system was changed (from Oracle BI) to
development. In October 2019 SIJ revamped
MicroStrategy for usability and a unified
and migrated its Corporate Business
interface. Now, SIJ has a system that
Intelligence system to a new
looks the same no matter the device
MicroStategy platform. The project
it’s accessed from. This project allows
took six months and provided SIJ
us to organize and develop the team
with an extensive corporate Business
that tests the trial usage and devel-
Intelligence system with more than 180
ops the processes of the PMO (Project
different dashboards covering produc-
Management Office) inside the IT
tion, finance, sales, procurement, HR,
function.”
Legal and investment functional areas.
The BI System contains the entire
The overwhelming majority of the data
spectrum of corporate data and allows
now uploads automatically and the
SIJ to move quickly and transparently
business intelligence tool has created
when taking a management decision,
a unified reporting system across the
while reducing the number of mistakes,
group utilizing the same source of
misunderstandings and time-consuming
data in order to integrate it. “There
meetings.
was huge involvement of the busi-
The next system to be unified across
ness customers with Oracle BI and this
the group was the Salesforce CRM
year, we moved to this new platform,”
system, which is now fully integrated.
Arshinov explains. “The front end of the
Then, an Oracle supplier portal followed,
“We are not an IT company, that’s understood,” Arshinov explains. “But we are supporting services inside the business, and of course our main concern will always be supporting the production of steel” — V L A D I M I R A R S H I NO V, I T D IR E C T O R AT S T E E L P RO D U C E R S I J G RO U P
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