Customer: Brussels Airport

"Choosing Pentaho meant we could replace not just our reporting, but also our proprietary ETL tool to achieve our goal of a single Information Delivery Platform. Given we found Pentaho gives us at least 80 to 85% of the functionality of proprietary vendors, the cost savings we achieved are hugely significant at an estimated €350K+."

Deployment Overview

Key Challenges

• Performed extensive proof-of-concept with IBM (Cognos), SAP (Business Objects), MicroStrategy, Information Builders and Pentaho
• Wanted to replace both its Oracle reporting and an IBM Extraction Transformation and Load tool.
• Wanted to replace current BI solution with a more cost-efficient, single "˜information delivery platform" to decision makers

Pentaho Solution

• Pentaho Data Integration, Analysis, Reporting and Dashboard tools included in the Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition

Results

• Four departments, finance, commercial, operations and ICT, will benefit from the Agile BI capabilities allowing greater iterative development between business user and developer
• These departments will now provide daily, weekly and monthly management reporting, ad hoc analysis and dashboards replacing Excel spreadsheets and about 200 scheduled Hyperion reports
• Delivered pilot project on target and in budget
• Cost savings of estimated to exceed 350K Euro
• Pentaho's ability to easily and cost-effectively provide daily snapshots from its Sybase IQ data warehouse and consistent reporting across the company proved decisive in the POC

Why Pentaho

• Agile BI and Data Integration capabilities