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More Time and Better Results with Siemens Gas and Power Thanks to Alteryx

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Data-as-a-Service Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Predictive Maintenance Process Control & Optimization
Services	Data Science Services
Challenge	The Siemens Gas and Power Division launched a productivity offensive for power plant service in 2016. The objective was to analyze areas where unnecessary costs, such as excessively high material expenses, could be prevented. With several thousand various measures, more than 5,000 different data sets, and over 8,000 employees in the business unit, the investigations were complex and time-consuming. The analyses were nearly obsolete by the time the results were available. The first step was to switch to Tableau to improve the visualization. However, the actual problem with the time-consuming and complicated provision of data was still not solved. Read More
About Customer	Siemens is one of the most important companies in Germany, established in October 1847. Today, the technology corporation is active in 190 countries, with 125 locations just in Germany. This company, which is traded on the DAX 30 exchange, has about 379,000 employees worldwide. The Siemens Gas and Power Division is one wheel in this huge drive. To ensure that all of the processes interact efficiently here, in 2016 Siemens launched a productivity offensive for power plant service. Read More
Solution	The big change came about with Alteryx. Alteryx provided automation, so repetitive tasks, such as manually updating the data, are no longer necessary, and the employees can focus more on the analysis. In addition to the time saved, Alteryx also improved the quality of the analysis. Because the dashboards are automatically updated in three-hour cycles, the data is never outdated. Alteryx is user-friendly and easy to learn, these are two pivotal reasons that the employees like Alteryx so much. With Alteryx, employees in a wide variety of departments can be trained as citizen data scientists. In the case of the Siemens Gas and Power Unit, the software is mainly used in middle management for specific process optimization. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Data-as-a-Service

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Predictive Maintenance

Process Control & Optimization

Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

The Siemens Gas and Power Division launched a productivity offensive for power plant service in 2016. The objective was to analyze areas where unnecessary costs, such as excessively high material expenses, could be prevented. With several thousand various measures, more than 5,000 different data sets, and over 8,000 employees in the business unit, the investigations were complex and time-consuming. The analyses were nearly obsolete by the time the results were available. The first step was to switch to Tableau to improve the visualization. However, the actual problem with the time-consuming and complicated provision of data was still not solved.

About Customer

Siemens is one of the most important companies in Germany, established in October 1847. Today, the technology corporation is active in 190 countries, with 125 locations just in Germany. This company, which is traded on the DAX 30 exchange, has about 379,000 employees worldwide. The Siemens Gas and Power Division is one wheel in this huge drive. To ensure that all of the processes interact efficiently here, in 2016 Siemens launched a productivity offensive for power plant service.

Solution

The big change came about with Alteryx. Alteryx provided automation, so repetitive tasks, such as manually updating the data, are no longer necessary, and the employees can focus more on the analysis. In addition to the time saved, Alteryx also improved the quality of the analysis. Because the dashboards are automatically updated in three-hour cycles, the data is never outdated. Alteryx is user-friendly and easy to learn, these are two pivotal reasons that the employees like Alteryx so much. With Alteryx, employees in a wide variety of departments can be trained as citizen data scientists. In the case of the Siemens Gas and Power Unit, the software is mainly used in middle management for specific process optimization.

Impact #1	Alteryx provided automation, so repetitive tasks, such as manually updating the data, are no longer necessary, and the employees can focus more on the analysis.
Impact #2	Because the dashboards are automatically updated in three-hour cycles, the data is never outdated.
Impact #3	Now many more employees work with the data. While before they were constantly asked about the status of the data and if they could even be used, now the colleagues are using the dashboards all the time and trust them, too.

Impact #1

Alteryx provided automation, so repetitive tasks, such as manually updating the data, are no longer necessary, and the employees can focus more on the analysis.

Impact #2

Because the dashboards are automatically updated in three-hour cycles, the data is never outdated.

Impact #3

Now many more employees work with the data. While before they were constantly asked about the status of the data and if they could even be used, now the colleagues are using the dashboards all the time and trust them, too.

Benefit #1	The number of employees of the Siemens Alteryx Community has increased by a factor of four within just a few months.

Benefit #1

The number of employees of the Siemens Alteryx Community has increased by a factor of four within just a few months.

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More Time and Better Results with Siemens Gas and Power Thanks to Alteryx

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