"The first Bit" helped Philips to develop a productive BI system based on Qlik Sense

2019: Development of a BI system

On December 16, 2019 the international integrator of IT solutions First Bit announced implementation at the Moscow office Philips the Qlik Sense program and developed a BI system on its base. It allowed the company to increase management efficiency of sales.

The Philips company works at the Russian market practically from the moment of the basis: in 1914 the first representation in St. Petersburg was open. As well as around the world, the priority product directions of the company changed over time. For December, 2019 Philips is engaged in production and sale of hi-tech products in two main directions: medical equipment and personal leaving.

The company has various sources of constantly arriving information which needs to be analyzed. For effective management of sales the Moscow office Philips needed versatile analytics.

To the project for the business analysis in Philips used the Qlik Sense software product. A system was operated not for long as it was impossible to transfer data to it automatically. Therefore employees had to transfer manually them to the application for the further business analysis. All this not only took away a lot of time and was ineffective, but also did not allow the Moscow office to receive the maximum benefit from the available Qlik Sense tools.

For development of a corporate system of the business analysis of Qlik Sense specialists of Philips looked for the checked integrator. The First Bit was it. This company proved as the leading expert in the BI area, work with solutions of Qlik.

Experts of the First Bit offered development of the specialized solution which had to become for Philips a versatile and complex tool for the analysis of real versatile data.

In a project deliverable at the Moscow office Philips was a system for acceptance of strategic management decisions on the basis of real data of the company is created.

For December, 2019 a BI system in Philips company allows to trace all indicators, critical for business, both on current, and according to completed projects in the field of sales. If necessary it is possible to browse parts of lifecycle of each project,

The most significant of the studied indicators are:

• sales of sell-in and sell-out;
• forecasting of sales;
• marginal income;
• the planned income;
• sales across territories;
• sales on business groups;
• sales on managers.

Indicators are displayed in the form of graphic panels with a possibility of detailing and also filtering of products.

Besides, the implemented solution allowed Philips company to begin to use fully all data for carrying out the business analysis. Automatic integration with data sources allowed to reduce the resources and time necessary for carrying out the BI analysis.