Mary Kay in Russia implements a BI system and the data warehouse

The company BI Partner announced on August 19, 2013 the beginning of works on creation of the data warehouse and BI- systems on its basis for the company Mary Kay on the platform of products Microsoft SQL and IBM Cognos BI.

Project position

For August 20, 2013 specialists completed development of technical specifications.

Feature of the project

In the project the innovation concept of "these codes" (Data Vault) according to which the storage is created is used. Advantage of new architecture - a possibility of adding of new logical areas without change of the existing structure of storage that allows to reduce risks of development and the total cost of a system.

The solution, according to plans, will be unrolled in scales of all company, the data warehouse will be a source of up-to-date, complete and reliable information for the solution of marketing, financial and logistic tasks:

• Management of marketing campaigns.
• Demand forecasting.
• Financial planning.
• Management of cost value.
• Condition monitoring of warehouses and products in transit.
• Control of expiration dates.

"The specifics of business of Mary Kay include need of operational data collection from all chain of sales. It is possible to tell that we really know consumers of our products by sight, – Ilya Sadovenko, the head of IT department of Mary Kay in Eastern Europe noted. – At this information the huge potential for which disclosure we initiated the project on creation of the uniform data warehouse".

"Data Vault is absolutely new concept of the organization of analytical information spaces. It is focused on smooth expansion of an analytical system, providing at the same time the most full compliance to the most serious requirements of modern business in the conditions of the highly competitive market", – Andrey Tiunov, the CEO of BI Partner company emphasized.