrete Manufacturing
Logistics & Transportation

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance
Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Services

Data Science Services
System Integration

About The Customer

Adif, based in Madrid, Spain, is a public corporation that was born from the passing of the Railway Industry Law in January 2005. The main function of the organization – which reports to the Ministry of Public Works – is to implement, administer, and maintain railway infrastructures. Other responsibilities include collecting royalties from operators, and ensuring the efficiency and sustainability of the railway system from economic and environmental perspectives. Adif manages enormous amounts of information from various sources. The organization has hundreds of applications within the organization, with the same kind of information repeated in different systems.

The Challenge

Adif, a railway systems administrator based in Madrid, Spain, manages enormous amounts of information from various sources. The organization had hundreds of applications within the organization, with the same kind of information repeated in different systems. This complicated the information-collection process and created confusion and inaccuracy. Adif needed a solution that would provide a single point of access to information from various systems and applications. The organization wanted to build a centralized, Oracle-based data warehouse and use robust BI to provide company-wide reporting and analysis against that information.

The Solution

Adif chose the Information Builders platform as its corporate business intelligence standard. It upgraded its WebFOCUS installation, which offered improvements in information analysis, as well as advanced functionalities and a higher level of user friendliness. Adif initiated a project that included the creation of an analysis system within an administered environment, allowing its employees to access information without the need for technical knowledge. Users would also be able to carry out highly detailed advanced analysis, generate reports and graphs, and make decisions based on business indicators displayed on control panels and dashboards. The creation of control panels was one of the key components of Adif’s advanced analysis system. A database with well-structured, high-quality information – including the current definition and identification of the indicators that would appear on each dashboard – turned out to be essential.

Operational Impact

Adif used WebFOCUS to create an analysis system in a controlled and administered environment that allows employees to access the information they need and perform intuitive, in-depth analysis to enhance decision-making.
The creation of control panels was one of the key components of Adif’s advanced analysis system. A database with well-structured, high-quality information – including the current definition and identification of the indicators that would appear on each dashboard – turned out to be essential.