Colfax is a global manufacturer of industrial pumps and fluid-handling solutions with companies in Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. Creating monthly reports for executives used to take two full-time analysts two weeks. By the time managers received the reports, the data was a month old. With the help of Microsoft Gold Certified Partners MetaLogix and Decision Support Panel, Colfax created a Web-based reporting solution that automatically pulls current business data from four enterprise resource planning systems and creates customized, user-friendly reports. The solution was built using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, and SQL Server Analysis Services. The solution gives executives timely data for making daily decisions and eliminates the need for manual report generation, yielding an annual savings of U.S.$180,000.
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