Incorta Case Studies As Broadcom’s “Go-To” Analytics Platform, Incorta Speeds Access to Information and Improves Employee Productivity

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As Broadcom’s “Go-To” Analytics Platform, Incorta Speeds Access to Information and Improves Employee Productivity

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
Applicable Industries	Semiconductors
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Predictive Quality Analytics Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Services	Data Science Services
Challenge	Broadcom, a global communications semiconductor powerhouse, was facing challenges in generating new analytical dashboards or reports based on data from various software solutions, including Workday, Oracle ERP, Model N, Oracle Demantra, and Microsoft Excel. The process was time-consuming, taking up to twelve weeks. As technology advanced, Broadcom sought to shorten this dashboard and report development cycle and reduce report run times. The company was looking for a solution that could integrate with other applications, especially Microsoft Excel, which is used by 90% of the company. The solution also needed to be cost-effective, easy to maintain, and minimize the number of peripheral technologies required for solution support. Read More
About Customer	Broadcom is a global communications semiconductor powerhouse built on 50 years of innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence. As a leading designer, developer, and supplier of a broad range of digital and analog semiconductor connectivity solutions, Broadcom serves the wired infrastructure, wireless communications, enterprise storage, and industrial markets. Broadcom has built a reputation as a true innovator, not only in how they’ve aggressively grown their business, but also in how they tackle the challenges of running their internal systems to keep pace with that growth. Multiple business units at Broadcom make decisions relying on information housed in a variety of software solutions, including Workday, Oracle ERP, Model N, Oracle Demantra, and Microsoft Excel. Read More
Solution	Broadcom found a solution in Incorta’s analytics platform. Incorta easily combines data from crucial enterprise systems, enables access to point solutions like Excel, and accelerates the creation of new analytical applications while also reducing report run times. Incorta’s innovative Direct Data Mapping architecture aggregates complex business data in real-time, eliminating the need for a data warehouse and traditional star schema approach. By completely removing the need for costly join operations, Incorta reduces report run times from hours to seconds and lets users create new reports and dashboards in days instead of months. Incorta simplifies security by offering single sign-on and the ability to retain other applications’ security parameters—including row-level security for data access. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Applicable Industries

Semiconductors

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Predictive Quality Analytics

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

Broadcom, a global communications semiconductor powerhouse, was facing challenges in generating new analytical dashboards or reports based on data from various software solutions, including Workday, Oracle ERP, Model N, Oracle Demantra, and Microsoft Excel. The process was time-consuming, taking up to twelve weeks. As technology advanced, Broadcom sought to shorten this dashboard and report development cycle and reduce report run times. The company was looking for a solution that could integrate with other applications, especially Microsoft Excel, which is used by 90% of the company. The solution also needed to be cost-effective, easy to maintain, and minimize the number of peripheral technologies required for solution support.

About Customer

Broadcom is a global communications semiconductor powerhouse built on 50 years of innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence. As a leading designer, developer, and supplier of a broad range of digital and analog semiconductor connectivity solutions, Broadcom serves the wired infrastructure, wireless communications, enterprise storage, and industrial markets. Broadcom has built a reputation as a true innovator, not only in how they’ve aggressively grown their business, but also in how they tackle the challenges of running their internal systems to keep pace with that growth. Multiple business units at Broadcom make decisions relying on information housed in a variety of software solutions, including Workday, Oracle ERP, Model N, Oracle Demantra, and Microsoft Excel.

Solution

Broadcom found a solution in Incorta’s analytics platform. Incorta easily combines data from crucial enterprise systems, enables access to point solutions like Excel, and accelerates the creation of new analytical applications while also reducing report run times. Incorta’s innovative Direct Data Mapping architecture aggregates complex business data in real-time, eliminating the need for a data warehouse and traditional star schema approach. By completely removing the need for costly join operations, Incorta reduces report run times from hours to seconds and lets users create new reports and dashboards in days instead of months. Incorta simplifies security by offering single sign-on and the ability to retain other applications’ security parameters—including row-level security for data access.

Impact #1	Generation of new analytical applications in days instead of months
Impact #2	Quick access to information following acquisitions
Impact #3	Greater IT focus on solving business challenges instead of tending to technical operations just to maintain status quo with legacy analytics solutions

Impact #1

Generation of new analytical applications in days instead of months

Impact #2

Quick access to information following acquisitions

Impact #3

Greater IT focus on solving business challenges instead of tending to technical operations just to maintain status quo with legacy analytics solutions

Benefit #1	Before Incorta it could take up to two hours to run a report against Oracle ERP, with Incorta, it can be done in seconds.
Benefit #2	It used to take 8 to 12 weeks to get a report from request to production, with Incorta, business users can do that on their own, instantaneously.

Benefit #1

Before Incorta it could take up to two hours to run a report against Oracle ERP, with Incorta, it can be done in seconds.

Benefit #2

It used to take 8 to 12 weeks to get a report from request to production, with Incorta, business users can do that on their own, instantaneously.

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As Broadcom’s “Go-To” Analytics Platform, Incorta Speeds Access to Information and Improves Employee Productivity

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