Maverick Transportation Moves Into the Passing Lane With Real-Time Analytics
公司规模
1,000+
地区
- America
国家
- Canada
- United States
产品
- WebFOCUS Developer Studio
- WebFOCUS Mobile
- Maintain
- DB2/400 adapter
- Microsoft SQL Server adapter
技术栈
- IBM DB2
- Microsoft SQL Server
- IBM iSeries
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Cost Savings
- Digital Expertise
- Productivity Improvements
技术
- 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
- 应用基础设施与中间件 - 数据可视化
适用行业
- 运输
适用功能
- 人力资源
- 物流运输
- 维护
用例
- 车队管理
- 人员跟踪与监控
- 预测性维护
服务
- 软件设计与工程服务
- 系统集成
关于客户
Maverick Transportation is one of the largest flatbed transportation companies in the U.S. With corporate offices in Little Rock, Arkansas, Maverick operates more than 1,200 vehicles that specialize in hauling steel, glass, machinery, and building materials throughout the U.S and Canada. The privately held company has been in business for 30 years and is always on the move, as evidenced by the recent addition of a temperature-controlled division. With safety and technology leading the way, its new temp-control trailers are equipped with two-way communications, door sensors, fuel sensors, and the capability to load 47,000 pounds. Compliance with government regulations, safety concerns, ongoing fleet maintenance requirements, and a notoriously high driver turnover rate are just a few of the challenges that market leaders in the transportation sector must contend with. In an industry where margins are slim, the ability to carefully scrutinize all aspects of its business is crucial to Maverick’s success.
挑战
Maverick Transportation, one of the largest flatbed transportation companies in the U.S., was seeking more efficient ways to distribute current information, reports, and metrics throughout the enterprise. The company faced challenges such as compliance with government regulations, safety concerns, ongoing fleet maintenance requirements, and a notoriously high driver turnover rate. In an industry where margins are slim, the ability to carefully scrutinize all aspects of its business was crucial to Maverick’s success. However, Maverick’s existing reporting tools made it difficult to combine operational and financial data, hindering the company’s ability to closely monitor key activities. The company embarked on an initiative to expand its financial reporting package and evaluated several reporting and business intelligence (BI) vendors.
解决方案
Maverick chose the Information Builders WebFOCUS BI platform. Workers at headquarters and on the road now depend on WebFOCUS scorecards and dashboards to track critical business functions such as safety, accounting, and human resources. With WebFOCUS, Maverick can more precisely measure performance, track progress towards corporate goals, and achieve strict growth and profitability objectives. Maverick’s first big accomplishment with WebFOCUS involved replacing all financials and margin statements with WebFOCUS reports. Brown and his team used WebFOCUS to develop financial dashboards that consolidate data from IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, and other databases into integrated reports. Then they created dashboards that let people visualize and drill down into the data. WebFOCUS runs on an IBM iSeries computer. Some reports are drawn from a data warehouse and others from production DB2 databases associated with particular business applications, all through high-performance WebFOCUS adapters, which make native connections to these databases.
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