Customer: Swiss Colony

"Pentaho's BI suite and top-notch professional support enabled us to deliver a successful, high-value BI solution at a much lower cost than would have been possible with the expensive, proprietary alternatives."

Deployment Overview

Key Challenges

• Maintaining complex, hand-coded ETL scripts
• Outgrowing Microsoft Excel-based reporting system
• Understanding the effectiveness of its online marketing activities

Pentaho Solution

• Professional services from Pentaho partner OpenBI
• IBM servers, SUSE Linux, 1.5 terabyte Microsoft SQL Server data warehouse
• Pentaho Business Analystics Enterprise Edition

Results

• Greater visibility into website traffic, keyword performance and revenue attribution
• Automated integration of clickstream data with Google Analytics and catalog sales activity data

Why Pentaho

• Quality of support and services
• Standards-based, cross platform support