ICON Health and Fitness Strengthens Its Reporting Capabilities
公司规模
1,000+
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- WebFOCUS
- Active Technology reports
- ReportCaster
- Visual Discovery
- iWay DataMigrator
技术栈
- IBM iSeries platform
- DB2 database
- AIX and Linux operating systems
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
- Revenue Growth
技术
- 分析与建模 - 预测分析
- 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
适用行业
- 消费品
适用功能
- 商业运营
- 销售与市场营销
用例
- 库存管理
- 预测性维护
- 供应链可见性(SCV)
服务
- 数据科学服务
- 系统集成
- 培训
关于客户
ICON Health and Fitness is the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of home exercise equipment. The company has nearly 2,500 employees and nine locations worldwide. ICON owns some of the best-known brands in the fitness industry, including NordicTrack, FreeMotion, ProForm, EPIC, HealthRider, Weider, Image, and Weslo, in addition to licensing the Reebok and Gold’s Gym brands. The company's IT department handles a wide range of responsibilities, from the internal phone system to security, in-house wiring, web services, and the management of the corporate enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
挑战
ICON Health and Fitness, the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of home exercise equipment, was facing a challenge in tracking and analyzing operational performance across its various companies and business units. The company's IT department was already stretched thin managing a wide range of responsibilities, and the existing ERP system offered limited BI capabilities, making it difficult to compile historical information and perform data trending. Management wanted a business intelligence (BI) environment that could provide greater insight into key performance indicators (KPIs) across the company, especially to understand how each division was performing on a weekly, monthly, and year-to-date basis, with comparisons to previous time periods and business plans. This was crucial to ensure that the company was meeting its revenue and profitability objectives.
解决方案
ICON Health and Fitness chose Information Builders' WebFOCUS business intelligence (BI) platform and integration technologies from iWay Software to address their challenges. The WebFOCUS BI platform was chosen for its flexibility in both data retrieval and reporting. It could use stored procedures in ICON’s DB2 database to preserve complex joins and data extraction routines, enabling them to reuse existing software assets. They also liked WebFOCUS Active Technology reports, which permit offline analysis, and WebFOCUS Visual Discovery, a robust data visualization environment for creating interactive reports and graphs. With the help of Information Builders Professional Services, ICON's team used iWay DataMigrator to extract transactional data from the ERP system and load it into specialized data marts, summarized to reveal historic trends regarding sales, finance, product shipments, and other business domains. They then created reports that reveal KPIs for finance, sales, manufacturing, and other parts of the business.
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