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Laureate Education Asia Uses QlikView to Cut Analysis Time from Seven Hours to 20 Minutes

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization Analytics & Modeling - Big Data Analytics
Applicable Industries	Education
Applicable Functions	Sales & Marketing
Services	Data Science Services
Challenge	Laureate Education Asia, a part of the Laureate International Universities network, was facing challenges in financial forecasting and reporting. The process of preparing monthly analysis and reporting at their regional office was time-consuming, taking up to seven hours to run a comparison of financial performance of their different institutions from Oracle Hyperion. They wanted to reduce this time and improve the quality of their reporting. They also wanted to enable their staff to archive their own data and extract forecasts on a self-service basis for quicker decision-making. Read More
About Customer	Laureate Education Asia, based in Selangor, Malaysia, is part of the Laureate International Universities (LIU), a leading international network of quality, innovative higher education institutions. The LIU network has more than 65 accredited campus-based and online universities offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs to around 675,000 students worldwide. These students are part of an international academic community that spans 29 countries throughout Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa, and North America. LIU institutions offer hundreds of career-focused, undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral degree programs in fields including architecture, education, engineering, hospitality, IT, law, and medicine. Read More
Solution	Laureate Education Asia deployed QlikView for its five-strong finance team to analyze the performance of its 10 member institutions in the Asia Pacific region. They reused QlikView applications that had been pioneered by Laureate Education Chile in Latin America, making the implementation highly cost-effective. The implementation was assisted by QlikTech Partner Analytical Intelligence Solutions to cater for their regional needs. QlikView is now giving the team an aggregated and comprehensive view of information about Asia Pacific operations, including financial health, sales performance, and data on enrollment of students. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization

Analytics & Modeling - Big Data Analytics

Applicable Industries

Education

Applicable Functions

Sales & Marketing

Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

Laureate Education Asia, a part of the Laureate International Universities network, was facing challenges in financial forecasting and reporting. The process of preparing monthly analysis and reporting at their regional office was time-consuming, taking up to seven hours to run a comparison of financial performance of their different institutions from Oracle Hyperion. They wanted to reduce this time and improve the quality of their reporting. They also wanted to enable their staff to archive their own data and extract forecasts on a self-service basis for quicker decision-making.

About Customer

Laureate Education Asia, based in Selangor, Malaysia, is part of the Laureate International Universities (LIU), a leading international network of quality, innovative higher education institutions. The LIU network has more than 65 accredited campus-based and online universities offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs to around 675,000 students worldwide. These students are part of an international academic community that spans 29 countries throughout Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa, and North America. LIU institutions offer hundreds of career-focused, undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral degree programs in fields including architecture, education, engineering, hospitality, IT, law, and medicine.

Solution

Laureate Education Asia deployed QlikView for its five-strong finance team to analyze the performance of its 10 member institutions in the Asia Pacific region. They reused QlikView applications that had been pioneered by Laureate Education Chile in Latin America, making the implementation highly cost-effective. The implementation was assisted by QlikTech Partner Analytical Intelligence Solutions to cater for their regional needs. QlikView is now giving the team an aggregated and comprehensive view of information about Asia Pacific operations, including financial health, sales performance, and data on enrollment of students.

Impact #1	The implementation of QlikView has significantly reduced the time taken for data analysis and reporting. What used to take up to seven hours with the previous business discovery solution now takes 10 to 20 minutes with QlikView, with better-quality analysis of data.
Impact #2	The finance and sales team needed only minimal training to start using QlikView.
Impact #3	The team can now use their dedicated QlikView server as a personal database. It is easy to archive data without requiring specialist IT help and compare historical trends.

Impact #1

The implementation of QlikView has significantly reduced the time taken for data analysis and reporting. What used to take up to seven hours with the previous business discovery solution now takes 10 to 20 minutes with QlikView, with better-quality analysis of data.

Impact #2

The finance and sales team needed only minimal training to start using QlikView.

Impact #3

The team can now use their dedicated QlikView server as a personal database. It is easy to archive data without requiring specialist IT help and compare historical trends.

Benefit #1	Reduced data analysis and reporting time from seven hours to 10-20 minutes.

Benefit #1

Reduced data analysis and reporting time from seven hours to 10-20 minutes.

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Laureate Education Asia Uses QlikView to Cut Analysis Time from Seven Hours to 20 Minutes

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