Customer: TimoCom

"With Pentaho we are able to analyze the wide variety of data in TC Truck and Cargo and visualize it for our customers and the press. Our Transport Barometer has become the go-to source of information for the industry."

Deployment Overview

Key Challenges

• Real-time analysis and reporting - Needed a BI solution that was capable to analyze and visualize in real time the huge data volume of the TC Truck & Cargo platform for internal use and as a service to share with customers and trade media
• Integration into existing heterogeneous IT landscape

Pentaho Solution

• Pentaho Data Integration as ETL tool
• Pentaho Business Analytics for real time analysis and reporting

Results

• Huge data volume and high performance - Overall data volume is 270 GB with 170 Million freight and carrier offers since 2006. In combination with Actian Vectorwise Timocom's analysis of the huge data volume is extremely fast.
• Powerful Visualization - European trade magazines and specialized publications use the transport barometer as infographic to inform their readers on freight and vehicle supply and demand within the European road transport market.
• Real-time analysis and reporting - Up to 300,000 daily published freight and vehicle offers in TC Truck and Cargo from over 85,000 users are analyzed and visualized for the TimoCom transport barometer in real time.
• Business insights - the reporting and analysis is used internally to respond in real-time to changes and by customers as a tool for determining the market price.

Why Pentaho

• Real-time analytics and reporting
• Cost efficiency
• Performance and functionality
• Open Source and flexibility