Case Study

Power BI for Media Company From Aktiv Software LLP

Suitable Industry Type: Media Company Customer/Partner name: XXX Duration: 2 years Deployment Mode: On-Premises and Cloud

www.aktivsoftware.com

+91-79-48008143

sales@aktivsoftware.com

B1207, Titanium City Center, Opp Seema Hall, Anand Nagar Cross Roads, Satellite, Ahmedabad - 380015

Business Requirement: Client wanted to have a single User Experience for their Customers with Self Service BI. They used two separate systems SharePoint Portal and Business Object for their Forecasting reports. It was maintenance nightmare to manage permission in SharePoint Groups and Business Object. Also User Experience is mediocre. Mobile and Tablet view were not available. They needed single platform to solve all these business problem.

Challenges: Our Client is a leading media company who design a media strategy for their customers based upon consumer research and competitor research study. They purchase consumer research data from independent companies and government sector. And use a complex ETL Process to massage and store in Data Warehouse. However the following challenges in the approach.

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Refresh rate was 24 hours as ETL process was taking longer time.

Dependency upon Developers to build reports.

Display reports in proprietary UI tool, which is separate system than regular customer Portal.

Longer turnaround time between customers and report developer.

Sometimes Compromise on security and permission because of separate Systems SharePoint and Business Object and complex permission structure.

Solution Customer Contacted Aktiv for software. Aktiv proposed User Driven BI solution with Microsoft Technology to address the entire problem. Initial Solution was to use PowerBI with SharePoint server 2013 to showcase reports within SharePoint. Customer already had separate Partner Center for each Client and on that SharePoint server Aktiv installed SSAS Power Pivot and PowerBI. Use Report web part to showcase data on SharePoint server from Power View. Use Power Pivot to build Data model to connect disparate Data Sources with minimizing on ETL. Use Power View to showcase Reports on SharePoint Server.

After Successful Deployment and Execution of the project. Customer wanted to migrate to Cloud. So both SharePoint and PowerBI need to move to Office 365. Aktiv re-engineered the entire solution from SharePoint to Online. Which allows their clients to directly manage their own reports without help of any Developers directly from SharePoint. www.aktivsoftware.com

+91-79-48008143

sales@aktivsoftware.com

B1207, Titanium City Center, Opp Seema Hall, Anand Nagar Cross Roads, Satellite, Ahmedabad - 380015

Benefits       

user-driven BI help organizations to better manage their business process and function gain critical insights via leveraging demographic, social and purchasing data of competitor Competitive advantage via communicating with different vendor’s data via indirect channel Rich UI with latest gauge controls and charts for faster rendering with interactive dashboard to build fast and agile decision making system.

Future ready products which is ready to scale with big data and Machine learning.

Inbuilt NLP with power queries allow decision maker to dice data in their own language.

Reduce cost via replacing Business object with Power BI.

Achievements:   

Install SharePoint with support of PowerBI along with Kerberos.

Simplify permission management via Kerberos and AD. Client rewarded with new project of migration to Cloud for the same solution..

www.aktivsoftware.com

+91-79-48008143

sales@aktivsoftware.com

B1207, Titanium City Center, Opp Seema Hall, Anand Nagar Cross Roads, Satellite, Ahmedabad - 380015