Customer: Power Costs, Inc

"The Agile BI capabilities of Pentaho Data Integration completely streamlined the way we interact with our business users to build data marts that enable them to create and use relevant reports. It has allowed us to move the data closer to the end users; creating seamless collaboration, reducing time and difficulty in creating reports, and giving a faster time to value in allowing our customers to make faster decisions that impact their business."

Deployment Overview

Key Challenges

• To help improve Day Ahead and Real-Time operational Profit and Loss (P&L) for many of the leading power generation and trading companies in the world.
• Needed a solution that could quickly analyze and respond to over 10 GB of data for an individual customer to embed in their PCI GSMS (Generation Supply Management System) solution

Pentaho Solution

• Utilize Pentaho Data Integration 4.0 for ETL capabilities
• Leverage Pentaho Reporting, Dashboards and Analyzer for additional analysis and visualization
• Pentaho Business Analytics Enterprise Edition supplemented with the analyzer solution from QlikView

Results

• Streamlined interaction with business users to create and use relevant reports
• Customers are now able to make faster decision that impact their business
• Frictionless process for creating, delivering and consuming relevant business data

Why Pentaho

• Comprehensive features set
• Rapid and easy integration with their current products
• Exceptional value