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Air Astana Enhances Reporting Efficiency with Microsoft Teams and Power Apps

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Technology Category	Sensors - Air Pollution Sensors Sensors - Environmental Sensors
Applicable Industries	Electrical Grids Transportation
Use Cases	Leasing Finance Automation Time Sensitive Networking
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	Air Astana, the flag carrier of Kazakhstan, was facing significant challenges with its financial reporting process. The company, which operates both domestic and international services across 64 routes in Eurasia, was struggling with a time-consuming and resource-intensive month-end closing process. Generating account cards and trial balances took from 40 minutes to more than one hour per report. At the end of the month, the finance department often had hundreds of reports in the queue. The company's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system was only capable of processing ten reports at a time, creating a bottleneck and slowing down the entire process. The company needed a solution that could generate reports in less than a minute to boost productivity and efficiency. Read More
About Customer	Air Astana is the national flag carrier of Kazakhstan, operating both domestic and international services across 64 routes in Eurasia. The company is committed to maintaining the highest safety and customer service standards for both external and internal processes. As the leading airline in Kazakhstan, Air Astana must maintain its finances and accountancy impeccably. The company has a large organization size, with between 1,000 and 9,999 employees. It operates in the travel and transportation industry and is based in Kazakhstan. Read More
Solution	Air Astana turned to Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI to streamline its financial reporting process. After a two-month trial period, the company saw significant improvements in report generation times, with reports now being generated in just 30-40 seconds. The company's ERP system was no longer burdened with producing time-consuming reports, leading to increased performance and faster month-end closing times. The company also deployed Microsoft Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics to visualize data in dashboards with specific filters, which were easily configured to meet their requirements. After two months, Air Astana stopped processing heavy reports in the ERP system and switched over to Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI for reporting. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Sensors - Air Pollution Sensors

Sensors - Environmental Sensors

Applicable Industries

Electrical Grids

Transportation

Use Cases

Leasing Finance Automation

Time Sensitive Networking

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

Air Astana, the flag carrier of Kazakhstan, was facing significant challenges with its financial reporting process. The company, which operates both domestic and international services across 64 routes in Eurasia, was struggling with a time-consuming and resource-intensive month-end closing process. Generating account cards and trial balances took from 40 minutes to more than one hour per report. At the end of the month, the finance department often had hundreds of reports in the queue. The company's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system was only capable of processing ten reports at a time, creating a bottleneck and slowing down the entire process. The company needed a solution that could generate reports in less than a minute to boost productivity and efficiency.

About Customer

Air Astana is the national flag carrier of Kazakhstan, operating both domestic and international services across 64 routes in Eurasia. The company is committed to maintaining the highest safety and customer service standards for both external and internal processes. As the leading airline in Kazakhstan, Air Astana must maintain its finances and accountancy impeccably. The company has a large organization size, with between 1,000 and 9,999 employees. It operates in the travel and transportation industry and is based in Kazakhstan.

Solution

Air Astana turned to Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI to streamline its financial reporting process. After a two-month trial period, the company saw significant improvements in report generation times, with reports now being generated in just 30-40 seconds. The company's ERP system was no longer burdened with producing time-consuming reports, leading to increased performance and faster month-end closing times. The company also deployed Microsoft Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics to visualize data in dashboards with specific filters, which were easily configured to meet their requirements. After two months, Air Astana stopped processing heavy reports in the ERP system and switched over to Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI for reporting.

Impact #1	The implementation of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI has led to significant operational improvements for Air Astana. The company's finance department, which consists of around 100 people, no longer wastes time waiting for reports for hours and can concentrate on other productive tasks. The company can now start creating analytics and forecasts based on the data coming from Azure Synapse and visualizing them with Power BI. The overall management of the new system is straightforward, and the finance department soon preferred to use the new dashboards. The scalable parallel processing tool has freed up resources, allowing the company to do more things.

Impact #1

The implementation of Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI has led to significant operational improvements for Air Astana. The company's finance department, which consists of around 100 people, no longer wastes time waiting for reports for hours and can concentrate on other productive tasks. The company can now start creating analytics and forecasts based on the data coming from Azure Synapse and visualizing them with Power BI. The overall management of the new system is straightforward, and the finance department soon preferred to use the new dashboards. The scalable parallel processing tool has freed up resources, allowing the company to do more things.

Benefit #1	Report generation time reduced from over an hour to 30-40 seconds
Benefit #2	Month-end closing process sped up by at least 5-8 hours
Benefit #3	ERP system's processing capacity freed up from producing time-consuming reports

Benefit #1

Report generation time reduced from over an hour to 30-40 seconds

Benefit #2

Month-end closing process sped up by at least 5-8 hours

Benefit #3

ERP system's processing capacity freed up from producing time-consuming reports

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Air Astana Enhances Reporting Efficiency with Microsoft Teams and Power Apps

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