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Robinsons Brewery selects QlikView to provide essential business intelligence

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization
Applicable Industries	Consumer Goods Retail
Use Cases	Process Control & Optimization Predictive Quality Analytics
Services	Software Design & Engineering Services
Challenge	Robinsons Brewery, one of the UK's largest regional brewers, was facing a challenge with its existing reporting system. The company had a vast amount of information to manage, stemming from its estate of over 370 public houses and its expansion into wholesale, free trade, off-trade activity, and state-of-the-art brewing and bottling facilities. The existing system was inefficient and expensive, taking up to two weeks to extract data from different sources such as Dynamics NAV, SQL data warehouse, and Excel. This time-consuming process was hindering the company's growth, and a more efficient and economical system was needed. Read More
About Customer	Robinsons Brewery is a UK-based regional brewer founded in 1838. It is one of the largest regional brewers in the country, with an estate of over 370 public houses stretching from northern Cumbria through the Lake District, North Wales, Cheshire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire. The company is currently focusing on expanding its wholesale, free trade, off-trade activity, and state-of-the-art brewing and bottling facilities. With such a large estate, Robinsons Brewery has to manage a vast amount of information, which led to the need for an efficient and economical reporting system. Read More
Solution	In 2010, Robinsons Brewery selected QlikView as its IT supplier after considering various options. QlikView partner Informance was brought in to construct a one-day 'Seeing is Believing' QlikView application based on Robinsons' immediate requirement and specification. The prototype was quickly approved and an enhanced version of the QlikView Business Discovery solution was rolled out. Initially, QlikView was introduced for the use of the Business Development Managers who needed to discuss business performance with the public houses that Robinsons supplies. QlikView's user-driven Business Discovery application allowed the managers to access vital information in an easy-to-analyse format. The solution has since been deployed throughout Robinsons, by different departments, at their request. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization

Applicable Industries

Consumer Goods

Retail

Use Cases

Process Control & Optimization

Predictive Quality Analytics

Services

Software Design & Engineering Services

Challenge

Robinsons Brewery, one of the UK's largest regional brewers, was facing a challenge with its existing reporting system. The company had a vast amount of information to manage, stemming from its estate of over 370 public houses and its expansion into wholesale, free trade, off-trade activity, and state-of-the-art brewing and bottling facilities. The existing system was inefficient and expensive, taking up to two weeks to extract data from different sources such as Dynamics NAV, SQL data warehouse, and Excel. This time-consuming process was hindering the company's growth, and a more efficient and economical system was needed.

About Customer

Robinsons Brewery is a UK-based regional brewer founded in 1838. It is one of the largest regional brewers in the country, with an estate of over 370 public houses stretching from northern Cumbria through the Lake District, North Wales, Cheshire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire. The company is currently focusing on expanding its wholesale, free trade, off-trade activity, and state-of-the-art brewing and bottling facilities. With such a large estate, Robinsons Brewery has to manage a vast amount of information, which led to the need for an efficient and economical reporting system.

Solution

In 2010, Robinsons Brewery selected QlikView as its IT supplier after considering various options. QlikView partner Informance was brought in to construct a one-day 'Seeing is Believing' QlikView application based on Robinsons' immediate requirement and specification. The prototype was quickly approved and an enhanced version of the QlikView Business Discovery solution was rolled out. Initially, QlikView was introduced for the use of the Business Development Managers who needed to discuss business performance with the public houses that Robinsons supplies. QlikView's user-driven Business Discovery application allowed the managers to access vital information in an easy-to-analyse format. The solution has since been deployed throughout Robinsons, by different departments, at their request.

Impact #1	The QlikView solution provided an effective and easy-to-use tool, offering invaluable insights that are being used to guide future business initiatives.
Impact #2	The solution offers instant visualisation of data, leading to significant time savings.
Impact #3	The flexibility of QlikView allows the creation of template charts that lend themselves to user-driven discovery, eliminating the need for bespoke reports.

Impact #1

The QlikView solution provided an effective and easy-to-use tool, offering invaluable insights that are being used to guide future business initiatives.

Impact #2

The solution offers instant visualisation of data, leading to significant time savings.

Impact #3

The flexibility of QlikView allows the creation of template charts that lend themselves to user-driven discovery, eliminating the need for bespoke reports.

Benefit #1	Reports delivered at an increased speed, but at a reduced cost

Benefit #1

Reports delivered at an increased speed, but at a reduced cost

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Robinsons Brewery selects QlikView to provide essential business intelligence

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