Customer: ControlPay

"Logistics is a major cost incurred by many of our customers. Although selecting the most efficient routes to market across decentralized networks is essential, but a distraction for organizations trying to satisfy global market demand. Embedding Pentaho into our BI User Console brings disparate knowledge into one transparent hub, which means ControlPay customers can view integrated logistics data from many sources on one screen. This is a breakthrough!"

Deployment Overview

Key Challenges

• Data integration - having to normalize and aggregate many different data sources across different business units for customers so it can be presented in a single report
• ROI – ControlPay customers are very concerned with lowering costs
• Data visibility - 75 percent of shippers do not have clear data on their operations

Pentaho Solution

• Pentaho is embedded into the ControlPay BI User Console, a web-based application for its customers to access reports, analysis views and dashboards
• Integrates many different customer data sources from proprietary transport management systems to Excel spreadsheet data
• Pentaho Business Analytics Enterprise Edition (using Pentaho Data Integration, Analytics, Dashboards, Reporting)
• ControlPay has an open source ecosystem including JBoss and Tomcat

Results

• Customer loyalty has increased significantly. For example, ControlPay has strengthened its relationship with one of its largest customers due to ControlPay’s ability to harmonize disparate data sources, report on this data and roll out to logistics managers globally
• Customers have been able to save money and make more profitable decisions by exposing previously hidden transportation costs
• Increases competitive advantage by being able to promise greater cost savings, efficiency and data visibility. Since the beginning of 2011 ControlPay has been Europe’s largest freight audit provider

Why Pentaho

• Flexibility, control and TCO associated with commercial open source model
• Offers the best data mapping services leading to normalized, reliable and centralized data
• Powerful analytics platform